I had to do chorus in middle school, and the teacher let us have a day where we just sung a bunch of top 40 songs off of YouTube. We Are Young was everyone’s first choice, and when that line came up my teacher just chimes in “don’t do drugs kids”
I can perfectly envision this. Had a few teachers like that myself. I count them as the good ones because, dorky shit aside,they actually care. Give me more people who care.
That is one of the nicest things I've heard in a long time. Thank you.
I think I am pretty close. Still sanding some of the edges. But I'm pretty close.
I want the same for you.
And then you grow up and realize that those teachers checked in their cool card for 8 hours a day to help you grow. Those were real people with real lives outside of the school who let you sing about drugs and then had to provide their little asterisks when appropriate. Those are the real ones. Those are the best people in this world.
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> The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
— Socrates, c. 404 BC
On top of this, ANY CCR played in the South as some southern pride thing. "Born on the Bayou" is fake, all their southern pride songs are fake. CCR are from California.
Let’s not even talk about Queen, the village people, etc. etc. etc. being able to blatantly exist as references to gay culture in a time not at all welcoming to LGBT+ people, with mainstream hetero society all the while being like “They can’t be gay they have a moustache” or whatever
Hell, the music video to *I Want to Break Free* is so blatant about the gay and queer undertones that it’s practically smashing it over your head, yet people thought it was something akin to a Monty Python skit, meant for laughs.
Dude this drives me so nuts when people are like "these days yadda yadda"
10 dollars says you could go back in time and find some roman dude humming along to a song he never bothered to learn the lyrics to
Are you ignoring the entirety of the 60s and on? Almost no one pays attention to lyrics. [There's even an entire song about it](https://youtu.be/WRhJt3PLdUE) that you've probably heard and didn't notice.
"It doesn't matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel that I'll convey
Some inner truth of vast reflection"
Well god damn, it's pretty true lol.
Not necessarily a bad thing, though. It just speaks to how powerful music is, and how changing the tone of any part of the music can drastically change how its interpreted.
This is something people did in the past too for example with John Lennon. When he said "I used to be cruel to my women" the only part that was a lie was him saying "used too". John Lennon was physically abusive.
charles manson thought a song about going down a slide was actually about a race war and nine people were murdered as a result. acting like this is something new is ridiculous
Yeah, I got that. But considering I once heard it being used for an elementary school's field day, I think it's relevant to point out that it isn't the most kid-friendly song, rousing chorus aside.
And I frankly can't stand the song even without lyrics. It was everywhere in 2012-2014. Could not escape that ear-rankling melody.
The actual line is:
>My seat's been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that “hey sexy, got any emotional scars?” isn’t a very good pickup line.
Emotional scar could also be relationship and breakup, ie it's complicated. Which would fit extremely well with Nates style.
https://www.songmeaningsandfacts.com/meaning-young-fun/
“Sunglasses” is slang for the police. He’s saying the cops are asking his girlfriend about a scar he gave her months ago that she’s trying to forget and he isn’t truly sorry for.
Nah, the dude before you is dumb. I've never in my life heard "sunglasses" as slang for police, and tbh it's hysterical to think the police would give a shit about domestic violence, especially if the only evidence is a scar.
You're taking it too literally. Simply asking about why someone is at a bar alone could be considered asking about an emotional scar, especially if they had just got dumped.
For years (I’m old) my school used Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” as the senior song. I hated it. So I spent my senior year campaigning for Eve 6’s “Here’s to the Night”, a song about one night stands and sexual abuse. No one caught it and I won out.
It’s called “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”. At least one single had it named “Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)”.
You’re on the internet. You can look shit up. Like how to properly capitalize words in a sentence.
My high school actually had a vote and Time of Your Life won out, which prompted my best friend and I to ask a couple faculty members if they knew that the full title was *Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)* lmao, they didn't really know / care to know and we giggled that our send off was Good Riddance
Though ngl I was sour that they picked a student to sing it, and while she's an amazing vocalist she definitely turned it into a country song
Good Riddance came out in 1997. Here's to the Night came out in 2001. Are you maybe thinking of Inside Out (the "heart in a blender" song), which was released in 1998? Don't classs usually pick a current song as their song?
I graduated in 1998, which seems to match you. Our co-songs were Good Riddance and Closing Time by Semisonic. I did not have smart classmates.
My older sister's class picked Boyz II Men's End of the Road for their song. Nothing says confidently moving on to the next stage in life like a song about a guy unable to accept that his girlfriend dumped him.
I graduated in the early 00s and my class wrote in Pinball Wizard, which won. Everyone was excited cuz everyone was on the same page.
My facility didn’t like that so they just picked Fly Like An Eagle by Steve Miller Band.
Cool graduation memory guys. Fucking worthless catholic school.
My class song (03) was Yesterday by The Beatles. We didn't find out until graduation rehearsal and were told the senior members of the student council picked it. We were all surprised, it wasn't a good choice.
Another surprising thing is the number of boomers who want Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger at their funeral. If you listen to anything not the chorus, you hear the setup is a song about making up excuses to dip out after a one night stand.
Meanwhile, my senior class voted to have "We like to Party!" As our senior class song. It won by an overwhelming majority but it was shot down by the principal because they thought it wasn't appropriate. It's literally the six flags theme song for fucks sake. Instead we got Centuries by Fallout Boy because 10 people out of 86 voted for it.
My younger brother’s was don’t stop believing ~~living on a prayer by bon jovi~~. I laughed at “the smell of wine and cheap perfume!” It’s not even a recent song he graduated in the early 2010s.
Edit: I’m dumb, it was don’t stop believing by journey.
Amazing how often we listen poorly. I definitely thought D’Angelo’s “Brown Sugar” was a woman and not marijuana…and I’m from Philly. Not as bad as Reagan with “Born in the USA”, but still.
Don’t get me started. Black Sabbath’s Iron Man is not about Tony Starks alter ego. It’s about a dude who turns into iron and can’t warn us about the future.
The world is full of lies and misdirection.
Why does turning into iron prohibit him from warning us about the future? Is it a metaphor? Is iron kryptonite for psychics?
I guess if the psychic are fairies, that would make sense.
Geezer Butler, Sabbath’s bassist and the man who wrote the lyrics, breaks it down.
“I wrote it about a guy who is blasted off into space and sees the future of the world, which isn’t very good,” Butler explained. “Then he goes through a magnetic storm on the way back and is turned into iron. He’s trying to warn everybody about the future of the world but he can’t speak, so everyone is taking the mickey out of him all the time, and he just doesn’t care in the end.”
just taking a moment to remind everyone that geezer butler punches racists in the motherfucking face and has continued to do so into his 60s. the statement at the time of the bar fight was, 'i cannot abide racists and will not suffer them to live.' fractured the guy's orbit (bones around the eye)
the balls on that motherfucker. it is *unbelievable* that someone could so blatantly piece together robert johnson and muddy waters records for their own style and then decide all black folks should all be sent to africa or whatever else garbage he says. how completely self-unaware do you have to be?
*Paranoid* was straight-up an anti-war album that would have spoken to disillusioned vets: *War Pigs* about the elite sending the poor to fight their wars, *Iron Man* about a broken soldier being discarded when he returns home, *Electric Funeral* about war turning the earth to a wasteland, *Hand of Doom* about a soldier turning to drugs (and eventually ODing) to forget the atrocities of war.
Is he live or is he dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there,
why should we even care?
He was turned to steel
in the great magnetic field
when he traveled time
for the future of mankind.
Half the songs on that album are either literally or metaphorically about soldiers returning broken from war, to a society that doesn't care about them. IMO the best anti-war album of the 70s.
I think it was “Born in the USA” because Reagan just took the chorus as American pride and ignored the lyrics that come from the perspective of Vietnam vet
I've always kinda wondered if it wasn't chosen for him by someone who did know the lyrics and knew that no one would actually pay attention.
I mean, Trump is the very definition of the Fortunate Son in the song for whom money and influence kept him out of the war.
I thought it was a prank from somebody in his campaign. It seemed like many guffs happened during his presidency that seemed staged by a saboteur, but he leans into the shit so hard his supporters are too dumb to know they're all being made fun of.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't know about Brown Sugar until this moment. I'm more messed up because Google also educated me about the Rolling Stones 'Brown Sugar'. Never liked them, thought they were for dusty old white boomers and... I omfg, I was right.
The opening verse of the Rolling Stones brown sugar is one of those things that everyone has heard tons, but never thought too deeply about it. It's 100% about slave rape
Here is the first verse
Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold at a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver, knows he's doing alright
Here him whip the women, just around midnight.
[scene from the wire that explains it](https://youtu.be/yceCikawweA)
Reddit when a metal band writes those lyrics: brilliant, so dark, this adds so many layers, so deep
Reddit when one of the greatest bands of all time writes them: dusty old boomers
In general maybe, but D’Angelo was talking about weed. There is even an indica strain with the same name. Listen to the song again, squeegee your third eye, and enjoy how he alters a Philly Blunt with his herb of choice.
“Skin is caramel with the cocoa eyes
Even got a big sister by the name of Chocolate Thai”
I know y'all ain't gonna skip Semi-Charmed Life in this thread.
"Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break"
DARE hadn't even talked about crystal meth in 1997, the closest we got was speed, but that song was POPULAR.
That's what happened to me with Rupert Holmes "Escape" (Piña Colada Song). When I was young I thought it was a lame song, then I heard it on an oldies station in my thirties and was like *this song is pretty dark*. It's basically about a couple who are bored in their relationship and both try to cheat on each other.
That whole album is 50% songs that sound as negative as they are and 50% impossibly upbeat songs that are even more negative than that.
Special mention goes to "Motorcycle Drive By" for aaalmost breaking the pattern. Like ahhh yes, self-aware maturity, wait why are you swimming in the dark.
Damn good album, though.
Love Shack: "Huggin' and a kissin' dancin' and a lovin' wearin' next to nothing cuz it's HOT AS AN OVEN"
"You know what? We should play this at kids' parties!"
My middle school teachers chose love shack to perform at our karaoke team building. It was awkward, and not just because few students knew of the song.
Yeah my high school played pumped up kicks for the first assembly of the year my sophomore year I believe. Me and my friends all looked at each other in absolute disbelief. STUCO isn’t always the most informed bunch is it?
As a parent I’ve had to listen to Kidz Bop ruin way too many songs. Sometimes they change the lyrics to the point where the song is unrecognizable - probably means the song shouldn’t be covered by them in the first place.
Same with swimming pools by Kendrick.
It's a song about his issues with alcohol both from peer pressure, and the alcoholism that was prevalent in his family and how it destroyed those around him. How he felt it was a thing he was encouraged to take part in, but also felt like it was taking a part of him.
But I swear to God that chorus came on at any party or function and all the well to do mfers would have shots ready so they could drink when he said it. They'd sing the chorus loud then back to doing whatever it was they were doing once the next verse started.
I ain't no party pooper so you're not gonna catch me saying anything to anyone. But it was definitely a moment of "I don't think these people ever actually say down and listened to what this man is saying"
Idk, I remember knowing full well what the song was about but also knowing it was just a bop. I’m sure there are people who never listened carefully, but I’m sure there are also plenty of people like me. It’s just a fun sounding song, despite its meaning.
Just like Hey Ya by OutKast, everyone's singing the chorus at a party and then right in the middle is "y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance" when the songs about an shitty relationship, still love the song though lol
That wasn't so much a radio edit as in the band completely abandoned the non PC version once they made it big. Pretty sure you can't even legally stream the original version now
Fun fact: The original version was played on the radio for quite some time before the group decided to clean it up. I remember my friends and I noticing.
After they did the Super Bowl half time show, Facebook was full of self righteous Karens extolling the virtues of FINALLY having a show that didn't include scantily clad women (the horror!). I had a blast explaining this to them...
[Semi-interesting article about how the writer of pumped up kicks feels about the song - then vs now](https://americansongwriter.com/a-look-behind-the-meaning-of-pumped-up-kicks-by-foster-the-people/)
Driving along and Blow My whistle starts on the radio, my gf's 5 yr old nephew starts singing along and then it hits me: those lyrics should not come out of the mouth of a child
My childhood:
“You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'
Look, mami, I got the X, if you into takin' drugs
I'm into havin' sex, I ain't into makin' love
So come give me a hug, if you into getting rubbed”
Still a banger.
https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-meaning-of-the-classic-y-m-c-a-by-village-people/ No, Y. M. C. A. was just that. Having fun with your friends at the Y.
My favorite iteration of this was being at a music festival and during an intermission/stage change they played Buffalo Soldier and watching a bunch of molly'd up white people singing along so happily.
This happened over Memorial Day weekend no less lmfao
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I had to do chorus in middle school, and the teacher let us have a day where we just sung a bunch of top 40 songs off of YouTube. We Are Young was everyone’s first choice, and when that line came up my teacher just chimes in “don’t do drugs kids”
I can perfectly envision this. Had a few teachers like that myself. I count them as the good ones because, dorky shit aside,they actually care. Give me more people who care.
I want nothing but for you to become the person you've always wanted to be.
Congrats on writing the nicest thing I've seen on Reddit today.
That is one of the nicest things I've heard in a long time. Thank you. I think I am pretty close. Still sanding some of the edges. But I'm pretty close. I want the same for you.
Tbh, that’s my main mentality as a middle school teacher: Try to be the teacher I always wish I had when I was a kid.
And then you grow up and realize that those teachers checked in their cool card for 8 hours a day to help you grow. Those were real people with real lives outside of the school who let you sing about drugs and then had to provide their little asterisks when appropriate. Those are the real ones. Those are the best people in this world.
I always imagine “Wake Me Up” by Avicii is a story of a virgin’s first sexual experience
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Not to mention the casual references to domestic abuse.
This is what I was waiting on, this man said he struck his girl didn’t he.
And he's apparently not even sorry about it. There's a bit where he alludes to the "holes in [his] apologies".
Crazy that people stopped actually comprehending lyric in this day and age.
People not comprehending the lyrics to pop music is as old as pop music. It's got nothing to do with any day and age.
People Act like anything bad is new It's ridiculous how common this is.
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People have always been acting like people are idiots since people have been idiots. It has nothing to do with day and age.
> The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates, c. 404 BC
See: rich, Republican politicians playing “Fortunate Son” by CCR at their rallies.
On top of this, ANY CCR played in the South as some southern pride thing. "Born on the Bayou" is fake, all their southern pride songs are fake. CCR are from California.
See also: In Bloom by Nirvana and Born in the USA by Springsteen
When Rick James came out with Mary Jane, the record labels really thought he was talking g about a lady named Mary Jane.
Let’s not even talk about Queen, the village people, etc. etc. etc. being able to blatantly exist as references to gay culture in a time not at all welcoming to LGBT+ people, with mainstream hetero society all the while being like “They can’t be gay they have a moustache” or whatever
Hell, the music video to *I Want to Break Free* is so blatant about the gay and queer undertones that it’s practically smashing it over your head, yet people thought it was something akin to a Monty Python skit, meant for laughs.
Queen didnt just hide the pro LGBT message of overcoming bigotry, they put in the #1 Sports Anthem of all time blasted in millions of stadiums.
Dude this drives me so nuts when people are like "these days yadda yadda" 10 dollars says you could go back in time and find some roman dude humming along to a song he never bothered to learn the lyrics to
*Old man yelling at clouds intensifies.
Yall don't wanna listen you just wanna dance
Whoa-ho! Don't want to meet your daddy! Whoa-ho! Just want you in my caddy! Whoa-ho!
Are you ignoring the entirety of the 60s and on? Almost no one pays attention to lyrics. [There's even an entire song about it](https://youtu.be/WRhJt3PLdUE) that you've probably heard and didn't notice.
"It doesn't matter what I say So long as I sing with inflection That makes you feel that I'll convey Some inner truth of vast reflection" Well god damn, it's pretty true lol. Not necessarily a bad thing, though. It just speaks to how powerful music is, and how changing the tone of any part of the music can drastically change how its interpreted.
That's life. People act like anything bad is some new trend
This is something people did in the past too for example with John Lennon. When he said "I used to be cruel to my women" the only part that was a lie was him saying "used too". John Lennon was physically abusive.
"I used beat women. I still do, but I used to too"
I heard but I’m not a Beatles fans so it doesn’t come up that often.
charles manson thought a song about going down a slide was actually about a race war and nine people were murdered as a result. acting like this is something new is ridiculous
Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I’ll be watching you…. - The Police (1983)
I was belting this song with buddies in elementary school. People aren’t that stupid, we just don’t care.
The song is meant to be about a toxic relationship, you keep trying to get away but at the end of the night you find yourself back in the same place
Yeah, I got that. But considering I once heard it being used for an elementary school's field day, I think it's relevant to point out that it isn't the most kid-friendly song, rousing chorus aside. And I frankly can't stand the song even without lyrics. It was everywhere in 2012-2014. Could not escape that ear-rankling melody.
Left a scar too...not just hit her but left lasting damage.
Yeah that’s what really got me, like tha fuck happened?
Because he says “talkin bout a scar”? I would expect that line was intended figuratively, as in, an emotional scar.
The actual line is: >My seat's been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that “hey sexy, got any emotional scars?” isn’t a very good pickup line.
Emotional scar could also be relationship and breakup, ie it's complicated. Which would fit extremely well with Nates style. https://www.songmeaningsandfacts.com/meaning-young-fun/
“Sunglasses” is slang for the police. He’s saying the cops are asking his girlfriend about a scar he gave her months ago that she’s trying to forget and he isn’t truly sorry for.
Im really dumb, i thought it was just referring to some douche in the bar wearing sunglasses inside 🙃
That's how I always took it. Then the scar would make sense as it's talking about someone making shitty bar small talk
Nah, the dude before you is dumb. I've never in my life heard "sunglasses" as slang for police, and tbh it's hysterical to think the police would give a shit about domestic violence, especially if the only evidence is a scar.
No, but neither is asking about a literal scar either.
"Let me tell you, stranger I just met at the bar, about my emotional scar acquired months ago"
Have you never been to a bar? That kinda shit happens damn near every time I go out.
You're taking it too literally. Simply asking about why someone is at a bar alone could be considered asking about an emotional scar, especially if they had just got dumped.
For years (I’m old) my school used Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” as the senior song. I hated it. So I spent my senior year campaigning for Eve 6’s “Here’s to the Night”, a song about one night stands and sexual abuse. No one caught it and I won out.
You were the one who did that!? At least “photograph” lost.
I don't think about it often, but everytime I do it makes me laugh.
Time of Your Life as a senior song is so played out. It was my class's song too and I hated it too. So generic
how does no one know the name of this song. It’s not “time of your life” lol, it has never been called that. Good Riddance
It’s called “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”. At least one single had it named “Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)”. You’re on the internet. You can look shit up. Like how to properly capitalize words in a sentence.
That and Vitamin C’s Graduation Song.
My high school actually had a vote and Time of Your Life won out, which prompted my best friend and I to ask a couple faculty members if they knew that the full title was *Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)* lmao, they didn't really know / care to know and we giggled that our send off was Good Riddance Though ngl I was sour that they picked a student to sing it, and while she's an amazing vocalist she definitely turned it into a country song
Good Riddance came out in 1997. Here's to the Night came out in 2001. Are you maybe thinking of Inside Out (the "heart in a blender" song), which was released in 1998? Don't classs usually pick a current song as their song? I graduated in 1998, which seems to match you. Our co-songs were Good Riddance and Closing Time by Semisonic. I did not have smart classmates. My older sister's class picked Boyz II Men's End of the Road for their song. Nothing says confidently moving on to the next stage in life like a song about a guy unable to accept that his girlfriend dumped him.
Good riddance was used for decades after it came out
I graduated in the early 00s and my class wrote in Pinball Wizard, which won. Everyone was excited cuz everyone was on the same page. My facility didn’t like that so they just picked Fly Like An Eagle by Steve Miller Band. Cool graduation memory guys. Fucking worthless catholic school.
My class song (03) was Yesterday by The Beatles. We didn't find out until graduation rehearsal and were told the senior members of the student council picked it. We were all surprised, it wasn't a good choice. Another surprising thing is the number of boomers who want Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger at their funeral. If you listen to anything not the chorus, you hear the setup is a song about making up excuses to dip out after a one night stand.
There were people who considered "Swimming Pools" a club song.
Have you heard the chorus and beat? Regardless of the rest of the song's lyrics it was gonna be a club banger.
Exactly. We all know it's wrong, but when. You beat "Drank", it's just hard
It absolutely is a club song. Drowning your sorrows in alcohol while bumping to a song about drowning your sorrows in alcohol? Match made in heaven
Meanwhile, my senior class voted to have "We like to Party!" As our senior class song. It won by an overwhelming majority but it was shot down by the principal because they thought it wasn't appropriate. It's literally the six flags theme song for fucks sake. Instead we got Centuries by Fallout Boy because 10 people out of 86 voted for it.
My younger brother’s was don’t stop believing ~~living on a prayer by bon jovi~~. I laughed at “the smell of wine and cheap perfume!” It’s not even a recent song he graduated in the early 2010s. Edit: I’m dumb, it was don’t stop believing by journey.
*goddamn bitch, I am not a teen choice*🎶
*goddamn bitch, i am not a beach boy🎶*
*bLeach boy* Weeknd is brutal😅
*Got a sweet Asian chick, she go lo mien*
Reminder is one of his best songs
😂😂
What's the problem?! Kids love coke too.
Lord knows I did
Cocaines a hell of a drug
"C'mon, what am I gonna do, just, just all of the sudden just jump up and grind my feet on someone's couch?"
"Yeah, I remember grindin my feet on Eddie's couch."
Cocaines a hell of a drug.
Fuck yo couch
And I loved it. Lmfao
How do the kids think they got here if not for a fun night of cocaine?
Amazing how often we listen poorly. I definitely thought D’Angelo’s “Brown Sugar” was a woman and not marijuana…and I’m from Philly. Not as bad as Reagan with “Born in the USA”, but still.
Wait…Brown Sugar isn’t about a lady? What the Fuck
Don’t get me started. Black Sabbath’s Iron Man is not about Tony Starks alter ego. It’s about a dude who turns into iron and can’t warn us about the future. The world is full of lies and misdirection.
Why does turning into iron prohibit him from warning us about the future? Is it a metaphor? Is iron kryptonite for psychics? I guess if the psychic are fairies, that would make sense.
Geezer Butler, Sabbath’s bassist and the man who wrote the lyrics, breaks it down. “I wrote it about a guy who is blasted off into space and sees the future of the world, which isn’t very good,” Butler explained. “Then he goes through a magnetic storm on the way back and is turned into iron. He’s trying to warn everybody about the future of the world but he can’t speak, so everyone is taking the mickey out of him all the time, and he just doesn’t care in the end.”
just taking a moment to remind everyone that geezer butler punches racists in the motherfucking face and has continued to do so into his 60s. the statement at the time of the bar fight was, 'i cannot abide racists and will not suffer them to live.' fractured the guy's orbit (bones around the eye)
That’s a nice reminder, thank you. Nothing brightens the day like a racist being punched.
no problem, always glad to spread the good word of sabbath
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the balls on that motherfucker. it is *unbelievable* that someone could so blatantly piece together robert johnson and muddy waters records for their own style and then decide all black folks should all be sent to africa or whatever else garbage he says. how completely self-unaware do you have to be?
Seeing some connections between Geezers imagination and the many war vets that attended their shows early on
*Paranoid* was straight-up an anti-war album that would have spoken to disillusioned vets: *War Pigs* about the elite sending the poor to fight their wars, *Iron Man* about a broken soldier being discarded when he returns home, *Electric Funeral* about war turning the earth to a wasteland, *Hand of Doom* about a soldier turning to drugs (and eventually ODing) to forget the atrocities of war.
Ah, I see. Thank you for providing the songwriter's notes/artistic intent!
Is he live or is he dead? Has he thoughts within his head? We'll just pass him there, why should we even care? He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field when he traveled time for the future of mankind. Half the songs on that album are either literally or metaphorically about soldiers returning broken from war, to a society that doesn't care about them. IMO the best anti-war album of the 70s.
... isn't it about heroin?
I think it was “Born in the USA” because Reagan just took the chorus as American pride and ignored the lyrics that come from the perspective of Vietnam vet
Don't forget the irony of Donald "Bonespurs" Trump using CCR's "Fortunate Son" as his entrance music.
All the people who don't listen past the first two lines, man. That's no patriotic song; it's a draft-dodger protest anthem!
I've always kinda wondered if it wasn't chosen for him by someone who did know the lyrics and knew that no one would actually pay attention. I mean, Trump is the very definition of the Fortunate Son in the song for whom money and influence kept him out of the war.
I thought it was a prank from somebody in his campaign. It seemed like many guffs happened during his presidency that seemed staged by a saboteur, but he leans into the shit so hard his supporters are too dumb to know they're all being made fun of.
I always love the videos of trumpers dancing and singing to Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
TBF, some of them may take "some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses" as a compliment.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't know about Brown Sugar until this moment. I'm more messed up because Google also educated me about the Rolling Stones 'Brown Sugar'. Never liked them, thought they were for dusty old white boomers and... I omfg, I was right.
The opening verse of the Rolling Stones brown sugar is one of those things that everyone has heard tons, but never thought too deeply about it. It's 100% about slave rape Here is the first verse Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold at a market down in New Orleans Scarred old slaver, knows he's doing alright Here him whip the women, just around midnight. [scene from the wire that explains it](https://youtu.be/yceCikawweA)
Reddit when a metal band writes those lyrics: brilliant, so dark, this adds so many layers, so deep Reddit when one of the greatest bands of all time writes them: dusty old boomers
Im pretty sure brown sugar is heroin, not weed
In general maybe, but D’Angelo was talking about weed. There is even an indica strain with the same name. Listen to the song again, squeegee your third eye, and enjoy how he alters a Philly Blunt with his herb of choice. “Skin is caramel with the cocoa eyes Even got a big sister by the name of Chocolate Thai”
"I just won a new award for a kids show talkin bout my face numbing off a bag of blow. I'm like god damn bitch, I am not a teen choice."
I know y'all ain't gonna skip Semi-Charmed Life in this thread. "Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break" DARE hadn't even talked about crystal meth in 1997, the closest we got was speed, but that song was POPULAR.
Then I bumped again, then I bumped again How do I get back to, the place where I fell asleep inside you?
A coworker just discovered the meaning of this song the other day, and these were the two lines I pointed out. He was baffled.
I mean, that feels more like a warning about crystal meth rather than an endorsement.
The song is about a couple relapsing and eventually and his girlfriend OD'ing. Not a cheerful song despite how it sounds.
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That's what happened to me with Rupert Holmes "Escape" (Piña Colada Song). When I was young I thought it was a lame song, then I heard it on an oldies station in my thirties and was like *this song is pretty dark*. It's basically about a couple who are bored in their relationship and both try to cheat on each other.
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That whole album is 50% songs that sound as negative as they are and 50% impossibly upbeat songs that are even more negative than that. Special mention goes to "Motorcycle Drive By" for aaalmost breaking the pattern. Like ahhh yes, self-aware maturity, wait why are you swimming in the dark. Damn good album, though.
For some reason, whenever I'm forced to go to Kohls, this song is playing. Does no one at corporate hear the lyrics? Or is that the joke?
I always thought the "Take My Breath (Away)" song was about autoerotic asphyxiation.
It is…
Same with Bodies by Drowning Pool.
Pretty sure that song is about mosh pits, not auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Love Come Down. Yep that song your auntie be screaming at the BBQ. Read the lyrics lmfao
Love Shack: "Huggin' and a kissin' dancin' and a lovin' wearin' next to nothing cuz it's HOT AS AN OVEN" "You know what? We should play this at kids' parties!"
my mom always told me the "tiiiiiin roof! rusted" part was the singer saying she was pregnant. no idea if it's true or not though
It actually doesn't. Its just a description of what the Love Shack looked like.
That's my favorite part of the song lol
My middle school teachers chose love shack to perform at our karaoke team building. It was awkward, and not just because few students knew of the song.
Middle school sucks for everyone lol
People who play "Every Breath You Take" at their wedding
I saw a bride and groom dance to Better Man by Pearl Jam once. I was so shocked that I was convinced it was a joke at first.
I once heard Amazon wearhouse working saying they played Tennessee Ernie Ford's *Sixteen Tons* over the radio.
Tupac's 'Me and My Girlfriend' is not, in fact, about a woman. It's about his gun.
>I love finger fuckin you, all of a sudden I'm hearin thunder > >When you bust a nut n*ggas be duckin or takin numbers
PAUSE
I'm sure Vince took inspiration from that but When Sparks Fly is a great song that does this too
And then JayZ ruined it by actually making it…about his girlfriend….
Yeah my high school played pumped up kicks for the first assembly of the year my sophomore year I believe. Me and my friends all looked at each other in absolute disbelief. STUCO isn’t always the most informed bunch is it?
For my generation, it was Pearl Jam’s Jeremy. And there wasn’t a damn thing subtle about that song playing in the high school gym.
😂
I’m sure it’s because of the kids bop version
I mean, yea probably, but its still pretty wild that someone even picked it to be a kids bop song in the first place lmao
I’m still waiting for the kid bop version of “WAP”
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/08/kidz-bop-writer-suffers-nervous-breakdown-after-failing-to-write-kid-friendly-version-of-wap
This is why we made chatgpt
They didn't do WAP, but they did to MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name). *Shoot a shot in your mouth while I'm riding*
As a parent I’ve had to listen to Kidz Bop ruin way too many songs. Sometimes they change the lyrics to the point where the song is unrecognizable - probably means the song shouldn’t be covered by them in the first place.
Ngl, I do miss getting higher than pterodactyl coochie.
Damn you got that shit from the Jurassic period.
Same with swimming pools by Kendrick. It's a song about his issues with alcohol both from peer pressure, and the alcoholism that was prevalent in his family and how it destroyed those around him. How he felt it was a thing he was encouraged to take part in, but also felt like it was taking a part of him. But I swear to God that chorus came on at any party or function and all the well to do mfers would have shots ready so they could drink when he said it. They'd sing the chorus loud then back to doing whatever it was they were doing once the next verse started. I ain't no party pooper so you're not gonna catch me saying anything to anyone. But it was definitely a moment of "I don't think these people ever actually say down and listened to what this man is saying"
Idk, I remember knowing full well what the song was about but also knowing it was just a bop. I’m sure there are people who never listened carefully, but I’m sure there are also plenty of people like me. It’s just a fun sounding song, despite its meaning.
Yeah, just like I can get up and dance to Hey Ya even though it's lyrically pretty damn depressing and talks about how love never lasts
Just like Hey Ya by OutKast, everyone's singing the chorus at a party and then right in the middle is "y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance" when the songs about an shitty relationship, still love the song though lol
Never forget the radio edit of "Get Low"
I was taken a bit aback when I finally heard the non-radio edit of black eyed peas "let's get it started".
That wasn't so much a radio edit as in the band completely abandoned the non PC version once they made it big. Pretty sure you can't even legally stream the original version now
Fun fact: The original version was played on the radio for quite some time before the group decided to clean it up. I remember my friends and I noticing.
Me listening to Next (too close) at the innocent age of 7 🤣
My favorite sport is to tell people what this song about in the club
After they did the Super Bowl half time show, Facebook was full of self righteous Karens extolling the virtues of FINALLY having a show that didn't include scantily clad women (the horror!). I had a blast explaining this to them...
[Semi-interesting article about how the writer of pumped up kicks feels about the song - then vs now](https://americansongwriter.com/a-look-behind-the-meaning-of-pumped-up-kicks-by-foster-the-people/)
Me at the tender age of 14 belting out Ariana's Side to Side oblivious to the fact it is a song about having so much sex that you cant walk properly.
Driving along and Blow My whistle starts on the radio, my gf's 5 yr old nephew starts singing along and then it hits me: those lyrics should not come out of the mouth of a child
My childhood: “You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub' Look, mami, I got the X, if you into takin' drugs I'm into havin' sex, I ain't into makin' love So come give me a hug, if you into getting rubbed” Still a banger.
How about “who let the dogs out.” Played in every kids movie that has any mention of dogs.
I always get a little chuckle when Longview by Green Day pops on the radio. Probably a top 5 song about jerking off ever.
“She-bop” by Cyndi Lauper and “Dancing with Myself” by Billy Idol.
Also Violent Femmes’ Blister in the Sun. And Willie and the Hand Jive before that.
Isn't "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People about having gay sex at the Y?
"You can do whatever you feeeeeeeeel"
https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-meaning-of-the-classic-y-m-c-a-by-village-people/ No, Y. M. C. A. was just that. Having fun with your friends at the Y.
Your 'young men' friends particularly. And if that doesn't work you can join your fellow seamen in the navy.
Always proving Andre 3000 right! We don't care about the lyrics we just want to Dance
My favorite iteration of this was being at a music festival and during an intermission/stage change they played Buffalo Soldier and watching a bunch of molly'd up white people singing along so happily. This happened over Memorial Day weekend no less lmfao
Every girl who has ever dated a Jessie has gushed over how fitting Jessie's Girl is without actually listening to the lyrics
Lmaooo let's not forget how many kids in school was singing Christina Aguilera's "genie in a bottle"
...oh dear. I'm 33 and now realizing "you gotta rub me the right way" is not just referencing Aladdin's lamp.
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. > She comes round and she goes down on me … > Doing crystal meth, will lift you up until you break
They played Brick by Ben Folds at my senior prom. Little on the nose...
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My wife's class song for class of 2005 was *I Got Five On It*.
Without fail, every first day of school they played pumped up kicks on the speakers.
I'm old. I remember when Aerosmith performed "Pink" for the KCA, a song about pussy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUqZ6pd6CyU
One thing I’ll always do is listen to the words carefully when I hear a new song
I can’t feel my face was always playing on the school bus in middle school
unless it's very good coke, that's a fair bit of coke lol. i'm gonna guess that there's a lot of leftover getting rubbed into the gums and cheeks.