![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does the song's intro demonstrate this, but it basically consists almost exclusively of stereotypical Southern Preacher-type broadcasts and church songs. General CommentSuperficially, it could be about the frequent religious broadcasts on AM radio every Sunday Morning. It's like how, when you first here a song on the radio that's been autotuned very subtlely and identify it as autotuned, you start hearing it in other songs that have tried to hide it. "I know you hear it, I hear it too, it's everywhere that I go." Once you realize just how much power the general media have over us- and how they could easily just feed us lies if they wanted to- you can't stop noticing it everywhere. "Come back another day and do no wrong." This basically means, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Another Biblical reference.Ħ. She has power over thousands of people, but uses it to keep repeating the meaningless slogan.ĥ. it's that sort of thing this line is talking about, I think. Look at a pop star like, say, Kesha, who claims to speak for the outcasts and weirdos but was obviously just manufactured by her label. This can refer to both televangelists and greedy record labels, for whom Money is God. just repeating the slogan." The true message of God/Music is suppressed and censored by various people who have something to gain from misleading people. Again, it's reversed- /they/'re the devil in this song. "The devil is paranoid" - the people who think rock has a satanic message are paranoid. This song reverses that, saying that God is in the radio, not the devil, and it has a legitimate backmasked message in it during the bridge.ģ. ![]() They would also falsely accuse musicians of hiding backmasked messages in their music. It was very popular in the '60s and '70s for fundamentalists to claim that "the devil is in the radio" (or something along those lines). Accordingly, "God is in the Radio" is a sort of secular hymn- but a very dark one.Ģ. The intro to the song (found at the end of the preceding track) uses clips from southern religious radio stations to indicate to the listener that this song is supposed to represent Christian rock music in the concept album that is Songs for the Deaf. ![]()
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