Wondering...

[sarahmichelef]

So M and I have been having a debate. What exactly is the plot of The Barenaked Ladies' "The Old Apartment"?

Tell me what you think.

Comments

[fencerm2.livejournal.com]

Well, it could be one of two things, I think.

Either (a. He's just a bit neurotic, broke into the place because he could, and needed to have a blast from the past. Sometimes to deal with old issues, we need to return to locations of the past, and blah blah blah.

I know, as a huge fan of BNL, that the main lead singer, Steve, suffers from clinical depression. So this, to me, is most plausible.

Of course, the standard option (b. Is that his ex is the occupant of said apartment, and he lives with the woman he left her for, but is feeling some regret in that choice, so he has broken in just to talk about things. Clear the air, and blah blah blah.

That's my 2 cents worth on that. :-)

I have seen BNL live SIX times since 1994.

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

I pretty much go with 'a'. He has no idea who lives there now, he just needed to be there again, and for one moment (just long enough) didn't care that it's a crime. I actually understand the urge, although I've never done what the song depicts. Oddly, the apartment I most want to break into and see was never mine, per se, but my grandmother's apt in Brooklyn.

Nostalgia's bizarre, sometimes.