No, we're not doing songs about food (I think we've already done that?) today, but about Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland. Because, you see, it's pretty often that musicians do an acid trip or something while reading the stories (or they picture something similar to the trippy mental images they provide) and there it goes a song about it. Basically, it's just wacky shit but reframed to have a glorious purpose. You can also see it in visual media, but here today it's all about the music.
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| Blonde chick + white rabbit = Wonderland. Via Pexels |
Okay, maybe I lied to y'all, because I'm opening this article with a song that it's not about the stories, but the video is excessively inspired on them, like, borderline copyright infringement inspired. But it's a fun visual representation of what the following songs try to convey, so here it lands first.
Now for actual Alice shit! There's pretty much no better musical representation of both the significance of the stories, and their relationship to hard drugs, than this Jefferson Airplane tune, in where Grace Slick recognized all the hilarious parallels and shoved them all in one trippy song.
An entire sequence in one of the stories inspired Thom Yorke to create this song, creating a similarity between the moment where Alice is in the hall of doors and his own mental state. Always a good sign when you find yourself resembling a trippy book.
Before Amadeus3000 beats me to it, here's a Lady Gaga song. Just like Yorke, she uses the stories as parallel to her own mental state from around the time she wrote the tune. It's never another tale, people.
For the closer this time, we're having straight-up an Alice moment, courtesy of Donovan and the various interpretations made from Carroll's work. This tune specifically focuses on his Jabberwocky.
Are you a fan of the Alice In Wonderland stories? What song inspired by them is your favorite?
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