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Originally Posted by Becky
Art is open to interpretation until the artist closes the door and tells you what the inspiration is. The writer of Slipknot's Through the Glass was on Never Meet Your Heroes this week and the host asked him if it was a love song and he said it was a hate song because he wrote it while on tour in Sweden trapped in a hotel room with food poisoning with nothing to do but watch bad music videos on MTV Europe. So he probably just ruined that song for a lot of people.
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Originally Posted by Becky
We can still have fun sharing our interpretations.
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Just a little note,
Through Glass is by Stone Sour - though admittedly it's the same signer/writer as Slipknot.
But I absolutely agree with your point, we should be able to share and develop our own interpretations of songs without criticism - so long as we don't state these opinions as facts.