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If I was so sure, then I wouldn’t have done further research

Hmm. The art style, the sharp edges, the contrasting color palette, and the fuzzy background made me think that this image was AI-generated, drawing on a mix of the corporate art style and the Orwellian art style. The figures in the bottom corners that look like they have a🗿for a head really sold the idea to me, and the caption’s color, font choice, and Title Case formatting didn’t help. After seeking reassurance from a couple of AI-gen detection sites that claimed it was likely human-made, I used TinEye.com to find the oldest source of the image I could.

Turns out it was made by Pandagolik1 back in 2022. Kudos to the artist for predicting a dystopian corporate propaganda aesthetic so precisely.

Hmmm…

Gabriel is my favorite artist and Genesis is my favorite band. I looked over other people’s reasoning for this interpretation, and it doesn’t seem 100% right to me.

I think the foremost metaphor in the song is about willful subjugation to religious/spiritual ideals and aspirations, so much so that the believer constantly crawls on their hands and knees in the foolish hope that it will bring them to a higher place spiritually, but these acts only impair them in both the Earthly and Heavenly realms. The references to climbing are about aspirations for a spiritual ascension, and the references to birth are about religious rebirth that puts the foolish believer right back to where they started without any progress made. The believers must “get in” to the highest echelon of piety/aether/magnificence “to get out” of mortal rebirth/suffering/existence/banality. This would track with Gabriel’s history of personal spiritualism and religious references, as well as the self-discovery theme of the album. The descriptions of scenery are to evoke how the environment/world/universe is lush and royal yet the believers themselves are tiny and insignificant. The album also intentionally makes constant leaps between settings and themes, which would make the very direct “Counting Out Time” unlikely to precede a song that is also sexual in nature. And when Gabriel sings about sex, it usually lacks subtlety.

Ascending the staircase to the next song, “The Chamber of 32 Doors”, Rael encounters those who incorrectly believe themselves to have found enlightenment and who seek to peddle their maligned ideologies to others. However, only “Lilywhite Lilith” can find the way of truth due to her lack of arrogance (on account of her being blind and pure).

However, Gabriel is a fantastic poet and lyricist and loves a dirty joke. The sperm theory is plausible as a secondary metaphor, but in the context of the story, who or what is being fertilized/born? As this song follows Rael’s coitus, it would follow that it would be a progeny of Rael that would be birthed, yet this cannot be the case since the rest of the story follows Rael and acknowledges that the character the audience stays with is John’s brother.

I’d argue that, barring “Counting Out Time”, “Steam” is probably Gabriel’s most explicitly sexual song, mimicking “Sledgehammer” without as artful of symbolisms.

I thought the pet play song you linked to would be “I Wanna Be Your Dog” by The Stooges.

There are also other more directly sexual songs by contemporaries. “So Deep Within You” by The Moody Blues, “I’m In You” by Peter Frampton, “Pearl Necklace” by ZZ Top, and many Frank Zappa songs, for example.

Thinking about that time I posted online that it was my last day of college classes so I could only get dumber from there on out, and someone I hadn’t talked to since high school wrote a reply in agreement and my response to them was “It’s like what Smash Mouth said: ‘Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb’”

Sabrina Carpenter not being a member of the Carpenters hits me like Ice Spice not being a member of the Spice Girls

It’s not from The Clone Wars series. It’s from Tales of the Jedi Season 1 Episode 5 “Practice Makes Perfect”.

The combination of high busy detail with unfocused fuzziness, as well as the high contrast, makes this image look like an AI-generated image

https://lemmy.world/post/28778779

Can somebody do some deep dive nuanced research to see if the oppressors truly had a change of heart or if they instead simply found it to no longer be beneficial to continue oppressing?

Could it be “Prayer”?

If you know what season it’s in, you can try looking up the soundtrack for that season and seeing what sticks out as a possible answer.