"Dreamworld" by Rilo Kiley (Repost), Thursday, August 18, 2022
Composed of former child actors Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett, Rilo Kiley was an indie rock band from Los Angelos but signed to Warner Brothers for their final album, Under the Blacklight. The band's song "Pictures of Success" was featured on the mixtape I wrote about last year. Jenny Lewis often serves as the band's lead singer; however, on this track, Blake Sennett takes the lead vocals. Under the Blacklight is the band's final album with the exception of a rarities compilation. After the release of Under the Blacklight and their subsequent tour to support the album, the band went on hiatus, which later turned into a break-up.
YOU'RE THE GIRL WHO WANTED MORE. One of singer Jenny Lewis's most remembered roles on TV as a child actress was an episode from a season 3 episode of The Golden Girls, in which she plays the role of a Sunshine Cadet, a kind of Girl Scout, who volunteers to help the women with some house work. Blanche accidentally gives Daisy, the Sunshine Cadet, Rose's teddy bear, for which Rose still has sentimental attachment. When Blanche and Dorothy try to persuade the girl to give the bear back, Daisy acts like a sad little girl who would miss the bear too much to let it go; however, as the two women try to persuade Daisy, Daisy turns to extortion, asking for gifts. And as the it becomes clearer to her how much the bear is worth to Rose, the price goes up. The story comes to a conclusion with Daisy threatening to destroy the bear, and Rose feigning defeat, only to push Daisy out the front door, grabbing the bear from Daisy's hands. In the same year, guitarist and singer Blake Sennett was playing minor roles on Highway to Heaven, Family Ties, The Wonder Years, and Boy Meets World, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Lewis would go on to do voice acting and play small roles during and after her tenure with Rilo Kiley, whereas Sennett stopped acting. One of Sennett's best know roles was playing Joey the Rat in Boy Meets World.
NECKING WITH THE BOY WHO COULD ONLY GIVE HER LESS. "Dreamworld" deals with denial and escapism. Delusion is a coping mechanism, but the song also gives the fact of the matter that the characters Sennett sings about are trying to escape from. Dreams are very important to singer/guitarist Blake Sennett, as he has made several accounts for how the band come to be known as Rilo Kiley. The first he claims he had a dream that he was being chased by a sports almanac. When he was caught, the book was opened to a page of a 19th century Australian football player named Rilo Kiley, who only existed in the dream. Another account of the band's name origin was a dream in which Sennett met a woman who told him when fellow bandmate, Jenny Lewis, would die. The person in the dream was Rilo Kiley.
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