Monday, June 24, 2013

Misteri Mengerikan dibalik Lagu Hotel California


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Pasti kita hapal atau paling tidak pernah dengar lagu legendaris dari TheEagles ini. Lagu yang meledak pada Mei 1977, memuncaki chart BillboardHot 100 selama seminggu. Lagu ini juga menduduki peringkat 49 dari The500 Greatest Song of All Time oleh majalah Rolling Stones. Part sologitarnya pun menduduki peringkat 8 Top 100 Guitar Solos oleh GuitarMagazine. Albumnya yang bertitel sama telah terjual sebanyak 16 jutakopi sejak perilisannya. Tak diragukan lagi, lagu ini memang legendaris.

Tapi pernahkah anda memperhatikan liriknya? Nah kalau belum, simak ini:

Hotel California

Writers: Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
’this could be heaven or this could be hell’
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say…

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the captain,
’please bring me my wine’
He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say…

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

Phew,panjang juga yak. Mungkin pikiran pertama yang terlintas di kepalaadalah, ini adalah cerita tentang si lakon yang lagi dalam perjalanan,kemudian capek dan mampir di “Hotel California”. Dari sini mulai munculkejadian aneh dan seterusnya dan seterusnya. Tapi tahukah anda bahwalirik lagu ini juga secara kontroversial dinterpretasikan tentang Churchof Satan dari Anton LaVey. Saya tidak akan membahas tentang apa ituchurch of satan yang memang diluar konteks tulisan ini, tapi saya hanyamenyebutkan alasan penginterpretasian.

Ini alasannya:

* The Eagles merupakan anagram dari “gales (of) heet” yang berarti winds of hell.

* Pada tahun 1969 sebuah hotel di California Street, San Francisco dialihfungsikan menjadi church of satan oleh Anton LaVey.

Anton LaVey
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* “They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the Beast,” menunjukkan kekuatan setan(beast).

*“You can check out at any time you like, but you can never leave” dan“We are all just prisoners here of our own device.” menyiratkan sumpahanggota church of satan yang mengikat.

* Dan yang paling creepy adalah kemunculan Anton LaVey di cover album
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Kelihatan ga si Anton LaVey?

Penampakan Anton LaVey

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Bagaimanapunjuga Don Henley mengkonfirmasi di Daily Mail “It was really about theexcesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was alsoabout the uneasy balance between art and commerce”

Dijelaskanbahwa tema dibelakang dari lirik lagu ini adalah dekadensi industrimusik di Los Angeles yang dideskripsikan sebagai “penjara” para artisdalam petikan lirik “We are all just prisoners here of our own device.”dan akhirnya tidak dapat keluar “You can check out at any time you like,but you can never leave”. Yang jelas kata Don Henley, lagu ini bukanbercerita tentang church of satan, hotel secara harfiah yang bernama“Hotel California” ataupun tentang rumah sakit jiwa. It is all aboutsymbol.

Tentang benar tidaknya, tak ada yang pernah tahu kecualipencipta lagunya sendiri. Percaya atau tidak percaya itu pun terserahmasing-masing. Atau mungkin lebih baik just let it be, a mystery.Seperti kata pepatah sakti: Good song has many interpretations


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