.. to think that this song is just WRONG

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I keep hearing it on R2, it by a girl group called Stooshe.

Black Heart
I don't like it when you break me honey
Why'd you have to do that?
Tell me when you make these tears keep fallin?
Do you feel like a man?
Figure figure, there's no working you out whatsoever
Only one way I could sum you up all together
You've got a black heart
Daddy I've fallen for a monster
Somehow he's scaring me to death
Ah yes he is He's big and he's bad I love him like mad
Mamma he's the best I ever had
Daddy I've fallen for a monster
He got a black heart

so.... the premise is that this singer has fallen madly i love with a violent man who is scaring her to death, but she loves him like mad and hes the best she ever had, so thats ok then....

Is it just me or this really creepy.

Everyone has their own interpretation of songs too though.. for example the Bryan Adams song "Everything I do" makes me feel physcially sick. Because I was in a really bad relationship when that song was in the charts, and the words have a completely different meaning to me, because of the situation I was in when that was being played day in and out for weeks on end.

Ahhh the voice of reason itsbob.

Very well done on finding caps lock.

Anal??

Oh there are some great examples of songs people choose for their weddings, that they haven't listened to all the way through. 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt... (he never gets the girl and the video ends with him throwing himself into the sea bwahahaha drown you soppy fucker drown!

MrsGrey they didn't. She was a tad sheltered though in her defence. A good Catholic girl, I doubt it ever struck her that's what it was about!

PMSL @ SGB "drown you fucker" :o

Sad?
Anal?

Meh.........

I think these lyrics are open to a number of interpretations

But in general I think it's better to talk (and sing) openly about things than pretend they don't exist.

Song lyrics often lead to interesting discussions about stuff with my DDs along the lines of "what do you think they mean by that?"

And Amy Winehouse was (very sadly) a walking advert for what drugs can do for you when she was alive :( all that talent...and she ended up like that.

What about I wanna be a hippie and I wanna get stoned?

Do you really?

-Winners Don't Use Drugs-

What about Adele and "Someone Like You?" - rocking up at her ex's place, even though he's moved in and married? Stalker!

Moved on

Very few lyrics are safe or child appropriate are they? Barbie Girl anyone?

But it's art innit? Well clearly Barbie Girl isn't art but you get my drift

Wanna be a hippy and wanna get stoned = go buy some weed

Oh crap sorry this is the song thread.....

MrGrey

It's more the female lyrics that give it the spin I was talking about. Hadn't really listened to it properly until recently. :) Still a really catchy song which I really like, though.

YABU and have clearly led a sheltered life

Try of The Heads:

Two love stories
She installed a video camera over her bed in the bedroom.
No more lonely nights. In a film she once saw, a girl was
fucked by a dog. So she went to the pet store - but felt
stupid - and came home with a goldfish in a plastic bag.
The fish's name is SuperMan. He would circle the bowl
world in five minutes.

This is two love stories
She goes to bed with a lipstick and a box of chocolate.
She read in a book once that chocolate was good both
in you and on you for sexual pleasure. SuperMan
watches glossy-eyed, camera staring mute, blinking
encouragingly down at the big bed where she has fallen
asleep, fingers smeared with 'Kissing Red' and melted
chocolate - SuperMan and the remote control still in a
cramped grip.

For your birthday I'll give you scissors - shining, silver,
sharp! - to cut me open and step right in. You know I am
hot enough to keep you warm when winter comes. Oh, it
would suit you good, it would do you good. You can do
it, you've done it before! Take my milky white and make
yourself a coat. Cut me open and step right in. I'm sick of
being without you. Believe me, the pain means nothing.

Two love stories
Infected by your tongue when kissing, the I.V. love shock
that took me for a ride never ending. I guess I should have
known that needle'd been around. The disease of loving
you spread fast through the blood. I lost everything I had
for you. I lost everything I was for you. I used to have a
language. I used to have a name. I used to have a name.

I'm glad someone else noticed that about the Florence tune

Or any of the songs in Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads" CD - all of them about gruesome murders.

What about that "blow my whistle" song? Dunno who sings it.

I thought of that one, Blurgirl.50 cent I think it is.

I totally get the references to other murder/violence/drugs songs being cool and not necessarily making the listener want to go out and commit murder/punch someone/mainline heroin - I get it. I understand that all songs don't need to be about luuurve - I HATE those sort of songs anyway. Its just this particular song is sung in such a cheerful, glammed up way, and seems to be deliberately trying to glamorise DV. It just gives the creeps is all .. thats the only point I wanted to make.

Each to their own (interpratation) and all that.

In the case f the Stooshie song I agree the unsettling part for me is the dichotomy between the sing-a-long melody and the dark lyric.

The thing that bothers me, I suppose, is that I worry the manufactured (I heard them talking about how they were recruited on Steve Wright) girl band haven't really thought about the lyric. More they' ve been handed the song and just sung it.

I'm trying not to over think it, but these are the thoughts in my head when I hear it on R2.

squeakytoy - The line about the rock in his fist in the Nick Cave/Minogue song - I always assumed it meant he had his erect cock out in his hand!

I hate that Florence song about "A kiss with a fist is better than none" - I hit you once, you kick me twice etc - DD used to sing along to it because it has such a jaunty tune and didn't understand why I'd stop her.

I also think that Adele song is creepy stalker territory.

But whether it makes people/children want to copy the acts that are sung about... Hmm.

The Blow My Whistle song is Flo'Rida

50 Cent did Candyshop, which has some very dubious lyrics