what is this song about?
2007-01-22 14:11:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
This is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America.
Don Henley: "We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest. Hotel California was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.
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2007-01-22 14:17:46 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy To Be in April 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There are several possible interpretations, philosophies and ideas of what this song could mean. Some say his addiction to heroin. I think a lot of times the mysteries of songs origins are never really solved because they either 1) were just written because they sounded good; 2) mean nothing interpreted by others and only the song writer knows for sure; 3) weren't meant to "Mean" or refer to anything in particular.
2007-01-22 22:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by Mickey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crystal has it right. In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence."
2007-01-22 22:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The song is about California itself and its Bohemian lifestyle
the lyrics make many references to it
2007-01-22 22:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Rocklyn80 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's about the music industry in the 1970s. About the business side, and the pitfalls of aspiring musicians.
2007-01-22 22:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
its a song about a guy inside the prison in california
2007-01-22 22:15:11 · answer #6 · answered by Lionel M 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Rehab?
2007-01-22 22:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by 'lil peanut 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
bunch of drugs
2007-01-22 22:20:32 · answer #8 · answered by KrazySweetie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
being lost on drugs listen to it
2007-01-22 22:15:08 · answer #9 · answered by southern65 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I remember learning that it was about a devil worshipping cult.
2007-01-22 22:15:03 · answer #10 · answered by Tammers 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋