So I was listening to music and this song came on-
A while ago I googling the meaning of this song for some reason, and most of the interpretations people gave to it was about some sort of relationship, most commonly something between a younger person and an older person.
But
Apparently that’s not even the meaning of it
This song is actually about drug and substance abuse among the singer’s teenage friends. It’s sung from the perspective of the drug.
Which surprised me a lot, but it’s lowkey rad.
So it got me thinking,
And why not open a thread when you get thinking
What songs do you know that have hidden meanings or messages?
do you have any song you personality interpreted differently than others have?
Katy Perry’s song “Firework” apparently has a hidden meaning👀
“Basically I have this very morbid idea… when I pass, I want to be put into a firework and shot across the sky over the Santa Barbara ocean as my last hurrah,” she said at the time. “I want to be a firework, both living and dead. My boyfriend showed me a paragraph out of Jack Kerouac’s book On the Road, about people that are buzzing and fizzing and full of life and never say a commonplace thing. They shoot across the sky like a firework and make people go, ‘Ahhh.’ I guess that making people go ‘ahhh’ is kind of like my motto.”
Ohhh, Slide by The Goo Goo Dolls and Freshmen by The Verve Pipe. Both about abortion, but in Freshman, the Girl also kills herself. The lyrics “She took a weeks worth of Valium and slept.”
the ones the slaves sang when they were working on plantations in 1800s, they had hidden messages of when the underground railroad was leaving and hope
Semi-Charmed Life was the number one hit song when I was 13. I had no idea what it was about until a few years ago, when I read an article about songs with hidden meanings.
