What that song is REALLY about...

[BorderEevilIII]

Unless there was a topic on this....HERE it goes :D


Similar to that show on VH-1's TRUE SPIN


- It is a fact that Cyndi Lauper's song "She Bop" is about masturbation :D


Any other songs well known or not fits in this mold?

[Raymond Babbit]

The Joy Division song "She's Lost Control" was about epilepsy, and was inspired by lead singer/songwriter (and sufferer of epilepsy himself) Ian Curtis's conversation with a fellow victim of the disease.

The Blind Melon song "No Rain", although it sounds like a happy song, is actually about depression. The guitarist (if I'm not mistaken, he's the one who wrote this song) apparently wrote it about a former girlfriend, who was depressed and would sleep all day. She also would complain when it didn't rain, because then she had no excuse to stay inside.

The Eric Clapton song "Wonderful Tonight" was a song written not out of love, but frustration. It was inspired by a night when Clapton and his wife were getting ready to go to a party, and he got frustrated because she was taking a long time to get ready.

[bowieee]

My favorite misconception is how everyone thinks Born in the Usa is a patriotic song. It's extremely critical of how America treated the soldiers returning from vietnam. Just check out the lyrics:

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

[Juan Oscuro]

There She Goes by the La's is about heroin.

It's presently being used in a tampon commercial or something.

[The Postmaster General]

Like when they wanted to make BORN TO RUN the New Jersey state song -- the song is totally about getting the hell out of Jersey.

I think Bruce Springstein gets misconceived alot -- probably because he's got such a nice smile.

[Squid Vicious]

"Bounce" by System of a Down is about group sex....I think.

And as bowieee was saying, "Born in the USA" is actually a very unpatriotic song. I heard that Ronald Reagan was using the song during his campaign in 1984. :rolleyes:

[Cunning Visions]

The Police's Every Breath You Take is often thought of as a romantic song for the idiots who don't listen to the lyrics.

Iggy Pop's Lust for Life is a song about trying to overcome heroin addiction...but it's now used in a cruise ship commercial.

[rilocay]

Cant Remember who by but Turning Japanese is about masturbation too...

[bowieee]

Originally posted by rilocay
Cant Remember who by but Turning Japanese is about masturbation too...

Really? How so?

[one_crow_sorrow]

Originally posted by rilocay
Cant Remember who by but Turning Japanese is about masturbation too...

So is Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself, but that one's pretty obvious.

[bankholdup]

Anybody here been to songmeanings.net? It's a really neat site that has a bunch of theories from fans as to what particular songs are about.

[Cunning Visions]

Originally posted by rilocay
Cant Remember who by but Turning Japanese is about masturbation too...

It's by The Vapors and yeah it's supposedly about masturbation. The term "Turning Japanese" meant the type of face a person makes while masturbating. Makes you hear the song in a new light doesn't it? :p

[Xandrew88]

No, the song 'Turning Japonesse' ISN'T about masturbation. On teh Vh1 show, 'True Spin' or whatever, they said it wasn't about masturbation (the band members said that). I just can't remember what it's actually about though.

[TheDeadWalk]

Can anyone tell me what Hotel California is about?

[Elgyn]

Yeah it`s about a hotel in California.:D


But seriously....

How about ANY of the songs on Tool`s "Undertow"? I`ve heard everything from drug-addiction (likely, exp. the title track) to rantings about the military (Maynard served).

[one_crow_sorrow]

Originally posted by Elgyn
Yeah it`s about a hotel in California.:D


But seriously....

How about ANY of the songs on Tool`s "Undertow"? I`ve heard everything from drug-addiction (likely, exp. the title track) to rantings about the military (Maynard served).

Intolerance is pretty obvious.

Prison Sex' literal meaning is also obvious, but I read that it is a metaphorical story about getting fucked over, and then fucking someone else over later in life.

For the rest of them you'll have to check out songmeanings.net

[one_crow_sorrow]

Originally posted by TheDeadWalk
Can anyone tell me what Hotel California is about?

Some people say it's about a Satanic cult, some say it's about drug addiction. I'm not sure which is correct or if it's something else all together.

[Elgyn]

Guys maybe it`s about a satanic cult AND drud addiction!:D

[Shiny Demon]

Originally posted by TheDeadWalk
Can anyone tell me what Hotel California is about?

I've read a quote from one of the band members saying it was about nothing at all. Just an experiment to see if they could put together a bunch of lyrics to make something that sounds very profound but is really about nothing.

"Rooster" by Alice In Chains is supposed to be about one of the band member's dads, who was a Veitnam Veteran. If you listen to the lyrics closely, that one's pretty obvious.

[A.J. Hakari]

Originally posted by Cunning Visions
The Police's Every Breath You Take is often thought of as a romantic song for the idiots who don't listen to the lyrics.

"True Spin" did an episode analyzing that song. It is, as most people think, a stalker song, but as Sting was going through a divorce at the time, he wrote it through his ex-wife's point-of-view. Freaky nonetheless.

[Raymond Babbit]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
"True Spin" did an episode analyzing that song. It is, as most people think, a stalker song, but as Sting was going through a divorce at the time, he wrote it through his ex-wife's point-of-view. Freaky nonetheless.

I read somewhere that it was also supposed to be a metaphor for cold war paranoia.

[notchreturns]

You and Whose Army by Radiohead is about Tony Blair.

Oooooooeeerrrrr, get 'em fellas!

[my_name_is_neo]

Speaking of Radiohead, I think I heard once that "Kid A" (not the whole album, just that album's title track) is about human cloning or something like that, but I dunno... I've been curious what it really means myself (greenplastic.com, a Radiohead fan site that has lyrics and meanings for most of their songs, doesn't say for this one). Does anyone happen to know?

[notchreturns]

Originally posted by my_name_is_neo
Speaking of Radiohead, I think I heard once that "Kid A" (not the whole album, just that album's title track) is about human cloning or something like that, but I dunno... I've been curious what it really means myself (greenplastic.com, a Radiohead fan site that has lyrics and meanings for most of their songs, doesn't say for this one). Does anyone happen to know?

It's been said and thought of between some fans that Kid A (the album) is actually about the first child clone.

Never actually been approved or denied by anyone who'd actually know.

[ANavissi500]

Another masturbation song that is probably obvious - Blister in the Sun

[one_crow_sorrow]

All My Life by Foo Fighters is about cunnilingus.

[Dead Parrott]

Got To Get You Into My Life by The Beatles is a song about smoking marijuana.
Rain by The Beatles is a song about LSD
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds isn't!

[e_lateralus]

You arent seriously trying to say that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is NOT about LSD are you?

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by one_crow_sorrow
All My Life by Foo Fighters is about cunnilingus.

I disagree with that. I believe Dave Grohl wrote that song right after a breakup, and it's pretty obviously a slam at the girl.

[one_crow_sorrow]

Originally posted by e_lateralus
You arent seriously trying to say that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is NOT about LSD are you?

John Lennon vehemently argued that it wasn't, but who knows.

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by Raymond Babbit
The Blind Melon song "No Rain", although it sounds like a happy song, is actually about depressionThe guitarist (if I'm not mistaken, he's the one who wrote this song)
.

the Bassist wrote it. :)


Most of Anne Murray's orignals are about railing ecstacy off the backs of her giant, black lovers

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[Dead Parrott]

Originally posted by e_lateralus
You arent seriously trying to say that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is NOT about LSD are you?

John Lennon denied the song was about LSD until the day he died, the song came from a drawing from his son Julian, who I'm pretty sure wasn't an acidhead at the time being only 4 years old. If the question was whether or not the song was influenced by the drug, then the answer would probably be yes.