Big Lie - Rik Emmett

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Emmett

https://mikeladano.com/2014/03/30/review-rik-emmett-absolutely-1990/

In the late 1970’s and the 1980’s Triumph enjoyed some commercial and critical success with a combination of hard rock and pop sound compared (either correctly or incorrectly) to fellow Canadians, Rush.  The band was poorly managed and broke up.

So let’s get the gematria tie in going here.  Remember, the gematria clowns never do any actual research.  Everything is based off the current news stories, usually no later than the day after the “evil” MSM reports on it.  So it’s all current stuff of the big names now and their shenanigans.  Taylor Swift, rappers, and so forth.  Forgotten bands of 40 years ago don’t show up on the radar screen.  Which is weird since the cancer diagnosis mentioned in Wikipedia would have been perfect for a ‘caused by the vaccine’ story.

I’ll leave you to listen to and/or read the full lyrics on your own.  Mike’s review includes a link to the video.  The lyrics are <gasp!> easily found by a quick search.  Here’s a relevant piece of the review to bring attention to:

It has decent lyrics.  Not all music is meant to have any intellectual meaning.  But other than recognition of my own Dunning-Kruger limitations I don’t really get the idea of finding mindless party songs with insipid lyrics to be worth long term attention.  And we’ll get to the last part of that sentence in a minute.

Returning down memory lane, when Triumph released their Allied Forces album, the same idiot college newspaper that allowed a piece about overpopulation not being anything to worry about had an editorial covering Allied Forces which accused it of having mindless heavy metal lyrics aimed at 13 year old groins.  Specifically, two tracks on that are far from that - Fight the Good Fight and Ordinary Man.  If you actually listen to the lyrics or read them they are very much the opposite.  It’s no surprise that the actual more mindless songs of Magic Power and Say Goodbye were the commercial successes that got lots of air time on this old thing called radio.

And that’s saying a lot.  Back then, commercial success was important and caters to the demands of the masses.  I enjoy all those tracks I mentioned, for their own strengths.  Yet somehow we’re supposed to believe that mindless punching up numbers and words on a gematria calculator equates to objective evidence while the topic is in practice completely subjective.  You like a party song that you can dance to, good for you.  You like something that resonates with you at least for a while and makes you think.  Knock yourself out.  But when you start polluting the political landscape with absolutes instead of opinions disguised as absolutes, that’s a problem.  Ironically, the album title including Big Lie is Absolutely.

“…which are more relevant than ever today.”

Written back in 2014 and they are even more relevant today in 2024.  In my opinion.  The same issues that plagued us before Triumph’s heyday, during their heyday, during the time that Absolutely was released, at the time of the 2014 review, and now in 2024.  They’re are a whole bunch of them listed in the lyrics.  And the tune is pretty catchy; quite a banger.  In my opinion.

The lyrics are so obviously open to interpretation the song ends with Rik questioning whether you should think he’s trying to challenge your mind or just pumping out a banger of a tune to make a quick buck.  Personally, I’d rather have content like that than, I Can’t Drive 55 by Haggar.  At least at times.  Haggar’s magnum opus (in my opinion) is great for cranking on the car speakers and I love it.

Back to gematria looney tunes land.  I could easily make a lengthy gematria story about any of the songs listed here and which is the best and why it’s good, evil, predictive programming or even the end of the world.  There’s no question posed at the end of your typical gematria song and dance.  It’s to make a quick buck.  It’s scapegoating and fear mongering based on the preceding lyrics of Big Lie.  Don’t you find it interesting that The Big Lie is a common politically charged phrase these days and this song hasn’t been brought up as predictive programming?  I do.  Because I allow myself to be intellectually challenged.  I do not deal in Absolutelys.  I look for meaning outside of face value and there’s a ton of it in old media, film, TV, music and this quaint old thing called books.

While your gematria guru tries to force feed you the wrong answer to make you visit their fundraiser.  And in my opinion that’s not an opinion anymore.  See what I did there?