# Creepiest non-creepy song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627 "2009-07-01T21:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/81 "2009-07-07T18:44:40Z")
> [@Rin\_Twisted](#): > > I can’t prove this, but I swear I’ve seen that song featured in one of those Kidzbop commericals…the song’s creepiness is magnified tenfold when sung by preteens who probably haven’t even made it to second base yet. Yeah, I [checked--amazon.com](http://checked--amazon.com) has a Kidz Bop version as an mp3. I listened to the sample. Pass the Tums. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/82 "2009-07-07T19:28:40Z")
“It’s a Small World” I got stuck on that ride for about 20 minutes once due to some sort of malfunction up ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/83 "2009-07-08T02:39:42Z")
_“It’s a Small World”_ - Make up your own irreverent/insulting lyrics to it - it’s easy enough to do - and that may help some to remove the creepy and ear-worm problems. Okay… I’ll start another thread for it… ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Cylinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Master\_Cylinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Cylinder)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/84 "2009-07-08T05:01:54Z")
“California Dreamin’” has always had the ability to depress me, no matter how good of a mood I’m in before I hear it. Boomtown Rats “I don’t like Mondays” had a delayed creep effect. When I was listening to it on the radio back in the day I was like “Ha-ha! I don’t like Mondays either! Who does?”. Then I started paying attention to the lyrics and realized it wasn’t some happy little I-don’t-want-to-go-to-school rant. Then I found out the whole story and now the song really gets to me, in a bad way. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/85 "2009-07-08T08:09:52Z")
Last Kiss. When I hear the version by J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers it sounds so peppy and uplifting. It wasn’t until I heard the Pearl Jam version it’s a song about a guy that killed his girlfriend via car crash. How the hell can a band be so happy about that!?!? Now I can’t hear the original without feeling somewhat put out. Also, Roy Brown’s “Butcher Pete” off the Fallout 3 radio soundtrack. Seriously, they thought a song about a murderer who just can’t help himself would be a GOOD idea? In 1950?? At first I thought it was a euphemism for a philanderer, but the lyrics get quite explicit. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/86 "2009-07-08T11:42:58Z")
Legendary British comedy due Morecambe & Wise used a number of different theme songs for their TV and radio shows over the years, the most famous being “Bring Me Sunshine”. But an earlier one was called “Following You Around” - thus: Anywhere, I will find you, Don’t care where, look behind you, I’ll be there, following you around. Rain or shine you won’t shake me, I don’t mind where you take me, Spend my time, following you around. Now listen, don’t you know, Hiding from me does no good, Wherever you may go I’ll be in the neighbourhood. If you fly, I will follow, I don’t care about tomorrow, Long as I’m — following you around Get my kicks — following you around. Er, stalker or what? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/87 "2009-07-08T12:15:57Z")
> [@Master\_Cylinder](#): > > “California Dreamin’” has always had the ability to depress me, no matter how good of a mood I’m in before I hear it. Well, again, despite its perky, catchy sound, it’s not SUPPOSED to be a happy song. It’s supposed to be a song about a guy who hates his life in the cold Northeast, and has a dream of chucking it all (including, it seems, his wife) and moving to sunny California. But he knows he’ll probably never have the guts to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/88 "2009-07-08T13:39:48Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > “The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA” by Donna Fargo. Contrary to the lyrics, she sounds like she’s about to open her wrists with a penknife. Holy Moly! I just listened to it (the _Big Love_ version… and it freaked me out! That is soooo creepy! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/89 "2009-07-08T13:53:51Z")
Oh My Yes, Rhonda sure feels she is the happiest girl being engaged to a prophet of God. ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/90 "2009-07-08T14:44:05Z")
> [@Master\_Cylinder](#): > > “California Dreamin’” has always had the ability to depress me, no matter how good of a mood I’m in before I hear it. > > Boomtown Rats “I don’t like Mondays” had a delayed creep effect. When I was listening to it on the radio back in the day I was like “Ha-ha! I don’t like Mondays either! Who does?”. Then I started paying attention to the lyrics and realized it wasn’t some happy little I-don’t-want-to-go-to-school rant. Then I found out the whole story and now the song really gets to me, in a bad way. Me too. Brenda Ann Spencer is eligible for parole again this year, but chances are very great she will remain behind bars. Her four previous parole hearings were unanimously against her release, for rather obvious reasons. “The Man Who Sold the World” is unintentionally creepy, unlike Bowie’s Space Oddity; and I didn’t realize Nirvana had covered it, (however poorly). ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/91 "2009-07-08T18:50:41Z")
1.) On the subject of Christmas songs, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” is really depressing (intentionally, though, one would assume). I usually refer to it as “I’ll Be Home for Christmas (If I Don’t Die in the Trenches).” 2.) That terrible “Follow Me” by Uncle Kracker. I swear to god, it’s about heroin. Think about it. > [@](#): > > You don’t know how you met me > You don’t know why > You can’t turn around and say goodbye > All you know is when I’m with you > I make you free > And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea ---
**Author:** ![Rin\_Twisted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Rin\_Twisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rin_Twisted)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/92 "2009-07-08T18:53:49Z")
> [@](#): > > And if you want to leave > I can guarantee > You won’t find nobody else like me :eek: I am honestly…creeped out a bit at this moment! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/93 "2009-07-08T18:56:21Z")
> [@Rin\_Twisted](#): > > I am honestly…creeped out a bit at this moment! See?! Heroin!! Totally, totally heroin. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/94 "2009-07-09T14:48:27Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > 1.) > 2.) That terrible “Follow Me” by Uncle Kracker. I swear to god, it’s about heroin. Think about it. The song is about committing adultery and running off with the person you’re cheating with. “I don’t care about the ring you wear/Just as long as no one knows/then nobody can care.” etc. But it’s still kinda creepy how he goes about describing the insane high you get by cheating (swim through your veins) … ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/95 "2009-07-09T15:18:02Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > The song is about committing adultery and running off with the person you’re cheating with. “I don’t care about the ring you wear/Just as long as no one knows/then nobody can care.” etc. But it’s still kinda creepy how he goes about describing the insane high you get by cheating (swim through your veins) … \*\*\*Heroin \*\*\*doesn’t care if you’re married, either, you know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/96 "2009-07-09T16:29:38Z")
Ooh, what about that “I Gotcha” song by, uh, Joe Tex. No way that song’s not about rape. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/97 "2009-07-09T16:36:02Z")
> [@Black\_Sunshine](#): > > Ooh, what about that “I Gotcha” song by, uh, Joe Tex. No way that song’s not about rape. If that’s the one that has the line about being next if they ever broke up with their boyfriend, it has a totally different tone when it’s sung by a woman, for some reason. Liza Minnelli has a classic interpretation of it from her “Liza with a Z” concert from 1973. ---
**Author:** ![scarbrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@scarbrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scarbrow)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/98 "2009-07-09T18:14:23Z")
Thanks to the movie “the Shining”, I still find some big band era songs creepy because of the way they were used in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/99 "2009-07-09T18:52:43Z")
This song was mentioned in the “cheesy” tunes thread. I’d forgotten it (read: banished it from my mind): I’ve always found [Stay Awhile by the Bells](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBeQTj_9UVs) extraordinarily creepy. I think it was supposed to be a goo-goo eyes, hippy love song, but the breathless little girl voice and they way it starts off with some dude creeping into her room without making a sound … Aw hell! Trying to find a YouTube link was creepy because half the ones I found were slo-mo slideshows of women sleeping and disrobing and stuff. :: Ick :: ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627/100 "2009-07-10T00:31:39Z")
> [@Always Brings Pie](#): > > Have you heard it, though? It’s a combination of the lyrics and the way he’s singing it that always creeps me out too. I feel like he’s much too old for the person that he’s singing about/talking to. Yep, Chantilly Lace, and also “I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill”. Ew. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-non-creepy-song/501627.md?page=6)