what is the song hotel california about??

Question

is it about cocain??

Answer 1

The term "colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a Spanish term for "little tails." This is a reference to the buds of the marijuana plant, which contain higher concentrations of the psychoactive ingredient, THC, than other parts of the plant. [5]
the initials of the song is THC... the words "Hotel California" never appear without the word 'The' so, taken together, The Hotel California = THC
The lyric "They stab it with their steely knives/But they just can't kill the beast" was widely believed to be a nod to Steely Dan's lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" in their song "Everything You Did" (and in the liner notes of Eagles: The Very Best Of, Glenn Frey confirmed this).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California_%28song%29

Hotel California touched on many themes, including innocence (and the loss thereof), addiction to drugs, death, the dangers, temptations, and transient nature of fame, shallow relationships, divorce and loss of love, the end results of manifest destiny, and the "American Dream."

Members of Eagles have described the album as a metaphor for the perceived decline of America into materialism and decadence. In an interview with Dutch magazine ZigZag shortly before the album's release, Don Henley said:

“ This is a concept album, there's no way to hide it, but it's not set in the old West, the cowboy thing, you know. It's more urban this time (. . . ) It's our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say 'We've been okay so far, for 200 years, but we're gonna have to change if we're gonna continue to be around.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California

Answer 2

The track is solely symbolic. It's approximately getting stuck up within the California subculture (because the Eagles had been again then), after which now not being equipped to get out from underneath it. "You can examine out any time you desire, however you'll on no account depart..." Presumably, the man's nonetheless there.

Answer 3

The song is generally thought to be about the hedonism and self-destruction in the Hollywood music industry; the idea is that Hollywood is likened to a luxury hotel which is initially welcoming, but which ends up trapping its residents through their own self-destructive wiles ("we are all just prisoners here of our own device").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcdViSdoRuk&mode=related&search=

Answer 4

I hear pot.

I just have no clue. I've listened to that song 100+ times and I don't get it. Who knows - who really knows.

Answer 5

According to urban legend it concerns a convention of satanists.

Answer 6

Can't say, I never heard it before

Answer 7

drugs and fame.

Answer 8

and other drugs too

Answer 9

heroin and coke and even speed