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Interpretations:Unrelated Thing

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Along with Twisting and I'm Your Boyfriend Now, this is one of TMBG's rare but solid string of feminist songs. It's about a guy, one of those guys who, you know, just doesn't *get* it. He can't understand that the "object" (cough cough) of his affections just isn't interested in him and why she won't pay attention to any of the stupid things he says to get her attention. Like someone wrote on the I'm All You Can Think About interpretations page, Linnell is the king of creepy. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the girl Bart likes, Jessica, eventually has to say to him, "do you ever think something you DON'T say?" I think the song's powerful and hilarious (I love the way Linnell draws out the words in the dialogue), not sucky one bit. I've also, most definitely, um, been that guy. - The Silver Chauffeur

My interpretation of this is .... nothing. I think this is just good TMBG randomness. The verses and bridges match in no way other than they are talking about an unrelated thing. -DestinationMoon

Didn't there used to be more stuff here?


Anyway, I think that the song is basically self-explanatory, the man wants the woman to listen, and the woman can't be bothered. I like to picture that the first verse to have taken place right after the man proposed to the woman, and the woman laughed.

And by the end of the song, her attitude changes from disengagement to active hostility. --Nehushtan 01:39, 17 Mar 2006 (CST)

Yeah, this seems to be along the lines of Which Describes How You're Feeling, except this song is a horrible one and WDHYF is good...

You feel sad for the man ^__^ ~AgentChronon

I think this song is about man who's trying to hold a woman's attention, but she's let her mind wander to a more pleasant thought. He takes it personally and demands her attention again before demanding to know what she's thinking of. I'm sure this exact situation plays out to various degrees in homes across the country. - Ms Fernandez

Right, the man can't get into his head that he and their relationship are not on her mind. In a way, she's ethereal or otherworldly; abstractly, she and her thoughts exist on a completely separate (unrelated) plane from the reality of her relationship with this man. Foolishly the man still tries to connect to her. Anyway, I just came here because I thought it was worth noting that in the first stanza the woman is speaking in the past tense, in the second stanza she's in the present, and in the third verse she is speaking in the future tense. Between each verse in the progression the narrator states the disconnect. It doesn't add much to any interpretation, but it's structures like these that I like. ~ magbatz 21:28, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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