A Perfect Circle's third album proper has been a long time coming; a studio long player from the American supergroup hasn't hit shelves since 2003's Thirteenth Step, but at some point this year we're going to get Eat The Elephant - an album which includes a track titled 'TalkTalk'. Singer and lyricist Maynard James Keenan, whether he's writing for Tool or Puscifer, is typically loathe to give straight answers when asked what his often cryptic songs are about, preferring to leave things open to the interpretation of the listener. With this in mind, we're going to go out on a limb and infer that the new track from A Perfect Circle, that's been uploaded to YouTube and Spotify today, is actually about the budget-centric Internet service and pay TV provider TalkTalk. The opening line "You're waiting on miracles" obviously refers to TalkTalk's hope that telecoms watchdog Ofcom would force leading telco BT to give up its Openreach access network, which several other ISPs aside from TalkTalk use to connect their customers to the Internet. TalkTalk and Sky had long been jostling for Openreach to be fully separated from BT; instead the regulator decided to only 'legally separate' the network division from the rest of the BT Group. The following "bleeding out" line must be a reference to the various customer data leaks that the company has suffered thanks to external and internal factors. "Don't be the problem/Be the solution," could refer to the ISP's plans to break away from Openreach and set up its own network with CityFibre, which, aside from a trial in York, it has yet to actually do in any significant way, letting Vodafone steal some of its thunder in the process. This could very well be the meaning behind the song's general message, which very much appears to be a 'deeds not words' type thing. Turning our attention to the image A Perfect Circle's using in the video here, the heart surrounded by tentacles is clearly a metaphor for a fixed-line network, with the beating heart representing a telephone exchange or other point of presence and the various limbs, the 'last mile' customer connections. In its promotional material, TalkTalk has typically opted for purples and pinks as its colours of choice, while Vodafone has historically always been red and white, hence the different coloured limbs. The meaning of the song couldn't be any clearer; it’s Keenan exhorting TalkTalk to branch out with CityFibre like Vodafone has done.
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A Perfect Circle's third album proper has been a long time coming; a studio long player from the American supergroup hasn't hit shelves since 2003's Thirteenth Step, but at some point this year we're going to get Eat The Elephant - an album which includes a track titled 'TalkTalk'. Singer and lyricist Maynard James Keenan, whether he's writing for Tool or Puscifer, is typically loathe to give straight answers when asked what his often cryptic songs are about, preferring to leave things open to the interpretation of the listener. With this in mind, we're going to go out on a limb and infer that the new track from A Perfect Circle, that's been uploaded to YouTube and Spotify today, is actually about the budget-centric Internet service and pay TV provider TalkTalk. The opening line "You're waiting on miracles" obviously refers to TalkTalk's hope that telecoms watchdog Ofcom would force leading telco BT to give up its Openreach access network, which several other ISPs aside from TalkTalk use to connect their customers to the Internet. TalkTalk and Sky had long been jostling for Openreach to be fully separated from BT; instead the regulator decided to only 'legally separate' the network division from the rest of the BT Group. The following "bleeding out" line must be a reference to the various customer data leaks that the company has suffered thanks to external and internal factors. "Don't be the problem/Be the solution," could refer to the ISP's plans to break away from Openreach and set up its own network with CityFibre, which, aside from a trial in York, it has yet to actually do in any significant way, letting Vodafone steal some of its thunder in the process. This could very well be the meaning behind the song's general message, which very much appears to be a 'deeds not words' type thing. Turning our attention to the image A Perfect Circle's using in the video here, the heart surrounded by tentacles is clearly a metaphor for a fixed-line network, with the beating heart representing a telephone exchange or other point of presence and the various limbs, the 'last mile' customer connections. In its promotional material, TalkTalk has typically opted for purples and pinks as its colours of choice, while Vodafone has historically always been red and white, hence the different coloured limbs. The meaning of the song couldn't be any clearer; it’s Keenan exhorting TalkTalk to branch out with CityFibre like Vodafone has done.