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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

"Vamos a playa" by Righeira carries a lightweight, upbeat tune that vacationers might hum on the way to the beach. But the Spanish lyrics reveal that it's about the devastation left behind by nuclear armaments. And the schism between trying to live an ordinary life whilst having a nuclear Damocles sword waver over your head. That it became such a world wide hit makes it all the more ironic. I love it all the more for it.

[–] nowherelord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Well, as I said, I never paid attention to the lyrics before I looked them up. 🤷‍♂️

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

most of Rammstein, but specifically Mutter

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In the other direction from most of them here, “Losing my Religion” hit a lot harder before I realized it was just about anger.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

Wait till you read and watch Take me to church

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. It's a song about banging a slave, but I didn't know that as a kid.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Similarly, watching the music video for Africa by Toto changes the entire vibe of the song. It’s about wanting to bang a black woman. Bless those rains, I guess.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

Based on the lyrics I always thought it was about werewolves.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago

Not sure, if I stopped listening to mainstream music around that time, but uh, both of my examples are from 2011, apparently:

  • Kind of a classic response to this question, is "Pumped Up Kicks" from Foster The People. It's got that upbeat melody, and the lyrics are this:

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

  • And my other example is "The A Team", apparently originally from Ed Sheeran, and apparently also with an upbeat melody. I think, I only ever listened to a cover version. But yeah, it's about drug use and sex work, and how those kind of necessitate each other...
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

Hard Habit To Break by Chicago is pretty straightforward, but I liked it on the radio as a kid because it's peppy and has an orchestra.

Decades later I get access to music service libraries and give it a listen.

I was a jerk and you left me, and now you're with another guy. I'm not sorry. I'm not going to do better. But I have an orchestra!

I still like it, but have perspective now.

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Closing time by Semisonic I thought it was about going home with someone after a night out at the bar. It’s about the lead singers child being born.

[–] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Seriously? Well he could have made that more clear.

[–] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Constipated by Weird Al. That changed me.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much all Linkin Park songs.

Listened to it since elementary.

Around high school, I figured the lyrics were kinda dark.

Then the vocalist hung himself.

[–] nafzib@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, Chester grew up being horribly abused and then using a lot of drugs. He was super close with Chris Cornell, who had also killed himself some months prior to Chester. Chester had been sober for a time but ended up staying the night alone after traveling and drank a little and hung himself on Chris's birthday.

Mike Shinoda has stated in interviews that when he and Chester would write lyrics, they would focus on the emotion and not necessarily just the exact experience. So the lyrics would slowly evolve until they both could sing them truthfully while relating them to their own separate lived experiences, which is part of why they can be so universally related to - because none of their songs are truly only about one specific thing, but rather about the feelings people experience.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 hours ago

Fuck, man, that is some depressing backstory.

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 32 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Mr Brightside by the Killers. The tune was good and felt energetic when it came about, but it's about a guy being cheated on. Having had someone cheat on me around the time it came out it hit really close to home and I just don't enjoy listening to the song.

The problem with being in the UK is that it's so overplayed and I just have to tune it out.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 33 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

It's not. It's about a guy who can't beat jealousy and believes he's being cheated on "except it's all in [his] head"

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