Misunderstood songs

supersonic

Not sure they take too many more breaths in the CC.

nicklouse

cyd190468 wrote:

"Every breath you take" Often requested for weddings (I'm a wedding singer) even though it's actually about stalking someone

the CC anthem.

njee20

Luka, by Suzanne Vega, which is about child abuse.

Edit: oh and:

I'm a wedding singer

Hahahahahahaha!

Gazlar

I spent around a year thinking that paparazzi by lady gaga was actually an ode to former archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcey.

ddraver

After the Olympics, we have to mention London Calling, very much in the same way Born in the USA is...

danlikesbikes

Adele set fire to the rain don't know exactly what its about as its misunderstood by me :oops:

njee20

I spent around a year thinking that paparazzi by lady gaga was actually an ode to former archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcey.

You mean it isn't? Gutted.

ballspondroad

'Jerusalem' - is about establishing what Blake understood to be Christianity in England.

fyldesmurf

'Like a virgin' as was very well explained at the start of Reservoir Dogs

welshkev

'a thousand trees' by stereophonics i think is about a child abuser - or about how accusations affect someone anyway.

yes it is:

"A Thousand Trees" is the third single from the rock band Stereophonics. The song is taken from their debut album, Word Gets Around and was released in August 1997. It reached #22 on the UK Singles chart.

The catchy, anthemic opener is about a respected junior football coach who ruined his career through a lurid sexual encounter with a female student.[1]"

JBA

'The One I Love' by REM.
It's about finding sexual solace in the arms of strangers, NOT about being in love.

tlw1

JBA wrote:

'The One I Love' by REM.
It's about finding sexual solace in the arms of strangers, NOT about being in love.

using rohypnol?

YeehaaMcgee

Iron Maiden's "Fear of the dark" is actually "fear of The Duck", but it's been som commonly misheard, that they changed the name to appease people.

Stevo_666

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapours is not actually about turning Japanese...more of a walking song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWWwM2wwMww

YeehaaMcgee

Phil collin's "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" is about Phil's experience with Sheepsteeth's mum.

thekickingmule

In a similar vein, Dexys Midnight Runners "Come on Eileen" ...well, yeah...

Gazlar

thekickingmule wrote:

In a similar vein, Dexys Midnight Runners "Come on Eileen" ...well, yeah...

Tbf Kev Rowland is from the same part of Wolverhampton as me, might explain a lot

Lagrange

Aqualung by Jethro Tull is not actually about PADI diving courses.

Lagrange

Baa Baa black sheep is not actually about black sheep - at least according to his primary school teacher - because that would be discriminatory. I noted from a recent post that this logic has been incorporated into a recent release by Taylor Swift.

Lagrange

Help by the Beatles is not actually an appeal for financial assistance or protection from gunmen or knifewielding assasins because they would become stinking rich, live long and prosper....rather like me.

97th choice

'You oughta know' is commonly seem as a gritty attack on a selfish, self obsessed ex boyfriend. Although in reality it is an expose of how being a whiny, needy canadian who doesn't give out, makes you inherantly unloveable.

Gazlar

And obviously there's nowt ironic happening in ironic, it's either bad luck or bad planning

Andy

Gazlar wrote:

And obviously there's nowt ironic happening in ironic, it's either bad luck or bad planning

Thats not misunderstood. Thats the point of the song. Everybody knows that.

natrix

Stevo 666 wrote:

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapours is not actually about turning Japanese...more of a walking song.

As is "Teenage kicks" by Sham 69

Gazlar

Andy wrote:

Gazlar wrote:

And obviously there's nowt ironic happening in ironic, it's either bad luck or bad planning

Thats not misunderstood. Thats the point of the song. Everybody knows that.

Which is why my post was ironic, well more sarcastic, obviously didn't come across but the number of times I've had people argue...... but that's not irony.


Another common misconception is that Taylor Swifts work qualifies as music

BigJimmyB

97th choice wrote:

'You oughta know' is commonly seem as a gritty attack on a selfish, self obsessed ex boyfriend. Although in reality it is an expose of how being a whiny, needy canadian who doesn't give out, makes you inherantly unloveable.

And 'Ironic''s content are nothing more than references to shitty luck - no irony at all in anything she sings about in that song.

"It's like rain on your wedding day....." etc

Gazlar

Not so much a misconception with meaning the Prince of Denmark's March or "trumpet voluntary" as it's better known as is often accredited To Henry Purcell and not it's composer Jeremiah Clarke to same mistake being made by Sir Henry Wood

Woodmonkey

Morrisey is misunderstood, people think he's the poet of his generation when actually he's just a Cnut

Unclejonny

natrix wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapours is not actually about turning Japanese...more of a walking song.

As is "Teenage kicks" by Sham 69

Teenage kicks is by the undertones, thus this could be confusing

VWsurfbum

Woodmonkey wrote:

Morrisey is misunderstood, people think he's the poet of his generation when actually he's just a Cnut

Fully-sprung

"Baby" by Justin Bieber is misunderstood by quite a few people because they believe it is proper music that isn't sung by a whining little faggot with the voice of an asthmatic 3 year old and the face of a little girl that would be more appealing to Jimmy Savile.