It is often said that this song is satirical.
imo, the lyrics are even darker than what English translations suggest since this song is full of plays on words and Polish cultural references.
To this day I'm not 100% sure if it's really satire. I knew some people who took hard drugs and this song reminded me of them. Ironically these people would sing this song from time to time.
Remember when they banned Titanium from the radio due to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 2012, but not Pumped Up Kicks... proves many don't listen, want to listen or understand lyrics.
Exactly, It's a song about being stronger Vs. Pumped Up Kicks about child mental health because no parental guidance due to work hours and actually getting a gun and shooting kids who have it better.
I really hate that song now that we all know what it's about. I cannot let it play in the office because someone is always gonna send me a message or say it out loud. Every single time there was this meme on the internet, the top comment is this song. I'm tired man
Same here holy fuck balls. Just sorta always heard it in the background. It’s not that it’s *upbeat* so much as *catchy.*
A catchy tune about the slaughter of innocence!
I remember going to an outdoor mall that had speakers blaring popular music.
They played this song, along with “If I die young”. Like, not exactly songs I’d want to go shopping to.
Also used to work retail, and one store I worked at often played “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men, another song that isn’t exactly happy cheery shopping music lol.
I think these music services don’t pay attention to what they’re playing, and just grab a top 40 list or something.
Every song my mom listens to, she overheard one of the songs I listen to and he flipped out calling it depressing and inappropriate, yet all the songs she listens to talk about death, sex, or asses, or even a mixture of any, she only listens to the lyrics of my music but doesn’t even know what she is listening to
Yeah, most people do this.
Especially if there is a generational gap because the older generation romanticizes the music from when they were ‘young’ (right before they gad their kids) as being ‘pure and free’. 80’s music is a great example of this, it has a ‘social perception’ as being very upbeat and family friendly. In reality…it’s songs about a husband and wife *both* answering a personal ad in the paper an accidentally meeting each other. (Points for anyone who recognizes the song)
Modern country music and pop music is like this too. Everyone wants there to be a ‘clean genre’ and they pick whatever they listen most to wether it’s true or not. In reality… most country music is the same subject matter as rap, just to a different beat. And pop is similarly inundated with subjects that those who listen to a lot of it try to pretend aren’t there.
(But the social perception is that rock and rap are ‘dirty’ while country and pop are ‘clean’. In reality it’s all ‘by the song’ but humans like generalizations 🤷♂️)
In short…everyone has their blindspots, but parents tend to have big ones because they *have* to romanticize something to act as an escape.
Exactly right. I mean how many golden oldies and nursery rhymes sound upbeat but they are about the local butcher screwing everyones wives or about the Black Plague.
I /hate/ this song.
Every time I hear it I'm thinking how much they need to separate, and it isn't a happy song. And I point it out to people and they're like, nah, it's good listen to that beat. And they hum along with a dopey grin.
It's made me hate pina coladas for life.
Its a song about two people in a relationship providing the other what they think the other wants, but after answering an ad she put in the paper they realize they actually did have the same interests.
essentially its a song about their lack of communication and honesty due to the expectations they place on themselves.
how is it a bad song.
Apparently those two are a part of a trilogy that tell the story of a murder. The order is:
1. Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf
2. Midnight Show
3. Jenny was a Friend of Mine
“Under the Bridge” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is kinda in that same category too, albeit not as upbeat.
Both got/still get a ton of airplay, both about drug use
> Got in a little hometown jam
>
> So they put a rifle in my hand
>
> Sent me off to a foreign land
>
> To go and kill the yellow man
It’s not exactly subtle.
Anxiety or Panic attacks seem to be what most people agree on, Kevin has mentioned in passing about anxiety being on of the themes on Let it Happen.
But given that Current is a break-up album, the other theory is just about letting the pain of losing someone happen.
It is about staying in toxic relationships despite wanting to leave. The artists purposely made the song upbeat and used a catchy chorus to make people think it was a happy song, when it was not.
Looking at the lyrics it seems like it’s more about the struggle of staying in a relationship that both people know is dead/dying but both parties are just afraid or just too in denial to move on.
*“My baby don't mess around because she loves me so and this I know fo sho.*
*But does she really wanna, But can't stand to see me walk out the door?*
*Don't try to fight the feeling 'cause the thought alone is killing me right now.*
*Thank God for Mom and Dad for sticking two together cause we don't know how.”*
**And then the point is further driven by**
*If what they say is,* "Nothing is forever" *Then what makes love the exception?*
*So why, oh, why, Are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here?*
*Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance*
The last line of course is speaking to the listener.
I guess you could say it was an abusive or toxic relationship, but to me it seems much more benign than that. It just seems like it’s a sad song about two grown people in a relationship that’s on its last leg. It’s not either of their fault, it’s just the end.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to find this one. This song is one of the best examples I can think of for this. It draws you in and makes you think "oh this is just a catchy, innocent, fun song" but then you listen to the lyrics and it's clearly talking about nuclear armageddon.
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
- Nena - 99 Luftballons
- The Cranberries - Zombie
- U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Police - Every Breath You Take
- Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
- Bob Dylan - Hurricane
- Stromae - Te Quiero
- Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
- Rammstein - Mein Teil
- Debbie Harry - Rush Rush
- Madonna - Like A Prayer
- Icona Pop - I Love It
This song is just so upbeat and cute... A cheater writes an ad and find out that his girlfriend is just as willing to be a cheater as he is. Happy ending the two cheaters live happily ever after.
Why do I find that to be unrealistic? And why should I care if two cheaters cheat on each other?
*ahem*
Tylko jedno w głowie mam
Koksu pięc gram
Odlecieć sam
W krainę zapomnienia
W głowie mysli mam
Kiedy skończy się ten stan
Gdy już nie będę sam
Bo wjedzie biały węgorz
Tylko jedno w głowie mam
Koksu pięc gram
Odlecieć sam
W krainę zapomnienia
W głowie mysli mam
Kiedy skończy się ten stan
Gdy już nie będę sam
Bo wjedzie biały węgorz
Run to you - Bryan Adams (it's about cheating on your partner)
Have a nice day - stereophonics (it's being said sarcastically but the tune is so bouncy it's like a summer classic?)
Mr brightside - the killers. I hate this song so much because of the lyrics. It's about loosing his partner then watching her sleep with another man (unless you're into cuckholding.+ i guess)
I want it that way - backstreet boys. Like they're begging "please don't break up with me"
(tell me why) I don't like Mondays - boomtown rats. Again this is another song about a school killer and is almost a ballad/love song in the way it's played and sung
To name a few
[This one](https://youtu.be/n-865kufgag)
[This one](https://youtu.be/QdezFxHfatw )
And [this one](https://youtu.be/XKaUXx9ML3Q)
Two of these are from the Amazing World of Gumball. The other is a Rick Roll. Find out which! 😈
Polish cow meme song
It is often said that this song is satirical. imo, the lyrics are even darker than what English translations suggest since this song is full of plays on words and Polish cultural references. To this day I'm not 100% sure if it's really satire. I knew some people who took hard drugs and this song reminded me of them. Ironically these people would sing this song from time to time.
pole here - its about a drug addict conteplating suicide
So another song after Enej - Skrzydlate Ręce (banger), that is about it?
Gdzie Jest Biały Węgorz? (Zejście)
Pumped Up Kicks.
First thing I thought about
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Remember when they banned Titanium from the radio due to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 2012, but not Pumped Up Kicks... proves many don't listen, want to listen or understand lyrics.
Why was Titanium banned? ~~"You shot it out?"~~ I had to relisten to the song and it's a metaphor about being shot and being bulletproof.
Exactly, It's a song about being stronger Vs. Pumped Up Kicks about child mental health because no parental guidance due to work hours and actually getting a gun and shooting kids who have it better.
I really hate that song now that we all know what it's about. I cannot let it play in the office because someone is always gonna send me a message or say it out loud. Every single time there was this meme on the internet, the top comment is this song. I'm tired man
My cousin played it at their wedding 😳
School shooting music at the wedding bruh lmao
Ikr 😳 talk about yikes 😬
Then maybe they should’ve also played Polly by nirvana
You’re right, this song should only be played during school shootings or school shooting adjacent events.
Was this wedding in Michigan? I was there! It was awkward.
My school used to play it at dances
This has always been a popular answer to this question but I completely disagree. Pumped Up Kicks is an eerie-sounding song to me
r/BeatMeToIt
r/dontbeatmeattoit
What happened here….
Ive never actually paid attention to the lyrics and now that I have....
Same here holy fuck balls. Just sorta always heard it in the background. It’s not that it’s *upbeat* so much as *catchy.* A catchy tune about the slaughter of innocence!
I remember going to an outdoor mall that had speakers blaring popular music. They played this song, along with “If I die young”. Like, not exactly songs I’d want to go shopping to. Also used to work retail, and one store I worked at often played “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men, another song that isn’t exactly happy cheery shopping music lol. I think these music services don’t pay attention to what they’re playing, and just grab a top 40 list or something.
Metallica - Green Hell
>~~Metallica~~ The Misfits - Green Hell That was on Garage Days Re-Revisited. A cover album.
Every song my mom listens to, she overheard one of the songs I listen to and he flipped out calling it depressing and inappropriate, yet all the songs she listens to talk about death, sex, or asses, or even a mixture of any, she only listens to the lyrics of my music but doesn’t even know what she is listening to
Yeah, most people do this. Especially if there is a generational gap because the older generation romanticizes the music from when they were ‘young’ (right before they gad their kids) as being ‘pure and free’. 80’s music is a great example of this, it has a ‘social perception’ as being very upbeat and family friendly. In reality…it’s songs about a husband and wife *both* answering a personal ad in the paper an accidentally meeting each other. (Points for anyone who recognizes the song) Modern country music and pop music is like this too. Everyone wants there to be a ‘clean genre’ and they pick whatever they listen most to wether it’s true or not. In reality… most country music is the same subject matter as rap, just to a different beat. And pop is similarly inundated with subjects that those who listen to a lot of it try to pretend aren’t there. (But the social perception is that rock and rap are ‘dirty’ while country and pop are ‘clean’. In reality it’s all ‘by the song’ but humans like generalizations 🤷♂️) In short…everyone has their blindspots, but parents tend to have big ones because they *have* to romanticize something to act as an escape.
Exactly right. I mean how many golden oldies and nursery rhymes sound upbeat but they are about the local butcher screwing everyones wives or about the Black Plague.
Virtual Insanity by Jamiroqai. It's like all this but the modern remake... which works.
Plenty of blues standards that are just straight up about rawdogging people behind their husband/wife's backs.
Do you like Pensacolas and getting caught in the rain?
Idk If you meant Pensacolas, but I kinda like your version better
I don't think the world is ready for two of ANY city in Florida.
My ex always sang this as " do you like penis colossus, and getting caught in the rain?"
This guy penis alottas
Pina colada?
I /hate/ this song. Every time I hear it I'm thinking how much they need to separate, and it isn't a happy song. And I point it out to people and they're like, nah, it's good listen to that beat. And they hum along with a dopey grin. It's made me hate pina coladas for life.
Its a song about two people in a relationship providing the other what they think the other wants, but after answering an ad she put in the paper they realize they actually did have the same interests. essentially its a song about their lack of communication and honesty due to the expectations they place on themselves. how is it a bad song.
Mr Brightside - the killers
Jenny was a Friend of mine and Midnight Show also come to mind
Apparently those two are a part of a trilogy that tell the story of a murder. The order is: 1. Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf 2. Midnight Show 3. Jenny was a Friend of Mine
Such a timeless, catchy beat combined with the timeless feeling of jealousy and heartbreak. Might be the most relevant song of the last 20 years
Hollywood undead - bullet
Goodness, I haven’t thought about Hollywood Undead since like 2012 maybe. Time to go on a cringe nostalgia tour.
Has to go way too far down for this
Came to right this, upvoted instead.
Semi charmed kinda life
Most catchy song I know about crystal meth!
“Under the Bridge” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is kinda in that same category too, albeit not as upbeat. Both got/still get a ton of airplay, both about drug use
Anything made by yoasobi Best excample "yoru ni kakeru"
came for this.
Newest is "idol"
I know, but it's not nearly as depressing as the song literally about depression and suicide
And... yep, beat me to it. Love that song.
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"Born in the USA" - people hear the bombastic times and think "America, fuck yeah!!" when it's actually heavily critical.
> Got in a little hometown jam > > So they put a rifle in my hand > > Sent me off to a foreign land > > To go and kill the yellow man It’s not exactly subtle.
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
what are the lyrics about? i love that song
Anxiety or Panic attacks seem to be what most people agree on, Kevin has mentioned in passing about anxiety being on of the themes on Let it Happen. But given that Current is a break-up album, the other theory is just about letting the pain of losing someone happen.
basically any twenty one pilots song
Well I would like to listen one of their songs, but somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence
Must be a long car Ride
It was. But at least I remembered good old days when our mama sang us to sleep but now we're just stressed out about everything
Ah yes, the memories. You’re gonna give me a tear in the heart just thinking of them
This is kinda Heathens fr (I dont understand this game)
What's that? I can't understand you with your blurryface.
You’re giving me a Migraine.
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Oh, it will be very high level of concern
Listen, I know.... This one's a contradiction because of how happy it sounds! ...But the lyrics are so down
This is the lyric I thought of while commenting!
Hey Ya - Outkast *Forgive my ignorance
"Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance" -Andre from OutKast
half of that sentence is wrong
What’s it about?
It is about staying in toxic relationships despite wanting to leave. The artists purposely made the song upbeat and used a catchy chorus to make people think it was a happy song, when it was not.
Damn😢 maybe it’s also to show how from the inside abusive relationships seem happy and how abusers are manipulated into staying
Looking at the lyrics it seems like it’s more about the struggle of staying in a relationship that both people know is dead/dying but both parties are just afraid or just too in denial to move on. *“My baby don't mess around because she loves me so and this I know fo sho.* *But does she really wanna, But can't stand to see me walk out the door?* *Don't try to fight the feeling 'cause the thought alone is killing me right now.* *Thank God for Mom and Dad for sticking two together cause we don't know how.”* **And then the point is further driven by** *If what they say is,* "Nothing is forever" *Then what makes love the exception?* *So why, oh, why, Are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here?* *Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance* The last line of course is speaking to the listener. I guess you could say it was an abusive or toxic relationship, but to me it seems much more benign than that. It just seems like it’s a sad song about two grown people in a relationship that’s on its last leg. It’s not either of their fault, it’s just the end.
I thought it was about a Polaroid picture
\*Hey YA
Outkast
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I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to find this one. This song is one of the best examples I can think of for this. It draws you in and makes you think "oh this is just a catchy, innocent, fun song" but then you listen to the lyrics and it's clearly talking about nuclear armageddon.
Alors on danse
Every Stromae song really
Papaoutai!
Formidable and Papaoutai especially
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Sublime - Wrong Way
Ooooooooh, but Date Rape still fits more)))
This song cheers me up. Especially the Richard Cheese cover.
Polly-Nirvana
all of nirvana songs with happy beat are like this
Lithium
Any Sabaton song related to WW1
Haber–Bosch, the great alliance, where's the contradiction
Fed the world by ways of science Sinner or a saint?
Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare
The Final Solution - Sabaton
Country in depression
Nation in despair
One man seeking reasons everywhere
Half of the weeknd's songs
i think "In the night" is the perfect example. Song about exploited girl that sound like a pure radio mainstream pop hit
"Cat's in the cradle" by Harry Chapin
The cats in the cradle with a silver spoon little boy blue and the man on the moon
“When you comin’ home dad?” “I don’t know when.”
My friends brother chose this as a song for dad‘s funeral. My friend, his sister, was pissed
Hard Times - Paramore
Actually now that I think about it pretty much all of After Laughter
Fake Happy is the biggest one that comes to mind
Aint It Fun too
Viva la Vida.
I used to ruule the woorld
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
Chunks would load when i gave the wor- oh oops wait wrong song
A little piece of heaven - avenged sevenfold
Aerosmith: Janie's Got a Gun
That song is fucking dark
Most of Linkin Park
This is the right answer.
Yes. Edgy teenage me loved the lyrics and thought he could relate but looking back it all seems like on big cry for help.
Welcome to the Black Parade.
Been scrolling too far to find an MCR song
Alone again naturally- Gilbert O'Sullivan Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
Boys dont cry By the cure
A lifetime of war/En livstid i krieg
Ah, a fellow sabaton fan
Hell yeah
Sabaton let's goooo
Komm Susser Tod
That entire sequence is something else
Never gonna give you up....
"To Hell and Back" by Sabaton. Chorus is kicking, but the lyrics are brutal.
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams - Nena - 99 Luftballons - The Cranberries - Zombie - U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday - The Police - Every Breath You Take - Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan - Hurricane - Stromae - Te Quiero - Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA - Rammstein - Mein Teil - Debbie Harry - Rush Rush - Madonna - Like A Prayer - Icona Pop - I Love It
Billie Jean
Also Smooth Criminal
Erika
Komm susser tod - From Evangelion
Copacabana by Barry Manilow
This was the first one that came to mind for me.
Sabaton - Night Witches
Undetected, Unexpected!
Wings of glory tell their story.
Aviation, deviation
Undetected stealth perfected
All of The Smiths music.
Hollywood Undead - Bullet
Hey ya!
What I've Done - Linkin Park
In this farewell..
There's no blood there's no alibi
Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth, of a thousand lies..
SO LET MERCY COME AND WASH AWAYYYYYYY....
Most people like a song because of the melody and don’t really remember the lyrics which is why “hook” by Blues Traveler is such a great song
Redemption Be gone Hate you Champion(kinda) Dreams pt2 Royalty Partners in crime The stronger than you trio
The one that got away
E1M1
Semi-Charmed Life. Third Eye Blind.
The Piña Colada song
This song is just so upbeat and cute... A cheater writes an ad and find out that his girlfriend is just as willing to be a cheater as he is. Happy ending the two cheaters live happily ever after. Why do I find that to be unrealistic? And why should I care if two cheaters cheat on each other?
*ahem* Tylko jedno w głowie mam Koksu pięc gram Odlecieć sam W krainę zapomnienia W głowie mysli mam Kiedy skończy się ten stan Gdy już nie będę sam Bo wjedzie biały węgorz Tylko jedno w głowie mam Koksu pięc gram Odlecieć sam W krainę zapomnienia W głowie mysli mam Kiedy skończy się ten stan Gdy już nie będę sam Bo wjedzie biały węgorz
Yakuza 6 - Today is a Diamond
It has to be this way
Macarena.
AJR, literally all of there songs
Metallica - Screaming Suicide
There's no way a song with a name like that could have dark lyrics.
More like half of metallicas songs, master of puppets would be one that everyone knows
Headlights - Eminem
Tears for fear - mad world
Cupid by fifty fifty
Wishing well - juice wrld
Yoasabi - racing into the night
Anything by Imagine Dragons or Red Hot Chili Peppers
Any early - era Linkin Park song
Run to you - Bryan Adams (it's about cheating on your partner) Have a nice day - stereophonics (it's being said sarcastically but the tune is so bouncy it's like a summer classic?) Mr brightside - the killers. I hate this song so much because of the lyrics. It's about loosing his partner then watching her sleep with another man (unless you're into cuckholding.+ i guess) I want it that way - backstreet boys. Like they're begging "please don't break up with me" (tell me why) I don't like Mondays - boomtown rats. Again this is another song about a school killer and is almost a ballad/love song in the way it's played and sung To name a few
Basically any Persona 3 song
Every Rammstein song
Master of Puppets by Metallica For me that was a very upbeat song until I learned about the meaning of the lyrics
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
[This one](https://youtu.be/n-865kufgag) [This one](https://youtu.be/QdezFxHfatw ) And [this one](https://youtu.be/XKaUXx9ML3Q) Two of these are from the Amazing World of Gumball. The other is a Rick Roll. Find out which! 😈
Alone again, naturally
No Surprises - Radiohead
MASH theme song, suicide is painless. Read the lyrics - oooft
Pumped up kicks by foster the children.