Wiki
-
Length
3:00
“Rose Parade” is the seventh track off of Elliott Smith’s celebrated album "Either/Or".
While the song seems to be a reference to the annual Portland Rose Festival, Elliott explained in a Jim Jr. Interview that “Rose Parade” is about parading a fake personality.
"Rose Parade is a parade that happens in Portland every year. But, ‘Rose Parade’ wasn’t really supposed to be about that parade. It was just supposed to be about parades in general, like the way people parade around and expect you to join in on their peacock march. You know? Someone does, ‘We’re looking good,’ that kind of attitude. It’s like, people get fucked over a lot by sorta trying to parade around as something that they’re not really, but they can be for a little while, but then it all goes wrong."
Interviewer: “Tell us about Rose Parade.”
Elliott: “The Rose Parade is in Portland and I was supposed to describe it accurately but the point of it wasn’t to describe the Parade. It was supposed to be an allegory for any pompous parade or self-congratulatory venture, sort of like…”
“The Oscars.”
“Yeah, for example.”
Track descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Feel free to contribute!
All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
