> Apparently Meat did 'Pigs' for the first time live, on
> Saturday night in Manchester, which tends to suggest it
> might be the next single.
>
> Interestingly, excerpts from Animal Farm & Metropolis were
> shown on the back screen during the song.
>
> I thought of Metropolis when Jim blogged about the Batman
> scene description last year, and it seems he may have been
> inspired by this film, to write the song.
>
> Check this out from Wikipedia:
>
> 'The film is set in the year 2027, in the extraordinary
> Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the
> Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two
> rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high
> above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live
> underground toiling to sustain the lives of the
> privileged'.
>
And wherefrom did this societal model come from? USSR.
|
