#like apart from some of the band's denials nothing goes against the theory lol

[swimmingleo]

MEEEEEEE RIGHT NOW ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW

I KNOWWW. IT'S SOMETHING GOD. DYOU WANT MORE. I CAN RANT. I WILL.

at first you're indeed amused. sounds fun, here we go, then you're a lil bit mindblown but still skeptical then you're like STOP NO WAY and you faaaall down the rabbit hole like...

It's so coherent with their predominent themes? You got the cynical ''capitalism kills the dream'' when On The Run is playing for the entirety of Over The Rainbow (which btw... OTR...both of em), and so Dorothy is looking up the sky, daydreaming about rainbows but the sky is full of nightmare planes exploding and shit? Or when Dorothy/Judy takes her first step in technicolor and Money starts playing?? all the layers to that bit it's crazyYY

And then childhood, just like The Wall or anything Roger writes, the child is always the core, the child you kill, your inner child, the children you fight for. And the song which marks the end of childhood, Time, starts right when Almira Gulch first appears ? aka the character that makes Dorothy leave behind her home and insouciance ? AYOOO

And the thing that kills mEH is that DSOTM is officially openly unmistakenly inspired after Syd, the lil dude obsessed with fairy tales and children literature. so really… it’s.. the most logical thing that they would. Sync their first big concept album. With the most well known children movie. Where the lead actress. Became a martyr due to how terribly the entertainment industry treated her?

also yes I forgot but the inside of the gatefold sleeve is the rainbow with the green stripe highlighted, so it goes like this:

i mean sure the green stripe is the closer to the centre so it's just visually more pleasing but... from: No colour > Technicolor world and Emerald City > Back to no colour, yk

massive reaching but above is from DSOTM live visuals and they really had to single out the green wave and surround it with pink red dots like a poppy field huh

SRRY FOR THE THEORY DUMP but boi do i love conspiracies