Ever wonder how the subject of songs feels about them?

[Juells]

Fairly lighthearted thread, sparked by my knee-jerk reaction when a Cat Stevens song was served up by Spotify.

www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catstevens/wildworld.html

I must be a nasty cranky bitch, because it seems like a load of paternalistic shit to me - unfortunately wrapped in an earworm I keep humming. Would I have felt the same way when I was eighteen? I doubt it, I'd have hummed along happily and not noticed all the references to her being like a child. No wonder she left.

Always a Woman To Me by Billy Joel.

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me

Seemed pretty vicious to me. Written about his wife apparently. Divorced not long after.

Back to Cat Stevens.

My Lady d'Arbanville, anyone?

His then girlfriend got a job modelling in the States a couple of months.
He wrote a song about her being dead and in her grave!

www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catstevens/ladydarbanville.html

Incredibly creepy. Unsurprisingly he was dumped swiftly.

Always loved the song though...

I know that my Layla loathes the song Layla!!!

Mind you don't write one about another songwriter:

Young Girl

Where do you go to my lovely-Peter Sarstead

‘I can look inside your head ‘. Creepy

And Angel is a centrefold

My blood runs cold
My memory has just been sold
Angel is the centerfold
It's okay I understand
This ain't no never-never land
I hope that when this issue's gone
I'll see you when your clothes are on
Take you car, yes we will
We'll take your car and drive it
We'll take it to a motel room
And take 'em off in private

So because a girl the narrator knew at school has posed in a porn magazine (that he has fucking bought to see her there, so he’s evidently completely cool with porn), he’s going to kidnap her and take her to a hotel on the assumption that this means she won’t mind having sex with him

So disordered

Mr KC of Sunshine Band Fame:

• Everybody wants to have sex with you. I want to have sex with you. Have sex with me. Because I want to have sex with you.

and

• Please don't go. If you leave it will make me unhappy. So please don't go.

Doyoumind - not sure about 'Young Girl'. At least he's a acknowledging she's too young. May have missed something, off to check the lyrics, and YouTube link up thread. And acquaint myself with Lady d' lyrics.

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you
Oh can't you see
You belong to me
My poor heart aches
With every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you...

But that was deliberately written as a menacing dysfunctional song always

Apparently Every Breath You Take is popular as a wedding song

Tonight's the night I've waited for
Because you're not a baby anymore
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Happy birthday, sweet sixteen

But that was deliberately written as a menacing dysfunctional song always

Yes, I know, but it was the most popular song on the radio and I wonder how many people thought is was just a love song?

I’m very god of The Who’s ‘Behind Blue Eyes’. If you don’t know the context - it was intended as part of a rock opera - it sounds like a justification for violence:

But my dreams they aren't this empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you

It’s actually a very, very accurate of a mindset that has become increasingly mainstream.

Very fond of.

My autocorrect has messianic tendencies.

Apparently Every Breath You Take is popular as a wedding song confused

Well, they play Michael Jackson’s ‘Ben’ at funerals. That’s a song about a rat.

I thought that Take That song was messed up, I listened to it again yesterday “I think now its, time, that you came back to me...” etc. Etc. Is it not a messed up dong about a stalking bastard who won’t let his ex get away? Yet teenage girls were singing along to it, thinking it was a lovey-dovey song.

*song

Esme Patterson wrote a whole album full of songs as a response to songs named after women- written from their point of view eg Jolene and Billie-Jean.

"Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" is vomit-inducingly horrible. I really hope Jackie Kennedy Onassis never heard "Bullet" by The Misfits as it's gratuitously, pointlessly disgusting about her. I guess her dignity and reserve made some men very angry.

I've always wondered whether Freddie Mercury wrote "Barcelona" about an encounter with anyone in particular. If so, do they know and is it flattering? Knowing Freddie Mercury though, it could just be about a stray cat he adopted on holiday in Spain.

So what/who the hell was McArthur Park about? And what/who went off the Tallahatchie bridge?

I thought Barcelona was written especially for the Olympics with the opera singer in mind (he saw her on the tv and was amazed at her voice). Rubbbish song though.

It's not a pop song, it's from Singin' In The Rain, but this verse has always creeped me out.

There may be blondes or brunettes that are hard to resist,
You surpass them like a queen
You’ve got those lips that were meant to be kissed
And you’re over sweet sixteen

"I find you really attractive, and you're legal!"

Grim.

I thought Freddie wrote Barcelona for montserrat caballe? 'My guide, my inspiration and now my dream is coming true'

That’s the one. He got into opera and ballet (I think it was ballet). after his hedonistic Germany days...

If "Walks Like Rihanna" was written about a real person I hope she told him to fuck off, whilst pointing out that he'd hardly Placido Domingo or Fred Astaire himself.