What is SPOOKY GIRLFRIEND about?

King_of_Spain · Post by **King_of_Spain** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:47 pm

My favourite song from When I was cruel is, no doubt, Spooky Girlfriend (it´s quite a difficult choice, within this superb album).

This is only to ask you all your personal interpretation about the lyrics of the song.

What do you think about it?

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:08 pm

I hate to be the devil's advocate, but is it possible that "Spooky Girlfriend" is about... a spooky girlfriend?

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:12 pm

It could be about a racehorse

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Pov · Post by **Pov** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:14 pm

That was a great song to listen to last Halloween. I'll have to try it again this year.

King_of_Spain · Post by **King_of_Spain** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:49 pm

OK, OK...

I mean: my question was if you see some SadoMaso connotation, if the song refers to the point of view of him/her or whoever, if it´s some desperate song about sex-not-love after EC´s breaking up with Cait, etc etc etc (or if it is referred to Siouxsee and her whole bunch of Banshees)

Thankx, anyway: I´ve never thought about the possibility of it talking about a Spooky Girlfriend.

Watching_Detectives · Post by **Watching_Detectives** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:42 pm

I thought i heard/read somewhere that it was about a person sleeping with like, a record exec to get the deal or something..

Or I'm really imaginative.

Oh well..

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:49 pm

I thought that's what "Episode Of Blonde" was about, but in hindsight, Elvis didn't play "Episode Of Blonde" when I saw him in Toronto and told that story, but he did play "Spooky Girlfriend." So there it is.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:51 pm

I have a recording of Elvis telling a tale of it being about it being sung to some sleazy German porn baron by one of his charges, which I recall hearing him say somewhere else too, so it's obviously his standard line. Isn't it fairly straightly about men using women as material objects, with the exploiting male as the main voice and the coin being flipped with the woman disturbingly offering herself as the spooky girlfriend? It's very humorous, especially 'and if she won't, her mother will do', which of course has been related to Liv Tyler and Bebebebe elsewhere. I love the radio version on Cruel Smile.

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 2:55 am

Dear KING of Spain...I don't think there are any real Sado-Masochistic themes in the song, but there are many others in Elvis' work...check my thread.."is Elvis a sadist"....

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:59 pm

I thought it was written about the lovely lady that posts on the board under that nom de plume...?