Hi Whacky,
I am so pleased, thanks for your answer and your interpretation. I was thinking of something like this but couldn't manage to express it so obviously.
I must admit that my husband was on the same wawe as you.
That song is a real poem, so different meanings are possible for this "phrase culte", lt's just a fabulous language.
Thanks again.
Vic.
From Whacky:
Hi Victorine,
I hope I can help, even though it's a little
late, but I was quite occupied with other things.
A 'Tiffany-twisted mind' means a way of thinking which is adversely influenced (twisted, confused, contorted) by the world of luxury and wealth. Tiffany & Co. is a leading manufacture and monger for jewelry, and the text use this symbol of luxury tor create an artificial adjective: 'Tiffany-twisted'. We could paraphrase this by 'a mind confused, maybe even spoiled by luxury as sold by Tiffany's'.
What this line of 'Hotel California' wants to say: We're dealing with a girl (the 'girl' here is actually
the country California, LA or the Californian music industry itself) who likes luxury too much ('Tiffany-twisted mind'), loves to have many pretty boy flocking to her, who she calls friends, but aren't real friends. It's an allegory in order to call the preference and the semblance for luxury into question the narrator in the song text is noticing in the 'Hotel California'.
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