2006-09-26 21:08:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Damn right, they had safety pins in their ears! But the person who says Sandi Thom simply means she wishes she had been born in an earlier era has got it right. I don't buy that stuff about her webcasting from her cellar in Tooting (just up the road from me by the way), that was so obviously a record-company publicity scam.
2006-09-26 21:17:47 · answer #1 · answered by aussiepom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love that song, but then, I'm a folk music fan.
I think if the words were to be rendered 'properly', they'd read "I wish I were a punk rocker OR that I had flowers in my hair" - meaning "I wish I'd lived in times when people really talked to each other ("letter in the mail") and things seemed more important.
It's kind of a false nostalgia - a desire for a supposedly simpler time that the singer hasn't actually lived through - as opposed to older people who have a false nostalgia for an inaccurately remembered and romanticised past.
It's still a great song though!
2006-09-27 04:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by mattygroves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been saying that since the first day I heard that song!! I think she has punk rocker mixed up with hippy. Plus if she really wanted to be a punk rocker why is she singing in a middle of the road poppy style? She wants to release that song as a clubby song aswell, I think she shoulda sung something like 'I wish I was a country singer cos thats the kind of voice i have'
2006-09-27 04:21:31 · answer #3 · answered by Georgie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mum went mad at that song - she was a hippy with flowers in her hair and punk rockers, apparently, definitely did not wear flowers! Poor lady every time the song comes on the radio she switches it off and has a rant for half an hour!!
2006-09-27 04:31:41 · answer #4 · answered by shepherdess7980 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always thought that since I first heard the song. Punk Rockers were spiky and metallic and stuff and Hippies had the flowers. Maybe she is just singing about the eras rather than actually trying to combine the two things.
2006-09-27 04:19:29 · answer #5 · answered by kerrykinsmalosevich 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was trying to say how "revolution was in the air" in the hippy era in the 60s ("flowers in my hair") and in the punk rock era of the late 70s ("I wish I was a punk rocker").
In other words, today is boring compared to those turbulent times and she wishes she was back there now.
2006-09-27 04:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As much as I hate that song, I have to tell you, you've missed the point... you're not listening to the words... The singer talks about how much she wishes she was around in the (according to her) revolutionary times of 1977 and 1968... that is she wanted to be a punk rocker (1977) or a hippie (1968). She's just combined the two times, wishing she could have been part of either or both.
2006-09-27 04:13:06 · answer #7 · answered by dave_eee 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I WAS A PUNK AND I CERTAINLY NEVER HAD FLOWERS IN MY HAIR. Think that song is about the flower power and punk ages put together. She wanted to live in either era
2006-09-27 04:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by stormyweather 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i must say that has to be the most retarded song ever made because of that line because im pretty sure punk rockers did not have flowers in their hair and if they did may god have mercy on all our souls
2006-09-27 04:35:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard or seen of a punk with flowers in their hair-maybe a dead one. Becoming one would definitely be against the grain and unique; a good thing in my opinion.
2006-09-27 04:11:46 · answer #10 · answered by nunya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋