Meanings behind songs that people don't seem to know...

Arlanymor · 2025-10-28T21:38:47+00:00

Do you remember the Real Fires advert with the dog kissing the cat and the cat kissing a mouse? My mum brought it up the other day as one of their neighbours has just got a dog that looks identical to the one in the advertisement. Awww! I couldn't quite remember the song that was the soundtrack so I looked it up later... it's Will You Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles and I brought it up on YouTube to listen to it. It's about a one night stand isn't it? I had no idea until now... there I was thinking it was a lovely warm anthem for chaste kisses between pets! By the way, not remotely making a judgement about the topic, I've a had a few 'Shirelles' nights of my own in the past... I just never knew what it was about before. Have you had any similar revelations?!

notacooldad · 09/11/2025 16:20

Another one bites the dust by Queen,a good song with a great beat is either about or inspired by the Valentines day massacre depending what interview/ report you read!
Like pumped up kicks ,its a great pop/ rock song that you hardly notice what you are singing along to!

Floogal · 09/11/2025 15:12

Appropriate as it's Remembrance Sunday .I always liked (and still do) Altogether now by the Farm as it is so uplifting yet melancholic. I only realised a few years ago it's about the Christmas truce in World War One.

SevenYellowHammers · 07/11/2025 17:03

LeedsLoiner · 06/11/2025 15:34

A fair chunk of the Velvets output was drug related - Heroin, Waiting for the man, White Light/White Heat, etc.

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Well yeah?

sashh · 07/11/2025 09:10

Rosscameasdoody · 07/11/2025 07:55

There would have been no reason for aggro. The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were met with almost unanimous approval from the American public because they ended the war in the Pacific within days. The alternative would have been massive loss of life for American troops in the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.

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I wonder how Japanese Americans felt? Obviously they were in internment camps.

I also wonder if people's opinions changed when they learned just how destructive the bomb was.

Rosscameasdoody · 07/11/2025 07:55

sashh · 07/11/2025 05:43

The plane was named after the pilot's mother, I occasionally wonder if she got any agro for her son's job.

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There would have been no reason for aggro. The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were met with almost unanimous approval from the American public because they ended the war in the Pacific within days. The alternative would have been massive loss of life for American troops in the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.

JJZ · 07/11/2025 07:17

SriouslyWhutNow · 29/10/2025 01:36

What it says to me is that posters like you paid zero attention at school during drug education lessons and didn’t bother educating yourself about it all either, letting yourself and your future children down by being unable to keep them safe.

So not the “I’m so amazing and well-brought-up” look that these faux naive posters were going for. I feel the same way about adult women who pretend they don’t understand contraception. Anyone of childbearing age absolutely got told all this stuff at school multiple times and none of it should be surprising to anyone who was paying attention so they only have themselves to blame.

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WTF….

I’ve never been near drugs in my life. I paid attention during lessons thanks 😂

I never get the drug references in songs either - why would I when I’ve never touched one?

sashh · 07/11/2025 05:43

CloudSky · 06/11/2025 17:18

And Little Boy was the name of the bomb! (“Is mama proud of Little Boy today”)

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The plane was named after the pilot's mother, I occasionally wonder if she got any agro for her son's job.

CloudSky · 06/11/2025 17:18

Allergictoironing · 29/10/2025 12:12

That's the one I was just about to post about, especially the way the jaunty tune to Enola Gay has been used recently in adverts including one earlier this year about some new summer clothing advert. Enola Gay was the name of the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb, not the best way to encourage me!

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And Little Boy was the name of the bomb! (“Is mama proud of Little Boy today”)

LeedsLoiner · 06/11/2025 15:34

SevenYellowHammers · 02/11/2025 07:54

More to the point, as a kid, my mother had radio 2 on every morning. Mainly so I could roll my eyes and moan about it! I remember an uncensored Walk On The Wild Side regularly being played: “But she never lost her head, even when she was giving head.” I asked my cousin what it meant and she said: “Trannies,” I was none the wiser but I did become a Lou/Velvets fan and bought Transformer from Woolworths with babysitting money! Presumably, no one at BBC knew what it meant either?

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A fair chunk of the Velvets output was drug related - Heroin, Waiting for the man, White Light/White Heat, etc.

ruethewhirl · 06/11/2025 14:59

TessTickle0 · 06/11/2025 13:31

I know my sharona is all kinds of wrong but I bloody love it! (Alexa add to playlist...)

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Dodgy as this song's lyrics are, the real Sharona doesn't seem to have been at all scarred by the song or the relationship, in fact she totally owns it - her business website is called mysharona dot com and she refers to the song on her About page.

RaraRachael · 06/11/2025 13:36

I know my sharona is all kinds of wrong but I bloody love it!

I've heard this song for years and never listened to the lyrics! I never do.

TessTickle0 · 06/11/2025 13:31

MaiAamWaliHun · 29/10/2025 13:47

Shakin Stevens 'Waddya Wanna Make Those Eyes At Me For'-- not a happy fun tune! 'That's alright, I'll get you alone some night, and baby you'll find, you're messing with dynamite'.

My Sharona--- 'I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind'... err what mate?

I know my sharona is all kinds of wrong but I bloody love it! (Alexa add to playlist...)

SprayWhiteDung · 03/11/2025 12:44

Jovilady22 · 03/11/2025 12:17

No, 1997 but don’t actually like Always 🤣

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That's a perfectly good reason, then!!

Jovilady22 · 03/11/2025 12:18

*like

Jovilady22 · 03/11/2025 12:17

SprayWhiteDung · 03/11/2025 11:28

Did you get married in 1993? Surely 'Always' - just one year later - would have been much better?!

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No, 1997 but don’t actually like Always 🤣

SprayWhiteDung · 03/11/2025 11:28

Jovilady22 · 03/11/2025 10:44

I like a song because I like a song, don’t get too deep into the lyrics. Massive Bon Jovi fan (is the name a clue?😂) and had Bed of Roses as our first dance, it’s about him being on tour and sleeping with other women while phoning his wife/ girlfriend back home but it was the slowest song of theirs we could find 🤷‍♀️

Did you get married in 1993? Surely 'Always' - just one year later - would have been much better?!

Jovilady22 · 03/11/2025 10:44

I like a song because I like a song, don’t get too deep into the lyrics. Massive Bon Jovi fan (is the name a clue?😂) and had Bed of Roses as our first dance, it’s about him being on tour and sleeping with other women while phoning his wife/ girlfriend back home but it was the slowest song of theirs we could find 🤷‍♀️

SevenYellowHammers · 02/11/2025 07:54

TheAmazingShrinkingWoman · 29/10/2025 05:45

I wonder how many people thought Perfect Day was about drugs before the film Trainspotting?

More to the point, as a kid, my mother had radio 2 on every morning. Mainly so I could roll my eyes and moan about it! I remember an uncensored Walk On The Wild Side regularly being played: “But she never lost her head, even when she was giving head.” I asked my cousin what it meant and she said: “Trannies,” I was none the wiser but I did become a Lou/Velvets fan and bought Transformer from Woolworths with babysitting money! Presumably, no one at BBC knew what it meant either?

LillyPJ · 31/10/2025 05:30

ponyprincess · 30/10/2025 21:12

I have not read the full thread but I think the meaning behind songs is personal and for me I won't let that be affected by the so- called 'real' meaning. Art, including music, can be experienced and appreciated in more than one way.

I completely agree. It doesn't even matter what the writer or singer thinks the song is about. People can have their own interpretation of it. The best poetry can have all sorts of layers. Also, it's possible to see sexual connotations in just about anything if you try hard enough e.g. instructions for building flat-pack furniture 'insert flange A into socket B and press into position...'

ponyprincess · 30/10/2025 21:12

I have not read the full thread but I think the meaning behind songs is personal and for me I won't let that be affected by the so- called 'real' meaning. Art, including music, can be experienced and appreciated in more than one way.

Prepotente · 30/10/2025 20:21

SweetnsourNZ · 30/10/2025 02:34

Whole Lot of Rosie by AC/DC is also about still. I always imagined it being about a big girl called Rosie.

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It IS about a large lady that Bon Scott slept with. 🤣

suburburban · 30/10/2025 19:11

cobrakaieaglefang · 30/10/2025 18:48

Written by BeeGees...

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Turns my stomach

cobrakaieaglefang · 30/10/2025 18:48

LeedsLoiner · 30/10/2025 16:15

For absolute filth look no further than Chain Reaction by Diana Ross:

"You make me tremble when your hand moves lower
You taste a little then you swallow slower
Nature has a way of yielding treasure
Pleasure made for you, oh"

Written by BeeGees...

DoodleSquad · 30/10/2025 16:56

HarryVanderspeigle · 29/10/2025 12:29

Listen to the version by The Dead South. Sounds much darker in a minor key.

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The Dead South are my favourite band - I was a fan long before they were on Hootenanny

LeedsLoiner · 30/10/2025 16:15

For absolute filth look no further than Chain Reaction by Diana Ross:

"You make me tremble when your hand moves lower
You taste a little then you swallow slower
Nature has a way of yielding treasure
Pleasure made for you, oh"