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

[Arlanymor]

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?!

Ah Chain reaction great song😆 the lyrics are absolutely filthy ☺️😆
I believer the Steps cover version, they had to alter the lyrics slightly because it wasnt "appropriate for their target audience" ie: 10 year old girls!!

Gagas Poker Face is about her bisexuality and sings “f* her face” subtlety (although most people are only really finding this out now, I used to wind up the local radio at the time , they didn’t believe me 🤣)

Really? I thought everyone knew that.

I hate Poker Face for the line “and if it’s not rough it isn’t fun”. Always a great message for girls and young women 🙄.

Not when you’re a kid singing along to the radio 😁

I had a wry chuckle when that came on the radio once as I was driving back from the dentist, as the title could not have been more apt for the moment!

The bickering and derailing on this thread is very annoying. Well done for calling it out.

Surely OP, Will you still love me tomorrow isn't about a one night stand.

I've always thought it was about the first time that a young couple have sex and she's worried that he won't respect her or love her once he's 'got what he wanted'; pretty awful tbh.

But unfortunately, that was very much the attitude of the times then.

Yeah I thought that. Also hate Bruno Mars lyrics. All he can think about is getting high and getting in some girl’s pants.

Yeah, that's true I'd forgotten how long ago it was.

I was an adult when Afternoon Delight was a hit.

Agreed - seems a deranged rant

Foo Fighters All my Life, similar topic to Like a Prayer.

The more recent classic is obviously James Blunt with You're Beautiful. About him stalking and obsessed with a girl (not really obviously, just the songs story).

I always thought it was about alcoholism, but I suppose it could equally be about drugs.

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'm quite surprised that people seem surprised that most popular song are about sex or drugs.

It's always been that way. A lot of the really early blues song were heavy on the sex, and given that a hell of a lot of musicians take a hell of a lot of drugs, of course it makes sense that they're going to write about it.

Summer of 69 is not about the year.

Perfect Day may or may not be about heroin, but the song "Heroin" by Lou Reed - "it's my life and it's my wife" probably is...

Max Miller "the cheeky chappie" was banned by the BBC for the joke "I was passing an attractive girl on a narrow path at a cliff edge. I don't know whether to block her passage or toss myself off..."

Not even when they changed their band name.

They were originally an octet based in Bury St Edmunds called The Suffolk Eight.

"Hot Legs are you still in school"... cough cough...

Selling Petrol!!!!
The 1975 are my favourite band 😀

Drops of Jupiter (Tell me) by Train. At first it sounds like a man resentful of the freedom of an ex-lover out there enjoying all the freedom in the universe while 'looking for herself'. But it's actually about the singer's mother dying of cancer and the hope that she's spiritually free and enjoying the universe 'with drop of Jupiter in her hair'.

I read that, re-listened to the song and felt quite emotional as I'd just lost my own mum to cancer. It's a beautiful subject for a song.

Sorry, that's for @EmeraldRoulette 😂

Isn't it about being forced to marry due to being pregnant, a shotgun wedding?

It really does not sound like that at first, that might be a personal bias being projected.

I didnt know the specifics of what it was about, but the lyrics are clearly a lament of some kind with nothing sounding bad so finding out the specifics doesn't surprise me.