The Top 25 Songs With A Secret
Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. And sometimes a song is just what appears to be. Or, umm, not.
That's the premise behind Rolling Stone's Top 25 Songs With a Secret, which dredges the depths of some well-known tunes for the truth of their meaning beneath the surface veneer. For example, did you know that The Beatles' seemingly innocent "Please Please Me" is about oral sex? Or that Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" is an ode to masturbation? And Phil Collins's creeptastic "In The Air Tonight"? NOT about a drowning incident, but about divorce. A really, REALLY spooky divorce. Apparently.
Avail yourself of the lyrical enlightenment in full here.
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What about "Little Red Corvette". Rather unscientific, if you ask me.
Posted by: jen | April 27, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Yeah,well- I just found out about "Little Red Corvette" about 2 weeks ago. BLEW MY MIND!
Of course, I was 10 when the song came out.
Posted by: BaltimoreGal | April 27, 2007 at 02:19 PM
.. share... your knowledge! Please? lol
Posted by: tessa | April 27, 2007 at 03:21 PM
Great list. So interesting how people mis-interpret these songs, or try to make them mean what they want them to mean.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis | April 27, 2007 at 08:15 PM
Well, I haven't read the article yet so it may say this, but "In the Air Tonight" was originally just a verse written for a Budwiser commercial. It caught on so Phil decided to expand it into a full song. I heard him tell the story on an old episode of A&E Live by Request. (Anyone else but me remember that show?)
Posted by: Becca | April 27, 2007 at 09:07 PM