Say, am I just going a bit nuts over here or does it really seem as though their choice of samples in a few of the "old tunes-y" interlude tracks around the middle of the tape could be interpreted as little coded messages from BoC? This is all very speculative, but allow me to elaborate further:
-"Thank You For Not Smoking" ties back into things they've said in interviews about how people shouldn't have to get high to enjoy music. Then again, it could also be adding to the sort of "airport-like" atmosphere of the unidentified background music (planes and flying are a recurring BoC motif) or just continuing the general "health" theme of the swine flu shot interlude that immediately precedes it.
-I touched on this back when the tape was new, but the Orange Juice interlude could easily be interpreted as a somewhat-friendly jab at all the fake BoC tracks that have popped up over the years. Just listen to the dialogue but replace oranges with instruments/production techniques, orange juice with music, and Minute Maid with BoC. "You can't make BoC just by copying a few aspects of it" is the first take-away, and "If it's Minute Maid, there's no doubt about it" could be analogous to "When you hear our actual work, you won't have even the little shreds of doubt that appear when you're listening to even the most convincing fakes".
-Finally, I'd like to focus on the Wind Tunnel interlude. The "fearful forces [plotting] their pattern by proxy" could be BoC themselves, looking to use the reaction to this tape as a sort of barometer to decide whether a more eclectic mix of sounds would be a good fit for the next album. Sort of looking at how fans react to the various types of music and how many of those they could get away with incorporating, know what I mean? This one is by far the most speculative and we won't be able to tell for sure if it's the case until we hear whatever they end up doing next, but as the interlude itself says: "One day, we shall know..."
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:01 pm