[gmku]

My perspective on the Doors has changed. I think why I didn't like them when I was younger was that I thought they wanted to be taken seriously. They did, of course, but not they way I was thinking, that they intended something "heavy" on the face of their music. What I've realized is that they were poking fun of the "heavy" side of the 1960s; their genius lies in this, that they could seemingly fit into that 1960s counterculture while also criticizing it by mocking it in their music. That's what I think their music is really about--a critique of American society in general but also a critique--through parody of the rock music they've chosen as their art form--of the excesses of 1960s counterculture.