Songs that were ruined once you learned the meaning of it

JSB wrote:

Lola

I was wondering when this song would come up. But I don't really think that the meaning was ever that secret anyway. It was very overt. One line is "Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls. Its a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world." Great song tho.

Boom Boom by Paul Lekakis. The singer & the song are painfully associated with AIDS crisis, perhaps unfairly in some ways.

Gang Bang at the Old Folks Home - Steel Panther

The Last Train to Clarksville by the Monkees

This is an anti-war song protesting the Vietnam War and the draft. Songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart were from Nashville, and when people from that area were drafted they were first sent to Ft. Campbell, KY just outside of Clarksville TN.

Draftees were given a train ticket to Clarksville , "Be there by 4:30, I've made your reservation". It was considered the last train because "I don't know if I'm ever coming home. Oh no no no."

And Neil Young (a Canadian!) later apologized for writing Southern Man, saying it was arrogant and wrong for him to stake out a simplified position for such a complex and fraught issue.

Big Bottoms

Didn't ruin it for me, but "Hold Your Head Up" by Argent.

Take me to church - very angry atheist

Sweet home Alabama- yes, lets sugarcoat and promote racism!

Every breath you take - stalker watching someone

Fentrekker wrote:

Born in the 70s wrote:

Any Springsteen hit song. It may have a nice tune, but he never does a feel good song, only protest songs.

Really sucks when you discover your pop idols actually care about the world.

Springsteen made his fortune singing about the struggles of the every-day working class family. Machinists, union members, farmers, factory workers, etc. Then all of the sudden comes a Presidential candidate who represents these exact same people. Who does Springsteen rally for? Hillary Clinton, the epitome of the corporate/bank owned candidate, the woman who has made a career of looking down on, and mocking, the every-day working class family.

The most obvious submission here is "YMCA," but it's completely hilarious that middle America people that probably hate "the gays" will have their kids dancing like maniacs to this song unaware of what's going on. So if anything the meaning makes it better.

YMCA - Village People.

Even when I saw the video. I thought it was just some guys dressing up.

Birthday - Sugarcubes

Great groove. Bjork's voice at her best. Icky subject.

also let's throw in "Candy Shop" while we're at it

Springsteen is a major hypcocrite wrote:

Then all of the sudden comes a Presidential candidate who represents these exact same people.

What? Represents the working class? Have you ever looked at policies and made a judgemnt for yourself rather than what someone tells you for their own benefit. So sad!

Serentity now!

Coach McGuirk wrote:

JSB wrote:

Lola

I was wondering when this song would come up. But I don't really think that the meaning was ever that secret anyway. It was very overt. One line is "Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls. Its a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world." Great song tho.

Another vote for Lola. I loved the trippy walk on the wild side tune immediately and had the song ruined by the end. "... and so's Lola".

Pearl Necklace - the ballad of zz top's old bearded dudes giving someone a facial

La Grange - zz top's old bearded dudes advertising for a whore house

"Police Got My Dad" after I learned it was a Mexican Christmas song.

Here’s two: wrote:

Cars. It’s about committing suicide.

Turning Japanese. It’s about faces guys make when cumming.

Ace of Spades by Motorhead

You think it's got some sort of meaning, then realize he's just singing about what he needs to draw to win a hand of cards.

Then at the end he remembers that he can also win with a joker. A Joker? WTF Lemmy, why are you playing with women's rules?

Star wrote:

Sweet Home Alabama

Catchy tune. Great guitar riff.

But...

“Watergate does not bother me”.

The song is Lynyrd Skynyrd’s response to Neil Young’s “Southern Man”, which was about racism in the south.

Then they get political and support Nixon, who stepped down from the Watergate scandal. And support governor Wallace who was an obvious racist.

I don't think you've spent enough time figuring out what that song is about.

They were not supporting Nixon.

They were saying something like this:

Hey Neil Young not all southerns are the same.

We got Wallace (BooHoo) - remember the marches in Birmingham (which were protests if you recall/reaearch)

We're not all southern red necks down here.

We don't just you by Nixon/Watergate, so don't judge us for Wallace/red necks.

Sweet Home Alabama is one of the great misunderstood songs of all time.