| Queen – Under Pressure Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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...Wait, so NONE of the top comments so much as bring up economic injustice? This song, written during the beginning of economic neoliberalism's deadly march in the US? This song, which repeats "people on streets" as a central motif? This song, whose official video makes extensive use of footage from the Great Depression, demolition of poor housing, unemployment statistics, and violent protest? Christ, failing capitalism puts some heavy-duty blinders on people. |
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| Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| As a godless liberal SJW cuck, imo this is a very prescient song about toxic masculinity and rape culture, and especially the "boys will be boys" apologism the media does for white dudes who do bad things; Brock Turner is a good recent example. | |
| Beastie Boys – Girls Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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IMO, this song is a satire of misogyny in rap music through the device of singing it from a childish perspective, complete with playground-rhyme lyrics and music. Like, "to clean up my room"? What fully-grown man refers to 'his room'? It sounds like he's referring to his mom, not a woman he's in a relationship with. Then again, Kathleen Hanna, frontwoman of feminist punk acts Le Tigre and Bikini Kill and Ad-Rock's wife, quoted this song in the documentary about her, "The Punk Singer", as evidence of the Beastie Boys' early misogyny. So either I'm wrong or they've just never talked about it. |
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| Ween – Piss Up A Rope Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Always wanted to think that this song was an exaggerated parody of misogyny in country music, but, no, it's probably just straight-up misogyny. Still, the turns of phrase in this song are amazing. I use "up shit's creek with a turd for a paddle" in daily life sometimes. | |
| The Replacements – I Will Dare Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Probably projecting a lot, but I see plenty of that on this site, so the hell with it - the song is about being ready to become a member of the human race again after having been severely depressed for a long time. The age thing is not literal: the subject and narrator are roughly the same age, but the depressed narrator feels older, "dumber", inadequate, an outsider. He tells the subject not to count any of his advice - although he may have more experience for having suffered more, he's certainly not wiser, having made plenty of mistakes. It's also a common report by depressed people to have heavy bags under their eyes that make them look older. Addicts who have kicked the habit also tend to look older permanently - drug use may have been a symptom of his misery. "Ain't lost yet" is a reference to his not having killed himself yet - he feels that if he's escaped that, he's "gotta be a winner". "Fingernails and a cigarette" is a classic depression sufferer's "dinner" - worries, represented by fingernail-chewing, and self-destructiveness, represented by a cigarette. The subject may be anyone - a friend who has invited him to a party, a person he's interested in romantically. Despite all his past failures, he's eager to impress and figures that if the subject is brave enough to "dare" take a chance on him, hell, he can "dare" take a chance on himself, too. His bravery grows as the song goes on, changing from "might dare" to "will dare". |
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