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?!

This is really harsh and unnecessary. Loads of us will have heard many of these songs as children and it wouldn't occur to a lot of people to interrogate the lyrics. It's no more holier than thou than not realising what The Outhere Brothers were singing about at the smash hits poll winners party.

I omitted the Nun's other 'rule, once you were married sex was allowed, as long as you don't enjoy it!

Martha reeve and the Vandellas.. Jimmy Mack .. about him being in Vietnam.
Jimmy mack ..My world's on fire .. about being in Vietnam.
Both Northern soul biggies.
Lee bates..why don't you write.
Another Vietnam one.
All of the above maybe a bit niche within Northern soul genre.

Yes, the plane was called the Enola Gay

The wiki page says this
While the lyrics describe a girl "riding out of the life of the narrator",[22] the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear,[6] as is the meaning of the song.[23][24] McCartney said the title referred to "a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight",[13] and Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s.

So the inspiration for the song title might (or might not) have come from prostitutes being clear of STDs, but the whole song isn't about that.

@AliTheMinx ooh what is it about please

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

Oh god I'd been picturing Knights dressed in white satin whenever I heard this song 😂

I'd been reading all of the posts prior to this and knowing what all of the mentioned songs meant until I reached this one. What a numpty I am 😂

I'm loving the idea of all these knights being sent off to wage fierce battle... but instead of steel armour and chain mail, they're rather rocking some lovely soft brushed satin suits that will definitely keep them protected from the enemy's violent advances

Now with 'Jailhouse Rock' being clearly seen as a euphemism for sex, my concerned thoughts are moving towards Bill Haley. If he really is 'rocking' non-stop around the clock, it'll surely be the death of him?!

Was there more innuendo to 'Brand New Key' by Melanie? I know (according to Wikipedia), she acknowledged that a lot of people wondered about the hackneyed motif of the lock and key; but I can't help thinking it must be much grubbier than that?!

Surely she can't really have just written an entire song about going off everywhere on her new roller skates (and occasionally swapping them for her bike)? Unless she was an excited 4yo when she wrote it on Boxing Day?!

Wasn’t it Sting who allegedly had 7 hour tantric sex sessions? Perhaps Bill Haley was similar.

Er..yes, that’s what I said 🙂

Indeed you did - somehow managed to quote you instead of the pp, but without reading your post. 😂It’s been a long day…

But even Sting's mammoth sessions lasted less than a third of the time of those undertaken by '24-times-daily Haley'!!

It can work the other way too though, when you wrongly attribute a hidden meaning to a completely innocent song.
I had, it turns out erroneously, initially believed that the brilliant Sabrina Carpenter song House Tour was a euphemism for something quite naughty. However, somebody pointed out to me that she literally sings "I promise this is not a metaphor." in the lyrics, which made me feel pretty silly. I can now see that it is definitely just a nice song about her proudly giving someone a tour of her lovely home, sorry for my dirty mind having ever thought it could be about anything else Sabrina!
People will also insist on thinking that Wood by Taylor Swift is rude, despite her explaining in a voice note and on the Showgirl movie that it's just about popular superstitions!

People will also insist on thinking that Wood by Taylor Swift is rude, despite her explaining in a voice note and on the Showgirl movie that it's just about popular superstitions!

Yes, I simply can’t understand why anyone would ever think these lyrics are rude

Forgive me, it sounds cocky
He ah-matized me and opened my eyes
Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see
His love was the key that opened my thighs

Oh gosh - my grandad used to sing this song when I was a child (1970s).

I may not have been being entirely serious, though the radio edit of Wood is much tamer.
I still retract my initial suspicions of House Tour though, definitely nothing naughty going on in that song, nothing at all!

Well, like all the best songs, it can be read on lots of levels. John Lennon said it referred to prostitutes in Hamburg who had cards to show they didn’t have diseases though. If you’ve not read Can’t Buy Me Love, it’s really worth it - in particular it’s very illuminating about their time in Hamburg. It’s fair to say that Lennon was speaking from experience.

Is this the Toploader or Thin Lizzy song?

No, of course nothing untoward at all in that other song.

I’m sure the instruction to never enter through the back door is just that she has an untidy kitchen or something equally inoffensive.

My grandfather (WWI veteran) also sang it to me, but it was very jolly! It was sort of "now can you please just go away"ish

I can understand another reading though.

Of course, that makes a lot of sense. It also stands to reason that she wants to particularly point out her waxed floors to her visitor since she's apparently spent a little fortune on them.

It was from a jeans advert.