Upside down in a
Soft top bucket
A reference to a quote from the 1994 John Berendt novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and the subsequent adoption of it by Method Man in his song “Bring the Pain,” from his album Tical, released in the same year. In the novel, a character named Lady Chablis – a transvestite entertainer – addressed the concept of accepting misfortune:
It’s like my mom always said: ‘Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it.’
Method man chopped & screwed the quote, transforming it into:
Ride takes Method Man’s version of the quote and warps it even further, until it no longer means the same thing; in fact, it means quite the opposite. Rather than an acceptance of misfortune, Ride’s remodeling of the quote implies an embodiment of misfortune in the most extreme sense. Hanging “upside down in a soft top bucket, screamin'” is a profoundly disturbing piece of imagery meant to convey Ride’s torturous mental and emotional experiences during the “altered states” from the hook.
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