Favorite songs you stopped loving once you learned the lyrics.

[Artemis923]

Meh. I listen to death and black metal, and the bands I like generally have interesting lyrics to them.

Other people don't think so though. When I tell them the guy just belted out stuff like:

"The circle of bones has been sealed,
prepare for these most ancient rites.
Three virgin cunts, arrested by chains,
Gut them like pigs, let their filthy blood drain."

It tends to make them not want to know the rest lol.

 

[smithy_2045]

I don't think this has ever happened to me. I naturally take no heed of the lyrics, and only pay attention to them if they enhance my enjoyment of a song in some manner.

 

[Kae]

That Gorillaz song with the windmill bit.

WTF is that shit about? And these two rappers appear and start saying something about freakin' navigating somewhere? You wot mate?

Feel Good inc?
Eh a lot of Gorillaz songs are like that, I still like them, I mean 5/4 makes even less sense, something about magic making no sound, turning his dad on and making him kill himself.

OT: Sure it happened a lot of times, they're in Spanish though and I don't really feel like digging them up and translating or explaining what's going on right now, mostly because I should be asleep right now.

 

[repeating integers]

Well, I've never stopped loving a song due to lyrics, but for the longest time I thought Warpaint's "Lissie's Heart Murmur" was a lovely, ethereal song.

Then I listened properly to the lyrics and notes and realised it was a suicide song. That sudden realisation left me feeling rather... cold.

 

[repeating integers]

Muse's Uprising. TBH, the fact that it's about complete idiocy doesn't bother me so much as the band if full of a bunch of fucking hypocrites. Kinda like RAtM in that respect.

I've seen lots of people say stuff like this and it makes little sense to me. The point of RATM is to get their message and fiery political beliefs across to a wide audience, which they're doing perfectly well. What do you expect them to do - refuse money from their label and play at bars for eternity?

 

[Nazulu]

I used to love Sabbra Cabbra from Black Sabbath, but I have to admit the lyrics are pretty bland and repetitive which kinda drained a little of how much used to enjoy it. Still a great melody though.

 

[Blackdoom]

I've never had a song that I stopped listening to because of lyrics. A lot of my music is morbid anyway and covers a lot of topics.
There were a couple of songs which did surprise me however about what the lyrics were about.
Such as
I was surprised to find out the lyrics are about a man burning prostitutes alive.
Reading the lyrics for this is rather interesting.

 

[Talaris]

A large majority of anime openers I've seen.

I've probably unbeknownst to me listened to some worse than this (and probably liked them too), but from the ones where I read the lyrics, this probably takes the cake:

Spoiler

 

[Esotera]

The first few times I heard this I was a bit tipsy so thought it said Drugs are for my friends...

I still like the song, was just a bit surprised when I looked up the lyrics.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Brown Sugar so fucking much.

 

[Nekron_X]

i'd have to say..some say by sum 41. i still listen to the song, but when it first came out i didn't really realize how sad the chorus of it actually is, and that combined with the last few lines at the end of the song kinda made me go"...oh wow..." though i tend to listen to other songs that are darker, it just surprised me


another one i still listen to is one week by barenaked ladies, though that was more surprise at hearing the sailor moon line within it once i listened to it again years later.

 

[Smertnik]

I loved Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch as a kid. It was probably one of my favourite songs at the time. But then I learned English and had to find out that it's a juvenile song about sex. I still like the music but the lyrics seriously dampen my enjoyment while listening to it.

Spoiler: This is how I felt about it in retrospect

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[Queen Michael]

That "Heeeeeeey Macarena" song, once my best friend told me that they're singing "Move your body, Macarena" and that Macarena is the ame of a girl in the song. I thought they were singing about the dance. Now that song gives me a "dirty old man" feeling.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

I think there was never an instance when I stopped loving a song simply for the lyrics. The worst that happened is that it didn't improve upon the song - which can be easily done if you have well done lyrics that fit the song perfectly. Anyway, here's two of those less convincing instances I remember.

Spoiler: Muse - Exo-Politics

Well I really like this song to a degree that it's among the favourites from BH&R. Still, many of the songs on this album and this song in particular is so mired in crazy preachy conspiracy nonsense that it really puts me off.

Spoiler: Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany

Another instance where the song is just too good for the lyrics. The music tells an epic and introspective story and the lyrics are somehow seemingly just about some guy who gets invited into the county manor of the titular count of Tuscany and then for some nonsensical reason gets frightened out of his mind and the count has to tell him that he doesn't intend to kill him. It makes no real sense and sadly carries far less weight than the music suggests.

i'd have to say..some say by sum 41. i still listen to the song, but when it first came out i didn't really realize how sad the chorus of it actually is, and that combined with the last few lines at the end of the song kinda made me go"...oh wow..." though i tend to listen to other songs that are darker, it just surprised me...

Honestly, reading those lyrics was surprising. I must have listened to that song hundreds of times yet never heeded the lyrics so much and just thought it to be consisting of the preachy "Think before you make up your mind!" message and be much less sad. However, I must say I really like the song better now I think: In an album that is so full of righteous anger at the vanity and static nature of Western society and a drive to change this, this song sticks out like a sore thumb with much more melancholy and hopelessness than I heard in the rest of the album. Anyway, thanks for bringing that up

 

[Colour Scientist]

Well, not really any song lyrics... but I can never listen to Smashing Pumpkins the same again, after I found out what an idiotic, crazy, mother fucker Billy Corgan is...<.<

Is he?
I've never heard too much about that, apart fom te Courtney Love stuff.

 

[Elfgore]

This "beautiful" song from a little metalcore band from Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxkjfaV9k8Q

When I first listened to it I only listened to about the first minute and decided it was alright and downloaded it. I looked up the lyrics the first time I really listened to it. The song cusses 22 times in a four minute long song. Also the line "you filthy fucking c**t" really made me sick.

 

[Childe]

We've all had songs where the lyrics weren't clear but we loved them anyway. Half the fun of listening to people sing their own favorite songs is listening to them mangle the lyrics or make up ones to fill the gaps.

One of my absolute favorites songs from childhood was Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle".


I loved the music and the chorus was right up there with my understanding of "3 Blind Mice" and other songs of similar cerebral challenging caliber.

But when I came across the song years and years later I was old enough to listen to the lyrics--and was AGHAST!!!

The happy song from my childhood was about absentee parenting and wasted time, now regretted. And since my father died it makes me regret not having more time together, so I can't listen to it without getting melancholy.

What songs fell from your favorite's list when you learned the lyrics?

This song is one of my favorites, the chorus is so catchy
OT: the only song i can think of the horse with no name. Once i learned it was about drugs i gave it up....then a few years later picked it back up again lol

 

[thesilentman]

Never, but then again, I listen to music for the music, not the lyrics. The closest it's gotten is Us and Them by Pink Floyd. Right, it's a song about societal pressure? I'm not seeing it... I still like the song, but the lyrics threw me.

Spoiler: Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany

Another instance where the song is just too good for the lyrics. The music tells an epic and introspective story and the lyrics are somehow seemingly just about some guy who gets invited into the county manor of the titular count of Tuscany and then for some nonsensical reason gets frightened out of his mind and the count has to tell him that he doesn't intend to kill him. It makes no real sense and sadly carries far less weight than the music suggests.

Eh, half of Black Clouds and Silver Linings is like that. Every song has awesome, awesome music, which the lyrics being quite bad. Let's recap:

- A Nightmare to Remember is about a car crash.
- A Rite of Passage is about the Illuminati.
- Wither is about... writers' block?!
- The Shattered Fortress is the last step in breaking away from alcohol addiction.
- The Best of Times is about mourning the loss of a father.
- The Count of Tuscany is about a paranoid ************ invited to a Count's house. What? I like that interpretation...

Yeah, all of the music is awesome, but half of the album is pretty bad with lyrics.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I'm not easily offended or unsettled, so I'm having a hard time thinking of this...probably "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. Mostly because I heard it a lot in my youth and never analyzed the words or anything. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about.