FEED YOUR HEAD.
Here’s a fun one. I’ve loved this song from the first time I heard it. As a song from the ‘60s, and sharing that era’s same psychedelic vibe, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the whole song is about being on an acid trip, using references to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
But, from a Happy Mag article on the Jefferson Airplane website, they share the following from Grace Slick, the band’s lead singer:
Despite encountering pills that make you larger or smaller and eating ‘some kind of mushroom’ that leaves ‘your mind moving low’, Grace Slick is adamant the song does not refer to drugs.
For Slick, the song “is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity…”
Slick also sees the song as a liberating call to arms for intelligence and education, to ‘feed your head’.”
Something else I love about this song is how it riffs off of Ravel’s Bolero, which is one of my favorite classical pieces.
For #musicmonday here is White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane