Songs - how did it’s meaning get so lost?

[PrincipalVernon]

Sparked from another thread that was slightly off topic but reminded me how irritated I get by it-
Anyone else feel a slow burning rage when people mistake the meaning of songs so for example I have been to a fair few weddings where the couple walk onto the dance floor and their song is ‘marry you’ or ‘every breath you take’
Now I know it’s their choice, their song so who cares but I can’t help that little build up in side that makes me what to grab the mic and shout ‘listen to the words people!!’
Just want to point out that I’ve never actually done that, I stand there and smile
Am I alone in getting irritated by something so pointless?

@OptimisticIntrovert love ghat you and the Smiths, we had that song as a 'wedding disco' essential. My other fave morrissey love song is You're the one for me fatty.

I've been to a wedding where they had marry bum as the first dance too, brilliant wedding song if the couple like it/have a sense of humour.

@DollyWilde sounds like a fun wedding!

I think Another One Bites the Dust at a funeral is hilarious.

@gilmoregal

It was, if I say so myself - super traditional church/hymns/marquee family do during the day, and then essentially a rave from 10pm onwards best of both worlds...

"Our song" is I Just Wanna Dance The Night Away by The Mavericks. We chose a different song for our first dance because the lyrics aren't really suitable for a wedding!

@gilmoregirl

Love the idea of Mardy Bum! I suggested Little Man Tate 'This Must Be Love' to DH but he wasn't keen....

@gilmoregirl

Love the idea of Mardy Bum! I suggested Little Man Tate 'This Must Be Love' to DH but he wasn't keen....

My DH suggested I arrived to our wedding to ‘Opps ...I did it again’ - it wasn’t my first wedding. I still married the bugger. 🤣

DD wanted highway to hell. Strange sense of humour.

My husband is a madness fan, so our wedding song was it must be love.

My Dad loves Danny Boy so much that it just gets played and sung wherever he goes. My sister had the soloist at her wedding sing it as one of her songs. We'll have to play it one day at his funeral. He was recently on the coronary care ward and I had to sing that bloody song to him over and over. Luckily the rest of the patients seemed to be Scots or Irish too. I guess the porridge didn't work!

EEK
I am getting married next year and currently picking hymns for the ceremony (Catholic) finding this bit pretty easy...

Not so much the first dance song though...

We keep circling around but I think we will end up with something cliché like Ed Sheeran Perfect or John Legend All of Me...

Problem is our usual style of music - late 00s pop punk and emo doesn't really lend itself to weddings... I love Shinedown Miracle BUT that song was my fiancés song with his ex a few years back soo probably not!

Suggestions welcome!!

Kerrang TV regularly have a 'love songs' section where they play Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge.

Always makes me wonder if whoever complied the playlist had half a clue what it was about.

Not wedding related but it’s always amused/puzzled me just how few Americans have ever read/understood the lyrics of Springsteen’s Born in the USA

If you want misinterpreted lines, how about "spare the rod & spoil the child"? It actually comes from a poem by Samuel Butler & reads "Love is a boy by poets styled/Then spare the rod and spoil the child", ie a bit of spanking is good for your love life!

We met online so we had Digital Love by Daft Punk

The time is right to put my arms around you
You're feeling right
You wrap your arms around too
But suddenly I feel the shining sun
Before I knew it this dream was all gone
Ooh I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
I wish this dream comes true
Ooh I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
We'll make this dream come true
❤️

Love these - very nearly had You're the One for Me, Fatty 😂

@DamnCommandments How is the "good fences make good neighbours" line misinterpreted?

@SuperSaturdaySteve Frost disagrees with it. He quotes his neighbour, who in turn is quoting his father. Frost himself would rather leave the wall to decay where it's not needed - he says his apple trees aren't going to start eating the neighbour's pine cones!

I have seen Sting mention that he has to bite his lip when people tell him that every breath you take was their wedding song or special tune. He wrote it about unhealthy obsession and a low point!

@DamnCommandments But isn't the narrator an ironic figure? Criticising the act of having the fence while actually missing the point that he gets a lot out of the two of them meeting up to repair it each year? I love Frost's tricksiness about stuff like this (like the Road Not Taken, as you say).

I criiiiinge at our song, 26 years later. Hope everyone forgot it. It wasn't even our song.

Well, true!

One of my pet peeves with dh is his inability to hear song lyrics. I was bemoaning to him recently about the line in ‘Shape of You’ by Ed Sheehan that says we push and pull like a magnet do and how it’s irritating especially as we push and pull like magnets do fits just as well and actually makes sense. Dh looked at me as if I was mad and told me that he didn’t think there were any words in the verses to that song, that it was just humming. We sat down and listened to it and he still wasn’t convinced.

I don’t understand how you can claim to love a song and have no idea what the lyrics are or what they mean.

We had a John Legend song but wasn’t All of me, we had ‘So high’ one of his early songs and the lyrics are beautiful

I know a couple who had James - Laid as their first dance. Groom's choice, he thought it was hilarious. Bride, less so