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?!

And so many people thought Luca was a girl!!

Who cares what the lyrics "really" mean. As with all art if YOU enjoy it then that's what matters!

For years, I thought “Everything I Own” by Bread was just a fairly so-so love song. Then I read an interview with David Gates (who wrote the song), who said it was written in memory of his late father. It’s completely changed how I respond to the song now.

Well, this thread was an eye opener!
But then, I still want to hear 'Nights in white satin, never reaching the end' as 'Knights'. That's what I heard for years and I so much prefer the mental image.

You Are my Sunshine. I remember it being all over mugs and baby grows a while ago and it's about pining for a lost love who has gone off with someone else.

The other night, dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you
In my arms
When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken
So I hung my head and cried

Oh I know, sorry, i was just thinking out loud! I'd actually written quite a long post agreeing with you, and then deleted most of it as I'd gone a bit off topic

At the risk of being called uneducated I will pitch in with House of Fun by Madness. Was used on a Warburton's (or other bread) TV ad.

Box of balloons
With the feather-light touch
Pack of party-poppers
That pop in the night

Oh, me too!

I'm 55 and I only realised/found this out a few weeks ago! 😆

I don’t think this. It’s not a ‘holier than thou attitude’ at all. Being around drugs is not how it should be…

I always envisaged knights dressed in white sheets, but with a sort of Ku Klux Klan vibe 😂

The ones I know about..
cornflake girl - FGM
Black velvet - Elvis
Every breath you take- a stalker

Me too!
Some modern songs get radio play and I’m a bit sceptical considering all the radio edit versions out there. The Sabrina Carpenter latest- ‘I get wet at the thought of you, being a responsible guy ‘. They cut the word wet but leave the next line which is ‘ tears run down my thighs’ 😳🤷🏼‍♀️

I actually knew this one. It’s about a 16 year old on his birthday hoping to lose their virginity. So I read. I am pretty much lyric blind!

Watermelon sugar high by Harry Styles is about oral sex/orgasms. Yep read that too!

Madness House of Fun was about a boy trying to go into the chemist for condoms but being embarrassed.

Love this!

I have two to add

Relax by mika - about the 2005 London bombings. I love this song but never noticed the lyrics until fairly recently. Think I am even more fond of it now with the careful lyrics and meaning although bittersweet.

Growing on me by the darkness. This is a hilarious one about an STI.

What is born in the USA about, if not exactly that?!

People think it's a patriotic song when its a criticism of America during the Vietnam war. The servicemen in the song are gung-ho Americans, thinking they're doing something patriotic for their country and just end up with their lives fucked up by a pointless war.

Run by Snow Patrol is another drugs one. Pisses me right of hearing Leona Lewis warbling it as though its some kind of love song.

So true!! It made me laugh when the Reagan administration had it as their campaign theme tune. Sack the campaign managers!!

I recently saw a video pregnancy announcement online, set to Ed Sheeran’s ‘Small bump’. Which is about late term miscarriage.
People hear but they don’t listen!

As a kid I got my dad The Who's Greatest Hits or something as a birthday present to have in the car (tape deck; long time ago). Had a look at the notes on the insert before wrapping it and was astonished and horrified to see it quoted one of the band members saying Pictures of Lily was "all about wanking". I knew the song but had not picked up on that. Agonized a bit about whether I could give that to my dad and then decided he'd never look at the notes (or if he did he'd never know I had), and did.

And Sting singing ‘Every breath you take, every step you take’ (or whatever!) is creepy and threatening, not protective and romantic, and that gets played at weddings too.

How dare you! She’s a good catholic girl that one!! 😶

There's an episode of Arrested Development where the main character (I forget his name) is singing Afternoon Delight on karaoke with his niece. His face when he realises what he's singing to his niece is a picture!

Great thread. Until it turned into a silly argument. Is there nothing on MN that doesn’t do that?? Also, can someone explain the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody please😝

Bee Gees You win again

gonna shake you from now on..

Im gonna get you from all sides
lay your fortress open wide
Nobody stops this body from taking you

Forced sex. Great song but I can’t listen to it now I know the words.

Dancing in the Moonlight. The background to the original version is grim.