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?!

Yes! My dd played this & I loved it! Used to put it on in the car all the time till my DS told me what it was about! Put me right off it!
ETA quote fail! This was referring to Pumped up kicks!

I know the feeling - I had to read my own post three times to be sure I’d said what I’d meant to say 😂

I love this song and never paid too much attention to the lyrics but you’re so right! Wow!

The Beatles were singing about sex in 1963 - Please please me, like I please you, isn’t about asking to be brought a cup of tea!

That is so weird! I haven't heard the song for decades but for some reason I was thinking about it this morning but couldn't remember the name of it.

And yes, I always knew what it was about, and it is a fab song and I love how her children thought so highly of her.

No, it is a kept woman. The title has implications regarding rent boys, but he had in mind a political figure - one of the Kennedys I think - who kept a mistress in a flat somewhere in New York.

Dr hook I think

I thought that for ages too. I'd sussed the DV aspect, but assumed the narrator was an abused spouse rather than a child.

Much more embarrassing was I didn't realise the meaning of the DiVinyls' I Touch Myself until many years later when it was covered by Scala and Kolacny Brothers and I listened to the lyrics properly. 😊

I still love ‘Time of your Life(good riddance) by Green Day. Even though I know what it’s about. But my funeral song will be ‘Basketcase’ yes I know what it’s about.

I've been really entertained by this thread, I especially liked The Darkness you're really growing on me written about an STD😁

I've got one, Human League's being boiled is about silkworms

I don’t think so. They might have covered it?

I recently found out that the song lyrics of

Pearly Dewdrop.drops could really be about childhood sexual.abusr.

Terrifying and sickening to the depths of the Soul.

It was definitely the Bellamy Brothers who had the big hig with If I said you had a beautiful body.

Yes mediaeval knights of the round table riding around on horses on a long quest😂

Glad to have given you a cheer! I saw it TWICE in the cinema and both times walked out saying under my breath: "But his name ISN'T Maurice!" To be fair I was 15, but still!

Yes, I realise there was a very good reason for it being very one-dimensional!

Probably also another example of where a catchy 30-second audio clip doesn't always translate well to a full song - but if the punters will buy it, I can't say I blame them for doing it.

No, it’s definitely Bellamy Brothers.

Could be mentally conflating "when your body's had enough..." and "when you're in love with a beautiful woman".

That's exactly the kind of thing that my mind would do!

Have you heard the song it’s based on? Le Moribund sung by Jacques Brel… it’s quite something.

As a child I thought that Lisa Stansfield's 'All Around The World' was a sad song about a mother who had somehow misplaced her baby while travelling the world. Similarly, Ace of Base's 'All That She Wants' was about a woman who really wanted to be pregnant again. Then I listened more closely, and I refined my theory. She was having one night stands to try to get pregnant and have another baby.

I also remember being told I was not allowed to sing 'Papa Don't Preach' at the Brownie talent show. At least I was correct about there being a baby involved there!

I still love the song - but it's got to be the Glen Campbell version any day for me.

I think it works beautifully as an older person (as Glen was) singing it both to themselves now and themselves as a young person, as well as to the grandkids.

So yes, a 'splitting up'' song of sorts, but not one involving the end of a romantic relationship; rather the inevitable preparing to eventually bid farewell as you approach the end of your own life, to loved ones who still have the best of their own lives ahead of them.

You're not alone re Lisa Stansfield - although at least you were still a child, unlike Janine!

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Yes.

It was from 1976. What video are you referencing….that was a long time before music videos

Little RED corvette by Prince…… is nothing to do with cars