Khajiit had something to say related to the Fallout series but didn't see a thread that it would fit in. So he made one!

This one was thinking that he would love to see a spinoff game from the main Fallout series that takes place in post apocalyptic China. Khajiit thinks it would be interesting to see things from their point of view and to see what is going on over there after the Great War ended.

Yeah, that would be interesting. As long as it's all one disc and does not require Steam or any other type of online verification nonsense..


So yeah, China. Or, and bear with me here, Japan or South Korea...

I would love to see a fallout game set anywhere outside the U.S. for a change. After Fallout 1, 2, Tactics, 3, and New Vegas, the American Wasteland is pretty same old, same old. I was hoping that Fallout 4 would be set in London. Big Ben, black cabs, double-decker buses, mutant ravens in the Tower of London, a blue police call box... There is so much you could do with that setting.

Oh 'Rocu smh


Definitely. This one just wonders how they would market it. One of the big complaints about the idea of a non-American setting for a Fallout game over on Bethsoft was that it wouldn't be a Fallout game with the American setting. Khajiit really doesn't understand this, but they could totally spin it off the main series and call it something else. Something new.

I disabled the compass in Miss Vicious's game. I'm pretty apprehensive about this but I really want her game to feel different from any of my others. So this is one way to do that.

I tried several HUD mods, and found a really cool one which let us move all the HUD sections around (Action Points, Weapon Health, and so on) but this mod would not allow me to remove the compass. And it's too bad, because the one which does allow compass removal conflicts with the first mod. So I had to make that choice.

And Renee raises another thread from the dead. Going to respond to over 3-year old comments.



Hard disagree with the American Wasteland being same old, same old. There's a lot of variety to it--it just has to be presented well. For all their flaws, I think 1/2/NV, 3, 4, and 76 feel pretty distinct in this regard. That being said, there is some stuff that gets recycled too much (like Deathclaws and Super Mutants being apparently everywhere).

That being said, it would be really cool to see how other countries are handling it. Interplay did have plans for a Fallout: Resource Wars game in Europe. There's so much room for creativity there. Europe was hit especially hard by the overall Resource Wars, the Euro-Middle Eastern War, the dissolution of the European Commonwealth, and the European Civil War. From all the references that we have in the series, it sounds like Europe is doing even worse than the U.S. in the post-War world.

China, in particular, would be an intriguing setting, I think. They were the mortal enemies of the U.S. in Fallout, after all. I also wonder how much it would reference real-world China's government and politics.




It would be quite different because Fallout is based on 1950s American culture and how it envisioned the future. While I can't speak too much on what other countries' 1950s culture was like, there is a pretty distinct flavor to that timeframe here in America. But I hate the whole "It's not a real [INSERT HERE] game!" garbage that capital G gamers tend to spout out. It's a real Fallout game if the Fallout title is slapped on it and no arbitrary definition is going to change that. But it would likely be a monumental shift in feel, tone, etc.

Never mind. I will start an official troubleshooting thread.

Ok so in Fallout4 there are perk magazines/books entitled Astoundingly Awesome Tales, which I imagine would be like the old sci-fi or horror pulp rags and penny dreadfuls back in the day. I had an idea that we here at Chorrol could perhaps write short stories set in the Fallout universe that might fit in that particular magazine. Would this be something y’all might be interested in trying?

It sounds like a great idea. But my writing plate is full with Stormcrow. And I still want to get back to finishing Seven Reimagined.

Eh, I was afraid of that. No biggie, just an idea I had.

You can write it, Khajiit! Write the first one, at least, maybe I will join you, but I have to feel inspiration. I'd see what you come up with, and then if that sparks some ideas, there we go. Because I'm not sure how those mags are written, you see. Anyway, go for it. Maybe Rader or Lopov will write one, who knows?

How long are these pulp mags? I can crank out a couple paragraphs, no prob. I'd have to see the style and get a feel for how those things are written.


I had some random thoughts about the Fallout universe and was going to pull this thread up anyway at some point, since it's sort of like an 'anything goes' sort of thread.

Well, ever since writing Janet's tale in 2017 I began to wonder what is the premise and background of the Fallout games is supposed to be? I never read about it, really. Did not ever play the first two games. I remember at some point that these games are supposed to be set in an alternate reality, which split from our own society on Earth at some point in the 1950s. Okay, Wikipedia says

The series is set in a fictionalized United States in an alternate history scenario that diverges from reality following World War II.[41]

And so this may sound dumb, but some of the cultural aspects of the game began to make me wonder. Because in my own stories with Janet and Vicious, I am filling in some blanks, especially with music, and recreational drugs, and just little things here and there. Maybe these little things would make a true lore buff cringe.

But for instance, with music. I am saying ... there's no way everyone would still be listening to the same exact music types (Big Band, Jazz, etc.) and ONLY those music types. Culturally, the human sprit constantly seeks new sounds, especially in our relatively new (historically speaking) electronic age. Before electricity, there was classical music, bluegrass, spiritual hymns, and so on. Music really didn't change much over the previous two centuries, not in the sense that overall styles were being created as societies changed.

After electricity though, everything began to evolve at a rapid pace. Every decade there are new styles of music going on. Jazz, Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Disco, Funk, Rap, Hip Hop, Electronica, Acid House, Pop, Girl Groups, Country, Trip Hop, I mean, the list goes on and on. And so (to me) I don't feel entirely bad thinking that some changes have could been made, somewhere along the line, and for this ramble I am only just focusing on music types. In my own game & stories, I sometimes add what I think could possibly happen. In Janet's game for instance, she listened to Heavy Metal and a slew of bands which I sensed she likes and grew up with.

It's the sort of thing I would never go into a forum full of lore-hounds and admit, I'd probably get crushed!

Gah, I am rambling. But I'm saying there are some gaps here and there, and I'm only focusing on some artistic gaps. I am saying, there's no way everyone would be listening only to the same stuff that was popular hundreds of years ago.

I think the lore-hounds would say that after the bombs dropped, not much has happened culturally. People were too busy trying to survive to bother with making music.

I disagree however. There is always downtime in life, even if you are a hunter-gatherer constantly moving in search of food. I think a lot of the electronic forms of music would vanish, and go back to the earlier styles of one person with a guitar or flute. Since most people probably would not have power.

The Vaults are anyone's guess. It depends on what Vault-Tec put in the vaults before they closed. So they might have recording equipment and things like keyboards and electric guitars. There was the one vault of musicians in Fallout 3. People in the vaults would have a lot more free time they would need to fill. So I imagine entertainment like music would be popular. It would depend on what they had, or could build from scrap in the vault.

Wasteland Radio probably would be very dependent upon Pre-War records however. That would be most of the recorded music around that they could broadcast. Though I certainly can see radio stations having live music, like the old woman violinist in Fallout 3. They might even record it, and start passing it around with caravaners.

On the subject of Pre-War music, I also agree that it would not be all big band and swing. A long time passed between the point where Fallout history diverged from the real world and the Great War happened. I think the bombs fell in 2077? So that is over a century of progress. And as you say, music would not remain stuck in Dean Martin mode all that time. There would be all those forms of music you mentioned, and more we have not even heard of yet.

I agree that it’s super dumb that absolutely no new music seems to have been made between the 1950’s and 2077, but there does seem to be at least localized music culture in the post war scene, as evidenced by Magnolia at The Third Rail in Goodneighbor. She can’t be the only one right?

As for the pulp mags, we don’t really know how long the stories are or what style they are done in, as the books in the Fallout games aren’t actually readable. I figure they were done like the old school pulp magazines in real life; the publishers of the mags would pay different writers to put their stories in the magazines (much of H.P.Lovecraft’s work was published in this ways). Here is a link to the wiki for Astoundingly Amazing Tales. The titles seem to indicate that they are sci-fi/horror in theme. The story I had in mind to write for this is a horror story.

Khajiit: I don't know how those pulp rags are written in real-life, never had the fortune to ever read one. But if you write one first, I can get a glimpse of their style, at least.

Yes, I agree there could be some 2277 music which is localized, and other musicians are out there. Lots of blanks to get filled in, not just with music. Rader is doing a great job at filling them in with his Mariah story.


I am talking about the 100+ years before the bomb dropped though, is what I'd say to the lore hounds.



Yes. That's what I'm saying.

Maybe the music in the game is supposed to be a mere representation of how the Fallout universe is portrayed, while our character sits in Moriarty's enjoying some scotch. Therefore, when we hear Let's Go Sunning, this is not necessarily a song which was written in 1931, it's merely a song which sets the tone, sets the general atmosphere. Let's go Sunning could have been written in 2076, just weeks before the Great War.

By the way, I am not suggesting that all those music styles (metal, hip hop, etc.) should be in the game. In fact, maybe since this is supposed to be an alternate reality, some music styles would get created which are nothing like we hear in our modern times.




Good point, especially for those who were forced to stay aboveground. In my thinking, a lot of the music in the game would have been preserved somehow in vaults.

Thanks for not laughing at me and my silly thoughts, everybody!

In my head cannon, live jazz bands are still a big part of the culture in and around New Orleans. One of my characters in this in this imagining is “Jazzman”, a musician who moonlights as a gun for hire.

The Fallout jazz band

“Sorry about the mess.”

When I was heavily into Fallout 3, I used to listen to the ingame music on youtube every night. Good music and good times

I can see this. What is your favorite? Mine is Let's go Sunning, as I mentioned above. Absolutely clueless and idyllic music, in which all is wonderful and fabulous. But I like all the Fallout 3 music to some degree.

Also, which do you like better, Fallout 3's music or New Vegas? I'm not as wowed by Vegas's, and neither is Linda. She'll often turn radios off if she's alone!

I like any of the songs with Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday, and also the jazzy instrumental tunes. Oh! And “Civilization”! That’s a fun one! Not a big fan of Roy Brown or the “Anything Goes” song.

I had to look up the New Vegas soundtrack because I couldn’t remember most of the songs! After looking it up though, I do like many of the songs. That said, I guess either Fallout3’s soundtrack was just more memorable or maybe I simply played Fallout3 more.

I think Deano's "Ain't That Kick In The Head" was my favorite of the original music. None of it did much for me though, so I eventually replaced all the songs.

Ooo what kind of stuff did you replace it with?

I listed it somewhere years ago. But I am not sure where. Probably in the big Mojave Wanderings topic.

I went with a lot of Blues like Smokestack Lightning, The Thrill is Gone, and Born Under A Bad Sign, along with more modern Motown like Tracks of My Tears, Ball of Confusion, What's Going On, and the like. Plus some Rock like Sounds of Silence, Gimmie Shelter, or Fire and Rain. I even put some Sinatra and Deano in. I tried to go for the apocalyptic theme of the game. For example, the Sinatra song I used was I Did It My Way, which is a great ode to the Old World, warts and all.

Then later I used the Vtap player mod to add a crap ton of songs. That time I went pretty much full on modern Rock, but again kept that apocalypse theme. So songs like Balls to the Wall, Highway To Hell, We Didn't Start The Fire, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Children of the Grave, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, The End, Gods of War, Burn, and so on. It really helps me get in the mood.

Cool! Was this a difficult process, getting the audio files into the game?

It was a giant pain in the rear. I know I wrote all about it somewhere around here, but I cannot find the topic.\

Wait a minute, I think it is in here

Neat! So do you rip the songs off of cd’s or do you download them from somewhere?

Both. For these I believe I bought a bunch of the songs from Amazon's mp3 store.

I like it all too. I think it's the mix of innocent music being played in a world that's been totalled by nuclear war. It's the contrast that does it for me. But really, the music is good and like Khajiit I am biased towards Civilization and Anything Goes. Fly Into the Moon is another beautiful fave of mine. Basically; if it's on GNR, I like it!

But the patriotic stuff on the other channel is good too, though I prefer GNR.


I have no opinion on Vegas as I have never played it

I like all those choices, SubRosa, the blues and the Sinatra. I would think Sinatra and tunes from that era would fit into New Vegas really well.

Music from that era always gives me chills, assuming I really like the song. A piano solo, for instance, which mimics the singer's melody, but plays around with its notes a bit. Stuff like that kills me!

mirocu: YES I was gonna say, usually I would not like the patriotic music Enclave plays, or rather, it goes in one ear and other the other. BUT, within the context of the world which is all blown up, there's something rather haunting as I listen to all those tunes. Yankee Doodle Dandy or whatever.

Might as well say a fave from the Enclave radio too; Stars and Stripes Forever. I have no fave by Agatha though; she's too boring

Hey, I apologize everyone, I forgot we already have a Fallout music thread. Oh well.

My next question in this All Things Fallout thread is one I'm sure we've never discussed here at Chorrol, but it's one of those topics we've discussed in the past, maybe in other forums. What would YOU do if it were you living in Vault 101? Would you wish to get out? Or would you be happy enough living within the safety of 101? Or ... whatever?

If it were me, first of all I hope Daddy James would not be my father. Not that he's a bad guy, but hopefully I would not be burdened with having to lose him to the Wasteland, and then following his footsteps all over yonder.

I definitely would be itching to get out of 101, though, for sure. Daddy James or not. Especially as a child / teenager, I was one of those kids. If somebody told me DON'T do that! I'd want to know why not? And then a lot of times I'd get sneaky, and try to see why not. I was always getting in trouble.

I would be hanging around that final gate area quite a lot, therefore. The area with all the computers / guards. Maybe I'd try to get some sort of chores which place me in this area. I'd constantly be listening for anything which deals with the outside world. I would probably also be friends with Agata. She just seems peachy. But Agata has no desire to leave 101 if I recall correctly, and we'd disagree about that for sure.

Assuming I got out of 101, whether during the final disastrous scenes or not, I'd then have no idea what the heck I'd do once out in the Wasteland.

When my first Fallout 3 character left 101 I actually cried! I shed a few tears, mostly as I gazed across at the Monument. Because I know what this area is supposed to look like in real-life, and seeing it all torn up. Well, that was profound.

When you are getting examined by your dad before you go take the GOAT exam, you can talk to James about if it’s true that everyone there was born in the Vault and everyone there dies in the Vault. He’s understandably very evasive. “Well, that’s what the Overseer says, isn’t it?”. The concept is really bleak. Did anyone here read the poem that Beatrice gives you on your 10th birthday? It’s absolutely f-ing depressing. I imagine being stuck down there would be really awful to us, but you gotta think, the residents of Vault 101, for the most part, don’t know any other way of life. Before James left, they had safety and were able to live out somewhat normal lives (well as normal as you can being crammed into an underground bunker all your life). It wasn’t until after James left that people really started questioning whether they should open the Vault or not, so I think that shows how ingrained that lifestyle was in the residents. They had to be shown that there was another way. So, I guess, for me it would probably depend on when in the timeline I was alive in 101. If I was alive before James’ arrival, I probably wouldn’t give too much thought to being outside. If I was there after James’ departure, I’d definitely join Amata and the others who want the Vault opened.

I believe that like Beatrice and her poem, I would find the Vault to be suffocating. It would be like being buried in a tomb (which makes me wonder, where do all the bodies go when people die in the Vault?) I don't fit in or belong in the real world already, with all of its freedom. Can you imagine Coming Out in a Fallout Vault? I would probably commit suicide if I was trapped in one.

Soylent Green?

The last line of Beatrice’s poem seems to indicate that dead bodies are incinerated.

Mmmmm, Soylent Green...




I was guessing that. But then my question is, where does all the smoke go? Up a chimney to the surface? If that is the case, then how about all that radiation coming in through said chimney?

I want to say there is some sort of vent type thing over the hill behind Vault 101, like if you are going back towards that ruined barn or the overpass with all the Raiders. Perhaps this is where waste air is vented out, and the Vaults are fitted with some sort of “air scrubbers” that remove radiation from the vent? It could probably work like an airlock. Dead body goes in, door seals, vent opens, body burns, vent closes after it’s done, air inside is “scrubbed”, and the door can be opened again. Granted there would probably be a lot of Science! involved with this system.

I think it would take a lot of SCIENCE! to make the Vaults work. Like where does all the food and pure water from from? Where does the oxygen come from? Is it all coming in from the outside and going through some kind of screening? What happens when the filters wear out? Back in the data centers I worked at, the air filters for the power units had to be replaced every six months or so. What happens when there are no more replacement filters? Or when something just breaks?

Power seems to be nuclear, so that is mostly covered. But even that has issues. Such as what do you do with all the leftover waste? Maybe dispose of it next to the water filters? Or just dump it in the water supply?

And what about overpopulation? IRL population grows steadily, sometimes exponentially. But in the Vault, you are literally locked in to being able to only support a certain number of people. Do they just let people make tons of babies, and overload the system, resulting in not enough food and air to go around? Careening down to mass rioting, executions, and revolution. Or do they purposely limit growth though mandatory birth control, sterilizations, and abortions? I bet both would go over great with Americans.

The whole thing is like building a space ship. Except you have to be in space for 200 years. The cryo freeze idea in Fallout 4 was probably the most viable one. If you could actually get that to work without killing everyone.

tbh, I think both of these scenarios should be included in the game as social experiments by Vault Tec.

None of our real life physics seem to matter in the Fallout universe. I mean, you can cure critical wounds by gulping down a ton of water, lol. Also, we should probably keep in mind that technology developed differently than in our own timeline for some things and the Fallout universe has 50 years on our own. I imagine Vaults run something like this:

Vaults are equipped with advanced technology that allows for air to either be recycled or to be cleansed of rads as it’s brought in from the outside through vents (see above airlock premise). Likewise, water is brought in and cleansed through water purifiers (a major component of these are the “water chips” that you are seeking in the original Fallout, and James mentions doing experiments with ones from 101, indicating that there may be large amounts of these stocked in the Vaults that were intended to run for a long amount of time). As for food, it could either be grown in special hydroponic sections of the vault (not sure how canon anything in Fallout Shelter is, but if I’m not mistaken you can grow food in rooms called “Gardens”), or stocked with huge amounts of prepackaged stuff (I mean, that [censored] is still edible after 200 years; some crazy preservative techniques going on there, lol).

Power. It’s definitely nuclear, and nuclear technology in the Fallout universe is leaps and bounds more advanced and widespread than in our own universe. Their understanding of nuclear power was such that they were able to power every day automobiles, and make nuclear batteries to power other things, so I think it’s logical to assume that their nuclear reactors for power plants and vaults are way more efficient than in our universe.

Population. Well, frankly, most of the vaults seem like they weren’t really supposed to shelter conscious residents for longer than a couple of generations, with 101 and maybe a few others as exceptions (111 was only supposed to operate for 180 days before an all clear signal was given and the staff was to exit the vault. Obviously that didn’t go according to plan, or maybe it did, and violence brought a swift end to that vault’s non-frozen population). In 101’s case, the whole point of the experiment was to test how the Overseer’s role functioned in a vault that was supposed to never open (Source). I don’t think VaultTec had a set plan in place to control 101’s population, but rather left it up to the Overseer to deal with.

Wow, that was a lot, lol. It’s kinda fun to think about honestly! The logistics of it just seem impossible, but when you remember Fallout universe =/= our universe, it makes it a little easier to suspend disbelief. At least that’s the way I see it any way.

I had completely forgotten about that; no idea if I read it back in 2013 but I reckon I did. I rarely pass up ingame info about stuff, especially when I'm new to the game. I wanna know and read as much as possible before moving on.


Hey, I forgot about my own thread so don't feel bad!

This IS all things Fallout so I guess music goes here as well. For only music though, that other thread could be more suitable.

Ok, so I guess I’m going to start this Astoundingly Awesome Tales project. I’m currently getting the details of my story organized in my head and I’ll probably start writing it in the next few days, with a tentative release around Halloween or early in November. I’m hoping to have some accompanying pics from Fallout4 as well!

Sweet. I hope you wrote some of this. Halloween is Saturday, my birthday Sunday.

Imagination has to come into place in any of these RPGs. They can't portray every detail, and this is also true for Elder Scrolls Online, for which there is no one set *release date*. So in the vault there's no filters being changed or radiation being moved out because Beth can't cover every last detail.

I imagine there are some teams who do get to leave the Vaults on occasion. To go scouting for supplies, for instance. Make repairs, and so on. These missions are kept secret from the others, of course.




Oh, it'd be like China. One child per family, or else.

There's a sci-fi series called The 100 in which a bunch of people live on a space station miles above Earth, roughly 100 years after nuclear wars. The population on this station is somewhere around 3,000, and they routinely look for excuses to "float" people into space (having more than one child is a crime, punishable by floating).

I imagine something like this might commence in the Vault. Not that they're eager to execute folks, but if somebody has been deemed let's say a criminal, they might force this person to leave.

... of course, maybe I'm stepping all over lore once again.

Lol, nope. I’ve got nothing. It’s been a crazy month.

I returned to Fallout 3 and 4 in the past few days, upping the ante in difficulty. I had already set Fallout 3 to be harder before I stopped playing, and returning to it now, it might be the most compelling gameplay I've had in the game. I ran out of stimpaks twice and had to tread lightly in enemy areas, with numerous close calls with Talon Company, Deathclaws, and Yao Guais, among others. I made a large loop around most of the northern part of the map, starting from the very edge of D.C. (near Friendship Heights, I think), going through Vault 108 (haha, Gary!) and cutting through several satellite arrays, among other places. I ended at Megaton, not wanting to just simply fast travel. I'm not going to completely eschew fast travel, but I want to greatly limit it as part of the experience.

In the case of Fallout 4, yes, I started Survival Mode. Even though its Survival Mode, there are a few annoying, unfair aspects that really bug me. You can't use the console at all--which I get to an extent, but now I can't make nice screenshots. There is supposed to be a way to go into the game files to enable it and still play Survival, but partly out of laziness and partly out of worry of messing something up I haven't tried doing it. The other major annoyance is that stimpaks heal soooooooooo sloooooowwwwllllllyyyyy. I have had to cower behind cover several times after getting hit because you have to be really quick about defending yourself, since the stimpaks heal at the speed of molasses right now. AND when you are low enough on health, you get a big pop-up that really breaks the flow of things and usually stops you from reacting sufficiently. I hope it doesn't keep doing that. Lastly, the hunger and thirst seems to have too much randomness for when you need to eat or drink. One time, not even 10 seconds after I quenched my thirst, I suddenly became parched. There's different levels of hunger and thirst, but it often just goes straight to the most dire level of each.

HOWEVER, all that being said, I'm actually quite enjoying Survival Mode in Fallout 4. It definitely feels like you are just scraping by and there have been some memorable, compelling gameplay moments already. I made a new character named Sandra for it. I'll detail more about my adventures later.

I love survival difficulty in F4... with the Survival Options mod active. Gets rid of anything annoying that you don’t like about Survival difficulty. In a normal game, I usually turn off save only when using a bed because I think that is stupid. A Bethesda game should never limit your saves. There’s just too much that can go wrong with their janky programming. I also tone down the need to sleep as frequently just a bit because I felt it was waaay too frequent. Other than that, I pretty much leave it as is. Unless I’m playing a vampire.

All that said, I don’t play F4 on any other difficulty.

You are brave, Rader. Technically, it sounds like you are making the game as close to the way it'd be if this were truly Earth.

I use Easy difficulty on Xbox, and that is where my Difficulty slider stays! On PC I bump it up to whatever the default difficulty is, but I can only do this because Cho's got all his followers to help him along. Overall, I am better at Elder Scrolls than I am at Fallout.

Yes, no fast-traveling is my fave, that's the best way to get into the gameworld itself. I only use FT if some glitch messes things up (or I mess things up) and I have to go back and travel some distance which has already been traveled, or otherwise need to go back to a previous save. Sometimes I will RP that my character travels on something motorized, but that's rare.

I like the idea of Survival / Hardcore modes... in my PC games (or New Vegas/Xbox), food & drink & sleep always matter. But I have heard Fallout 4 goes waaaay too extreme about this. Wow, you can't use console commands like tfc? What the hell?

Sounds like you are having fun overall. All my Thanksgiving cooking is pretty much done, so I'm about to jump into New Vegas myself.

In Fallout 3 there is a song played by Three Dog / Galaxy News Radio called Let's Go Sunning. As I've probably noted in this thread, this is my favorite song of that station. So I was trying to find out who sings this song, but *wow*, nobody knows who she is. The song was written by a guy named Jack Shaindlin, but nobody knows who the gal who sings this song is.

But that's not all. This song was featured in a movie called The Garden of Eden. The movie had something to do with nudist colonies!

Source.

Let's Go Sunning was originally a one shot song by an unknown singer for Garden of Eden, a film purporting to be a docudrama about the nudist lifestyle. Infamously this movie was the subject of a lawsuit which resulted in the US Supreme Court deciding that mere nudity is not obscene, thus paving the way to an entire subgenre of films exploiting this loophole, the end result of which were more mature films and later, more mature games such as Fallout 3.

Holy crap, Batman.

Given the lyrics, it sure looks like it was written about nudism!

Yeah, I always wondered why she says "Let's get native". .... Now we all know.

And ... Edit: now that I know all that stuff about naked people and legal loopholes and Supreme Court rulings it kinda ruins the simplistically happy theme of the song for me. It's sort of like watching old '50s shows on Nickelodeon. If you start doing research on some of those actors and how things really were back then ... Henry Weinstein x 10, basically, in some cases.