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[ SECRET POST #3706 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3706 ⌋

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Inspired by #2.

- I thought "This is For the Girl" was "Simple Good Girl" and it was about some preacher's father type becoming a badass.

- I totally missed that "Need You Now" was a booty call song. I thought it was about two exes - or heck, even platonic friends who'd drifted. I still think it can be heard in those ways.

Same here for "Need You Now."

It IS about two exes... being each other's desperate, late night, really-shouldn't-be-doing-this booty call.

I thought Lady Gaga's "Dance In The Dark" was about emotional abuse. To be fair, google says I wasn't the only one.

That's what I thought it was about until I looked it up just now.

There's some song with a girl who gets pregnant and her boyfriend dumps her, and has her walking somewhere where crowds of people "call her a killer" and "call her a whore." Apparently she was going to an abortion clinic and being harassed by anti-abortion protesters, but as a kid, I thought she killed her ex-boyfriend and people were yelling at her while she was being taken into the courthouse.

That would be Everlast's "What It's Like".

I used to really like the Stones's "Brown Sugar" until I actually listened to the lyrics and realized it was A HAPPY SONG ABOUT SLAVERY. JFC!!!

I don't think you're supposed to think it's happy, I think you're supposed to recognize how fucked up it is

DA

To be fair, while I think you're right that the listener is supposed to realize how utterly fucked up it is, a lot of people have difficulty processing songs that match dark subject material with a peppy beat.

I'm not sure what I was *supposed* to think, but my impression upon hearing Selena Gomez's "Good for You" was that it was about a rather pathetic young woman who was desperate for some guy's approval, so when I saw the video where she's mostly just sitting there acting flirty and not telling the story I assumed went with the song, I was surprised.

Also, I thought the line about making Tiffany jealous was about some girl named Tiffany who is, like, a *total* bitch you guys, and not about diamonds.

I thought "Every Breath You Take" by The Police was a song about someone who had died and was looking over their mourning loved one from heaven. The person in heaven was distressed that the person on earth wasn't coping well ("how my poor heart aches with every step you take" referring to how it hurts seeing their living loved one struggle as they go about life, with "every smile you fake" and "every vow you break" referring to the living person's inner unhappiness and how they were withdrawing from life). The part starting with "since you've been gone, I've been lost without a trace..." was from the point of the view of the person on earth. The ultimate message of the song was "you're not alone, it's okay, I'm always with you."

...Granted, ghost person is still sounding rather possessive, and it's pretty unusual for a random POV change in the middle of a song that isn't a duet, but I was like five or six when I first heard the song, and I think an older relative had recently died.

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