Songs that are well dodgy when you really listen to the lyrics.

Started by Denn Forever, August 13, 2018, 05:22:40 PM

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Armamike

Anything with 16 in the title!

Perfect day by Lou Reed had a darker undertone (drug taking).
That's just, like your opinion man.

easytiger95

What about " We Don't Need Nobody Else" by Whipping Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2NqJ8t02Y0

Great tune but incredibly dodgy lyrics (in today's context)

I hit you for the first time today
I didn't mean it
It just happened
You wouldn't let me go to the phone
You wanted to make love and I did not
Now I know the distance between us
Christ we weren't even fighting, I was just annoyed
Silence and you started to cry, that really hurt you said
Yeah and you thought you knew me


At the time they were critical darlings, I remember a big article in the Melody Maker praising their honesty. I don't think you would get away with writing a song from the point of a domestic abuser today. I don't know if that is an advance or not, because it is a great (but difficult) song.




omagh_gael

Hot Chocolate's 'It started with a kiss' is pretty dodgy if you cut it off here...

It started with a kiss, in the back row of the classroom
How could I resist the aroma of your perfume
You and I were inseparable, it was love at first sight
You made me promise to marry you, I made you promise to be my bride
But you were only eight years old

armaghniac

Quote from: omagh_gael on August 14, 2018, 04:34:50 PM
Hot Chocolate's 'It started with a kiss' is pretty dodgy if you cut it off here...

It started with a kiss, in the back row of the classroom
How could I resist the aroma of your perfume
You and I were inseparable, it was love at first sight
You made me promise to marry you, I made you promise to be my bride
But you were only eight years old

In fairness, one more line would have made things clear.
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trileacman

We Are Young by Fun is only a few years old. It's about a guy who sees his girlfriend talking to a police officer about a scar he gave to her a few months back.
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mouview

Quote from: JoG2 on August 13, 2018, 08:01:36 PM
Nor The Cult's song 'Rain' talking about the weather!

The Cult's 'Go Outside' is a catchy dreamy summer song, but the video, cleverly interwoven with old actual footage of the Jonestown cult, is touching and quite creepy, showing as it does people who would shortly be dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAM9diyVRiM



Denn Forever

I have more respect for a man
that says what he means and
means what he says...

Main Street

Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl,  leaves dodgy in the dust

"I wanna ball you all night long
tell your mama and your papa
baby, baby, doing nothing wrong, child
i'm doing nothing wrong, yeah"

Billys Boots

Quote from: easytiger95 on August 14, 2018, 04:20:15 PM
What about " We Don't Need Nobody Else" by Whipping Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2NqJ8t02Y0

Great tune but incredibly dodgy lyrics (in today's context)

I hit you for the first time today
I didn't mean it
It just happened
You wouldn't let me go to the phone
You wanted to make love and I did not
Now I know the distance between us
Christ we weren't even fighting, I was just annoyed
Silence and you started to cry, that really hurt you said
Yeah and you thought you knew me


At the time they were critical darlings, I remember a big article in the Melody Maker praising their honesty. I don't think you would get away with writing a song from the point of a domestic abuser today. I don't know if that is an advance or not, because it is a great (but difficult) song.

I don't think they were talking about their point of view there, to me it is pretty obvious that they are portraying a pretty screwed-up person (and their particular view of their relationship) in the song.  Incidentally, they toured that album with Lou Reed in Europe, and Lou Reed thought that they (on the basis of that song) were going to become the biggest band in the world. 
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Denn Forever

A kiss with a fist.....  Florence and the machine
I suppose the title says it all but when you're listening to it on the radio and don't hear it introduced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZOBRbVCJL4
I have more respect for a man
that says what he means and
means what he says...

ziggy90

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