h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Enrique Inglesias's song 'I love to hear you cry' came to my mind while posting in another thread. Am I the only person to find the words of that song profoundly disturbing?

"Are you coming to the moment
When you know your heart can break
I'm inside you
I'm around you
Just wanna hear you cry again
I don't know why why but I love to see you cry"



There are other songs which worried me. I was never happy about the line "I'm the man who put the gang in bang" which - even more disturbingly - was sung by Gary Glitter.

So - any other songs which make your skin crawl?

B

I saw that subject title and knew it'd be you after reading the Feeling Foolish thread!

I was rather disconcerted when I first heard "I love to see you cry" - maybe we're missing something and he really means something far more passionate and lovely - or maybe the songwriter is just a twisted freak!



Queegle

I think hes twisted.

I mean, living with that mole....

and im a Heavy Metaller, dont get me started on sinister song lyrics...

"I'll be Watching You"- manky, manky song about a stalker- which everyone seems to thing is incredibly romantic

"Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away"

Red Hot Chili Peppers

is that dark enough to count ?

Math

Especially as the song is about Heroin addiction...

I know, but it a beautiful song, has to be one of my favourites.

I´ll tel you what sounds really 'good' and patriotic, but is anything but: Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen.
It´s not that he´s all happy and american and stuff - that´s just the chorus. In fact he´s criticising the Vietnam war and how it´s veterans were treated, among other things...
cheers ismarah

Oh, im not disagreeing. One of my faves too, very comforting on the long walks up the hill home looking out over my city...

I've always been disturbed by the Frank Sinatra line...

I've got you...under my skin...

Like, why the f**k am I under his skin? How did I get there? Why is he so happy about it?

"She hears the lies behind the lines
But she wants the very same thing
She knows the glove on the hand in her lap
Conceals a wedding ring
Bed and breakfast
And now you're paid in full
Who'd have known you would be so predictable
Bed and breakfast
Is all you bargained for"

Moxy Fruvous

Aww isn't it cheerful ?

Math

"Social Professor didn't stop when he carressed her
He laughed in tears at their shame
And though she calculated,
So it was premeditated
What could she do?"

Moxy Fruvous again, and this one has really upbeat music to go with the song about rape and murder...

Math

"No commotion, no screaming brakes
Most of it's over before I awake
From the ceiling, my coffee cup drips
While out my window, the horizon does flips
The worst part was hitting the ground -
Not the feeling so much as the sound
Can't help but wonder if all this is real
Cause tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel"

Barenaked Ladies

You might have guessed I like this thread

Math

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nickcave/thecurseofmillhaven.html

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Curse Of Millhaven, from the Murder Ballads album.

Though I've heard plenty of *intentionally* disturbing lyrics, there do seem to be a good number of supposedly fluffy pop songs that are seriously uncomfortable to listen to, like those mentioned, which do make you wonder what subtext is intended (assuming the writer thought that far).

I'm usually too preoccupied though, when listening to pop songs written for manufactured groups and their progeny, attempting to ascertain how much the writers resent the singer, their success and fortune, and wish to render them as fools and puppets to anyone actually paying attention to the lyrics.

Look at some of Geri Halliwell's songs - 'Look at me! (...I can even do reality'), 'Lift me up' and 'Scream if you want to go faster' all says to me 'Put a penny in the media whore' as far as I can tell. And don't even get me started on Robbie Williams.

Sod it, this is a separate topic.. I'll start another thread.

I couldn't possibly comment on the lyrics of pap.. sorry pop music, I have happily avoided listening to any of it for years (I think I have heard some, but listened to it not at all ), but I would expect you to be right

Math

Well, as we all now know, after listening and hearing the wisdom of various persons, many of whom hold positions in the UK parliment/government, it is rap music which is the most evil music of '#em all.
It was interesting, to hear, in all seriousness, rap music, and in particular the lyrics being put down as the most important cause of gun violence in the UK, and pressumbably, therefore, beyond the UK.
Were these people being serious?, Or are they seriously f*****g stupid?
Not a single person mentioned, with any degree of importance, drugs, drug culture, social exclusion and poverty as being at all related, interrelated or connected with gun culture.
I think the world has gone mad.



"prisoners grumble and p*ss their clothes, and scratch their matted hair...
a tiny light from a window hole 50 yards away....
....
50 ugly soldurs holding spears by the iron door
A sinister midget, with a bucket and a mop where the blood goes down the drain"
Zappa,

Well, i think it is justified to blame a culture of violence and guns on bands like 'So Solid Crew'. One of them was prosecuted for punching a 16 yr old girl, another for carrying a loaded gun... These people are role-models for the muggers, assaulters, etc.

What else can happen when these people are what young people want to be??? The lyrics talk about shooting people, drive-bys, etc...

Of course drugs are a huge part of it. What amused me was Melanie Curry in the Mail blaming Drugs liberals for gun violence and the drug gangs. Stupid woman. If drugs were legal and state controlled there wouldnt be gangs controlling them...

Well, as someone brought up on a diet of song lyrics about rape, the devil, killing the pope, and treating everyone other than yourself with contempt, I can't see that music and its lyrical content has much effect.
I know a fair few people who listen to a lot of rap music with all the gun references, shotting etc., and, as far as I can tell, they haven't killed anyone, or got a gun (yet). Social exclusion, caused by the illegality of drugs, causes the creation of subcultures which have nothing but hatred and loathing from those powers, mainly the poliece, that determine that which they do to be illegal.
If someone just looked logically at how much we spend trying to poliece drugs, drug crime, and all the other costs associated with it and its illegal stasis, then its pretty obvious that it should just be legalised, and controlled as alcohol and tobacco are.


"I have been in you,
you have been in me,
and I have been in and in and out of you, and everywhere, you want me to...."
Zappa,

"Rape me, my friend"

Nirvana

never liked that song though, no matter how it stuck in my head.