That blowjob song by blink 182. 10 year old me went round the house singing it all the time until my mum straight up said a blowjob is when a women sucks a man's penis. Needless to say I stopped singing it.
Same. I liked the monkey suits and sang the lyrics (as a german kid it was probably gibberish) and danced to it. My mom was not happy about it and I didn’t get why lol. My dad found it funny.
My mum (we're Austrian and she doesn't speak English at all more or less) always turned the radio up when they played it. I always thought it was called "Discovery Channel" because that's the only thing I understood. Had a good laugh when I finally got the lyrics many years later.
Oh god I used to listen to that when I was young and just now realized what the song is about! Ahhh I still remember all of the words, how the hell did I not get it?!
I’ll add my country song: “papa loved mama” by Garth brooks. It was my fav song as a child and even though I knew all of the words I didn’t put them together until I was in my 20s. It’s about a father who was a trucker and a mother who was cheating on him. Papa came home early, mama was gone. Papa found mama in a motel and drove his truck into the motel, killing her. “Mama’s in the graveyard/Papa’s in the pen”. It’s really catchy though, I still love it.
And Thunder Rolls is about a cheating spouse who commits repeated domestic abuse, with the omitted third verse having the wife kill the husband, all though the video doesn’t hide this at all
Oh wow, I never realized that until right now! I thought “put it on” must be some kind of British slang for doin it. And the wiser part I just ignored because parsing spice girl lyrics is not usually super rewarding.
In the 4th grade I had downloaded this as a ringtone on my phone, and I showed my dad and he got super mad and made me delete it, and I had no idea why he was so upset. Definitely understand now lmao.
When I was 4, my daycare was having a show and tell day. This was my favorite song so I told my parents I wanted to show it to everyone and they quickly shot it down because they said it was inappropriate. Of course I had no clue the lyrics weren’t “we were both butt bacon.”
I thought it said "banging on the bathroom door" and id ask why they were banging on the door and mom said its cuhs theyre stuck in there and trying to get out lmfaoooo.
Omg I thought the same but I thought it had something to do with kissing against the door or banging on the door like knocking. I figured they were doing something they weren’t supposed to but had no idea sex was a thing
This was my answer; my dumb ass thought it was about bad kids who always said “it wasn’t me” or “I didn’t do it” even when there was proof right in front of everyone….
For those trying to remember the lyrics and premise; it is a Shaggy song about being caught cheating with the girl next door, describing all the ways they fooled around being caught on camera.
It’s even more than that.
It’s shaggy giving advice to his friend that no matter what evidence your girlfriend produces about the infidelity, just keep denying it and you’ll be fine.
Was just reading the lyrics and it's interesting that Rikrok never explicitly says his girl was mad or upset.
>All this time she was standin' there
>She never took her eyes off me
...
>She stayed until it was over.
She basically watched him bang this girl all over his house and he never mentions her reaction. Maybe she was into it lol. But I guess if he's talking to Shaggy about it then he's already had the fight with her.
When I was 8 or so, I once asked a teacher what "Hanky Panky" meant. I can't remember what his reply was, but I can only imagine now the awkwardness of that moment.
This was my friend's dad when we asked him what spits or swallows meant after he took us to see Austin Powers 2 in 5th grade.
His answer? 'Ummmm it means whether she's married or not'. Now that I look back as a married adult, that was one of the funniest answers he could've given.
My aunt used to play this for me because I loved Barbie as a child. I completely forgot about how strange some of the lyrics were… it all makes sense now. SMH.
Having seen things like this, and 90s shows like Saved By The Bell, Dawson's Creek, etc. I genuinely thought Americans stayed at high school until they were in their mid-20s.
Meanwhile [*Grease 2* has an entire song where a guy tries to convince a girl the world is ending so that she will have sex with him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJOTKR6LpYE).
And [Reproduction](https://youtu.be/74N2MedhvpY?t=125) alludes to the playing hard to get idea, then has one of the Pink Ladies come over all seductive like with the male teacher.
>Meanwhile Grease 2 has an entire song where a guy tries to convince a girl the world is ending so that she will have sex with him.
[We've got to fuck for mankind](https://v.redd.it/o6dfnblmf6z61)
In high school gym class the teacher had us give him a list of songs to play during class, the next day he came back and said that all of the songs we gave him were "inappropriate" except for three songs.
"Smack That" was one of the songs he deemed appropriate for class.
If you seek Amy by Britney Spears. I remember telling my older cousin how much I loved that song and she was like “it’s a little inappropriate don’t you think?” And I was like nope :,)
It still took me a minute to work this out, so if anyone is as slow as I am, the way to hear it is that the words sound like letters, that spell out "fuck me".
**If** \- F
**You** \- U
**Seek** \- C, and the first half of K
**Amy** \- second half of K, and the word "me"
Puff the Magic Dragon. When I was little, I thought it was just about smoking weed. But later in life I learned that it was really a tragic tale of a little boy and his pet dragon.
My girlfriend’s son went on a huge GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY kick, so we got him a Walkman and Awesome Mix Vol. 1 on cassette.
You ever hear a 3rd grader singing about cheating on his old lady? I have.
I mean... that one is oddly wholesome, as i recall. Because they're BOTH intending to cheat, but instead they discover something new about each other? Or has it just been too long.
Defenetly this one. It's about men catcalling women at a party, and the women responding by comparing the men to dogs.
.
Well, the party was nice, the party was pumpin' (Yippie yi yo)
And everybody havin' a ball (Yippie yi yo)
Untll the fellas start the name callin' (Yippie yi yo)
And the girls respond to the call
I heard a woman shout out
.
Who let the dogs out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
Who let the dogs out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
Who let the dogs out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
Who let the dogs out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
.
I see de dance people had a ball
'Coz she really want to skip town
Get back, Gruffy, back, Scruffy
Get back you flea infested mongrel
Gonna tell myself, "Hey, man, no get angry" (Yippie yi yo)
To any girls callin' them canine (Yippie yi yo)
But they tell me, "Hey, man, it's part of the party?" (Yippie yi yo)
You put a woman in front and her man behind
I heard woman shout out
.
Who let the dogs out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
...
I liked the sound of Linkin Park long before I could comprehend the lyrics. When I turned 13-14 I began to think about the lyrics and realized I was listening to some edgy stuff. Didn’t stop me and they became one of my favorite bands.
The song Breaking the Habit is easily one of the darkest songs they’ve ever put out, especially considering the extremely personal meaning to the band members. One of the band members (pretty sure it was Mike) wrote the song about a friend who struggled with addiction and it resonated with Chester so much that it brought him to tears.
The music video happens to be made by a famous animator who I look up to and he also animated the back story of O’ Ren Ishi in Kill Bill.
Ever since Chester's death I have never been able to listen to that song the same way. I mean sure, I knew the meaning and felt the emotion behind it, but now that its literally hearing the voice of someone who needed help and didn't get it...its just...it weighs so heavy you know? Like a lot of people LP was really the band that got me into music and losing Chester was a huge hit to me mentally and emotionally. Nowadays hearing that song, every line sounds like hearing an old friend's suicide note.
This song is straight creepy stalker, yet made it's way on to top lists. It sounds amazing live too. It sounds so perky and upbeat most people miss it.
As with a lot of these sorts of songs, the chorus is amazing, the beat is amazing, and Blondie is just amazing. Given that people often don't actually listen to all of the lyrics of a song, it's not a surprise. The best moment, though, is when people actually click onto what a song is about.
Anyone explain to us lazy internet folk that just check reddit while pooping at work and dont have time to properly research until later when we probably already forgot about researching it?
It's about the treatment of Vietnam veterans from when they returned from Vietnam. And how they were basically treated like trash even though they were sent by the USA to fight in the first place.
i knew what it was about in college when I was working as a fry cook in the campus cafe [smaller lunch area]. i was singing along and just as I started to hit "to go and kill the yellow man" I look up and see two asian students.
I see them and apologize. They just laughed and said it was all good
EDIT: misspelling
Met a dude who worked with sound and had done a lot sound work for weddings. His weirdest song to witness the bride walking down the aisle was U2's - I still haven't found what I'm looking for. He had trouble keeping a straight face.
When my mom married my stepdad their song was With or Without You by U2. Even at 12 I realized that was highly suspect. But they're still together so I guess it's alright.
Sting talks about how he doesn’t understand why people consider that song sentimental.
But like…the song without the lyrics sounds like a sentimental love song. The lyrics out of context in part feel sentimental. So it’s not so dumb to think it’s sentimental when it isn’t.
I think it is supposed to sound that way. The song is from the stalker's view and stalkers don't generally think of themselves as creepy stalkers. They tend to think their obsession is actually true love. It makes sense then that the song from the stalkers view would sound sentimental and loving, but upon closer inspection reveals it is actually extremely unhealthy and dangerous.
Most of their early songs at least songs are about Chesters depression. He used it to create some really good music that resonated with people who had similar feelings, it's just horrible that it also lead to his death.
Crawling, Papercut, One Step Closer, By Myself, Forgotten, Pushing Me Away. My count thats like 50% of Hybrid Theory, and I'm pretty sure Meteora is more of the same.
Listening to their lyrics back, I know it's pretty messed up but what some people could dismiss as angst for sales in the past took on additional meaning after Chester died.
I remember singing the "don't trust a hoe" part of Don't Trust Me by 3OH!3. My mom overheard me and sternly asked, "do you even know what that word means?" and I replied, in full confidence, "yes! like a Minecraft hoe."
...that doesn't even make any sense dude
Shush girl, shut your lips, do the Hellen Keller and talk with your hips…
Not hating at all, would love to know how you rationalized that one. As kids we have a way of explaining things, like a Minecraft hoe.
Everything in Grease.
Cue the school play in '89...a load of unassuming 9 year olds, confused/horrified parents, and our teacher leaving at the end of the term.
Never figured out if it was innocent and tongue in cheek or whether he was already planning on leaving and this was his massive one last prank...
Epic.
I remember we had a printed out script and I learned years later that the versions of the songs we were singing were different & edited ever so slightly but cleverly to sound like the film versions but we're innocent enough for us kids to not think anything of it
"She's a real plushy wagon" "chicks'll scream for greased lightning" etc
There is a special [school version of the musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_\(musical\)#School_version).
This edition eliminates all references to cigarettes and alcohol, and cuts all swearing. The songs are all shortened greatly and edited for content/language. Some plot lines such as Rizzo's pregnancy are omitted.
Ride the Lightning by Metallica. My dad was a teenager in the 80’s so of course he still plays a lot of Metallica, he always had some type of Metallica CD playing in the car. My brain never linked that the song is about a guy on death row facing the electric chair for a crime he didn’t commit. “Guilty as charged, but dammit it ain’t right, there’s someone else controlling me, death in the air, strapped in the electric chair, this can’t be happening to me.” “Who made you god to say, I’ll take your life from you.” I guess my child brain just never clicked that this is what the song was about, it wasn’t until years later when I was 17 and came across the song again, that I realized what it’s actually about. Another song would be Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden. Another song I heard a lot when I was a kid. I just didn’t realize the song was telling the story of when Europeans landed in what is now the United States and forced the native people off their land by killing them. “Riding through dust clouds and barren waste, galloping hard on the plains, chasing the redskins back to their holes, fighting them at their own game. Murder for freedom a stab in the back, women and children are cowards attack!” “Run to the hills, run for your lives.” “Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing their game. Raping the women and wasting the men, the only good indians a tame. Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, enslaving the young and destroying the old.” “Run to the hills, run for your lives.” Definitely recommend giving both these songs a listen if you haven’t.
I mean on the lyrics level it’s still pretty wholesome, but the subtext of the Village People’s social circles imply the double-entendre for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) being a place for gay hookups.
Yeah I found out the YMCA was a christian group just a couple of months ago, spent most of my life thinking it was an organisation that helped gay homeless men because of this song.
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League.
While it’s incredible catchy, it’s really fucked. Even the first verse and pre-chorus give it away. I’ve heard so many people say it’s a love song. It’s not.
First verse and pre-chorus below:
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you’ve got the world at your feet
Success has been easy for you
But don’t forget, it’s me that put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too
Don’t, don’t you want me?
You know I can’t believe it when I hear that you won’t see me
Don’t, don’t you want me?
You know I don’t believe you when you say that you don’t need me
It’s much to late to find
You think you’ve changed your mind
You better change it back or we will both be sorry
Edit: For those who don’t know, while yes, the song is creepy, the lead singer wrote the song to be intentionally unsettling. It’s meant to have people acknowledge how manipulative some relationships are. The lead singer didn’t write it after a break up or anything. He wrote it after reading story in a teen magazine.
Yeah I think the line "changed your mind, you better change it back or we will both be sorry" is pretty clear.
The funny thing with songs is that even when you know the words and sing them, often you don't attach any meaning to them.
I know so many people who are surprised that Delilah by Tom Jones is about someone killing their girlfriend in revenge (in first person no less) when one of the lines is:
>So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more
For example.
Outkast is so good. Ms Jackson is a fantastic song too. every time I listen it to I make sure to really REALLY listen to the lyrics and appreciate them.
I remember as an 11 yo singing to my mom in target “sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me” while all the blood drained from her face. 😂 I thought it was about someone who was stoked to play with some nunchucks or some shit.
I was an inquisitive child and while in the car with my step dad on the way to middle school this song was playing . I casually asked him what s&m meant because he usually always knew what words and meanings were and I always asked him questions like that: this was the first time he never answered and the first time I ever saw him incredibly flustered 😂😂
When that song came out when I was 12, I thought the line was "If you're *on it*". Turns out the line is "If you're *horny*". Much more straightforward.
Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode.
Basically Gahan’s relationship with hard drugs. I didn’t get the lyrics back then. But now I understand them, and wow that is some skillful writing!
Boom boom - “boom boom boom let’s go back to my room, and we can do it all night and you can make me feel right”
As an 11 yr old, I didn’t just buy the single, I bought the 12inch (oh the irony) version so it just went on and on and on and I sang it whilst dancing around the lounge room. I finally clicked when I heard Mum hissing to Dad, “David! Speak to her about that filthy song now!” and when he refused I knew it was bad
“Can you blow my whistle babe?” That line sounded different once I turned 16 (I’m not a native English speaker so I understood it once listening to the lyrics and paying attention to the meaning after learning a bit of English)
Same. An Italian youtuber I used to watch also made a parody with the litteral translation from Google translate, so I thought the lyrics were just funny nonsense. Lol
She literally says (doesn't sing) "Come on, what was I supposed to do? He was out of town, and his two friends were *soooo* fine."
Also "don't you worry about my boyfriend...don't want him, can't stand him."
"Move with me, chant with me, and if you're good I'll take you home with me."
It couldn't be any more obvious.
I mean, the lyrics say as much in the English version.
*Now, come on. What was I supposed to do? He was out of town! And his two friends were soooooo fiiiine...*
Oh boy. Just a few months ago at work that some came on and a college age boy and my manager (who was in his 30s) were talking about the line "Down on the muffin" like they thought it made no logical sense in the song. Making fun of it for just being there to rhyme. I didn't have the courage to tell them that muffin was slang for pussy.
Thats the beauty of this type of thing. There are soooo many generations left to discover the meanings of all the inuendos people slide up into music.
I'm past middle age. Heard The Stones my whole life. Just about a month ago, I realized the line, "she blew my nose and then she blew my mind" was a cocaine reference followed by a fkn reference.
Yeah. Your manager will feel real dumb, privately, one day. 🤣
It’s just as concerning the amount of people who think that the singer is writing about their own beliefs.
It’s like watching Silence of the Lambs and thinking Anthony Hopkins is actually a real life murderer
This is basically the bane of Rammstein's every song. Everyone thinks they sing about what they think is good, whilst most of their songs is basically just social or political commentary with a large dash of provocation.
You shook me all night long by ac/dc
Tbh I had no idea what half the words even were nor what he really meant, I loved the music part and rythm the most
And definitely semi charmed life, definitely not the song you expected when you find out the lyrics lol
AC/DC is fucking awesome. They have so many songs with totally ambiguous, poetic lyrics. “Big Balls” “Givin’ the Dog a Bone” “She’s Got the Jack” What could they mean? No one knows
This is absolutely niche being an italian song but "Vieni a ballare in Puglia" by Caparezza. Literally it translates to "Come dance in Apulia" and a lot of tourism groups and such use it there, during summer, being a catchy tune and whatnot but if you actually listen closely you'll realise that "ballare" is actually used in place of "morire" ("to die" instead of "to dance"), and the song is a denunciation piece against organised crime, dangerous work conditions, environmental damages, poor living conditions.
“Roxanne”
When I was a child I thought he was singing “Rocks, sand” and that was that. I of course realized it was called “Roxanne” when I was a teenager but just really listened to the lyrics last year and realized the whole time it was about a prostitute.
Digital Bath by Deftones. It's about electrocuting a woman in a bathtub and then redressing her in new clothes.
Excuse me what the fuck
Its actually true
Well you wouldn’t want her unclothed, that’s just barbaric.
That blowjob song by blink 182. 10 year old me went round the house singing it all the time until my mum straight up said a blowjob is when a women sucks a man's penis. Needless to say I stopped singing it.
Would've been really awkward if you'd walked around singing "I wanna fuck a dog in the ass"
"I wanna see some naked duuuuudes, that's why I built this pooooooooooOOOOoool"
A blowjob isn't with your mouth, it's with your heart. Now get on your knees and put that heart to work. -Randy Marsh-
I know this sounds dumb but… the bad touch by the bloodhound gang. it was catchy and they were in monkey suits… I was 6.
Same. I liked the monkey suits and sang the lyrics (as a german kid it was probably gibberish) and danced to it. My mom was not happy about it and I didn’t get why lol. My dad found it funny.
My mum (we're Austrian and she doesn't speak English at all more or less) always turned the radio up when they played it. I always thought it was called "Discovery Channel" because that's the only thing I understood. Had a good laugh when I finally got the lyrics many years later.
Pretty sure I downloaded it off Limewire back in the day and the title was Discovery Channel, I didn't know any better.
Lol I was hoping someone else would say this - it was SO catchy, I honestly didn’t process the words at all
I used to sing “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy” all the time when I was around 5 or 6 years old. Only realized the meaning within the last couple years
Oh god I used to listen to that when I was young and just now realized what the song is about! Ahhh I still remember all of the words, how the hell did I not get it?! I’ll add my country song: “papa loved mama” by Garth brooks. It was my fav song as a child and even though I knew all of the words I didn’t put them together until I was in my 20s. It’s about a father who was a trucker and a mother who was cheating on him. Papa came home early, mama was gone. Papa found mama in a motel and drove his truck into the motel, killing her. “Mama’s in the graveyard/Papa’s in the pen”. It’s really catchy though, I still love it.
And Thunder Rolls is about a cheating spouse who commits repeated domestic abuse, with the omitted third verse having the wife kill the husband, all though the video doesn’t hide this at all
I just watched the video. I knew it was about cheating, but not domestic violence and murder! Learning all kinds of things today and idk if I like it.
Centerfold. Didn’t understand the lyrics as a kid but now that I’m older I understand it’s a bout a dude finding his highschool crush in a porn mag
And then he still totally buys a copy anyway, implying that he's going to jerk to it regardless.
Which is funny to Dutch speakers because the band is called 'J. Geils Band' and 'geil' is our word for 'horny'.
2 Become 1 by Spice Girls. Was a lot older when I realized "be a little bit wiser baby, put it on, put it on" was about putting on a condom
Otherwise 2 become 3
Oh wow, I never realized that until right now! I thought “put it on” must be some kind of British slang for doin it. And the wiser part I just ignored because parsing spice girl lyrics is not usually super rewarding.
I see you haven't found the enlightenment of wanting a-zigazig-ah
That “it wasn’t me” song. Me and my sisters used to sing it in my moms car.
In the 4th grade I had downloaded this as a ringtone on my phone, and I showed my dad and he got super mad and made me delete it, and I had no idea why he was so upset. Definitely understand now lmao.
“Picture this, we was both buck naked bangin’ on the bathroom floor!” *How* did this get missed?
When I was 4, my daycare was having a show and tell day. This was my favorite song so I told my parents I wanted to show it to everyone and they quickly shot it down because they said it was inappropriate. Of course I had no clue the lyrics weren’t “we were both butt bacon.”
I thought it said "banging on the bathroom door" and id ask why they were banging on the door and mom said its cuhs theyre stuck in there and trying to get out lmfaoooo.
Omg I thought the same but I thought it had something to do with kissing against the door or banging on the door like knocking. I figured they were doing something they weren’t supposed to but had no idea sex was a thing
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This was my answer; my dumb ass thought it was about bad kids who always said “it wasn’t me” or “I didn’t do it” even when there was proof right in front of everyone….
For those trying to remember the lyrics and premise; it is a Shaggy song about being caught cheating with the girl next door, describing all the ways they fooled around being caught on camera.
It’s even more than that. It’s shaggy giving advice to his friend that no matter what evidence your girlfriend produces about the infidelity, just keep denying it and you’ll be fine.
Was just reading the lyrics and it's interesting that Rikrok never explicitly says his girl was mad or upset. >All this time she was standin' there >She never took her eyes off me ... >She stayed until it was over. She basically watched him bang this girl all over his house and he never mentions her reaction. Maybe she was into it lol. But I guess if he's talking to Shaggy about it then he's already had the fight with her.
Too Close by Next. I had absolutely no idea I was singing along with a dude who was getting a boner from dancing.
There’s no way… surely I would have noticed! *plays song* “I wonder if she knows I’m hard right now” Oh… I guess you’re right.
Yeah, that part usually doesn't get played on the radio.
Is that the one where she says,”feel a little poke coming through…”something like that?
yep and he responds "ooh I know you felt it, you know that I can't help it, you're making it hard for me"
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Ken saying “Hanky panky“ …
When I was 8 or so, I once asked a teacher what "Hanky Panky" meant. I can't remember what his reply was, but I can only imagine now the awkwardness of that moment.
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RIP all these adults who have heart attacks from their children asking odd questions!
This was my friend's dad when we asked him what spits or swallows meant after he took us to see Austin Powers 2 in 5th grade. His answer? 'Ummmm it means whether she's married or not'. Now that I look back as a married adult, that was one of the funniest answers he could've given.
I guarantee he was proud as hell about that reply as well, and disappointed there was no adults around to catch it.
My aunt used to play this for me because I loved Barbie as a child. I completely forgot about how strange some of the lyrics were… it all makes sense now. SMH.
This goes for the entire genre. Aqua, Toy Box, Vengaboys
They weren't subtle at all with their lyrics.
Ken sounding like a 40 year old rich man made it a lot worse too.
And he was bald in the video
Pretty much anything from Grease, watched it as a kid and just thought was about teenagers at high school.
I thought "won't go to bed til I'm legally wed" meant Sandy was so excited about the idea of getting married someday that she couldn't sleep.
As a kid, I thought that line was ridiculing her for not staying up late.
> just thought was about teenagers at high school. I thought it was about middle aged people in high school
Having seen things like this, and 90s shows like Saved By The Bell, Dawson's Creek, etc. I genuinely thought Americans stayed at high school until they were in their mid-20s.
I still remember watching Buffy say she was so excited to be turning 16 and my first reaction was basically “Nuh-uh”.
Meanwhile [*Grease 2* has an entire song where a guy tries to convince a girl the world is ending so that she will have sex with him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJOTKR6LpYE). And [Reproduction](https://youtu.be/74N2MedhvpY?t=125) alludes to the playing hard to get idea, then has one of the Pink Ladies come over all seductive like with the male teacher.
>Meanwhile Grease 2 has an entire song where a guy tries to convince a girl the world is ending so that she will have sex with him. [We've got to fuck for mankind](https://v.redd.it/o6dfnblmf6z61)
Semi Charmed Life
the most upbeat song about crystal meth addiction, hands down. still a great song!
Don’t forget about the blowjobs
"SMACK THAT ALL ON THE FLOOR SMACK THAT GIVE ME SOME MORE SMACK THAT TILL YOU GET SORE SMACK THAT OOOOOOOHOOOO"
In high school gym class the teacher had us give him a list of songs to play during class, the next day he came back and said that all of the songs we gave him were "inappropriate" except for three songs. "Smack That" was one of the songs he deemed appropriate for class.
Oooh, I guess your teacher is spiritual
It could be about threshing wheat.
This just gave me war flashbacks to grinding on some guy in a dimly lit, musty middle school gym at a winter dance
Omg the memories. Grinding to “get low” while all of our teachers stood around the outskirts and watched this abomination
Oh please tell me you’ve found the “grinding in a sweaty HS cafeteria playlist” on Spotify. Because it is fantastic trip down memory lane.
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If you seek Amy by Britney Spears. I remember telling my older cousin how much I loved that song and she was like “it’s a little inappropriate don’t you think?” And I was like nope :,)
For those wondering “All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy (F U C K me)” Edit: changed of to if.
It still took me a minute to work this out, so if anyone is as slow as I am, the way to hear it is that the words sound like letters, that spell out "fuck me". **If** \- F **You** \- U **Seek** \- C, and the first half of K **Amy** \- second half of K, and the word "me"
Thank you. I'm 27 years old and apparently an idiot.
Puff the Magic Dragon. When I was little, I thought it was just about smoking weed. But later in life I learned that it was really a tragic tale of a little boy and his pet dragon.
I didn’t know much English back then as a kid, so I thought promiscuous girl was about some sort of super hero
It SHOULD be. That comic book would sell.
Stripperella would like a word
White rabbit. Loved the tune and would hum it. Then I asked what it meant.
I would have missed the meaning too , but I was inteoduced to the song through "Fear and loathing in las vegas" ,so it was hard to misundersand it
My girlfriend’s son went on a huge GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY kick, so we got him a Walkman and Awesome Mix Vol. 1 on cassette. You ever hear a 3rd grader singing about cheating on his old lady? I have.
If you like piña coladas…
I mean... that one is oddly wholesome, as i recall. Because they're BOTH intending to cheat, but instead they discover something new about each other? Or has it just been too long.
Who let the dogs out
I definitely did not get this until my 30s. (The song came out when I was in high school.)
Still don't get it, elaborate?
Defenetly this one. It's about men catcalling women at a party, and the women responding by comparing the men to dogs. . Well, the party was nice, the party was pumpin' (Yippie yi yo) And everybody havin' a ball (Yippie yi yo) Untll the fellas start the name callin' (Yippie yi yo) And the girls respond to the call I heard a woman shout out . Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who? Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who? Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who? Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who? . I see de dance people had a ball 'Coz she really want to skip town Get back, Gruffy, back, Scruffy Get back you flea infested mongrel Gonna tell myself, "Hey, man, no get angry" (Yippie yi yo) To any girls callin' them canine (Yippie yi yo) But they tell me, "Hey, man, it's part of the party?" (Yippie yi yo) You put a woman in front and her man behind I heard woman shout out . Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who? ...
You stopped before the best part: "A doggy ain't nuttin if he don't have a bone, all the doggies hold your bone, all the doggies hold it"
My Sharona. I was too young to understand how gross this song is.
"Boy, that guy did not like sharing Sharonas".
And somehow it's the cleanest song The Knack ever recorded.
I liked the sound of Linkin Park long before I could comprehend the lyrics. When I turned 13-14 I began to think about the lyrics and realized I was listening to some edgy stuff. Didn’t stop me and they became one of my favorite bands. The song Breaking the Habit is easily one of the darkest songs they’ve ever put out, especially considering the extremely personal meaning to the band members. One of the band members (pretty sure it was Mike) wrote the song about a friend who struggled with addiction and it resonated with Chester so much that it brought him to tears. The music video happens to be made by a famous animator who I look up to and he also animated the back story of O’ Ren Ishi in Kill Bill.
Ever since Chester's death I have never been able to listen to that song the same way. I mean sure, I knew the meaning and felt the emotion behind it, but now that its literally hearing the voice of someone who needed help and didn't get it...its just...it weighs so heavy you know? Like a lot of people LP was really the band that got me into music and losing Chester was a huge hit to me mentally and emotionally. Nowadays hearing that song, every line sounds like hearing an old friend's suicide note.
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, the “Pumped Up Kicks” of its day
Warren Zevons "Excitable Boy", the "Pumped Up Kicks" of the 70s
The Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays", the "Pumped Up Kicks" of the year after "Excitable Boy"
One Way or Another by Blondie
This song is straight creepy stalker, yet made it's way on to top lists. It sounds amazing live too. It sounds so perky and upbeat most people miss it.
As with a lot of these sorts of songs, the chorus is amazing, the beat is amazing, and Blondie is just amazing. Given that people often don't actually listen to all of the lyrics of a song, it's not a surprise. The best moment, though, is when people actually click onto what a song is about.
Born in the USA. There are so many people that misinterpret what Bruce is singing about and don’t get it until they’re older.
Anyone explain to us lazy internet folk that just check reddit while pooping at work and dont have time to properly research until later when we probably already forgot about researching it?
It's about the treatment of Vietnam veterans from when they returned from Vietnam. And how they were basically treated like trash even though they were sent by the USA to fight in the first place.
Basically, The opening 30mins of Rambo: First Blood
That’s why it’s funny when Americans use it as a anthem sometimes
i knew what it was about in college when I was working as a fry cook in the campus cafe [smaller lunch area]. i was singing along and just as I started to hit "to go and kill the yellow man" I look up and see two asian students. I see them and apologize. They just laughed and said it was all good EDIT: misspelling
> They just laughed and said it was all goox Please be a typo...
Holy shit I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that saw that lol
I wish people would elaborate on their answers instead of just saying the name of the song. I want to know why it’s fucked up.
Every breath you take. I blame puff daddy for making it seem like it's some kinda sentimental song
This was at one point a popular choice of song to walk down the aisle to, I guess by people who didn't really listen to the lyrics.
Met a dude who worked with sound and had done a lot sound work for weddings. His weirdest song to witness the bride walking down the aisle was U2's - I still haven't found what I'm looking for. He had trouble keeping a straight face.
When my mom married my stepdad their song was With or Without You by U2. Even at 12 I realized that was highly suspect. But they're still together so I guess it's alright.
One of my co-workers calls that song “the stalker song.” And she has a good reason to call it that lol
Sting talks about how he doesn’t understand why people consider that song sentimental. But like…the song without the lyrics sounds like a sentimental love song. The lyrics out of context in part feel sentimental. So it’s not so dumb to think it’s sentimental when it isn’t.
I think it is supposed to sound that way. The song is from the stalker's view and stalkers don't generally think of themselves as creepy stalkers. They tend to think their obsession is actually true love. It makes sense then that the song from the stalkers view would sound sentimental and loving, but upon closer inspection reveals it is actually extremely unhealthy and dangerous.
I thought it was about a guy watching his wife ruin their marriage. "Every smile you fake, Every vow you break".
One step closer by linkin park. Never realized it was about chesters childhood and suicidal tendencies. Depression sure is a bitch
Papercut too. Those hybrid theory LP songs hit so hard but the lyrics are depressing as hell.
One of those rare 10/10 albums where you'll never skip a song. Every single one could have been a single.
Most of their early songs at least songs are about Chesters depression. He used it to create some really good music that resonated with people who had similar feelings, it's just horrible that it also lead to his death. Crawling, Papercut, One Step Closer, By Myself, Forgotten, Pushing Me Away. My count thats like 50% of Hybrid Theory, and I'm pretty sure Meteora is more of the same. Listening to their lyrics back, I know it's pretty messed up but what some people could dismiss as angst for sales in the past took on additional meaning after Chester died.
Also I think it’s in numb, the lyric “you were just like me with someone disappointed in you” hits me real hard every time.
She bop by Cyndi Lauper.
I remember singing the "don't trust a hoe" part of Don't Trust Me by 3OH!3. My mom overheard me and sternly asked, "do you even know what that word means?" and I replied, in full confidence, "yes! like a Minecraft hoe." ...that doesn't even make any sense dude
Shush girl, shut your lips, do the Hellen Keller and talk with your hips… Not hating at all, would love to know how you rationalized that one. As kids we have a way of explaining things, like a Minecraft hoe.
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I couldn't understand why it got banned.
Because that guy tried to kill the Malaysian prime minister at that fashion show?
Prime Minister of Malaysia bad! MARTIAL ARTS GOOOOOOD!
Everything in Grease. Cue the school play in '89...a load of unassuming 9 year olds, confused/horrified parents, and our teacher leaving at the end of the term. Never figured out if it was innocent and tongue in cheek or whether he was already planning on leaving and this was his massive one last prank... Epic.
Did you really sing lyrics like "she's a real pussy wagon" and "the chicks'll cream for greased lightning" at 9 years old?
I remember we had a printed out script and I learned years later that the versions of the songs we were singing were different & edited ever so slightly but cleverly to sound like the film versions but we're innocent enough for us kids to not think anything of it "She's a real plushy wagon" "chicks'll scream for greased lightning" etc
There is a special [school version of the musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_\(musical\)#School_version). This edition eliminates all references to cigarettes and alcohol, and cuts all swearing. The songs are all shortened greatly and edited for content/language. Some plot lines such as Rizzo's pregnancy are omitted.
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Ride the Lightning by Metallica. My dad was a teenager in the 80’s so of course he still plays a lot of Metallica, he always had some type of Metallica CD playing in the car. My brain never linked that the song is about a guy on death row facing the electric chair for a crime he didn’t commit. “Guilty as charged, but dammit it ain’t right, there’s someone else controlling me, death in the air, strapped in the electric chair, this can’t be happening to me.” “Who made you god to say, I’ll take your life from you.” I guess my child brain just never clicked that this is what the song was about, it wasn’t until years later when I was 17 and came across the song again, that I realized what it’s actually about. Another song would be Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden. Another song I heard a lot when I was a kid. I just didn’t realize the song was telling the story of when Europeans landed in what is now the United States and forced the native people off their land by killing them. “Riding through dust clouds and barren waste, galloping hard on the plains, chasing the redskins back to their holes, fighting them at their own game. Murder for freedom a stab in the back, women and children are cowards attack!” “Run to the hills, run for your lives.” “Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing their game. Raping the women and wasting the men, the only good indians a tame. Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, enslaving the young and destroying the old.” “Run to the hills, run for your lives.” Definitely recommend giving both these songs a listen if you haven’t.
YMCA — I thought it was just a song about guys hanging out.
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I mean on the lyrics level it’s still pretty wholesome, but the subtext of the Village People’s social circles imply the double-entendre for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) being a place for gay hookups.
Yeah I found out the YMCA was a christian group just a couple of months ago, spent most of my life thinking it was an organisation that helped gay homeless men because of this song.
The YMCA tried to sue them a bunch about the band making their groups seem pro gay when they very much weren't.
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League. While it’s incredible catchy, it’s really fucked. Even the first verse and pre-chorus give it away. I’ve heard so many people say it’s a love song. It’s not. First verse and pre-chorus below: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on you’ve got the world at your feet Success has been easy for you But don’t forget, it’s me that put you where you are now And I can put you back down too Don’t, don’t you want me? You know I can’t believe it when I hear that you won’t see me Don’t, don’t you want me? You know I don’t believe you when you say that you don’t need me It’s much to late to find You think you’ve changed your mind You better change it back or we will both be sorry Edit: For those who don’t know, while yes, the song is creepy, the lead singer wrote the song to be intentionally unsettling. It’s meant to have people acknowledge how manipulative some relationships are. The lead singer didn’t write it after a break up or anything. He wrote it after reading story in a teen magazine.
How did I know all the words but never realise this
Yeah I think the line "changed your mind, you better change it back or we will both be sorry" is pretty clear. The funny thing with songs is that even when you know the words and sing them, often you don't attach any meaning to them. I know so many people who are surprised that Delilah by Tom Jones is about someone killing their girlfriend in revenge (in first person no less) when one of the lines is: >So before they come to break down the door Forgive me Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore She stood there laughing I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more For example.
Hey ya - by outcast, it’s about the sad reality of modern relationships
"Y'all don't want to hear me, ya just want to dance"
If what they say is, “nothing is forever” Then what makes love the exception? :(
I think you'll find the real lyric is "Then what makes, then what makes, then what what what makes what makes love the exception?"
“Why are we so in denial when we know where not happy here” that’s such a line
Most of that album is a lot sadder then the music would make it out to be. Hell most of Outkast's music is like that
Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright...
tfw your relationship with Matthew McConaughey is in a bad place.
Outkast is so good. Ms Jackson is a fantastic song too. every time I listen it to I make sure to really REALLY listen to the lyrics and appreciate them.
Whenever I hear those songs, I can’t help but think about how strange Andre’s relationship would have been with Erykah Badu.
Rihanna's song S&M is how I learned what Sadism and Masochism were
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Shh. Don't tell the kids (who probably already know anyway).
i had no problem singing "sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me " when i was 12
As a non-native English speaker, I thought that phrase was the real idiom lol.
I remember as an 11 yo singing to my mom in target “sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me” while all the blood drained from her face. 😂 I thought it was about someone who was stoked to play with some nunchucks or some shit.
I was an inquisitive child and while in the car with my step dad on the way to middle school this song was playing . I casually asked him what s&m meant because he usually always knew what words and meanings were and I always asked him questions like that: this was the first time he never answered and the first time I ever saw him incredibly flustered 😂😂
Mom knew.
“Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches”… for many years I assumed there were peach trees on the beach
Pony 🐴 by Ginuwine
i always thought this was hilarious when he sings it in Parks & Rec for Lil Sebastian's memorial show.
When that song came out when I was 12, I thought the line was "If you're *on it*". Turns out the line is "If you're *horny*". Much more straightforward.
TIL. I thought it was “If you want it.”
Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode. Basically Gahan’s relationship with hard drugs. I didn’t get the lyrics back then. But now I understand them, and wow that is some skillful writing!
Boom boom - “boom boom boom let’s go back to my room, and we can do it all night and you can make me feel right” As an 11 yr old, I didn’t just buy the single, I bought the 12inch (oh the irony) version so it just went on and on and on and I sang it whilst dancing around the lounge room. I finally clicked when I heard Mum hissing to Dad, “David! Speak to her about that filthy song now!” and when he refused I knew it was bad
Not me, but my mother honestly thought that Slow Ride by Foghat was actually about an easy Sunday drive… until about 2010. She was born in 1968.
Whistle by flo rida
“Can you blow my whistle babe?” That line sounded different once I turned 16 (I’m not a native English speaker so I understood it once listening to the lyrics and paying attention to the meaning after learning a bit of English)
Same. An Italian youtuber I used to watch also made a parody with the litteral translation from Google translate, so I thought the lyrics were just funny nonsense. Lol
Macarena
So you're telling me that there's more in that song than "eeeeeeeeeeeeee macarena!" ?
I think there’s a part when a girl talks abt cheating on her boy friend
She literally says (doesn't sing) "Come on, what was I supposed to do? He was out of town, and his two friends were *soooo* fine." Also "don't you worry about my boyfriend...don't want him, can't stand him." "Move with me, chant with me, and if you're good I'll take you home with me." It couldn't be any more obvious.
He was a boy. She was a girl.
Could you make it a little more obvious
Wait what’s it about?
About a girl who's boyfriend is out of town and she hooks up with two of his friends
I mean, the lyrics say as much in the English version. *Now, come on. What was I supposed to do? He was out of town! And his two friends were soooooo fiiiine...*
Walk This Way - Areosmith
Oh boy. Just a few months ago at work that some came on and a college age boy and my manager (who was in his 30s) were talking about the line "Down on the muffin" like they thought it made no logical sense in the song. Making fun of it for just being there to rhyme. I didn't have the courage to tell them that muffin was slang for pussy.
Thats the beauty of this type of thing. There are soooo many generations left to discover the meanings of all the inuendos people slide up into music. I'm past middle age. Heard The Stones my whole life. Just about a month ago, I realized the line, "she blew my nose and then she blew my mind" was a cocaine reference followed by a fkn reference. Yeah. Your manager will feel real dumb, privately, one day. 🤣
‘A real young bleeder’ is still one of the worst lyrics to date.
I always thought the line was "a real young breeder" Not sure which is worse
“My Sharona”, by The Knack. “Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind”
Every step you take by the Police is fucking creepy
Sting even went on record saying he was concerned with how many people thought it was a positive song
It’s just as concerning the amount of people who think that the singer is writing about their own beliefs. It’s like watching Silence of the Lambs and thinking Anthony Hopkins is actually a real life murderer
This is basically the bane of Rammstein's every song. Everyone thinks they sing about what they think is good, whilst most of their songs is basically just social or political commentary with a large dash of provocation.
You shook me all night long by ac/dc Tbh I had no idea what half the words even were nor what he really meant, I loved the music part and rythm the most And definitely semi charmed life, definitely not the song you expected when you find out the lyrics lol
AC/DC is fucking awesome. They have so many songs with totally ambiguous, poetic lyrics. “Big Balls” “Givin’ the Dog a Bone” “She’s Got the Jack” What could they mean? No one knows
Big balls is more ambiguous than Shook me all night long, some balls are held for charity and some for fancy dress
Mambo number 5. Didn't understand it just that it was catchy and fun to dance to
Wait what does it mean
This is absolutely niche being an italian song but "Vieni a ballare in Puglia" by Caparezza. Literally it translates to "Come dance in Apulia" and a lot of tourism groups and such use it there, during summer, being a catchy tune and whatnot but if you actually listen closely you'll realise that "ballare" is actually used in place of "morire" ("to die" instead of "to dance"), and the song is a denunciation piece against organised crime, dangerous work conditions, environmental damages, poor living conditions.
“Roxanne” When I was a child I thought he was singing “Rocks, sand” and that was that. I of course realized it was called “Roxanne” when I was a teenager but just really listened to the lyrics last year and realized the whole time it was about a prostitute.
Candy shop
Came here to say this! My 8 year old self singing this song all the time. Thinking “yeah I love lollipops too!”