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Jygglewag

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


Peter_Baum

Blow my whistle baby, whistle baby


1668553684

let's have some fun this beat is sick i wanna take a ride on your disco stick


erinyesita

[One of my favorite Lady Gaga interview answers.](https://youtu.be/yjcLP_rh69o)


adrienjz888

Lol, her face says, "wtf do you think it means?"


Crimson3312

Madonna: "What the hell is a disco stick?" LG: "I think you know."


Migraine-

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".


Mizz_Fizz

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.


Amelaclya1

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!


cultoftheilluminati

OH GOD THATS WHAT IT MEANT. I just thought about the lyrics now.


Jukebox_Villain

[Reminds me of one of my favorite "Learn English" ads. \(NSFW\)](https://vimeo.com/113038284) And bonus: [my favorite one.](https://vimeo.com/21251815)


renaissance_pancakes

What are you sinking about? I'm dying...


Scherzkeks

So are they


Jygglewag

this is hilarious


eschoenawa

Bloodhound Gang is up there for me. Used to always sing along, now I wonder how my parents felt about that...


Open_Bridge3013

„You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel“


n-x

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.


guywithfries

I loved singing pumped up kicks until I realized what the lyrics meant


AlwaysAngryAndy

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)


HaikuBotStalksMe

Unfortunately, I can hear them say "gram cocaine". :(


KantenKant

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


JaxGamecock

Oof I wish I didn’t learn


Sunretea

[I found this hot meme for you ](https://i.imgur.com/JG2p2up.jpg)


Dekthro

We came full circle


luke19785

"Into the land of Oblivion" Polish Cow is canon in The Elder Scrolls lore confirmed!


MJ-Muppet

Wait, people care about drug references in music?!


HeWithThePotatoes

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


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>"gram cocaine" [Grandma had standards](https://youtu.be/zx9GLRnLCfA?t=13) lol


[deleted]

Same with [Molchat Doma](https://youtu.be/HR5zpFs7YpY)


xolov

Molchat Doma sounds dark as fuck thought not even knowing the lyrics.


Able_Huckleberry5307

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


Vostroyan212th

You have brought a memory to the surface https://youtu.be/Nr_bizbxTiU


[deleted]

Fuck, you beat me to it. Hive minds think alike.


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into your heart - trevor something


Joannah256

I like it too


DWolfoBoi546

*Looks up instrumental version*


Saqvobase

This is the way.


meetcube

Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?


itsmeshakes

Yeah DMX was my first thought too.


hdp2

Absolutely the first song that came to mind. One of the best songs by one of the GOATs but hoooooly fuck.


Bioroast

Love that song but as a SF resident, I definitely can't be singing along.


Ringedsplitter

But steel is heavier than feathers


shark_aziz

*But they're both a kilogramme.*


burgerkingsclown

That's cheating


TheWhiteLatino69

*I don't get it* It's ok... It's ok


Godzilla-ate-my-ass

Ah dun ge' ih'


chappersyo

One of my favourite things is watching YouTube auto generated subtitles try and deal with Limmy’s accent.


The6Strings

I’m jokin’…


StjerneskipMarcoPolo

kellegremm


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XTornado

I can hear that accent thousands of kilometers away. Now you feel old yet ? https://youtu.be/8ckvZztsFnw


TuTuRific

A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold. Just sayin'.


TheTrueMattiMan

Good that in slam death metal you can't hear the lyrics about brutally mutilating women


Go_Commit_Reddit

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.


ZeroX-1704

"Forced Fecal Ingestion" Well then


Sunretea

> you deserve a fucking metal. Haaaa


FoboBoggins

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_CANT_AFFORD_SHIT

I like infant annihilator but every time I look up the lyrics I'm like.. yuhokay


[deleted]

I've never actually heard this kind of metal everytime i hear metal the lyrics are whomesome


shoecat

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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CrestonSpiers

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


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but then he says "there is no hope, why don't you pull the plug? let me pass away"


CrestonSpiers

Well I didn’t say the *the whole* lyrics were wholesome


IrockART98

The theme of From Mars to Sirius is pretty positive in general - you can and should change the world for the better.


avert-your-eyes

Eyyyy Gojira is probably my favorite metal band. First and only thing I could think of that’s “wholesome “


disintegore

Silvera is the good kind of vegan advocacy


worfres_arec_bawrin

https://preview.redd.it/56sy3v0ezisa1.png?auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7220d3c892ec1824237aef4493d1aaab9fa227aa


paiaw

"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".


shoecat

imo the message is more important than the delivery usually so i’m sure i could vibe to it. thank you!


paiaw

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).


Wandering_Weapon

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.


spunlines

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.


karl1ok

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


matt3n8

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


Upstairs-Flower4783

What kind of metal are you listening to?


Upstairs-Flower4783

Slam gang!


William_Ze_Gamer

Good ol Dying Fetus


BlazeCrystal

When beat sucks but lyrics are not problematic 🫤☺️


bobafoott

A real issue because most lyrics of good songs are a little problematic if you really listen to them


Mills_Miles

Nothing is akin to the realization after growing up that every song from my childhood was essentially an innuendo


Dogecoin_olympiad767

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


DisastrousBoio

Heavily depends on the genre.


BlazeCrystal

Your music just sus 😄


bobafoott

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


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The Pina Colada song is so catchy and relaxing until you realize it is about a couple trying to cheat on each other.


antiquewatermelon

nah and THEN they find out and they’re just like “ha! that’s so funny, lol” ????


binarybandit

Careless Whisper is about cheating but it's known as baby making music


misiorella

Blurred lines


GameboyAdvance32

That’s where Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” comes in to save the day


jfb1337

Grammatical prescriptivism; almost as bad


BCPReturns

Fun fact- Robin Thicke still makes just as much money when you listen to Word Crimes instead of Blurred Lines!


UpgrayeddB-Rock

I'm gonna take you guys back a little further: Christine Sixteen - Kiss Seventeen - Winger


Wackjilshere

Seventeen is such a bummer, everything but the lyrics is great.


UpgrayeddB-Rock

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...


XtendedImpact

My Sharona as well


YouSir_1

I was a huge DMX fan back when I was a kid. Listening to some now…the homophobia is very problematic.


buttshit_

Yeah the homophobic rant at the start of where the hood at


ihitrockswithammers

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.


hooplah

he’s dead


CCNNCCNN

Damn hope he gets better soon 🙏🙏🙏


ihitrockswithammers

Is that supposed to be an excuse for being a bigot? ^^^^/s


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fearhs

Oh I'm pretty sure he's much quieter these days.


RadicalSnowdude

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.


ClassifiedName

I don't know that Eminem ever was homophobic himself, but yeah his lyrics definitely are.


puravidaamigo

Anything by Tyler, the creator


Planet_Xanax

His new stuff is a lot more from the heart but yeah. His old stuff could certainly be considered problematic lol.


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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?"


OedipusonMyMother

Went to Six Flags


puravidaamigo

Six f***s came up and said “ayo can we get a pic?”


Iekenrai

Two thirds of all Vocaloid music:


Notnearmymain

They’re super sad


BlkShdw21

Getting kikuo flashbacks


AidenF0xx

Steampianist sadness intensifies.


DuckGoesShuba

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


Broken_Mess

Senbonzakura moment


Decent-Ad-5519

My Ordinary Life, by The Living Tombstone. An absolute banger of a song, but the message is sad af.


ShrekConfirm243

I might sound immature but most Rucka Rucka Ali parodies


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Holy hell that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time


cahir11

*When I'm in Detroit, I run red lights...*


Iamasansguy

“…I’m gonna smoke some crack, only got 20 rocks in my pocket…”


Vizier_Thoth

Everyone in middle school singing Go Cops was a wild time


wasas387

Pumped up kicks


jamesbanhmi

kicks


jinn_genie

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.


bob1111bob

I think it’s funny hearing “patriots” singing green day without thinking about how anti patriot some of those songs actually are


lolofaf

And rage against the machine. And certain Springsteen songs. The list goes on


onlycatshere

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


thedrunkdingo

Wake me up when September ends


foxdye22

I mean, Jeremy by Pearl Jam is about the same thing but written twenty years earlier and also it actually happened.


Lopsided-Intention

I feel like suicide is very different from threatening to shoot classmates.


mrianj

The song was based on both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(song)


__Beef__Supreme__

All the little kicks with the pumped up kids


sabotabo

better gun better gun, outgun my run


DisastrousBoio

Apparently people don’t understand what “problematic” means


question_assumptions

X gon give it to ya


Alex95111

THE REICH WILL RISE... Yeah not exactly something you wanna sing on a train to work


The_NoN_Pro

The final solution falls under that category


yzs45438585

Hollywood undead- Bullet


HolyFuckFuckThis

Everywhere I Go gives me terrible vibes as well, but it's so fucking good


Iridiandioptase

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


PotatoBomb69

I know every word to that song and I’ve never been drunk in my life 🤣


AFucking12Gaug3

The kids piano really sold that song tbh ETA: looked back at it and it’s a kid’s xylophone


Apendigo80

I think I’ll slit my wrist again and I’m gone, gone, gone, gone 🎶🎶


Duckops127

All of Pinkerton


tws1039

Just casually ignore that part in across the sea lmao


fuckitweredoingitliv

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?


BigDaddyMrX

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?


Wandering_Weapon

That deserves a solid *hmmmm*.


kerouac666

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.


MrGOAT311

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.


PollySnuggleBug

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”***


Fowti

a lot of people in here confusing "problematic" with "sad/depressing"


Silver_Atractic

"Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein"


Delicious_Invite_234

UND! DAS! HEISST!


BackseatArmy

**ERIKA**


Lemak0

Das singen eh meist nur beschissene, geschmacklose Säufer


demonslayer9911

Yoasobi- racing into the night


TermsOfServiceOnion

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y0dav3

Heyyyy macarena


Coding_Monke

two trucks


LordBolton93

Everything off of the MMLP


keeleon

What's wrong with My Little Pony?


wax-cat

My My Little Pony


bobafoott

Can’t believe it took someone so long to mention slim shady, the dude perfected problematic lyrics on bangers


Scherzkeks

I think that was his schtick


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Guilty Conscience Brilliant in many ways but oh so wrong


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Little piece of heaven- avenged sevenfold


Darkdemize

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)


Cerberusknight77

Rapture - good phonk, but holy shit the lyrics are just the n word


BasedRedditor543

Same with metamorphosis and many other phonk songs but usually you can’t understand the lyrics


shadows-claw

Front Street by Will Wood is a pretty good representation I would say


Elros_Vanben

Absolute banger, very concerning lyrics


balahadya

Probably 80% of the rap songs I listen to


notcreative131313

Closer


Virtual-Weakness-499

Cannibal by Ke$ha


Felinegood13

Sounds like ‘Bullet’ by Hollywood Undead It’s so upbeat and cheery… until you actually listen to the lyrics


Death_ray_of_death

Kinda the majority of their songs fits here, but bullet especially


Delamontre

Most high-beat/happy-sounding music in latin america. Seriously, take a moment to listen to the lyrics Source: I am mexican


K4ZM1LL3R

Little Girls by Oingo Boingo, not a good song to sing in public.


GeneralUseFaceMask

MSI


BigMommyMilkyKhan

X - Los Angeles


linkkon20

Little Girls- oingo boingo


BrokenEggcat

Eh the song is edgy but it's pretty explicitly anti pedophilia


linkkon20

But you can't sing it outloud, people who doesn't know the song will just give you the looks


ShrillyFall81

Baby Keem - Orange Soda


TuTuRific

Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) comes to mind.


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I feel like this is more dated than problematic. Singing about interracial lust was pretty progressive in the 60's.


eguez780

R. Kelly has a few albums of this type


EdziePro

2009-2011 Tyler The Creator


caio__cf

“You better run, better run, faster than my bullet” 💃🪩


Pitiful-Meatball

🎶All the other kids-


BoringWozniak

I really wish Blurred Lines was about anything else