Sex Pistols: Pretty Vacant Meaning
Song Released: 1977
Pretty Vacant Lyrics
You'll get no reply
I just remembered, I'm terribly sorry
I've got no reason, there is no "Why?"
Say "No future!" and that's just fine
oh we're so pretty
oh so pretty we're vacant
oh we're so pretty
oh so...
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I think it's about the state's employees that are always on a break and cant make any decision and don't decide
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Isn't it about the upper class? How they do nothing except look pretty, look down their noses at everyone else and they aren't very smart-they just have inherited money?
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The song is about the mass unemployment in the UK in the 70s "There's no point in aski g you get no reply" means what's the point in applying for a job vacancy when you are just going to get rejected constantly. Being pretty vacant is being unemployed.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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IT just means were pretty vacant and er dont care!!
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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I think this song could be another attack on the New York Dolls, just like the song New York
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Glen matlock wrote it because he thought it would be funny to see Johnny rotten say we're so pretty
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The song is about the younger generation typically being stereotyped abd dismissed as 'stupid' and unintelligent to the point of them now even worth replying to or thinking about by the olddr generation.
Their minds are 'vacant', their stupid,they can't think productively and have nothing to offer. -
Its about people accepting the belief that they they have "no future" in the eyes of others but still living and not valuing these people who make these judgements. Its basically saying "screw you too" to anyone who sees them as worthless. Also, hw slips in an expletive when he says "Va- cu!?" instead of "vacant"
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