Blog Post Week 8 - Hotel California by Eagles

 

For this weeks blogpost, I decided to do "Hotel California" by Eagles. This is a superlative song for a variety of reasons, but the main reason that I find this song so enjoyable to listen to is its lyrics. While the music is fairly upbeat and fun, the lyrics tell a darker story. A story that I believe to be about drugs and obsession. These themes weren't really apparent by just listening to the music, but as I read the words, I started to get a new interpretation of the lyrics. One line that I like is, "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill this beast. I believe this line to be a metaphor for heroin use, where "knives are the needles/syringes and "the beast" is there addiction. Another line that correlates to this is when the song states, "We are all just prisoners here of our own device." This could be another metaphor that discusses drug use, where the Eagles are the "prisoners" to the addiction that they created themselves, or "by our own device." I love the lyrics of this song because they can be interpreted in many different ways, and the audience can relate the lyrics to their own lives, making the song personal to them, even if it has nothing to do with what the lyrics meant to the artist.