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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

most of Rammstein, but specifically Mutter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In the other direction from most of them here, “Losing my Religion” hit a lot harder before I realized it was just about anger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Wait till you read and watch Take me to church

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. It's a song about banging a slave, but I didn't know that as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Similarly, watching the music video for Africa by Toto changes the entire vibe of the song. It’s about wanting to bang a black woman. Bless those rains, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Hard Habit To Break by Chicago is pretty straightforward, but I liked it on the radio as a kid because it's peppy and has an orchestra.

Decades later I get access to music service libraries and give it a listen.

I was a jerk and you left me, and now you're with another guy. I'm not sorry. I'm not going to do better. But I have an orchestra!

I still like it, but have perspective now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Not sure, if I stopped listening to mainstream music around that time, but uh, both of my examples are from 2011, apparently:

  • Kind of a classic response to this question, is "Pumped Up Kicks" from Foster The People. It's got that upbeat melody, and the lyrics are this:

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

  • And my other example is "The A Team", apparently originally from Ed Sheeran, and apparently also with an upbeat melody. I think, I only ever listened to a cover version. But yeah, it's about drug use and sex work, and how those kind of necessitate each other...
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Constipated by Weird Al. That changed me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Closing time by Semisonic I thought it was about going home with someone after a night out at the bar. It’s about the lead singers child being born.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Stinkfist - Tool

You think from the title it would be obvious. Never thought why it was named like that until after I realized what the song was about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It's about anal fisting, yes, but only as a metaphor for the desensitization caused by modern life. It's got layers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

the two Who rock operas are chock full of stuff that went over my head because i heard them when i was younger than i probably should have been. in this case the songs are written from character POVs so i wouldn't say they make me think less of the band because of the content, but jeez, 10 year old me never would've figured Love Reign O'er Me for example was about a suicide attempt as opposed to, you know, feeling loved

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I’m surprised at the number of people who don’t know Weezer’s “Hashpipe” is about male prostitution.

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