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Eleanor Rigby is a sad song, but I wouldn’t call it creepy. It’s also one of my favorites, along with She’s Leaving Home. I see that song completely differently. To me it was about a young woman who had finally decided to leave home, but didn’t yet have enough courage to confront her parents about it. She ran off with her boyfriend but only left a note. The mother, finding the note, doesn’t understand and takes it intensely personally “how could she treat us so thoughtlessly, how could she do this to me?”
The parents have given their daughter everything they think she could want and from their perspective that should be enough, but to her it isn’t.
To me the song is about the inevitable break between parents and child, which is painful on both sides.
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I know somewhere else on the SDMB I wrote about She’s leaving home- that song used to make me cry- because I did just that to my parents at the time. I left and never told them where I was going (I was with my first husband, he was my boyfriend then) but I always felt that song on a deeply personal level.
Like a Stone by I dont know who- that song is creepy.
I can’t believe it falls to me to defend Dave Matthews.
I always thought Crash Into Me was about a mutual - if unconventional - relationship.
There’s bondage, voyeurism, role playing (I’m the king of the castle, etc), all the things that make life great!
Dusty Springfield’s You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, now, that’s some seriously low self esteem.
I don’t see why Elanor Rigby is creepy. It seems to me to be about how people don’t really care about each other anymore, that’s why no one went to her funeral or tried to get to know her.
So she’s not strong enough to survive a failed relationship. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard of someone committing suicide because of a failed relationship. Lovely message there. It’s the polar opposite of I Will Survive.
not that I’d be crying if Cher were to go and off herself…
And even though it was apparently posted as a joke, I agree with Britney Spears Hit Me Baby One More Time. She clearly doesn’t write her own songs, play any instruments, or provide anything to the stage but throat and tits. Does she even try to interpret the noises coming from her larynx? She’s got all the talent of a dancing bear.
I’d say something about Sublime, but everybody knows a song about child prostitution is creepy. Who knows why it’s so popular? The power of a good beat and a catchy tune.
Can’t believe this thread has gotten out to three pages and nobody’s mentioned “No Rain” by Blind Melon.
Underneath that breezy guitar line and cheerful melody is a song about a man in the throes of a very deep depression.
“Angie Baby” really creeped me out when I was a little kid, but I never really knew why. Hearing the song again as an adult made it all clear. It’s so nice to be insane
No one asks you to explain…
I think that song doesn’t mean what you think it means. First of all, it’s “I really don’t think you’re strong enough”. Secondly, throughout the song, the basic message is “I don’t need you, but you need me, so you’re going to be sorry you left.”
Lyrics:
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– No foolin’. Don’t quote the entire song. Or I’ll follow you home and place a sack of flaming crap on your stoop.
There was a movement at one point in Asbury Park, NJ to nominate this rip-roarin’ good-time rock tune as the official town song… till someone pointed out the lyrics:
Her fans don’t find that one worrying because they don’t understand what it’s about, it’s Britney singing it. Everyone else doesn’t find it worrying because they do understand what it’s about, and it’s Britney singing it.
Not creepy per sig, but there is a pop-song here that goes “I will love you for a thousand and one nights” and is supposed to be v. romantic. 1001 nights, that is like what, a little over 3 years? Hardly a huge declaration of love or anything…
Ronan Keating sings “you say it best, when you say nothing at all”, which I always hear as “just shut the hell up”.
I’ve always heard that as “A simple rhyme to occupy my time” referring to the song itself (“This one goes out to the one I love…”).