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

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Arlanymor · 28/10/2025 21:38

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?!

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Bringonthefatfurcat · 29/10/2025 22:01

Thunderpunt · 29/10/2025 21:59

Ah don’t be embarrassed WinkWink

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Yeah that doesn’t work @thundercunt

Bringonthefatfurcat · 29/10/2025 22:00

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 29/10/2025 21:57

Maybe I imagined it then 🤣 I’m sure that they sometimes used to show videos on TOTP instead of the singers all the time, if the singers weren’t on live ?

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There’s a modern made video of them literally singing it. But when you said ‘and oh but that video’ what do you remember exactly? Or was it for effect

Thunderpunt · 29/10/2025 21:59

Bringonthefatfurcat · 29/10/2025 21:57

It’s embarrassing the amount of people naming random innocuous songs with a ‘wink’ saying ‘oh they’re not about…..’ Grow up

Ah don’t be embarrassed WinkWink

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 29/10/2025 21:57

Bringonthefatfurcat · 29/10/2025 21:47

It was from 1976. What video are you referencing….that was a long time before music videos

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Maybe I imagined it then 🤣 I’m sure that they sometimes used to show videos on TOTP instead of the singers all the time, if the singers weren’t on live ?

Bringonthefatfurcat · 29/10/2025 21:57

It’s embarrassing the amount of people naming random innocuous songs with a ‘wink’ saying ‘oh they’re not about…..’ Grow up

Thunderpunt · 29/10/2025 21:52

Little RED corvette by Prince…… is nothing to do with cars BlushWink

Bringonthefatfurcat · 29/10/2025 21:47

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 29/10/2025 18:50

I was a child when that came out (about 10 or 12 maybe) and even I knew it was about sex! And the video 😳

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It was from 1976. What video are you referencing….that was a long time before music videos

WearyAuldWumman · 29/10/2025 21:15

Talltreesbythelake · 29/10/2025 16:07

They were probably thinking about the contraceptive pill, though, not horse tranquilisers.

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Yes.

SprayWhiteDung · 29/10/2025 21:05

MidnightGloria · 29/10/2025 20:46

As a child I thought that Lisa Stansfield's 'All Around The World' was a sad song about a mother who had somehow misplaced her baby while travelling the world. Similarly, Ace of Base's 'All That She Wants' was about a woman who really wanted to be pregnant again. Then I listened more closely, and I refined my theory. She was having one night stands to try to get pregnant and have another baby.

I also remember being told I was not allowed to sing 'Papa Don't Preach' at the Brownie talent show. At least I was correct about there being a baby involved there!

You're not alone re Lisa Stansfield - although at least you were still a child, unlike Janine!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObwtQrAanOQ&pp=ygUgSmFuaW5lIGZhc3Qgc2hpdyBsaXNhIHN0YW5zZmllbGQ%3D

SprayWhiteDung · 29/10/2025 20:57

I still love the song - but it's got to be the Glen Campbell version any day for me.

I think it works beautifully as an older person (as Glen was) singing it both to themselves now and themselves as a young person, as well as to the grandkids.

So yes, a 'splitting up'' song of sorts, but not one involving the end of a romantic relationship; rather the inevitable preparing to eventually bid farewell as you approach the end of your own life, to loved ones who still have the best of their own lives ahead of them.

MidnightGloria · 29/10/2025 20:46

As a child I thought that Lisa Stansfield's 'All Around The World' was a sad song about a mother who had somehow misplaced her baby while travelling the world. Similarly, Ace of Base's 'All That She Wants' was about a woman who really wanted to be pregnant again. Then I listened more closely, and I refined my theory. She was having one night stands to try to get pregnant and have another baby.

I also remember being told I was not allowed to sing 'Papa Don't Preach' at the Brownie talent show. At least I was correct about there being a baby involved there!

GinToBegin · 29/10/2025 20:45

thesnailandthewhale · 29/10/2025 05:28

Seasons in the Sun … I love that song and sang along quite merrily without actually listening to the lyrics

Have you heard the song it’s based on? Le Moribund sung by Jacques Brel… it’s quite something.

SprayWhiteDung · 29/10/2025 20:44

EyeLevelStick · 29/10/2025 20:02

I don’t think so. They might have covered it?

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Could be mentally conflating "when your body's had enough..." and "when you're in love with a beautiful woman".

That's exactly the kind of thing that my mind would do!

Bladderpool · 29/10/2025 20:42

Bigearringsbigsmile · 29/10/2025 19:51

Dr hook I think

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No, it’s definitely Bellamy Brothers.

SprayWhiteDung · 29/10/2025 20:36

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 29/10/2025 19:23

It was from a jeans advert.

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Yes, I realise there was a very good reason for it being very one-dimensional!

Probably also another example of where a catchy 30-second audio clip doesn't always translate well to a full song - but if the punters will buy it, I can't say I blame them for doing it.

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Arlanymor · 29/10/2025 20:34

usedtobeaylis · 29/10/2025 18:35

I am absolutely howling at this 😂

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Glad to have given you a cheer! I saw it TWICE in the cinema and both times walked out saying under my breath: "But his name ISN'T Maurice!" To be fair I was 15, but still!

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suburburban · 29/10/2025 20:27

MotherofAdults · 29/10/2025 09:27

Argh! Just realised i thought this too. DH looked it up. We are shook!

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Yes mediaeval knights of the round table riding around on horses on a long quest😂

RaraRachael · 29/10/2025 20:20

It was definitely the Bellamy Brothers who had the big hig with If I said you had a beautiful body.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 29/10/2025 20:18

I recently found out that the song lyrics of

Pearly Dewdrop.drops could really be about childhood sexual.abusr.

Terrifying and sickening to the depths of the Soul.

EyeLevelStick · 29/10/2025 20:02

Bigearringsbigsmile · 29/10/2025 19:51

Dr hook I think

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I don’t think so. They might have covered it?

MasculineProviderEnergy · 29/10/2025 20:00

I've been really entertained by this thread, I especially liked The Darkness you're really growing on me written about an STD😁

I've got one, Human League's being boiled is about silkworms

NearCanongate · 29/10/2025 19:54

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 29/10/2025 14:12

Oh I thought it was about DV against a woman, not a child!

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I thought that for ages too. I'd sussed the DV aspect, but assumed the narrator was an abused spouse rather than a child.

Much more embarrassing was I didn't realise the meaning of the DiVinyls' I Touch Myself until many years later when it was covered by Scala and Kolacny Brothers and I listened to the lyrics properly. 😊

Margaritadarling · 29/10/2025 19:54

I still love ‘Time of your Life(good riddance) by Green Day. Even though I know what it’s about. But my funeral song will be ‘Basketcase’ yes I know what it’s about.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 29/10/2025 19:51

EyeLevelStick · 29/10/2025 15:51

Bellamy Brothers, surely?

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Dr hook I think

NearCanongate · 29/10/2025 19:44

tripleginandtonic · 29/10/2025 16:59

A kept man you mean.

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No, it is a kept woman. The title has implications regarding rent boys, but he had in mind a political figure - one of the Kennedys I think - who kept a mistress in a flat somewhere in New York.

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