Saturday, April 1, 2017

'The Big Bang' by Rock Mafia - A Play on Juxtaposition

The big bang is a process of creating the new through the merging and dissolving of the old.

In the song 'The Big Bang' by Rock Mafia, the big bang is juxtaposed by it's upbeat and almost relaxed tune of a boyfriend getting a possible sexual intercourse (i.e. a bang) from his girlfriend with a tragic opening scene of the boyfriend witnessing his girlfriend involved in an accident where a van banged her car.

I don't wanna lie,
I'm gonna take what you're giving
'Cause I know you're willing
To take me all the way.
You got me right here combustible.
And I can't wait to finally explode.

In the first verse, he sings metaphorically about his willing girlfriend who is sexually turning him on to become 'combustible'. He is anticipating an orgasm where 'I can't wait for finally explode'. In the video, the lyric takes a literal sense where he has a flashback on a car ride they had together. They were enjoying each other until they kissed and he was then brought back to the present of the accident scene.


The big, big bang, the reason I'm alive,
When all the stars collide
In this universe inside.
The big, big bang [3x]

Take it from me,
I don't wanna be
Mummified.
Sometimes I feel so isolated, I wanna die.
And I'll take it from you, if you got it every time,
So, baby, bring your body here next to mine, next to mine!
No, I don't wanna dream!
I just wanna live it!
So, baby, let's not miss this thing!


The lyric continues in the present tense where he professes that he is more interested in doing than thinking about it, and thus he keeps seducing his girlfriend to be with him, because the seducing, the arousing and ultimately the sexual intercourse where he goes inside his girlfriend and orgasms in her are what makes him feel alive. It is then juxtaposed by the video where he mostly chased after his disappearing girlfriend, following her where she ran and only briefly getting hold of her where they kissed again. Then, he was brought back to the present once again and witnessed the tragic accident scene of his girlfriend like the opening of the video. It ended with his girlfriend's photo disappearing from his cellphone, signifying his unsuccessful attempt to get back his girlfriend.



In the end, if you have scratched your head trying to figure out the meaning of the song with the video, you will be sure to get confused. Is he singing about the joy of sexual intercourse with his girlfriend, or is he thinking back the happy times they were together and almost got delusional when he tried to chase her after she disappeared from the accident scene?

As of many music videos that make no complete sense to the lyric nowadays, it is not the intention of the video to aid the comprehension of the lyric. It is merely a play of opposing ideas on the concept of the big bang: reality vs illusion; the present vs the past; joy vs sorrow; the new vs the old; the yin vs the yang. It just sets your brain spinning for the cognitive dissonance it elicits.


Credit: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rockmafia/thebigbang.html  

A = B

A = B

If giving a name or a label to something is to identify something and its content or value, could it be a fallacy to say that A = B (assuming that we are speaking the same language)?

Since A and B are distinguishable from each other, hence A cannot be equal to B.