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My Body Is A Cage by Arcade Fire

Biographie de l'artiste pour Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire Is An Indie Rock Band Formed In Montreal Quebec Canada In 2001. The Band Consists Of Win Butler Vocals Guitar Piano Régine Chassagne Vocals Accordion Keyboards Hurdy Gurdy Drums Richard Reed Parry Bass Guitar Tim Kingsbury Bass And Jeremy Gara Drums . Montreal Percussionist Dane Mills Performed On The EP And In Early Live Shows. Will Butler Keyboards Guitar Left The Band In 2022 To Focus On His Solo Career. The Touring Band Includes Horn Players And Violinists. The Band’s Trademark Fashion Consists In Wearing Rather Formal Attire During Live Events And A Use Of Orchestral Instruments. When Asked About The Rumour That The Band's Name Refers To A Fire In An Arcade Win Butler Replied "It's Not A Rumour It's Based On A Story That Someone Told Me. It's Not An Actual Event But One That I Took To Be Real. I Would Say That It's Probably Something That The Kid Made Up But At The Time I Believed Him." Win Butler And His Brother Will Grew Up In Texas. Band Formation Arcade Fire Formed Around The Husband And Wife Duo Of Win Butler And Régine Chassagne. Joining Together As Recently As Mid-2003 The Current Line-Up Solidified In Late 2003/early 2004 When Their First Full-Length Album Funeral Was Recorded. Before This An Eponymous EP Often Referred To By Fans As The Us Kids Know EP Had Been Sold At Early Shows. The EP Was Subsequently Remastered And Given A Full Release Once The Band Started Becoming More Prominent. Arcade Fire Are Known For Their Enthralling Live Performances As Well As Its Use Of A Large Number Of Musical Instruments. In Addition To Mainstays Guitar Drums And Bass Guitar Members Play Piano Violin Viola Cello Double Bass Xylophone Keyboard French Horn Accordion And Harp. With Several Able Musicians The Band Take Most Of Their Instrumental Diversity On Tour And Members Switch Instrumental Duties Throughout Their Shows. The Number Of Instruments Along With A Wide Set Of Musical Influences Has Provided A Substantial Number Of Resources On Which To Draw From During The Recording Process. The Promise Showed By The Band In Its Live Shows Allowed It To Land A Record Contract With Chapel Hill-Based Independent Record Label Merge Records. Funeral Without A Major Label Backing The Success Of The Band And The Album Funeral Has Been Acclaimed As An Internet Phenomenon. After A 9.7 Rating From Pitchfork Merge Records Sold Out Their Inventory Of Funeral And It Became The Label's First Album In The Billboard 200 Chart. An Early Tip From David Bowie Was Also Influential. The Band Booked Small Clubs For Their 2004 Tour But Growing Interest Forced Many Venue Changes Far Beyond The Band's Expectations And Continued Internationally Into Mid-2005. The MTV2 2005 Review Hosted By Zane Lowe Named Funeral Album Of The Year And NME Named Funeral Number 2 In Their List Of 2005's Best Albums And "Rebellion Lies " The Best Track. By November 2005 Funeral Had Gone Gold In Both Canada And The UK And Sold In Excess Of Half A Million Copies Worldwide A Phenomenal Number For An Independent Release With Minimal Television Or Radio Exposure. It Has Also Surpassed Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea As The Biggest Selling Merge Records Album To Date. Arcade Fire Were Featured On The April 4 2005 Cover Of Time Magazine's Canadian Edition And Hailed As A Band Who "helped Put Canadian Music On The World Map". On April 2 2006 In Halifax Nova Scotia They Received The Juno Award For Songwriters Of The Year For Three Songs From Funeral "Wake Up" "Rebellion Lies " And "Neighborhood #3 Power Out ". Arcade Fire Then Planned To Begin Recording A Follow Up To Funeral In The Winter Of 2005-2006 Having Bought An Old Church Forty Minutes From Central Montreal Which They Converted Into A Studio. Neon Bible In Mid-December 2006 Www.Neonbible.Com Went Live Containing Nothing More Than A Phone Number 1-866-NEONBIBLE Where People Can Listen To A New Track Called Intervention. Built In The Style Of Customer Support Lines The Number Has Other Features Including A Contest And A Chance To Talk To A Live Person At A Specific Time Each Week. Then In January 2007 They Finally Announced That The New Album Neon Bible Would Be Released March 5th In UK March 6th In US. The Announcement Was Made With A Video In The Album's Website With Guitarist Richard Reed Parry Using A Gramophone And A Paper Mask Of Parry's Own Face And Sitting On Win Butler´s Chair. After The Announcement Of The Album´s Release The Website Was Updated With A Streaming Version Of "Black Mirror" New Art And A Few Phone Messages Sounding Like The Band´s Members. The Suburbs The Band Released Their Third Album "The Suburbs" On August 2 2010 In The UK And August 3 2010 In The United States. It Debuted At #1 In Both Countries. On February 13 2011 The Album Won Album Of The Year At The 53rd Grammy Awards. Arcade Fire Recorded A Song For The Hunger Games Soundtrack The Hunger Games Songs From District 12 And Beyond Called "Abraham's Daughter". The Song Is Featured In The Movie's End Credits. The Soundtrack Was Released On March 20 2012 Debuting At Number One On The Billboard 200. It Sold More Than 175 000 Copies In Its First Week According To Nielsen SoundScan. It's The First Theatrical Film Soundtrack To Top The Chart Since Michael Jackson's "This Is It" Debuted At No. 1 On The List. It Is Also Only The 16th Soundtrack To Debut At No. 1 In The History Of The Billboard 200 Chart Those Soundtracks Include Film Television And Straight-To-Video Efforts . Reflektor Arcade Fire And Mercury Records Confirmed That They Would Release A Fourth Album In Late 2013. In December 2012 The Band's Manager Scott Rodger Confirmed That Arcade Fire Was In The Studio Working With James Murphy Of LCD Soundsystem. The Official Arcade Fire Pre-Order Website Sets The Release Date On October 28 2013. The Band Announced On January 18 2013 That They Were Selling The Church They Had Been Using As A Studio Due To A Collapsed Roof. Throughout 2013 The Band Worked On The Album In Several Different Recording Studios - Including Murphy's DFA Records Studio In New York. On June 22 2013 Rolling Stone Reported That New Material From The Album Would Be Released On September 9 2013. Everything Now Arcade Fire's First Announced Its Fifth Record "Everything Now " On May 31 2017 When It Released The Record's Title Track And Lead Single. The Album's Release Came July 27 2017. In The Weeks Leading Up To The Album's Release The Band Released Three Additional Lead Singles "Creature Comfort " "Signs Of Life " And "Electric Blue." Upon The Week Of Its Release "Everything Now" Reached #1 On The Billboard 200 Chart Becoming The Band's Third-Straight And Third Overall #1 Record. WE On October 21 2020 Butler Was Interviewed For The Broken Record Podcast Where He Commented About Arcade Fire's Sixth Album. The Band Had Been Writing For A Year Before The COVID-19 Lockdown. In March 2022 Fans Received Postcards Marked With The Band's Logo The Postcards Included The Note "We Missed You" Musical Notations As Well As An Image Of An Eye With The Word "Unsubscribe" Written Below. Those Same Images Began To Appear In Signage Around London As Well As On The Band's Social Media Pages Indicating The Earliest Signs Of A New Album. On March 14 The Band Announced A New Song Titled "The Lightning I II" Would Be Released On March 17. On March 17 2022 Arcade Fire Announced That The Album Would Be Titled WE And Be Released On May 6 2022. Later That Week Will Butler Announced He Had Amicably Left The Band In 2021 Shortly After The Completion Of WE. Following The Release Of WE On May 6 2022 Arcade Fire Announced The Group’s First World Tour Since 2018 Starting In August 2022. They Again Appeared On Saturday Night Live On May 7 2022 Playing "Unconditional I Lookout Kid " "The Lightning I II" And "End Of The Empire II" Over The Closing Credits.

Frogtoon Musique - Informations sur la chanson: My Body Is a Cage

Arcade Fire Had Been One Of The Most Admired Indie-Rock Bands Of The Early 2000’s Who Toured Alongside The Band U2. They Were Rewarded A Grammy Nomination For Best Alternative Music Album And Performed Their Hit Song “Wake Up” With A Now-Deceased David Bowie. Their Second Album Neon Bible Of Early 2007 Was First Released In The UK And Then In The US A Day Later On March 6th. It Later Became Number Two On The Billboard 200 Chart And Sold 92 000 Copies Its First Week Since The Album’s Debut. Their Song “My Body Is A Cage” Inspired Wonder And A Sense Of Melancholy Hysteria Behind The Many Meanings And Interpretations Of The Lyrics. The First Stanza Opens Up With A Miserable Proclamation Of Imprisonment And An Underlining Feeling Of Depravity Because Of Some Impossible Or Forbidden Love “My Body Is A Cage That Keeps Me From Dancing With The One I Love.” To Be Clear There Are Two Reasonable Scenarios And One Suggests That The Speaker Cannot Be With Who He Loves Because She Is Dead And His Body Literally Keeps Him From Dancing With Who He Loves One Last Time. The Second Scenario Suggests That There Is A Sort Of Forbidden Love And The Shame And Fear Of Humiliation He Feels Keep Him From Expressing Himself. “My Body Is A Cage That Keeps Me From Dancing With The One I Love But My Mind Holds The Key.” It Is Because Of That Last Part Of This Stanza That The Idea Of A Forbidden Love Becomes Most Viable. “But My Mind Holds The Key” Suggests That It Is Not An Impossible Love But He Is Instead Obstructed By Himself Rather Than Death Itself. Why Is It Forbidden However? It Can Be Theorized That These Forbidden Emotions Are Homosexual And The Implications Of These Feelings Suggest A Reasonable Cause For The Fear Of Humiliation And Guilt That Hinders Himself From Being With Who He Loves. The Singer Repeats The Stanza The Third Section Reads “I'm Standing On A Stage Of Fear And Self-Doubt It's A Hollow Play But They'll Clap Anyway.” Shakespeare Had Once Said “All The World’s A Stage And All The Men And Woman Are Merely Players.” Looking At The First Line Of The Third Stanza It Can Be Interpreted Much The Same Way. The Speaker Is On That Stage Or In A World In Which He Describes As Fearful Perhaps Of What They Don’t Understand And Full Of Self-Doubt. The World Hates What Makes It Question Itself Which Is Why It Is Believed That The Fear Of Humiliation The Speaker Feels Is Because Of The Tendency The World Has To Dehumanize What It Despises. Also The Speaker Is Acting. On Some Level The Speaker Is Lying To The Audience The World By Repressing The Love He Feels. What He Says And Does To Appease The World Are Scripted And Empty. “It’s A Hollow Play But They’ll Clap Anyway.” The Speaker Knows The Truth But He Lies And The World Is Happy To Never Know The Truth At The Expense Of The Speaker’s Sanity And Happiness. This Theory Works In Conjuncture With The Fifth Stanza After The Repetition Of The Chorus. “You're Standing Next To Me My Mind Holds The Key.” It’s Been Concluded. Not Only Is His Love Still Alive But He Stands Next To Him. He’s Right Beside Him And All The Speaker Has To Do Is Be Brave And Speak. It’s The Way He Feels About Him That Are Locked Behind Walls Of His Own Fear But It’s His Bravery That Can Unlock The Deafening Silence The World Thrusts On Him Because Of Their Own Fear. The Same World That Begins To Doubt How They Could Have Possibly Been Wrong About How Love Works. It Will Never Be Easy Or Undemanding But Who Said It Would Ever Be Simple? “I'm Living In An Age That Calls Darkness Light Though My Language Is Dead Still The Shapes Fill My Head” Morality Holds An Objective Pretense In Our Society Yet Its Validity Is Always Questionable Regardless Of The Justification Which Is Why Morality Is A Never-Ending Inquisition Demanding Of Subjective Reasoning Rather Than Basic Absolutism And Objective Labels. This Stanza Represents A Question Of Morality And Perspective Is The Love That The Speaker Was Wrong The Darkness That He Calls Light Or Is The Bigotry And Hate The World Has For His Love The Darkness That Is So Obliquely Justified By Religion And Ambiguous Interpretation Of Dogma. “Though My Language Is Dead Still The Shapes Fill My Head” Speaks For Itself. The Speaker Is Silent Perhaps Paralyzed By Fear To Speak Out But The Reality Of The Worlds Hate Is Known To Him. The Shapes Are The World’s Actions And They Are Certainly Abundant With Depravity Uncertainty And Ignorance. “I'm Living In An Age Whose Name I Don't Know Though The Fear Keeps Me Moving Still My Heart Beats So Slow” The Seventh Stanza Is A Crucial Aspect Of The Speaker’s Fear Because It Emphasizes Abandonment And Loneliness. What Age Is This Where His Love Breeds The World’s Hate? He Doesn’t Know This World Of Injustice And Of Inequality. His Fear Is What He Holds Onto Because It’s His Fear That Elicits His Caution. It’s The Same Caution That Keeps Him In Isolated Hiding Safe And Keeping A Secret That Would Surely Put Him In Danger. “Still My Heart Beats So Slow”. The Speaker Is Alive But Not Living Because His Life Is A Lie. After The Seventh Stanza The Eighth And Ninth Are Just A Repetition Of The Chorus And The Fifth Verse. Following That The Speaker Exclaims “My Body Is A Cage We Take What We're Given Just Because You've Forgotten That Don't Mean You're Forgiven” The Speaker Is Saying That People Like Him Have Taken The Hate They Were Given For Centuries. This Is Exemplified By The Matthew Shepherd Case Where A Teen Was Beaten To Death By A Group Of Individuals For Being Gay Or When Homosexuals Were Stoned To Death During The Rise Of Christianity. Today The World Takes These Cases And Have Taken Them For Granted. They Have Forgotten The Hate They Sewed But Simply Because They Have Been Forgotten That Doesn’t Mean They Reaped Forgiveness. Many Of Us Remember And Many Of Us Still Live In That Age Of Violence. The Age Where We Are Attacked And Dehumanized For Being Who We Are. This Further Exemplifies The Words “I’m Living In An Age Whose Name I Don’t Know.” It Asks “do I Live In The Present Or Do I Live In The Past?” “I'm Living In An Age That Screams My Name At Night
But When I Get To The Doorway There's No One In Sight” The Screams At Night Are The Voices Of Those Who Hate And Protest. They Claim His Love Is An Abomination But No One Is There Because It’s The Same Voices He’s Had To Listen To Every Day And They Echo Throughout The Night. This Stanza Emphasizes How Alone The Speaker Feels. As If No One Understands. The Following Stanza Exemplifies The Way The Same Voices Of The People Who Hate Dehumanize And Disregard The Speaker For How He Feels “I’m Living In An Age/They Laugh When I’m Dancing With The One I Love/But My Mind Holds The Key. Standing Next To Me. My Mind Holds The Key.” By The End Of The Song The Speaker Has Made A Transition. He No Longer Is Frightened By The Voices Of The Hateful World. In Fact From The Beginning He Was Simply Hiding Towards The Middle People Were Hating Him Surely Because They Knew But In The End The Speaker Is No Longer Fighting But Believing That He Is The Only One Who Can Dehumanize Himself. The Conclusion Of The Song I Believe Is Simply Encouraging Words Directed Towards His Lover. It Reads “Set My Spirit Free. Set My Body Free” Several Times In An Alternating Fashion. He’s Telling His Lover To Let Him Love His Spirit Without His Fears His Body Clouding Who He Is.

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