Hi Michael,
Art needs to be appreciated/understood in the context under which it was created, otherwise what you're seeing is not what the artist intended, and that usually leads on to bad things like censorship, etc.
Not nessessary. I tell you as a philologist who had been analyzing various literary texts for 5 years. My teacher (a professor) always told us: "It doesn't matter if there is only one idea, only one author's intention on the surface. Sometimes any motives in a work of art come just unconsciously. If you see any different obscured ideas and motives in a book and can prove, analyzing writing devices or whatever, that they EXIST in this very novel or story, then it's indeed there". I guess she was right. Work of art -- a novel, a film, whatever -- isn't a theorem having just one proof. Sometimes different people having different world outlook and aestetic appreciation of the world see polar opposite in the same work of art. It's quite normal.
BUT... a work that is deliberately Dadaist... well, that is a bit different. The artist has tried to create something that will have different meanings to different people, and I'm comfortable with that. This makes it quite close to surrealism though, which I actually get quite a kick out of.
Dadaism is in fact the predecessor of surrealism.
The good thing is, by having mostly nonsense lyrics, Yello has been kept universal!
Mostly, but not always. For instance, remember "Beyond Mirrors". It expresses solid concept of philosophic appreciation of the world and its history. Though it's, of course, not Dieter's thinking but one of his characters who even has a name. Regards, Adelka A big plane has crashed and all passengers perished. The woman who announces the flights was asked to tell about it as tactfully as possible. W.: "People waiting for the plane from Greece, go home!"