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Post by protagonist on Nov 30, 2008 0:51:56 GMT
Is trani about a transvestite or a tranistor radio because i saw someone say that the radios are often referred to as trani's where as a transvestite is known as a tranny?.
Also, the lyrics suggest a radio because it says 'white noise sound like a trani on ten'. I think ten means the volume level thingy.
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Post by thewhiteunicorn on Nov 30, 2008 4:07:33 GMT
you just blew my fucking mind.
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Post by Savanna on Nov 30, 2008 6:01:50 GMT
Very interesting..
But don't they confirm somewhere that it's about a transvestite..? I'm petty sure they do...don't remember where...
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Post by xlouisex on Nov 30, 2008 11:54:21 GMT
yeah im sure ive heard it confirmed its about a transvestite but i couldnt tell you where i read that lol! But well bloody done for coming up with an alternative meaning!  |
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Post by kultbert on Nov 30, 2008 13:35:21 GMT
i love it that people have to guess whats a song about. thats why i adore KOL!  |
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Post by mrsbrightside on Nov 30, 2008 13:59:51 GMT
WOW i never thought of it that way! it could possibly be, i know its got something to do with prostitutes so probably transvestite prostitutes who like listening to the trani! LOL |
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Post by kultbert on Nov 30, 2008 15:07:48 GMT
WOW i never thought of it that way! it could possibly be, i know its got something to do with prostitutes so probably transvestite prostitutes who like listening to the trani! LOL haha yeah! karma! |
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Post by Savanna on Nov 30, 2008 18:47:24 GMT
Yeah maybe it's a play on words!! Like a double entendre!
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Post by razzthekid505 on Nov 30, 2008 18:51:53 GMT
When I first got into KOL, I was asking my mum what Trani was about.. haha I go "is it about transvestites..?" and she goes "maybe, but it could be about a radio"
But I think in that making of KOTR vid, Jared goes "it's another song about tranvestites (about KOTR), we do that a lot"
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Post by SozzellLovesKOL on Nov 30, 2008 18:58:36 GMT
Is trani about a transvestite or a tranistor radio because i saw someone say that the radios are often referred to as trani's where as a transvestite is known as a tranny?. Also, the lyrics suggest a radio because it says 'white noise sound like a trani on ten'. I think ten means the volume level thingy. Welllll, at Wembley last year when they played Trani a picture of a tranny came up on the screen for the whole song. So I'm guessing it's about a tranny! At least partly anyways  |
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Post by Savanna on Nov 30, 2008 18:59:11 GMT
^^ I thought of when he said that too.
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Post by schnucams on Nov 30, 2008 19:56:52 GMT
Maybe it was originally about a radio but people thought it was about a transvestite so they decided to go with that instead  |
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Post by sxesadie on Nov 30, 2008 20:17:21 GMT
Yeah maybe it's a play on words!! Like a double entendre! It is actually, It's about a transvestite with a play on words for an actual transistor radio. |
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Post by whiskers on Dec 2, 2008 1:39:00 GMT
maybe it's like the heard the news of this trani who got beat up really bad on the radio and they'd seen her about. like a frisby, just throwing it out there
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Post by myblackthumbnail on Dec 2, 2008 12:26:36 GMT
I read an interview once that said that after opening for Bob Dylan, supposedly Bob came backstage and asked "What was that last song you guys did?" The band replied "Trani, a song about transvestite hookers.", to which Bob answered "That's a hell of a song". The band thought that was about the coolest thing that had ever happened to them.
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Post by antroolez on Dec 3, 2008 1:07:05 GMT
did he say 'trani, a song about a transvestite hookers' or just 'trani'?
i swear i seen a few interviews where he just says trani
ah well
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Post by Savanna on Dec 3, 2008 1:42:36 GMT
Yeah he mentions it in several interviews, but I don't really remember him describing the song....maybe in one of them...
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Post by lardydar on Dec 3, 2008 17:32:30 GMT
Nahhh, white noise, spelling it trani, must be about sound distortion from an amp on full volume (isn't trani the commonly used word in the States for an amp??). Personally, when I first heard it, I just heard "tranny on gin", and immediately assumed it was all about pissed-up cross dressing hookers. But hey, there's no wrong or right here |
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Post by riotonsunset on Dec 3, 2008 19:06:35 GMT
Yeah maybe it's a play on words!! Like a double entendre! It is actually, It's about a transvestite with a play on words for an actual transistor radio. I agree. It's pretty obvious in the beginning of the song he talks about 'Cheap trick hookers.' Maybe it's just me, but I think he's comparing the sound of this person getting beat up or assaulted, to the loud static on a radio and he's using the play on words as a metaphor. I mean when he's singing 'lay it on the ground' & 'fingers in the dirt, and he's spitting out his teeth' combined with his shrill screaming at the end... it sounds so disturbing, like that loud noise that bothers you coming from radio static. |
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Post by sallyb on Dec 10, 2008 15:22:00 GMT
1st post!!
It is about a transvestite and Ten is an amount of cocaine!!
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