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?!

So apparently is Lou Reed's Perfect Day

Cornflake Girl is about FGM. The lyrics are chilling once you know that

Afternoon Delight... blatantly obvious ditty about the joys of an afternoon shag but no one seemed to notice at the time

Even Bob the Builder, singing 'Can we FIX it?' - so blatantly hidden in plain sight; yet so many people genuinely thought it was just a child-friendly ditty about the construction trade.

Although he’s denied it, but then according to John Lennon Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was not about drugs either, so…

I absolutely love the harmonies in that song, but it is indeed dirty!

Just in case anybody is in any doubt whatsoever, the full video includes lots of random white splats appearing on the screen... fireworks to celebrate just being happily in love, of course...

It's the You're going to reap just what you sew lyric at the end that makes me think it's not a love song

I have heard an interview with her where she says she feels guilty about using the name Luka, who was a lively little boy who lived in her apartment block, because she liked it and it sounded distinctive. She wasn't expecting it to be a massive hit. She later said that she was the child that was abused.

I don't get the references either, although most of the songs mentioned I don't really know that well. Why is it holier than thou or means you think you're better than anyone else for saying you didn't automatically assume a song was about drugs?

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.

@SriouslyWhutNow - very apt username as that’s exactly what I was thinking reading your post.

I paid attention to drug education at school and thus far at least, have managed to keep both myself and my children away from drugs. Doesn’t mean I know or knew all these songs were about drugs though. That doesn’t mean I don’t have an awareness of the dangers of drugs 😂 Something in this thread has obviously triggered you?

Just Say No is about drugs...

@SriouslyWhutNow well at least you gave me a good laugh! I genuinely have no idea what your issue is, I assumed you had previous with that other poster as nothing she said was offensive but it seems you're just looking for an argument for reasons bet known to yourself. And how weird to attack people over keeping their children safe-irrelevant to me as I don't have any, but over some bloody song lyrics! Are you quite alright?

We didn't actually have such a thing when I attended a Scottish high school in the '70s. Our parents told us not to touch them, and that was about it.

I recall my mother making me read an article in the Daily Record about a teenager who was found crying in the corner of a room because he'd taken LSD and thought he'd turned into an orange: he was scared that someone would eat him.

I recall that one senior boy in the school was rumoured to take drugs, although I now realise (courtesy of a school reunion) that others were at least aware of them.

At that time, the main vices were smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol.

@WearyAuldWumman I recall my mother making me read an article in the Daily Record about a teenager who was found crying in the corner of a room because he'd taken LSD and thought he'd turned into an orange: he was scared that someone would eat him.

Oh that's priceless. I bet he never drank OJ again, lol.

was he listening to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

My own DM listened to a lot of Dr Hook. There was noooo mistaking what his songs were about even at a tender age of 12. Makes my knees wobble now thinking about it (plans to play it next time b/g is here). Lol.

What the fuck? I didn’t get most of the drug references either. You are jumping t9 some pretty bizarre conclusions.
so they only have themselves to blame.
Blame? Blame for what?

I came on to say just that! And rather strange that it was covered in 1997 as a charity single for Children in Need!

Lou Reed repeatedly said that it was not about drugs (and he wrote numerous other songs which were explicitly about drugs, including one named Heroin - he was not one to shy away from the subject matter).

I thought milkshake by Kells was pretty obvious but it seems lots of people think it's just about milkshake.

She didn't say she was better than everyone else! It's the people here claiming to be able to hear the lyrics and understand the (hidden?) meanings who are acting superior. To me, the music is far more important than the lyrics so I rarely take much notice of the words. I don't really care what 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is about- I just love the music.

What’s Purple Rain about?!

‘Selling petrol’ 🤣

and "pumped up kicks" they're literally singing "you better run, better run... faster than my bullet"

DD2 told me that one. I still think it's a good song. I couldn't tell what all the lyrics were tbh. It made me think of football. It was in a Venn Diagram set in my head with Eat My Goal and Feel it Still (which I know is also not about football but references 1966 and 1986 - World Cups in my mind) 😅

I don't think it matters particularly. With any work: painting, poetry, books - people read different things into it than the artist or author intended. And that's ok.