A second visit to the Tiger cage this morning for another collection of songs.
“Secret Life Of Tigers” is a song by N.E.R.D from their album ‘No One Ever Really Dies’ released in 2017. Pharrell Williams says ‘This song is called ‘Secret Life of Tigers’ and it is the revenge to the sickness that’s going on in the conservative group of people in this country.” “The conservative people have no idea that their kids are doing drugs and rebellion against the fact that they are against immigration, the fact that they are against their children’s right to choose between what it is that they want to do, all of those things. These kids are out there partying saying you’re going to die, and we’re going to grow up and take over this country. And to me when I look at those teenagers that are partying that hard I call them and I look at this situation I say it’s the ‘Secret Life of Tigers.'”
“Star Tiger Star Ariel” is a track from the fourth studio album of the same name by English band Delays. The album was released in June 2010 through Lookout Mountain Records. The album concludes with the progressive rock number “Star Tiger, Star Ariel”. Southampton four-piece Delays never really fit into the whole mid-noughties alternative scene they emerged from, with their engaging blend of blissful harmonies, shoe-gazing lyrics, and jangly guitar pop more suited to the late-’80s era.
“Tiger” This is a track from the self-titled debut solo album by producer and TV On The Radio guitarist Dave Sitek, recorded under the guise of Maximum Balloon. The song features Sitek’s friend Aku, who is singer for the Brooklyn psych-rockers Dragons of Zynth. The lyrics were written before the whole Tiger Woods sex scandal blew up. Sitek told The Guardian: “The double entendre in the lyrics [“you let your tiger out”] was intentional, although we didn’t plan on it coming out during the whole Tiger Woods thing. It could be the best Nike commercial ever! Or the best condom commercial.”
“Tiger Kit” is a song by Sleigh Bells taken from their 2013 album ‘Bitter Rivals’. Multi-instrumentalist Derek Miller admitted to NME that he never really got the guitar sound that he was looking for on this song. “It will always drive me crazy,” he said. “I will always hear that song and know what it could sound like, which is a problem. It has the closest thing we have to a solo on a Sleigh Bells record, I guess. It kind of rips off Jimmy Page.” However, Miller does love vocalist Alexis Krauss’ Rhythm Nation reference on the second verse when she sings, “Never trust a tiger that can’t be tamed.” He told NME: “I think we were both really into Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. We’re both huge Janet Jackson fans. I think you killed it, you have a lot of attitude.”
“Tigers and Fireflies” is a track from the album of the same name which was recorded in 1978 and released by Lynsey de Paul in April 1979 on the Polydor record label. It was launched at a special event at the Mayfair Club in London, with de Paul looking similar to the 1940s film star Veronica Lake. The single “Tigers and Fireflies” was released just prior to the album itself. Some years later, de Paul revealed that the song ‘Tigers and Fireflies’ was about two of her former managers Gordon Mills and Don Arden and is about being cheated and lied to with dazzling promises. The song is still played on the radio in Japan.
