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State of Confusion (song)
"State of Confusion" is a song written by Ray Davies and first released by The Kinks as the title track of their 1983 album ''State of Confusion''. Although it was not released as a single in the United States, it reached #26 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/state-of-confusion-mw0000650367/awards )〕 It was released as a single in Continental Europe.
==Lyrics and music==
The lyrics of "State of Confusion" depict numerous of sources of frustration to the singer. Among these are technological failures, such as a television that's "on the blink," a clothes dryer that doesn't work and a video machine that breaks down.〔 In addition, there are more domestic problems as the basement is flooded, the attic has woodworm and the ceiling has collapsed.〔 To make matters worse, when the video machine breaks, the singer's girlfriend gets bored and leaves him.〔〔 Later in the song, the singer is frustrated by trying to cross the street amidst traffic.〔 The song ends with the singer unable to sleep due to financial worries and concluding that there is "no escape" from the world's "state of confusion."〔 If anything, things get worse as you age.
Musically, the music opens with Dave Davies playing guitar chords, onto which Ian Gibbons layers on keyboard part which Ray Davies's biographer Thomas Kitts describes as "thin" and "haunting."〔 Dave Davies then starts playing the guitar riff, described by Kitts as "belligerent," after which Ray Davies lets out a "tormented" scream, before beginning to sing the lyrics of the song.〔 The song's guitar riff is an extension of the riffs played by Dave Davies back to the earliest Kinks' hits, "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night."〔
One theme of the song is the way technology can overwhelm human emotion.〔 Kitts suggests that the word "state" in the song and in the title represents multiple meanings – a psychic state of confusion, as well as the state as the government promoting consumer consumption, as well as the state of popular music which traps the singer, particularly in the video.〔 Music critic Johnny Rogan finds the song a continuation of Davies' "misfit persona" from earlier songs.〔
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