Song Meanings
The stories and meanings behind well-known songs.
Gangnam Style by PSY: The Meaning Behind the Song
The first video on the internet to reach a billion views is a joke about class in Seoul, and almost nobody who danced to it in...
Song MeaningRiptide by Vance Joy: The Meaning Behind the Song
Dentists, a magician’s assistant, a cowboy in New York and Michelle Pfeiffer, in that order, over a ukulele. The song holds the record for the longest...
Song MeaningLike a Stone by Audioslave: The Meaning Behind the Song
Almost everyone hears a love song. The bass player in the band heard a love song too, right up until he asked the man who wrote...
Song MeaningBlack and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa: The Meaning Behind the Song
A song that became the unofficial anthem of an NFL franchise without ever mentioning the team, the sport or the city. It also never mentions gold,...
Song MeaningJudas by Lady Gaga: The Meaning Behind the Song
A dance record named after the man who sold out Jesus, released days before Easter, with a video in which Lady Gaga plays Mary Magdalene torn...
Song MeaningWaterfalls by TLC: The Meaning Behind the Song
A number one single about a drug dealer who gets killed and a man who dies of AIDS, sung by a group who had been marketed...
Song MeaningEyes Without a Face by Billy Idol: The Meaning Behind the Song
The softest song on a hard rock album, with a title lifted from a French horror film about a surgeon cutting faces off strangers. The woman...
Song MeaningBella Ciao: The Meaning Behind the Song
It is sung at Italian state ceremonies every April, at protests on five continents, and by four bank robbers in a Netflix series. Nobody knows who...
Song MeaningGlycerine by Bush: The Meaning Behind the Song
Four chords, no drums, a string section that only shows itself at the end, and a title borrowed from chemistry. It is the biggest song an...
Song MeaningPlush by Stone Temple Pilots: The Meaning Behind the Song
Search dogs, a mask, bad weather, and a question the narrator keeps asking without ever getting an answer. For thirty years people have read the lyric...
Song MeaningLola by The Kinks: The Meaning Behind the Song
The BBC banned it, and not for the reason anyone assumes. Australian stations cut a line out of it with an edit so crude the record...
Song MeaningFather Figure by George Michael: The Meaning Behind the Song
The most unsettling number one of George Michael’s career sounds like a lullaby and reads like a negotiation. He wrote it, produced it, sang every part...
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