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Post by Pagan Warrior on Apr 12, 2009 5:18:19 GMT -5
Jeane, by Falco. It's NOT about a stalker. The music video made it out to be about a stalker, it's NOT, dammit. It is a very depressing, but also beautiful story of a man going crazy after his girlfriend left him, but it's NOT about a stalker. Jeane disappeared, she wasn't kidnapped. Especially not by the singer.
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Post by craigdanbeaton on Apr 12, 2009 5:49:56 GMT -5
I know a bit about Springsteen so here it goes...
People (Including Ronnie Regan) think Born In The USA is a patriotic song, it's not, it's about the mis-treatment of a vietnam veteran.
Many people think that Dancing In THe Dark is about Springsteen's love for someone..
it isn't it was about his frustration when it came to trying to write a hit single...
It was his biggest hit..
Yeah I'll only do his big songs so that's it...
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Post by Loki on Apr 12, 2009 6:19:15 GMT -5
According to more recent biographists, Lewis Carroll wasn't really a paedophile, at least not in the modern meaning of the word. Child nudity was more or less socially accepted back then, and it didn't bear the maliciously sexual undertones it has been given over the last decade or so.
So for all we know, Carroll's galleries of little girls could have been a bit more innocent than it's supposed to be.
Could it just be aonther case of "judging the past with today's standards"?
Back OT
Wish You Were Here is often regarded as a love song...
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Post by Cactus Jack on Apr 12, 2009 6:47:27 GMT -5
"Mr Jones" by Counting Crows being about Adam Duritz's dick.
And "Secret Smile" by Semisonic being about his girlfriend's vagina.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Apr 12, 2009 7:01:54 GMT -5
Semi charmed life by Third eye blind
I know a lot of people who have no idea the song is about doing meth and f***ing. Dont know how you miss that
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Post by Cactus Jack on Apr 12, 2009 7:41:20 GMT -5
Oh, and speaking of Semisonic, the misbelief that 'Closing Time' is just a straightforward song about closing time at a bar.
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Post by biafra on Apr 12, 2009 7:41:23 GMT -5
I remember both cringing and mocking Kid Rock's idiocy when he played "Fortunate Son" at some pro America war rally.
f***ing moron that guy is.
I guess he only heard the first two lines of the song and thought "hell yeah..america and flags baby."
What a f***ing idiot.
I hate Kid Rock.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 12, 2009 8:53:53 GMT -5
Kelly Clarkson's "Because of You" has a rep as a love song now, but it's obviously about a woman whose been traumatized by either an abusive father or boyfriend.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Apr 12, 2009 9:21:56 GMT -5
Like a Virgin....I wish I wasn't too damn lazy to get the vid of the guy explaining its real meaning.
I wanna think its Bill Hicks or the like...but as I said before....lazy.
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Post by ani on Apr 12, 2009 9:34:16 GMT -5
Louie Louie is not about boning people:
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Apr 12, 2009 9:48:35 GMT -5
"Brown Eyed Girl". A lot of people think it's about butt sex. It isn't. Another rumor is that "In The Air Tonight" is about an incident where Phil Collins saw someone who was in the position to save a person from drowning but didn't do anything. It's really about being angry about a divorce or break up. THANK YOU. So many people keep insisting that it's about the drowning thing, most of them even claiming he sent concert tickets to the guy then put a spotlight on the seat he was sitting. Of course the idea that the guy could have sold the tickets or simply decided not to go see it and therefore the plan would be hazardous at best never crosses anyone's mind. Wish You Were Here is often regarded as a love song... Isn't it about Syd Barrett's drug induced descent to madness? And the rest of the band wishing he was still with them? I know at least Shine On You Crazy Diamond is about that and is from the same album. Also, the idiocy about the supposed meanings behind Rammstein's songs baffles me. LISTEN TO THE GODDAMN LYRICS. People misinterpret their songs to an insanely stupid level, to the point they actually understand the opposite of what they mean. Links 2-3-4 is NOT neo-nazi propaganda, it's about the band's left-wing political alignment (and was actually written in response to the accusations of them being fascists or nazis). And for crying out loud, Mann Gegen Mann is NOT homophobic. It's a song about how easily homosexuals live their love whereas heterosexuals tend to over complicate things, as well as people's over-the-top (and often aggressive) reactions towards homosexuality. And anyway, most of their songs are not political or committed (a lot of them are, but not the majority). Most of them are actually about love, nostalgia and various extreme emotions. Actually, it fits the tradition of German expressionism pretty well.
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Post by Monster Under Your Bed on Apr 12, 2009 10:18:33 GMT -5
There's a song by a Scottish singer named Alasdair Roberts called "The Flyting Of Grief & Joy (Eternal Return)." The first time I put it on, I wasn't looking at the song title, and there was a bit where (because of his accent) I thought he was singing "Eternally Retarded" over and over.
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Post by Dragonfly on Apr 12, 2009 11:37:58 GMT -5
Every Breath you Take is a popular wedding/"our" song. ... about a stalker. According to Sting, the song is about cold war paranoia. The song the first popped into my mind was "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors. Most people think it's about masturbation. The band says otherwise.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Apr 12, 2009 11:47:53 GMT -5
Every Breath you Take is a popular wedding/"our" song. ... about a stalker. According to Sting, the song is about cold war paranoia. The song the first popped into my mind was "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors. Most people think it's about masturbation. The band says otherwise. Then again, even if it was legit, I doubt they'd proudly say "Yes it's true! We like childish jokes and racism!"
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Post by Next Level was WRONG on Apr 12, 2009 11:49:46 GMT -5
Whilst many believe that "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls is about an emotional moment with a lover, it is in fact about Nicholas Cage.
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Post by Paul Servo on Apr 12, 2009 11:52:39 GMT -5
A while ago I was watching this show on VH1 about the real meanings behind songs and "they said that We Are The Champions" is a gay pride song.
Which makes Freddy Mercury a fricken genious.
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Post by willywonka666 on Apr 12, 2009 11:57:03 GMT -5
Another rumor is that "In The Air Tonight" is about an incident where Phil Collins saw someone who was in the position to save a person from drowning but didn't do anything. It's really about being angry about a divorce or break up. I'd always thought that was what it was about due to these lines from Eminem's 'Stan' Phil Collins was on "Live by Request" on A&E a few years ago and he went into how everyone thought it was about that, but he said that was bullshit
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Apr 12, 2009 12:43:18 GMT -5
A while ago I was watching this show on VH1 about the real meanings behind songs and "they said that We Are The Champions" is a gay pride song. Which makes Freddy Mercury a fricken genious. I can see where that would be plausable, but Freddie himself said it was about football (or soccer in the states).
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Post by King Boo on Apr 12, 2009 13:15:08 GMT -5
"The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)" by Timbuk 3 is about a nuclear holocaust, I believe. Not everything being so awesome and bright that sunglasses are needed. Actually it is... It's so bright from the nuclear explosions going on you'd need shades to be able to not have your eyes completely destroyed... well before you know the radiation and whatnot get you *Slaps knee*
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Apr 12, 2009 14:19:17 GMT -5
A while ago I was watching this show on VH1 about the real meanings behind songs and "they said that We Are The Champions" is a gay pride song. Which makes Freddy Mercury a fricken genious. I can see where that would be plausable, but Freddie himself said it was about football (or soccer in the states). I thought Queen wrote that for when England was the host of the World Championship in soccer one year?
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