Added: Apr 26, 2011

From: periXreloaded

Duration: 4:26

First of all: This performance is just so full of high spirits - it is awesome and I love it. The contrast of the lyrics and the atmosphere could hardly be starker. Onto the thousands of notes for this song. I tried to keep them as short as possible, but it really is a lot of interesting stuff. Notes: 1) According to Dir en grey themselves it was Kaoru giving the song the name 'Jessica'; because he's always been fond of that name. 2) The "Berlin Wall" was the wall that was constructed in 1961 to completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. The primary purpose was to keep inhabitants of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from escaping. "Republikflucht" ("flight from the republic") led to an imprisonment of about 2 years. About 100 - 200 people died while trying to escape. On November 9, 1989 the East German government announced that all East Germans could now visit West Germany and West Berlin by a mistake; which led to thousands of people (East and West Germans) crossing and climbing onto the wall, resulting into the end of the separation of East and West Germany. 3) "Edward H. Gein was a truly frightening man, a psycho killer type, that the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre shares many similarities with. The house that acted as Gein's lair, contained scenes of such grotesqueness that the world may have not heard of such deviance since the dark ages. These included clothes and masks made of human flesh, furniture made of human flesh, the hollowed out corpse of a young woman hung from meat hooks, however Gein only killed two people, he robbed most of the parts from graves. What one Dir fan pointed out to us, is that Gein in fact appeared to be a very simple gentle man, that his neighbor's never guessed was a madman. Maybe Kyo is trying to get across that image." - centigrade-j 4) Sid Vicious and Nancy have been the first couple of Punk music. Sid was an English musician, the bassist of the legendary band the "Sex Pistols". Though honestly, such as claimed by Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, he couldn't play bass at all. Sid's part inside the band was more to be the 'punk in person' than to play his instrument. When he meet Nancy Spungen, an American groupie who was addicted to heroin, and they fell in love, he started to do drugs as well. He and Nancy were the Father and Mother of the Punk image and attitude of "Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll". Kyo said: "I didn't really know who they were. I bought a book thinking, 'I wonder what they were really like?' They were so stupid. I stopped reading halfway through. I wanted to destroy their image of 'SDR'." Sid Vicious was suspected to have killed Nancy in a hotel, where she was found with a stab wound in her abdomen, right next to a stoned Sid. Only a few months later Sid was found dead; he had killed himself with an overdose of heroin leaving only a suicide note and a last wish: To be buried next to Nancy, which was impossible because she was Jewish and he wasn't. So his ash was scattered onto her grave. 5) "Love for love's sake" - Being in love just so you can have love. And as Kyo has said about this song: "It's about atmosphere... it's theme is stupid." ~This is my translation.

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