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Interpretations:The Big Big Whoredom

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Let's not forget that Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon mentions "the big whoredom". There must be a connection.--tehbagel ( o ) 16:47, 17 May 2006 (CDT)

I've thought about this a long, long time, and I think that the song's about fear of success, interestingly enough, or to put it in better terms, "selling out."

We open with the first speaker, presumably talking to his depressed friend. "Why haven't you been around lately?" he asks. "Why are you so sad?"

"We've worked the hardest to be the smartest," the depressed friend replies, "but wholesaling our ideas, this whoring out of them, scares me."

"Oh come on, it's not quite THAT bad," the first friend replies. "There's still plenty of opportunities for us, we won't become slaves to the masses."

"I can't help it. I know we'll get rich off this, a huge switch from the state we're living in now, but I still shake off these fears that I have."

And thus the song ends, with the first friend repeatedly trying to console his friend and the latter still stubbornly stating that it scares him. I probably thought way too hard about a song that wasn't intended to mean anything, but hey, I'm bored. - TheNintenGenius

I always thought it was just against conformity and the mainstream. I guess it can be seen as "selling out" too... with the money ideals. I just thought it was criticism to how everyone in this country wants to make money in anyway possible and be popular...


I assume this is a relationship song. He can't commit and he's breaking up with the girl, but doing it in that awful way where he's pretending its not so bad. Just look.

"Cmon baby turn that frown upside down" (He's calling her baby, so this probably IS a relationship song...) "we worked the hardest to be the smartest" (this is very relatable...you always think you'll be smarter than other couples, not fight, not fall into the same traps, but you still can't stay together"

I'm not sure what the big big whoredom is but I'd imagine its some issue he has with her. It scared him.

"it aint so bad as you paint it, theres plenty more heads of hair for us out there" (or theres plenty more fish in the sea. Cmon baby! Things arent so bad as youre saying! We'll find new people!) "we'll strike it rich, a monster switch" (just more lets-end-the-relationship talk. it will be a big switch. again he's trying to convince her this is a good thing)

then we have the choruses of NOOOO NOOO PLEASE DONT STOP STOP... Etc. Sad.

-Jordan (www.jordancooperlalala.com)

The way I see it, it can be about working for anything. Sure, you can work hard and get rich, but what if you find, after all your hard work, you regret it and wish you'd done something else?

He's either afraid of prostitution or unfaithfulness --Dunklekuh81

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