When I was around 7 or so, I thought Michael Jackson was in a huge hurry to get to his sweetie’s house very, very early in the morning in the song Got To Be There. But I was young, so I can be forgiven.
But when I was a teenager I had a friend whose boyfriend broke up with her and she was not having it. She had it in her mind that they were going to get married and he truly loved her, he was just fighting it. She had this big, elaborate plan to get him to see the error of his ways and one of her points was that she was going to mail him a 45 (remember those?) of The Doobie Brother’s What A Fool Believes.
Then there was that Presidential nominee who wanted Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA as his campaign song.
^^^I think the nominee, later to become President, also asked to use John Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” (“Ain’t that America for you and me”) for his '84 relection campaign, whereupon the unruly-haired Hoosier said something like, “Did anybody there even listen to the whole song?”
There used to be an NFL promo set to Eminem’s ‘My Name Is.’ At the time, I think the ad people figured 'cause he was white and little kids liked him, his lyrics couldn’t be that bad. Le sigh…
Third Eye Blind’s ‘Semi-Charmed Kind of Life’ was used in Inspector Gadget (among other G-rated shows and movies), even though it contains lyrical gems like
Some state legislator in New Jersey wanted to make “Born to Run” the state song. Albert Brooks got a great routine out of singing lines like the following at official state events:
Apparently, lots of people use songs like the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” and REM’s “The One I Love” as wedding songs, despite their being about a stalkerish obsession and a contempt-filled break-up.
You can look 'em up. TPTB don’t want people posting all the lyrics to a song and I think you’d need to do that to understand how mistaken my poor friend was.
Got To Be There is a song about how MJ has got to be with his girlfriend in the morning when she wakes up-- Oh, what good feelings they’ll be, the moment I know she loves meeeeeeee!
He was running to get to her house before she woke up, right?
The local minor league ballclub insists on playing Springsteen’s “Glory Days” after games, despite that fact that it could easily have been titled “Loser Has-Beens.”
But, you know, it’s upbeat and it mentions baseball.
Exapno Mapcase, I’m almost positive that was Robert Wuhl who did that routine about “Born to Run”, but it was hilarious. I remember seeing him do it on Comic Relief in 1989 or 1990. It wasn’t just the inappropriateness of the lyrics, as he pointed out, but the mental image of standing next to your grandmother at a baseball game, hand over your heart, belting out, “WHOA-OOOHHH!!”
“I Will Always Love You” is 100% a breakup song, but it’s become a wedding standard. I don’t think forcible sterilization should be out of the question for people who can’t figure that out.
How about the Democratic National Convention using “Let’s Get It Started” as their theme song. Of course, that is the sanitized version of a song originally called “Let’s Get Retarded.” :smack:
The animated, kid-friendly movie Robots used “Wonderful Night.” Lyrics of the full version include “Our style’s fucking Posh like Dave Beckham.”
For me it was All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You by Heart. I loved that song for years and then actually paid attention to it.
Brief synopsis for those that haven’t paid attention…Girl can’t get pregnant by her husband (boyfriend or something, it isn’t specified), so she goes for a drive and picks up a random stranger literally off the street. They go to a cheap motel, screw all night and she leaves before he wakes up. Turns out he knocked her up that night. Later she goes back with her man and her baby and tells him he’s the dad, thanks for the sperm…now have a nice life. Oy!
Or how about the artists that record the song. Bruce Robison wrote the song, but Tim McGraw recorded it. Music and lyrics here, lyrics only here.
So either he is stating he is was impregnated by another man and does love men (not that there’s anything wrong with that), or he never really read the lyrics.
This came close, but even there it was abused. Two of the verses are spliced together, leaving out that the kid (who won’t get to “go to college”, “fall in love”, or “be cool”) is an abandoned baby. I think it’s cut in right behind “kinder, gentler machine-gun hand”, probably to make it seem as if the ‘kid’ is either a soldier or ‘collateral damage’.
I don’t think so. In the first line, he’s the man that’s being referred to. He’s telling her it shouldn’t be so difficult to love him.
The second line, I don’t know, it just sound like her boys look like her. He probably sees her when he looks at them.
I initially saw it your way, **Wisp **, but then that would mean, either, it is difficult to love a man who constantly pisses you off and thinks she should get over it, or it’s difficult to love someone who loves someone who is always angry.
