5 minutes alone by pantera, I mean come on...
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The original "football moves" clip went viral a long time ago, and the song goes along well with it. Took me a while to understand just how awfully reactionary the lyrics are.
In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry. It's such a nice catchy tune that I enjoyed until my partner pointed out:
Have a drink, have a drive Go out and see what you can find If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Which, ew.
I don't like Mondays from the Boomtown Rats.
Mind, when I first heard it my English was not that good so I really only got the Chorus about not liking Mondays (and who does, eh?). Dismissed the "shoot the whole day down" as an idiom for something which I did not know.
Then at some point much later I realized it's actually a school shooting.
I remember listening to Frank Zappa’s Bobby Brown when I was a kid, not knowing English at all. Great song but very inappropriate for kids, which my parents probably thought was funny.
Despacito. Kinda weird lyrics.
Uncle Kracker - Follow me. I used to sing the shit out of it, because I just liked the tune. Until I learn there was a whole different meaning than just "I'm the better guy" lyrics.
I still humm it, but it hits differently.
Sting. Every step you take. It's actually angry and malicious. There's an interview with Sting saying something to that effect.
Do you maybe mean "Every Breath You Take" by The Police? That's a common answer to this kind of question. A lot of people think of it as cute and romantic at first, but the song really talk about the Big Brother (from George Orwell's 1984): a state of constant surveillance watching "every breath you take, every move you make".
Yes that's the one I'm talking about. I could have sworn I heard an interview about him talking about how it's about someone stalking a former lover. Memory is weird that way. You're interpretation is probably the one I'm going to go with from now on though I like that more.
I could see it being a bit of both. Lyrics are often inspired by something and describing something else. In this case, someone stalking a former lover could be seen as "going full 1984's Big Brother" on them... and it makes sense with the whole romantic mood that the song has: the stalker sees themself as romantic and sings it that way, but when you look closer you realise it's actually very creepy.
I have no idea how anyone who's even vaguely tuned into that song thinks it's romantic.
Since you've gone, I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around, but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace
I keep crying, baby, baby please
Oh, can't you see
You belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take?
I understand the full lyrics, but most songs generally default to romanticism. If you're not paying attention it's easy to misinterpret.
If you're not paying attention, you hear the "I'm watching you" part, which is creepy as fuck.
Heck, there a folks out there that still insist that "The Boys of Summer" is about baseball.
Not so much found out about but songs that didn't used to bother me now kind of bother me. I was a very big Stone Temple Pilots fan, Even though the rhythms slap the songs are a little too rapey these days for my taste.
A cute girl I knew a few years ago got the Orion Experience (group) on my radar and I learned recently that while yes the songs are clearly about a sexual deviant (which is what made them cool bruh), it's about that kind of sexual deviant, because Orion very much likes kids apparently
That fucking ruins everything and they're bops that I can't get out of my head sometimes, so that's nice
Don't look into the story behind "My Sharona" by The Knack.
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