Their sophomore album Feeling Strangely Fine included the hit single “Closing Time,” an undisputed classic that would go on to receive a Grammy Nomination for Best Rock Song. Formed by Dan Wilson, John Munson, and Jacob Slichter, the three-piece band have been pushing boundaries through their tasteful songwriting since the mid-90s, releasing their debut EP Pleasure in 1995. And when you know this and re-read the lyrics, you're going to see a lot more lines that could be interpreted as drug references (for example "My mind was thugged all laced and bugged all twisted wrong and beat").After almost 20 years of no new music, Semisonic return with their honest and uplifting EP ‘Your Not Alone’ during a time where we need it the most.īreaking their near 20-year hiatus, legendary band Semisonic reunite for the release of their latest EP You’re Not Alone, capturing the essence of Semisonic’s signature sound through five nostalgic tracks. So yeah, this song is about the Len musician partying with a guy from Broken Social Scene and guy from Sum 41 (which is a weird image to begin with). It's just a song about what happened that night of the party." Somewhere in the next couple of days I recorded it, I know Deryck Whibley from Sum 41 was there in the room when I put down the lyrics. I ended up sampling it that morning and looped it, it sounded great. We went back to my house and Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene was DJing and played More, More, More by Andrea True Connection. According to Len's founding member Marc Costanzo's interview with The Guardian, the meaning of "Steal My Sunshine" is far deeper: "We were at this huge three-day rave and I ended up partying, partying, partying. If you assumed that this song was about emotional vulnerability and a guy asking the girl he's crazy about to not break his heart, you were wrong again. His nickname was "sh*t and cigars" and the same unnamed insider speculates this was the subconscious inspiration for "zig-a-zig-ah." Look, re-read those rap lyrics and see what you think: "So here’s a story from A to Z, you wanna get with me you gotta listen carefully, We got Em in the place who likes it in your face, we got G like MC who likes it on an… Easy V doesn’t come for free, she’s a real lady"īesides which, zig-a-zig-ah reportedly references an unpopular guy who shared the same studio toilets with the girls and had a bad habit of smoking cigars on the toilet. In a smart move, Scary Spice never explicitly references E, but does so by never completing the sentence and instead rapping straight into the next line which begins with the phonetic E." But, according to Metro, Mel B's "Wannabe" rap has a totally different meaning than you think it does: "A spicy insider has revealed that the lyrics ‘we got G like MC who likes it on an…’ reference Mel C and Geri Halliwell ‘enjoying sex whilst on ecstasy, if you listen carefully’. So, most of this song is pretty much what you think it is: a meditation on friendship and fun.
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Is Rihanna's DJ Khaled collab "Wild Thoughts" not about getting a little flirty in the summer sunshine with someone you're really into and actually about depression? Is Carly Rae Jepsen's feel-good summer hit "Cut To The Feeling" secretly about serial killers? Well, no and no, but this list will really make you question everything. It's OK if going through this list makes you view current sugary pop music with suspicion.
Who knew that the likes of Len and Third Eye Blind were peddling fables about overconsumption of narcotics? Your younger self probably didn't. The funniest part of this is that, often, the sweeter a song's melody, the darker its lyrical content.
It's hard to wrap your tiny mind around the fact that so many of those sugary-sounding songs were about serious subjects AIDS or drugs or becoming a father for the first time. To be fair, if you didn't figure out the song's true meaning, that may have had something to do with age. It was a crazy decade, so it probably won't come as a surprise to hear that there are so many '90s pop songs with deep meanings, and even less surprising that you didn't realize how deep they were when you first heard them.
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