Music you liked that was ruined when you looked into the lyrics

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Nero Fiddled said:
I found the Kinks "Lola" quite a catchy tune but ditched it as soon as I listened to the lyrics.
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That one's just funny, though

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine 😏

I feel like it's a right of passage, finding out what Lola is and realizing the world's not as innocent as it seems.

For me? Pick any Rammstein song. You have to admit, they're the best troll band ever. Muh Nahtzee flavored industrial music is all about weird, often gay, kinks. Kinda glad I wrecked my car on my way to see them live, I think the whole Flake riding giant dildos while crowdsurfing thing would've soured me but quick.

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Based Yuu Narukami said:
I have. I’m unfortunately a Decemberists fan, and while I maintain that their older stuff is very enjoyable, I recently discovered their album from 2018. Specifically, their song, Severed. I thought it sounded pretty catchy. Until I went digging down the rabbit hole, and found that it was all about The Orange Man and how he was awful and horrible.
I guess that’s what you get for listening to music from band based in fucking Portland Oregon.
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I love to listen to music like this and just "understand it wrong." Fuck them. Death of the artist is real. You made a song about the orange man but it is actually about the issues with the US public education system.
>buh-but the singer said-
The singer is a hipster from portland who got lucky, he may as well be a dead artist. Plus my understanding is better and cooler.
Harvey Danger said:
The most notorious example I can think of is Wrong Way by Sublime. I'm convinced that song was only allowed to get popular because radio DJs would talk or mix over the first 4 words. The rest of the lyrics are uncomfortable enough, but you miss that the singer's not a good guy at all.
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I thought what wrong way was obvious with what it was about. I also don't see what is wrong with having the singer be a bad person. Obviously it depends on the mood but a song about a bad person from their own perspective about how they are good/justified is one of my favorite types of music. The Rake by the Decemberists, coincidentally, fits this description.
 
The first one that comes to mind is Disturbed's Bad Man. They could have left it open, about any despot or tyrant, but went out of their way to make sure people know they support the right side of history, and "putin bad".
At first I thought they were being predictable and making it about orange man, at least they threw a curveball at me for once.

The other one I can think of at the moment is МАТЬ-ЗЕМЛЯ by Sivernot. It's a Witchouse song in Russian. Its very emotionally powerful with the vocals, and I got curious so I looked up the lyrics. Before you read the spoilered part, listen to the song, and get a feel for it. I'd like other people's opinions on if the lyrics actually match the vibe of the song itself, or if it's just me.
It's a run of the mill "respect the planet, save the trees" song. Extremely disappointing.


 
Any song where the lyricists whine and bitch about religion (it's always Christianity as well) when it's very obvious they have never picked up a religious text or done any research in their life. It always comes across as them malding that mom and dad made them go to church on Sunday instead of getting to stay home and whack off and smoke weed. Bonus points if they then turn out to be some flavor of gay activist and want you to give a shit about some "marginalized" group of people or stupid cause, right after shitting on a different group of people.
 
I liked the .webms on /wsg/ of the anime girl slideshow set to Lost Kitten. So one day I looked up the actual music video, and it led me to learning about a subculture of gay black transvestite dancers and their "den mothers."
 
I usually only have this happen with foreign songs, like Mann Gegen Mann by Rammstein. It's about fags fucking, fyi.

corvuscorax said:
The other one I can think of at the moment is МАТЬ-ЗЕМЛЯ by Sivernot. It's a Witchouse song in Russian. Its very emotionally powerful with the vocals, and I got curious so I looked up the lyrics. Before you read the spoilered part, listen to the song, and get a feel for it. I'd like other people's opinions on if the lyrics actually match the vibe of the song itself, or if it's just me.
It's a run of the mill "respect the planet, save the trees" song. Extremely disappointing.
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No, those lyrics don't match at all, which is a bummer because I dig the song. This is part of why I don't look up foreign lyrics.
 
Fount of BadSpeak said:
I usually only have this happen with foreign songs, like Mann Gegen Mann by Rammstein. It's about fags fucking, fyi.


No, those lyrics don't match at all, which is a bummer because I dig the song. This is part of why I don't look up foreign lyrics.
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Don't get me started on Rammstein lyrics. The number of songs that turn out to be about the most heinous shit is extremely concering. Their first album has some of the most vile examples of what I'm talking about, though there are sprinklings of the mentally disturbed throughout the rest of them. Till Lindemann is a strange, disturbed man.
The music is stull fucking amazing though.

At this point, I just listen the song and input my own meaning on the foreign ones when the actual lyrics turn out to be dogshit or cringe.
 
"Blame Brett" by the Beaches, although the line that irked me the most was where they acknowledged the themlets. I'm sorry but "baby they" sounds so demeaning.
 
Notion by the rare occasions. Ruined is a strong word but the song is just a generic "GOD'S NOT REAL, I'M FINE WITH NO LIFE AFTER DEATH, I'M SO PROFOUND FOR MAKING THIS STATEMENT". As if millions of other songs like that don't already exist.
dick brain said:
Mr Brightside.

Miss me with that cuck shit.
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That song is so strange. It's a guy imagining a hypothetical scenario and going insane over it.
 
I remember hearing ZZ Top on the radio all the damn time when I was younger, so I've always had decent (but vague) memories of the music. Now, in recent times when I remember a song from them and go look up the lyrics, I've come to discover it will always be about women and sex in some fashion. It's all very shallow, very boomery, and generally just sleazy. Lame and degenerate. Find them not very fun to listen to now.
 
Bit off-topic but I was doing the school run with a car full of kids the other day and was listening to Aerosmith’s Big Ones album. Dude Looks Like a Lady came on and the car fell silent. Not for the first time did I curse modern day society for ruining perfectly good songs. (Guns and Roses’ One in a Million is another I know now not to play in a car full of children). Oops.

On topic there’s no songs specifically but I’ve gone off entire bands / singers due to their need to speak out publicly about present day hot political issue. They deserve to lose their homes to the feather Indians for their nonsense .
 
Korpon said:
Any song where the lyricists whine and bitch about religion (it's always Christianity as well) when it's very obvious they have never picked up a religious text or done any research in their life. It always comes across as them malding that mom and dad made them go to church on Sunday instead of getting to stay home and whack off and smoke weed. Bonus points if they then turn out to be some flavor of gay activist and want you to give a shit about some "marginalized" group of people or stupid cause, right after shitting on a different group of people.
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I used to love Notion by The rare occasions back in 2022, but now coming back to this song I can't help, but cringe at the r/atheist lyrics. I get what they were going for I guess, but still it just doesn't do it for me. Easily the worst part about the song
 
Dysnomia said:
Shiny Happy People by REM is about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It was inspired by a propaganda poster the Chinese government released after the event.
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IIRC the band denied it. It is apparently just a saccharine pop song randomly made by a normally more introspective alternative rock band and the Tienanmen Square thing was cope by fans trying to square that circle.
 
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