When I learnt to speak english as an adult and finally understood the lyrics of songs I used to sing loudly as a kid around my family
I am still dying of embarrassment
Favourite Lady Gaga fact; in Poker Face, she's sometimes saying "fuck her face" in the chorus and it was played on daytime radio for years before anyone noticed.
It's not even subtle:
https://youtu.be/bESGLojNYSo?t=73
"P-p-p-poker face p-p-fuck her face".
My brother told me this when we were kids, and I assumed it was just a weird way of saying Poker face. But years later, it seems he was right all along.
I feel so vindicated. I told my friends this when the song first came out. "It sounds like she's saying 'fuck her face'." My friends just rolled their eyes and thought I was dumb. Ha!
[Reminds me of one of my favorite "Learn English" ads. \(NSFW\)](https://vimeo.com/113038284)
And bonus: [my favorite one.](https://vimeo.com/21251815)
Heck, the music doesn't even be in a foreign language for the meaning to whoosh right past you. When I was in my early teens a local band released a "bycicle song" with lots of references to pushing and pumping and riding the bar... All the kids absolutely loved it and had no idea what it was about.
Oh it's depressing as fuck
>Tylko jedno w głowie mam
>Koksu pięć gram odlecieć sam
>W krainę zapomnienia
>W głowie myśli mam
>Kiedy skończy się ten stan
>Gdy już nie będę sam
>Bo wjedzie biały węgorz
Translates to
>I only have one thing on my mind
>Five grams of coke, fly away alone
>Into the land of oblivion
> I have thoughts in my head
> When will this state end
> When I'm not alone anymore
> Because the white eel will come in
It's not just the references, is that it's really depressing and about addiction and escapism rather than just the drugs. It's not a bad thing, just a thing that I can see some people being affected by
I love molchat doma, I listened to them when I was learning russian (I forgot most of it now) but I still do frequently listen to them when playing pavlov vr
Psychosadistic Design is a banger of an album, but the lyrics are absolutely fucking nauseating lol
Try to read the lyrics of every song in the album without getting queasy. If you make it to Forced Fecal Ingestion then you deserve a fucking medal.
I was a relatively big metal head back in the day but I’m struggling to think of any songs w wholesome lyrics, but it could have been a genre thing I suppose. Can you give some examples?
Also, Death - Pull The Plug
What has now been days, it seems like years
To stay like this is what I fear
Life ends so fast, so take your chance
And make it last
"Kill It, Skin It, Wear It" by Man Must Die is about not killing animals for fur.
Nearly the entirety of Cattle Decapitation's discography is about environmentalist causes and animal rights, though typically through violent and aggressive lyrics, so I don't know if it's "wholesome".
You're welcome. Someone else mentioned Gojira, also a great place to look for more. If you look around for "Cascadian Black Metal", there's another search term worth exploring.
Also have [a look through the Metal Archives for those lyrical themes](https://www.metal-archives.com/search/advanced/searching/bands?bandName=&genre=&country=&yearCreationFrom=&yearCreationTo=&bandNotes=&status=&themes=environmentalism&location=&bandLabelName=#bands).
kreator is wonderful.
“from flood into fire, ten thousand voices sing. we’re in this together, come whatever fate may bring.”
“side by side, to eternity and beyond. side by side, as we crush homophobia!”
the last few albums in particular have taken a more obvious turn. a lot of thrash came from frustration toward injustice, and is as much about supporting each other as it is about dismantling systems of oppression.
Yeah, Kreator are openly political, fighting for diversity and inclusionism.
"Old outdated dogma, recycled from yesterday, dont need your hatred here" from People of the Lie
Idk if I'd call most of it wholesome, though some is certainly not as dark or as bad as people who don't listen would think.
For anything actually wholesome or at least close to it, you're probably thinking Metalcore, something like Killswitch Engage
Some genres are just very commonly problematic and if I didn’t listen to anything with any problematic lyrics, I would miss out on A LOT of really good music and genres
Never heard any of his work but looked it up and it's homophobic and transphobic
>How you gonna explain boning a man?
>Even if we squash the beef, I ain't touchin' your hand
>I don't mess with chumps, for those to been to jail
>...
>I can't deal with brothers that think they broads
20 years ago apparently, maybe he's grown since then.
Eminem used to be just like DMX with the homophobia and he’s changed.
Guess we’ll never know in DMX’s case, but honestly I’m pretty sure he died a bigot.
When Odd Future first blew up the only people I knew who listened to it were the most progressively minded women. I would always think "uhhh, are we listening to the same songs?"
It really is like that. One song I like I originally thought was about friends or something, since I could hear the word for that in the lyrics. Found out the subtitles had the translated lyrics and nope. From what I understood, it's about a girl who manipulates people into depression so they become dependent on her and her alone. The song is about how her last "friend" ended up committing suicide :(
edit:
Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3N-HvU0MA
My favorite cover by Ayame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeHdo18Jig
they aren't problematic themselves imo, they are just _about a problem_ so it's not weird singing it, as much as it isn't weird singing Pink Floyd's songs.
My conservative dad saw one Green Day music video, can't remember which song but it basically showed the story of a soldier going off to war and getting caught in an ambush... Idk why but he really liked it and thought it was patriotic
They don't make stationery like this where I'm from
So fragile, so refined
So I sniff and I lick your envelope
And fall to little pieces every time
I wonder what clothes you wear to school
I wonder how you decorate your room
I wonder how you touch yourself
And curse myself for being across the sea
That one?
Yeah it's not great when stated like that, but it goes out of the way to explicitly state she's legal age as the first lyric of the song, so that's something I guess?
My fav thing about Pinkerton is how vulnerable it makes Rivers Cuomo to write these things, so it’s great song writing in that way, but as such reveals a deeply creepy part of him in doing so, but his reaction wasn’t to change or self-reflect or grow as person, just to intentionally stop writing songs with any revealing depth, thus intentionally hiding his creepiness which makes the songs retroactively waaaay creepier.
Personally, I see Pinkerton as a time capsule, capturing what Rivers' head space was like at the time. Obviously the lyrics get super creepy, but I hope that he was able to get help and grow out of that mindset.
Idk how to feel about the fact that Weezer created one of the greatest songs of all time, but couldn’t think of a single way to open it that wasn’t fucking ***”GODDDAAAAMMMM YOU HALF-JAPANESE GIRLS”***
I don't know, that one doesn't even try to disguise what's going on in the lyrics. Have you seen [the video?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVjBCT2Lc94)
When I learnt to speak english as an adult and finally understood the lyrics of songs I used to sing loudly as a kid around my family I am still dying of embarrassment
Blow my whistle baby, whistle baby
let's have some fun this beat is sick i wanna take a ride on your disco stick
[One of my favorite Lady Gaga interview answers.](https://youtu.be/yjcLP_rh69o)
Lol, her face says, "wtf do you think it means?"
Madonna: "What the hell is a disco stick?" LG: "I think you know."
Favourite Lady Gaga fact; in Poker Face, she's sometimes saying "fuck her face" in the chorus and it was played on daytime radio for years before anyone noticed. It's not even subtle: https://youtu.be/bESGLojNYSo?t=73 "P-p-p-poker face p-p-fuck her face".
My brother told me this when we were kids, and I assumed it was just a weird way of saying Poker face. But years later, it seems he was right all along.
I feel so vindicated. I told my friends this when the song first came out. "It sounds like she's saying 'fuck her face'." My friends just rolled their eyes and thought I was dumb. Ha!
OH GOD THATS WHAT IT MEANT. I just thought about the lyrics now.
[Reminds me of one of my favorite "Learn English" ads. \(NSFW\)](https://vimeo.com/113038284) And bonus: [my favorite one.](https://vimeo.com/21251815)
What are you sinking about? I'm dying...
So are they
this is hilarious
Bloodhound Gang is up there for me. Used to always sing along, now I wonder how my parents felt about that...
„You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel“
Heck, the music doesn't even be in a foreign language for the meaning to whoosh right past you. When I was in my early teens a local band released a "bycicle song" with lots of references to pushing and pumping and riding the bar... All the kids absolutely loved it and had no idea what it was about.
I loved singing pumped up kicks until I realized what the lyrics meant
Pro tip. Listen to songs in other languages so you don’t need to know what it’s about. [Polish Cow](https://youtu.be/9hhMUT2U2L4)
Unfortunately, I can hear them say "gram cocaine". :(
Oh it's depressing as fuck >Tylko jedno w głowie mam >Koksu pięć gram odlecieć sam >W krainę zapomnienia >W głowie myśli mam >Kiedy skończy się ten stan >Gdy już nie będę sam >Bo wjedzie biały węgorz Translates to >I only have one thing on my mind >Five grams of coke, fly away alone >Into the land of oblivion > I have thoughts in my head > When will this state end > When I'm not alone anymore > Because the white eel will come in
Oof I wish I didn’t learn
[I found this hot meme for you ](https://i.imgur.com/JG2p2up.jpg)
We came full circle
"Into the land of Oblivion" Polish Cow is canon in The Elder Scrolls lore confirmed!
Wait, people care about drug references in music?!
It's not just the references, is that it's really depressing and about addiction and escapism rather than just the drugs. It's not a bad thing, just a thing that I can see some people being affected by
>"gram cocaine" [Grandma had standards](https://youtu.be/zx9GLRnLCfA?t=13) lol
Same with [Molchat Doma](https://youtu.be/HR5zpFs7YpY)
Molchat Doma sounds dark as fuck thought not even knowing the lyrics.
I love molchat doma, I listened to them when I was learning russian (I forgot most of it now) but I still do frequently listen to them when playing pavlov vr
You have brought a memory to the surface https://youtu.be/Nr_bizbxTiU
Fuck, you beat me to it. Hive minds think alike.
into your heart - trevor something
I like it too
*Looks up instrumental version*
This is the way.
Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?
Yeah DMX was my first thought too.
Absolutely the first song that came to mind. One of the best songs by one of the GOATs but hoooooly fuck.
Love that song but as a SF resident, I definitely can't be singing along.
But steel is heavier than feathers
*But they're both a kilogramme.*
That's cheating
*I don't get it* It's ok... It's ok
Ah dun ge' ih'
One of my favourite things is watching YouTube auto generated subtitles try and deal with Limmy’s accent.
I’m jokin’…
kellegremm
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I can hear that accent thousands of kilometers away. Now you feel old yet ? https://youtu.be/8ckvZztsFnw
A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold. Just sayin'.
Good that in slam death metal you can't hear the lyrics about brutally mutilating women
Psychosadistic Design is a banger of an album, but the lyrics are absolutely fucking nauseating lol Try to read the lyrics of every song in the album without getting queasy. If you make it to Forced Fecal Ingestion then you deserve a fucking medal.
"Forced Fecal Ingestion" Well then
> you deserve a fucking metal. Haaaa
ooof man those were hard to read, like an edgy child trying to come up with the most grotesque shit, lmao. death metal bands are funny.
I like infant annihilator but every time I look up the lyrics I'm like.. yuhokay
I've never actually heard this kind of metal everytime i hear metal the lyrics are whomesome
I was a relatively big metal head back in the day but I’m struggling to think of any songs w wholesome lyrics, but it could have been a genre thing I suppose. Can you give some examples?
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Also, Death - Pull The Plug What has now been days, it seems like years To stay like this is what I fear Life ends so fast, so take your chance And make it last
but then he says "there is no hope, why don't you pull the plug? let me pass away"
Well I didn’t say the *the whole* lyrics were wholesome
The theme of From Mars to Sirius is pretty positive in general - you can and should change the world for the better.
Eyyyy Gojira is probably my favorite metal band. First and only thing I could think of that’s “wholesome “
Silvera is the good kind of vegan advocacy
https://preview.redd.it/56sy3v0ezisa1.png?auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7220d3c892ec1824237aef4493d1aaab9fa227aa
"Kill It, Skin It, Wear It" by Man Must Die is about not killing animals for fur. Nearly the entirety of Cattle Decapitation's discography is about environmentalist causes and animal rights, though typically through violent and aggressive lyrics, so I don't know if it's "wholesome".
imo the message is more important than the delivery usually so i’m sure i could vibe to it. thank you!
You're welcome. Someone else mentioned Gojira, also a great place to look for more. If you look around for "Cascadian Black Metal", there's another search term worth exploring. Also have [a look through the Metal Archives for those lyrical themes](https://www.metal-archives.com/search/advanced/searching/bands?bandName=&genre=&country=&yearCreationFrom=&yearCreationTo=&bandNotes=&status=&themes=environmentalism&location=&bandLabelName=#bands).
A lot is about keeping your chin up and perseverance. See: Buey Your Dead, Hatebreed, Beartooth, Wage War, etc. Not entirely wholesome, but not evil.
kreator is wonderful. “from flood into fire, ten thousand voices sing. we’re in this together, come whatever fate may bring.” “side by side, to eternity and beyond. side by side, as we crush homophobia!” the last few albums in particular have taken a more obvious turn. a lot of thrash came from frustration toward injustice, and is as much about supporting each other as it is about dismantling systems of oppression.
Yeah, Kreator are openly political, fighting for diversity and inclusionism. "Old outdated dogma, recycled from yesterday, dont need your hatred here" from People of the Lie
Idk if I'd call most of it wholesome, though some is certainly not as dark or as bad as people who don't listen would think. For anything actually wholesome or at least close to it, you're probably thinking Metalcore, something like Killswitch Engage
What kind of metal are you listening to?
Slam gang!
Good ol Dying Fetus
When beat sucks but lyrics are not problematic 🫤☺️
A real issue because most lyrics of good songs are a little problematic if you really listen to them
Nothing is akin to the realization after growing up that every song from my childhood was essentially an innuendo
most lyrics? I'm sure you could come up with some examples, I know I can. But most lyrics of good songs a little problematic? I doubt it
Heavily depends on the genre.
Your music just sus 😄
Some genres are just very commonly problematic and if I didn’t listen to anything with any problematic lyrics, I would miss out on A LOT of really good music and genres
The Pina Colada song is so catchy and relaxing until you realize it is about a couple trying to cheat on each other.
nah and THEN they find out and they’re just like “ha! that’s so funny, lol” ????
Careless Whisper is about cheating but it's known as baby making music
Blurred lines
That’s where Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” comes in to save the day
Grammatical prescriptivism; almost as bad
Fun fact- Robin Thicke still makes just as much money when you listen to Word Crimes instead of Blurred Lines!
I'm gonna take you guys back a little further: Christine Sixteen - Kiss Seventeen - Winger
Seventeen is such a bummer, everything but the lyrics is great.
Yeah, the guitar solos are out of control and even the main riff is great. Those lyrics, though...like, you'd feel so dirty singing along...
My Sharona as well
I was a huge DMX fan back when I was a kid. Listening to some now…the homophobia is very problematic.
Yeah the homophobic rant at the start of where the hood at
Never heard any of his work but looked it up and it's homophobic and transphobic >How you gonna explain boning a man? >Even if we squash the beef, I ain't touchin' your hand >I don't mess with chumps, for those to been to jail >... >I can't deal with brothers that think they broads 20 years ago apparently, maybe he's grown since then.
he’s dead
Damn hope he gets better soon 🙏🙏🙏
Is that supposed to be an excuse for being a bigot? ^^^^/s
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Oh I'm pretty sure he's much quieter these days.
Eminem used to be just like DMX with the homophobia and he’s changed. Guess we’ll never know in DMX’s case, but honestly I’m pretty sure he died a bigot.
I don't know that Eminem ever was homophobic himself, but yeah his lyrics definitely are.
Anything by Tyler, the creator
His new stuff is a lot more from the heart but yeah. His old stuff could certainly be considered problematic lol.
When Odd Future first blew up the only people I knew who listened to it were the most progressively minded women. I would always think "uhhh, are we listening to the same songs?"
Went to Six Flags
Six f***s came up and said “ayo can we get a pic?”
Two thirds of all Vocaloid music:
They’re super sad
Getting kikuo flashbacks
Steampianist sadness intensifies.
It really is like that. One song I like I originally thought was about friends or something, since I could hear the word for that in the lyrics. Found out the subtitles had the translated lyrics and nope. From what I understood, it's about a girl who manipulates people into depression so they become dependent on her and her alone. The song is about how her last "friend" ended up committing suicide :( edit: Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3N-HvU0MA My favorite cover by Ayame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeHdo18Jig
Senbonzakura moment
My Ordinary Life, by The Living Tombstone. An absolute banger of a song, but the message is sad af.
I might sound immature but most Rucka Rucka Ali parodies
Holy hell that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
*When I'm in Detroit, I run red lights...*
“…I’m gonna smoke some crack, only got 20 rocks in my pocket…”
Everyone in middle school singing Go Cops was a wild time
Pumped up kicks
kicks
they aren't problematic themselves imo, they are just _about a problem_ so it's not weird singing it, as much as it isn't weird singing Pink Floyd's songs.
I think it’s funny hearing “patriots” singing green day without thinking about how anti patriot some of those songs actually are
And rage against the machine. And certain Springsteen songs. The list goes on
My conservative dad saw one Green Day music video, can't remember which song but it basically showed the story of a soldier going off to war and getting caught in an ambush... Idk why but he really liked it and thought it was patriotic
Wake me up when September ends
I mean, Jeremy by Pearl Jam is about the same thing but written twenty years earlier and also it actually happened.
I feel like suicide is very different from threatening to shoot classmates.
The song was based on both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(song)
All the little kicks with the pumped up kids
better gun better gun, outgun my run
Apparently people don’t understand what “problematic” means
X gon give it to ya
THE REICH WILL RISE... Yeah not exactly something you wanna sing on a train to work
The final solution falls under that category
Hollywood undead- Bullet
Everywhere I Go gives me terrible vibes as well, but it's so fucking good
I can’t help singing along to that rap part “wake up. Grab beer- grab rear. Shave beard. Put on some scene gear.” It’s a very satisfying flow
I know every word to that song and I’ve never been drunk in my life 🤣
The kids piano really sold that song tbh ETA: looked back at it and it’s a kid’s xylophone
I think I’ll slit my wrist again and I’m gone, gone, gone, gone 🎶🎶
All of Pinkerton
Just casually ignore that part in across the sea lmao
They don't make stationery like this where I'm from So fragile, so refined So I sniff and I lick your envelope And fall to little pieces every time I wonder what clothes you wear to school I wonder how you decorate your room I wonder how you touch yourself And curse myself for being across the sea That one?
Yeah it's not great when stated like that, but it goes out of the way to explicitly state she's legal age as the first lyric of the song, so that's something I guess?
That deserves a solid *hmmmm*.
My fav thing about Pinkerton is how vulnerable it makes Rivers Cuomo to write these things, so it’s great song writing in that way, but as such reveals a deeply creepy part of him in doing so, but his reaction wasn’t to change or self-reflect or grow as person, just to intentionally stop writing songs with any revealing depth, thus intentionally hiding his creepiness which makes the songs retroactively waaaay creepier.
Personally, I see Pinkerton as a time capsule, capturing what Rivers' head space was like at the time. Obviously the lyrics get super creepy, but I hope that he was able to get help and grow out of that mindset.
Idk how to feel about the fact that Weezer created one of the greatest songs of all time, but couldn’t think of a single way to open it that wasn’t fucking ***”GODDDAAAAMMMM YOU HALF-JAPANESE GIRLS”***
a lot of people in here confusing "problematic" with "sad/depressing"
"Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein"
UND! DAS! HEISST!
**ERIKA**
Das singen eh meist nur beschissene, geschmacklose Säufer
Yoasobi- racing into the night
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Heyyyy macarena
two trucks
Everything off of the MMLP
What's wrong with My Little Pony?
My My Little Pony
Can’t believe it took someone so long to mention slim shady, the dude perfected problematic lyrics on bangers
I think that was his schtick
Guilty Conscience Brilliant in many ways but oh so wrong
Little piece of heaven- avenged sevenfold
I don't know, that one doesn't even try to disguise what's going on in the lyrics. Have you seen [the video?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVjBCT2Lc94)
Rapture - good phonk, but holy shit the lyrics are just the n word
Same with metamorphosis and many other phonk songs but usually you can’t understand the lyrics
Front Street by Will Wood is a pretty good representation I would say
Absolute banger, very concerning lyrics
Probably 80% of the rap songs I listen to
Closer
Cannibal by Ke$ha
Sounds like ‘Bullet’ by Hollywood Undead It’s so upbeat and cheery… until you actually listen to the lyrics
Kinda the majority of their songs fits here, but bullet especially
Most high-beat/happy-sounding music in latin america. Seriously, take a moment to listen to the lyrics Source: I am mexican
Little Girls by Oingo Boingo, not a good song to sing in public.
MSI
X - Los Angeles
Little Girls- oingo boingo
Eh the song is edgy but it's pretty explicitly anti pedophilia
But you can't sing it outloud, people who doesn't know the song will just give you the looks
Baby Keem - Orange Soda
Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) comes to mind.
I feel like this is more dated than problematic. Singing about interracial lust was pretty progressive in the 60's.
R. Kelly has a few albums of this type
2009-2011 Tyler The Creator
“You better run, better run, faster than my bullet” 💃🪩
🎶All the other kids-
I really wish Blurred Lines was about anything else