OK Dave you win, It's an obvious attempt at converting innocents like me to fascism
I won't get fooled again.
I won't get fooled again.
Surprised Fellaini doesn’t get a shout in that vid.
den
Player Valuation: £2.5m
What do you make of the "What the Papers Say" feature on the club site?
I think it's bizarre to do a roundup of rumors, even with a disclaimer, and especially odd to just pick two out of the many floating around. Today they posted about how the papers are saying Thierno Barry is a serious target and that Branthwaite is wanted by Thomas Frank. What's the point of this stuff?
I think it's bizarre to do a roundup of rumors, even with a disclaimer, and especially odd to just pick two out of the many floating around. Today they posted about how the papers are saying Thierno Barry is a serious target and that Branthwaite is wanted by Thomas Frank. What's the point of this stuff?
ElGato
Player Valuation: £10m
Behind Blue Eyes:
Townshend’s vision of a futuristic fantasy, wherein people, driven indoors by a climatic catastrophe and a tyrannical government that deprived them of all recreation including religion and music, were administered with artificial reality experiences through intravenous tubes. “In a way, they lived as if they were in television programmes. Everything was programmed,” Townshend explained. “The enemies were people who gave us entertainment intravenously, and the heroes were savages who’d kept rock ‘n’ roll as a primitive force and had gone to live with it in the woods.”
The story’s principal hero is Bobby, a hacker who infiltrates the government’s mainframe (known as The Grid) to inform people of Life House, a rock ‘n’ roll happening that will liberate attendees from their “forced hibernation” with a universal chord that resonates with each individual’s harmonic frequency. His arch nemesis is Jumbo, the imperious controller of The Grid, who leads his security forces to close down Life House.
The song is from Jumbo's perspective. A character that works to preserve the fascist dictatorship.
Absolutely daft and under researched decision to use that song title for a club youtube series. Thats my point. The club's official media are a bit thick if they thought that was a great idea. They need a few tutorials on symbolism.
The song doesn't have any real fascist connotations; that's been attached by the commentariat. The song is actually a theme from an unfinished sci-fi concept album that was supposed to describe a kind of dystopian future.
Townshend originally stated that the theme of the song was centred around the leader of this dystopian society - a bad guy - who "kind of reaches an emotional crisis in his life, looks at himself in the mirror, and sings this song”. Townshend said: “It’s a point at which the baddies don’t seem quite so bad, they’re just lost.” Later, however, he pivoted to say the song was about a defector from this society who questions is own loyalty (or lack thereof). Regardless, the song is really about ostracisation, ethics and identity: “No one knows what it’s like / To be the bad man / To be the sad man / Behind blue eyes.”
However whilst criticising the club for associating themselves with fascism is probably taking this a bit far (which I'm not saying you are doing) - it's still a little bit stupid to use it when you think about the basic moral undertone of the tune. It would be a bit like calling a series which journals Everton's work in the mental health centres around Liverpool "Blue Monday".
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Exactly.
It's spectacularly inappropriate to use 'Behind Blue Eyes'.
Whoever thought that title up is involved in public relations on behalf of this club. Think about that.
ElGato
Player Valuation: £10m
I don't think this kind of hyperbole is necessary at all. Most people engaging with the content won't have a scooby what it's even referring to
It's just a bit thick, nothing more, nothing less. There's loads of examples of crap marketing - at Everton or otherwise - I certainly won't be pausing the front page for it
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
It's an unnecessary gaffe by a clueless PR department is the obvious point being made, regardless of who does and who doesn't know the storyline of a Who song.
ElGato
Player Valuation: £10m
I wouldn't even go that far. A gaffe by the PR department would be getting the players names or pictures muddled up or something. Something that really attracts negative attention
In this instance they've simply used a song title from the Who's back catalogue for a Youtube series, without fully comprehending the lyrical concept of that song. Or, more accurately, the narrative of the album it was supposed to be on (but never was) - which is where the true meaning of the songs lyrics take full effect. Which is an extremely niche, middle-class intelligentsia thing to hone in on when you think about it.
Hardly an incriminating blunder - but that's my my opinion and you possibly/probably have higher standards for our fellow humans.
Remember: they can't all be as intellectual as us
ElGato
Player Valuation: £10m
Also my apologies for assuming your species here
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
A revealing blunder. It underlines the PR team dont have a clue what they're doing. If they cant think a title of a video series through and understand that the back story behind it is inappropriate then what else can they get wrong?
That's the conclusion to draw here.
ElGato
Player Valuation: £10m
Again, I'm not sure it's inappropriate. It's a song about the deep human feeling of regret and loneliness. It's not a song that endorses despotism
On that basis its more that its unsuitable than it is inappropriate
Which isn't worth getting so outraged about.
On the other hand, regret and loneliness are symptoms of being an Everton fan, so maybe it's more suitable than we think
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