Interpretations:Philadelphia
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Homage/satire[edit]
This has to be an homage/satire of Devo. --Neal in SF 14:54, December 22, 2005
- Not Kraftwerk? [Christina Miller, February, 2006]
- I'm going to second the Kraftwerk allusion. Why else would Flans say, "Danke Schoen," at the end of the song? My wife pegged this immediately as Kraftwerk sound-alike. --cjstuff, Feb. 2006
- Yes, Kraftwerk. And fun jokes are in there, too. For the theater of "living arts", Linnell promises to bring "art that is dead" to life with electric shocks. The music and the pop existentialism of the second verse remind us of Mike Myers' Sprockets, another marvelous satire of Teutonic self-importance. --Nehushtan 00:43, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree with that one d: --ΰΌΊππββ€ββββΉββββββπΰΌ» 18:04, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, Kraftwerk. And fun jokes are in there, too. For the theater of "living arts", Linnell promises to bring "art that is dead" to life with electric shocks. The music and the pop existentialism of the second verse remind us of Mike Myers' Sprockets, another marvelous satire of Teutonic self-importance. --Nehushtan 00:43, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'm going to second the Kraftwerk allusion. Why else would Flans say, "Danke Schoen," at the end of the song? My wife pegged this immediately as Kraftwerk sound-alike. --cjstuff, Feb. 2006
