China, perhaps unsurprisingly, is not happy about the title of the new Guns N’ Roses album; authorities are not letting the album into the country, and fans are wondering just what, exactly, the title is trying to say about Axl’s attitudes toward their homeland. The best thing about this news? It means that Cornrowed Axl gets his own Wall Street Journal woodcut. [WSJ]
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I want a WSJ woodcut. Of course, I’d also want it to look more like me than the one of Axl does of him.
From the SongMeanings website:
“I am from China and I have no idea what this song is about. I agree with an earlier poster, Axl doesn’t even have an arguement here. He is basically just throwing out a bunch of buzz words, “iron fist”, “locked up”, ‘FaLun Gun’. It’s like Sarah Palin talking about economy. As far as bashing Chinese government goes, IMHO Roger Waters’ “Watching TV” is far more intellectually interesting.”
[www.songmeanings.net]
I wonder if it’s a play on the phrase harder than Chinese arithmetic. Maybe more elusive than Chinese democrcy? I.e., the completion of the album?