“Sweet Sixteen” is based largely on Billy Idol’s study of an early 20th century Latvian immigrant to the United States named Edward Leedskalnin. Leedskalnin was what people refer to as an eccentric. What that meant in his...
Although “Night Crawling” isn’t a complex song, it isn’t necessarily easy to decipher either. In fact the lyrics seem to be based largely on some kind of dichotomy which defines the singers’ lives, as...
The Strokes’ “Bad Decisions” is a song that is both simple and complicated at the same time. The lyrics are repetitive, thus lending to its simplicity. But they are also heavily reliant on ambiguous and perhaps...
“Dancing with Myself” originated from Billy Idol and one of his homies actually witnessing people dance with themselves, in front of mirrors, in a Japanese disco. That’s why at the beginning of the song he...
In “White Wedding”, Billy Idol is addressing the person he is singing to as “little sister”. However, this is the title he has given to his former lover and not a reference to an actual...
The title of this song was derived from a 1960 French film named “Les Yeux sans Visage”. Listeners may notice that this is the same phrase repeated in the chorus. It translate into English as “eyes...