“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
Bought Surrealistic Pillow when it came out in 1967 - and played it over and over…especially White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. I grew up in Southern California as a teenager in the ‘60’s and saw quite a number of bands, including the Airplane. Great time to be a teenager.
I have always felt that I should of been a teenager in the 60's . I was born 5 days before this song came out. How I wished that I could of experienced Woodstock ✌
Brings back memories as several have stated There was a Disney revival-I forget which theatre- and this version of AIW was paired off with the 1940 version of FANTASIA The viewers in the back balcony were "herbe-ating" and everyone else was getting a contact high-especially when the Queen of Heart's deck of cards army divided up into different colors...Like WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......
when i was a child my grandmother put me in a alice dress from england but that was when we were very wealthy this is one of our familys favorite songs espeacially my mother and father
Fun fact: Disney's Alice In Wonderland had its first theatrical re-release in 1974 (previously, it had only been shown on TV--it hadn't been much of a moneymaker when it first came out). Before this, a 1968 re-release of Fantasia had found an audience among a college-aged crowd who--how do I put this?--appreciated the movie from an entirely different level. (There was a very psychedelic poster for that re-release.) Disney played that sort of connection up for this movie as well in 1974, designing a similarly psychedelic poster for it and releasing print ads with the tagline: "Is this movie any fun? Go ask Alice."
I was six when this song came out, in the early to mid seventies a movie came out aird on TV (Go Ask Alice) about a teen girls struggles with drugs. Our Jr High School required us to watch it and some classes had discussions and others did a report on the movie, it was a big deal back then.
Being a child I always hated Alice in Wonderland. All the story seemed to me an endless nightmare. But now, listening to this song I suppose that the author of Alice wrote a very "adult" story about the "adult life" in general...
I and studying the paradoxical decade the 60s. I like to think outside the box and found that this song could possibly be about drugs, some drugs make you popular and high, or some get you in trouble and mKe you smaller. Oh ya and I'm in 6th grande.
not possibly. Its was about a drug called L.S.D. Ppl used to take it bcuz they felt it enlightened them but they were just experiencing hallucinations. None of what they were seeing was real. They may interact w/ their hallucinations n others would notice there was nothing was there n that proved to them that they were on something.
The pills making you small and large are referring to stimulants and depressants, aka high and low. You think this song "possibly" is about drugs? Come on now, of course it is, thats guaranteed.. The band was notorious for their use of psychedelics, and its quite obvious from the lyrics its about psychedelics
I have a Jefferson Airplane shirt on right now as I type this. Seriously! Favorite Song? Definitely "Today." That is the song that me and my Fiance' are dancing to when we get married next year.
omg this has made me realise Alice was off her face on drugs. the magic mushrooms, a type of drug, the smoking catapiller was smoking drugs, she ate lots of cake so thats an eating disorder and she was drinking. my childhood has been ruined.....
Lewis Carroll was believed to be stoned out of his gourd on opium when writing the Alice books. That's pretty common knowledge for anyone who has read the books or even just spent a lot of time in a library.
I'm more than willing to agree with you on that, knowing myself how often an artist's work can be misinterpreted. But people will inevitably interpret art how they see fit and Wonderland has always been connected with drugs within the public conciousness, even though itself is more akin to a dream than an acid trip. People tend to make things darker than they're supposed to be.
This song ISN'T about doing drugs or the vietnam war. It's called White Rabbit. It's about Alice In Wonderland. If you know anything about Alice In Wonderland you would know that the White Rabbit is a symbol for curiosity for Alice. Grace felt the same way at that time in her life. She said so herself.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a unique coming of age story about a young girl coming to terms with her oncoming adulthood and changing identity, but it’s also about following a white rabbit around a crazy world, with occasional appearances by a striped cat. The film is similar, but different, taking cues from the book even as it chooses to go its own way. Gather up your magic mushrooms, we’re going to follow the white rabbit and find all the differences we can! Did you Read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Have you seen the Disney animated film recently? What did you think of the more recent live-action Alice in Wonderland; and are you looking forward to the upcoming sequel, Through the Looking Glass? What other works would you like to see us explore on What’s The Difference?
flying potato it didn't you idiot LSD was made on November 16th 1938 ; whereas the original book came out in 1865, however magic mushrooms have been used for hundreds of years, but didn't get widespread popularity until the magazine article seeking the magic mushroom (in 1957) which didn't come out until after this movie, but to be fair the movie could be in part inspired by hallucinogenics and it seems like the original book may have been inspired by hallucinogenics; just not LSD. In closing I love the music video/the movies/the book...and I despise you all, have a nice day
One pill makes you larger 하나의 약은 널 더 크게 하고 And one pill makes you small 그리고 하나의 약은 널 더 작게 하네 And the ones that mother gives you 그리고 어머니가 너에게 준 것들 Don't do anything at all (그것들은) 아무것도 전혀 하지 않아 Go ask Alice 앨리스에게 가서 물어 When she's ten feet tall 그녀가 10피트나 컷을 때 And if you go chasing rabbits 그리고 만약 네가 토끼들을 쫓아 가면 And you know you're going to fall 그리고 네가 떨어질 거라는 걸 알게 되면 Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar 그들에게 말해 물담배 피우는 쐐기벌레에 대해 Has given you the call 너를 부른 Call Alice 앨리스를 불러 When she was just small 그녀가 막 작았을 때 When the men on the chessboard 체스보드 위에 사람들이 Get up and tell you where to go 일어나서 너에게 어디로 가라고 말할 때 And you've just had some kind of mushroom 그리고 네가 어떤 종류의 버섯을 막 가지고 있을 때 And your mind is moving low 그리고 네 마음이 느리게 움직일 때 Go ask Alice 앨리스에게 가서 물어 I think she'll know 그녀는 알거야 When logic and proportion 논리와 비율이 Have fallen sloppy dead 질퍽한 죽음으로 떨어질 때 And the White Knight is talking backwards 그리고 하얀 기사가 거꾸로 말하고 있을 때 And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" 그리고 붉은 여왕의 "그녀의 머리를 잘라서" Remember what the dormouse said: 기억해 겨울잠쥐가 말한 것을 "Feed your head, Feed your head, Feed your head" " (머리에게 먹을 것을 줘)
THIS REALLY IS 1 OF THE BEST,,,BY FAR EVERYTHING IS COMPLETELY RIGHT & I KNOW EVERY1 LOVES JEFFERSON AIRPLANE"THEY R 1 OF MY FAVS.,ALONG WITH PRETTY MUCH EVERY1 @ THAT GRANDTIME!!!IM VERY THANKFUL MY PARENTS WERE HIPPIES B.C. THATS ALL MY LIL BROTHER & I GREWUP ON"THANK YOU DADDY & MOMMY"SHOWING US THAT PERFECT MUSIC,SHIT SINCE I WAS GROWINGUP EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED"IM 35" & ITS REALLY FU**ED NOW,SCARED 2 C A BIT LATER IN THE DECADE~=^.^=~
@Juan Watterson The book is a metaphor for absurdism as it shows the illusion of both reality....and fantasy. While Alice merges through the world of wonderland, she learns to incorporate both because to survive the world you have to be both inside of it and outside.
i love how they got away with making this movie so clearly drug orientated. nowadays this would never happen. what we need is another new age hippy movement
It's a movie produced in the 1950s based off a book written in the Victorian era by a man who suffered a neurological disease that made objects appear bigger or smaller,nothing really to do with the hippy movement tbh
