Everyone when they listen to “Semi-Charmed Life”
When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening:
Submitted 1 month ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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barkybeak@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 1 month ago
But don’t say “panties” on the radio! Proceeds to play lyrics about doing crystal meth.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
You’d have to know more than the average person does about meth to know it’s about meth.
mosspiglet@discuss.online 1 month ago
It literally says the words “doin’ crystal meth” in the song.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The line
“Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break,”
Is neither coded nor subtle.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clearly Disney didn’t listen to it.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
It’s about 2 spouses planning to cheat on each other because they’re bored with their marriage. The only thing that saves them is he responds to her personal ad in the newspaper and they laugh about it after meeting up. They’re shitty people
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh, yeah. Another one is Sad Eyes by Robert John, telling his his temp girl that his real girl is coming home today, she knew it was going to happen and he doesn’t want to see her cry. “I never used you,” lol.
There are quite a few of them. One that’s been in the news lately is Lola by The Kinks, which Moby called unenlightened and he’s right. One I always found creepy was Cat Stevens’ Wild World saying goodbye to his lady, because whatever he’s wishing her it’s not well. “I’ll always remember you like a child, girl.”
That’s not even starting with all the underage lyrics.
The 70s were amazing for music, but there sure are some clunkers in there.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clearly that song was Jimmy Buffett.
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 month ago
“Pumped up kids”
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
*kicks
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s old enough to be shot in high school
stochasticity@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That song isn’t very subtle
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Blues Traveler just fully trolling listeners. 😆
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i hadn’t caught that many layers. that’s clever
dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
average response to the translated lyrics of the dancing cow song
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There’s only one thing on my mind five grams of coke, fly away alone to the land of nevermore There are thoughts inside my head when this state will end When I won’t be alone Cause white eel* will kick in /x2
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 1 month ago
99 red balloons as well imo.
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
not gonna lie it’s a banger
EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 month ago
My BIL had this moment listening to Copacabana on a vacation one time
“WTF They killed Tony!”
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And Lola never completely recovered, became an alcoholic, and she’s still trying to live in her past.
For Barry, the song is pretty dark.
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Po-po-po-poker face, fu-fu-fuck her face Po-po-po-poker face, fu-fu-fuck her face (she’s got me like nobody) Po-po-po-poker face, fu-fu-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah) Po-po-po-poker face, fu-fu-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 month ago
No cock like horse cock
felsiq@piefed.zip 1 month ago
For me that was more laughing uncontrollably than horror, dude sets up the intro so well and has that weird old timey vibe spot on so it’s so unexpected
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So subtle from the title
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
The title should have been enough 🤨
Schal330@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mr Brightside. I remember hearing the song when I was at uni, first thinking it was a real banger and in a drunken haze in a club started to actually listen to the lyrics and felt an uncomfortable connection, realising it was from the perspective of someone being cheated on and I’d gone through something similar at the time.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s Another Day In Paradise by Phil Collins.
I first heard the song as a child, on the radio being driven around by my parents. Didn’t really take the verses on board, and the chorus is simply repeats of “Oh, think twice. It’s another day for you and me in paradise.” With that big romantic hook and the warm breezy feel, as a kid I interpreted it as a groom asking his bride to consider extending their tropical honeymoon. I filed it in the same mental folder with Fields Of Gold.
It’s a song about abject poverty, about haves and have nots. Verses are about beggers on the street calling out to the wealthy who pretend not to see them. It lands like a brick.
thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
My ordinary life
TransNeko@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like a Prayer. I always laugh when I hear catholics sing this. they have no idea they are singing about giving blowjobs.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anyone had this with a song called blurred lines?
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My wife really liked the sound of “A Little Piece of Heaven” by Avenged Sevenfold until I told her what it’s about 😂
West_of_West@piefed.social 1 month ago
The lyrics always get a chuckle from me.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s the little electric heater in the video that gets me
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/A_Little_Piece_of_Heaven_(song…
Huh. It tells of story of love, betrayal, and reconciliation. Very heartwarming.
greygore@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reminds me of Afternoon Delight from Arrested Development.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
this song, but really this whole album
if you aren’t paying attention to the lyrics of mountain goats songs you’re missing 2/3 of the fun.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Brown sugar by the Rolling Stones. My Sherona.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i was at a house party and they were playing rock band. someone’s 14 year old daughter started singing the vocals to my sharona and all us adults sort of shifted there awkwardly like “uh, should she be singing this?” and her dad whispered “she doesn’t know what it means”
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Semi Charmed Kind of Life by Third Eye Blind.
At first when I really heard the part about snorting crystal meth I thought I must have downloaded some weird cover like the ones you used to sometimes get from Limewire.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lmao, it was while reading this comment that I realized it wasn’t Semi-Charred Kind of Life, a mistake that ironically helped me see that it was darker than it seemed.
It makes the line “I want something else to get me through this semi-charred kinda life” pretty obvious that he has negative feelings about it and from that I could guess that there was some kind of pain between the lines, though younger me thought maybe infidelity or some kind of mania (which I guess isn’t too far off the mark).
That said, despite the hidden tone, that song always makes me feel good. The overt tone is just so upbeat!
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pointed out that Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) is the same kind of music as Sixteen Tons to my wife. Was fun watching her realization as we were listening
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tell mister tally man, I can’t go, I owe six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch to the company store.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The curse of language learning
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
He is the smartest one, but always looks like a total dipshit.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Anyone trying to decipher Deftones lyrics withput the context in Chino’s brain.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 month ago
“I’m horny, want to go for a drive and/or bath?”
b34k@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming….
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Racing into The Night. She said kokoro at one point, that means heart right? I bet it’s a love song or something
oh
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
A ton of shit by Steely Dan.
barooboodoo@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Even the band name 🍆
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
remon@ani.social 1 month ago
That doesn’t help if you don’t even speak the language!
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Muss sie nicht schön sein Sie muss nicht klug sein, nein Sie muss nicht reich sein Doch um eines möchte ich bitten Dicke Titten 🕺
starchylemming@lemmy.world 1 month ago
a lot of the shit american songs generic german radio stations played every day for all my life is just fucking religious bullcrap through and through
it can’t be the lyrics, they don’t make the effort to process them. they just vibe with the blandness
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Republicans when they realize they are “the machine”
normanwall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Wow Paul Ryan really just vanished, huh?
Remember those photos of him posing as working out? So strange.
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know this post was supposed to be about “Every breath You take” and “Hey ya”, but these days “Born in the USA” and “Fortunate son” sung by conservatives come to mind.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
born in the usa is the most american song of all time
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Reagan used Born in the USA as a campaign song.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
False, they never realize
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea, but a chatbot can dream, right?