The Doors: People are strange.

 I have recently realised just how much I love The Doors music. I've always liked them, but recently, I've been researching the band and listening to all I can and I always come back to "People are Strange" as my favourite song of the band. 

It's a song about feeling alienated and lonely and I've recently read "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, which is about a man who is an outsider and I feel the book and the song have similar themes, and they both appeal to me in ways that part of me has always felt like an outsider. 

Now, I embrace and celebrate the fact I'm a little bit different (I dress in bright, colourful, patterned clothing. I'm very talkative. I'm a bit of a dreamer with her heads in the clouds) but I still feel connected to things about being different. As a kid, I was the only "single parent child" in my primary school and I was the only kid in primary school who's Grandma came to parents evening. It's not massive things, in reflection, but it did make me feel "different", and other stuff happened, that just made me feel even more different. 

Anyway, back to the song. 

And I quite like how the lyrics are "people are strange/ when you're a stranger". It's almost like the narrator of the song, who is probably the outsider and who other people claim is strange, is the one saying people are strange. It's almost like "it's not me, it's you" and I like that. 

Mind you, this is just my interpretation of the song, and I could be totally wrong 😂

I also think Jim Morrison understood Incels before it was even a thing. The line "Women seem wicked/ when you're unwanted" sums up the Incels I've seen online and their opinions of women. I will die on that hill! 

Jim Morrison had such an amazing voice, too. He was really talented.