Who is ben folds brainwascht about

It all has to have context. I think some people hate it because they were told it was a joke. In the end people got free songs and we had something to do on July I wrote this song back suggesting we have a dance-off. My drummer wrote those lyrics.

I sat down, I found a riff, he sang the lyrics over the riff and it was done in about 45 minutes. Like if you go to a spa or a high-end fashion store in one of those malls. You see these people kinda barking orders and being rude and frowney. I had a part I wanted her to sing it, but she added a lot. That and he would have had to have heard the song pre December Which, I guess But, uh-uh. The Fleming and John theory I think holds a lot more possible. TrashSpork Gender:. I'm thinking it isn't a pointed tune to slam one individual specifically if what we are doing here is hypothesizing the hidden meaning of 'Brainwascht'.

For now I'll go along with the CW that it is probably just a tune written about a composite character made up of a number of individuals who have drifted in and out of Ben's life over the years and into the present. Quote from: Allison on October 29, , PM. Quote from: Trashhook on October 29, , PM. General Comment I could've sworn the last line was "online rhyming dictionary. No Replies Log in to reply.

There was an error. General Comment at his concert he was talking about how the songs about someone who wrote a not very nice pop song about him so he wrote one back. General Comment There's certainly more than just one person to consider in this song. Then there's the songwriter's wife and another intimate companion -- I hear the last verse as "in '94 getting blown in your basement while your wife slept.

BTW, going by the track listings on Way to Normal and Stems and Seeds, the official title of this song is "Brainwascht", while the "fake" version kept the spelling "Brainwashed", rather than the other way around.

You raise some interesting questions, but I think the cast of characters is not as vast as it at first seems. The comment by AHoyBobby really sums up the backstory of this song, which puts the entire song into context. The jab about "getting blown in your basement while your wife slept", is referring to John cheating on his then wife in '94, while Flemming was his mistress. So what they blasted Ben for in "Wrong" is exactly what they had done 10 years earlier.

General Comment some one wrote a song jabbing at ben. General Comment yeah, it would seem that this song is his reply to a song written negatively about him. Wtfzorz on October 02, Link.