A band called The Smashing Pumpkins have a song called Bullet With Butterfly Wings. A line repeated a lot in the chorus is “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”.
Haha I got it straight away, it was a super popular song when I was younger, and the line in the meme “Despite all my rage” clearly identifies it. But I can imagine it would be easy to miss the window. Be born a few years later. Be from a country that doesn’t commonly have American rock bands at the top of the charts. Or just not being into rock or having time to listen to the radio at that point in time.
Then you have to also know who Nicolas Cage is. And also be on lemmy enough to understand how people think.
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
A band called The Smashing Pumpkins have a song called Bullet With Butterfly Wings. A line repeated a lot in the chorus is “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”.
The image shows a rat behind Nicolas Cage.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Thanks. I’m giving this Meme an obscurity rating of 8/10
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Haha I got it straight away, it was a super popular song when I was younger, and the line in the meme “Despite all my rage” clearly identifies it. But I can imagine it would be easy to miss the window. Be born a few years later. Be from a country that doesn’t commonly have American rock bands at the top of the charts. Or just not being into rock or having time to listen to the radio at that point in time.
Then you have to also know who Nicolas Cage is. And also be on lemmy enough to understand how people think.
Ok I can see how this could be pretty obscure.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
And also Nicolas Cage isn’t exactly super recognisable in this picture