![]() ![]() Or perhaps it is a dream of a child and its imaginary friend, turned into a nightmare. Now it’s just a song but the meaning was very clear to others. I assume the survivor was close to Michael and wrote the entry to ease the pain. It sounds like a journal entry where perhaps the survivor was imagining a conversation with the survivor’s friend Michael. “And you would turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime” shows that Michael’s head fell off and his blood stained the snow red. So when it says “and I turned around and there you go”, it means that Michael probably started falling off whatever was carrying the dead. ![]() I read it means that it was a group of survivors left from a battle and that the scarves of red tied round there throats was to keep the dead peoples decapitated heads from falling off and the scarves were stained red with blood, hence why the song says “to keep their little head from falling in the snow” and when it says “and then I turned around” one of the survivors turned around, presumably to look at Michael, who was probably the friend of Michael. The music video to this song, which utilizes claymation, was created by Robin Pecknold’s older brother, Sean Pecknold. Wrote this song with the intent of being the opening track on “Fleetįoxes”, it actually turned out being the second song on its playlist.įleet Foxes were able to record “White Winter Hymnal” in one sitting in a home, not professional, setting. And in all, it “took like 10 hours” to lay down. Hymnal” is actually “Whistle While You Work” (1939) of Disney’s “Snow White” He also stated that the song which inspired the tempo of this “White Winter Proclaimed that this is his favorite of all the band’s tracks to sing in front Hymnal” was written by Robin Pecknold, the frontman of Fleet Foxes, who also For instance, both Pitchfork Media and Time magazine placed it amongst the top-five songs of 2008, and the entire “Fleet Foxes” album was celebrated by the likes of The London Times and Mojo magazine.Īnd since then this track has been steadily covered and utilized in pop media. For instance, it serves as the opening song for Hulu’s drama series “The Path”. Served as the first single from “Fleet Foxes”.Īlthough “White Winter Hymnal” did not chart, it was still critically-acclaimed. Released by a British label called Bella Union on 2 June 2008. It also So conclusively, as the writer of “White Winter Hymnal” has alluded to, this song is a case of the lyrics preceding the meaning as opposed to vice versa. And given their overall ambiguity, they could logically be interpreted in different ways. However, there is definitely symbolism of some sort of an ominous development from an initially harmless viewpoint. And again, the ultimate idea this is all meant to point to is one akin to the loss of childhood innocence.įeatured on Fleet Foxes’ eponymous debut album, with Fleet Foxes being a band However, it is obviously not meant to be taken that Michael has actually been murdered, as he is a real-life buddy of Pecknold’s who it would appear is very much alive and kicking. So that would logically symbolize that he is in fact bleeding. ![]() He didn’t understand how suddenly keeping up with gang culture, if you will, became more important than their long-standing friendships.īut again, that interpretation is based primarily on Robin’s own explanation of this song. That is to say the listener him or herself would be hard-pressed to derive such a complex meaning from the terse and even childlike nature of the lyrics. However, if one were to listen carefully, it can be seen that when Michael falls into “the white snow”, it then turns “red as strawberries in the summertime”. For example, some became drug dealers and other types of unsavory characters. And this sudden transformation of his buddies, like “Michael”, perturbed the singer. The term “following the pack” alludes to a time in the singer’s youth when he regularly hung out with a group of his peers, indeed the same collection of friends year-in and year-out. However, as time progressed they went their separate ways – and not in a good way. ![]()
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