There were tons of guys singing along to Fight For Your Right who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them.Īnd because of that, they stopped performing the song live in 1987.Ħ | Tutti Frutti – Little Richard admits it’s about anal sex The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were totally different. In the book Beastie Boys: The Complete Guide, Mike D talks about the song… And two, as far as I know, is the only song that uses separate parenthetical phrases at the beginning and end of the title. One, it’s recognized as one of the greatest party anthems of all time. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) holds two distinctions. 5 | (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) – The Beastie Boys admit it was supposed to mock party anthems If you want to see one way the world has changed in the past three decades, imagine how people would react now if a 25-year-old singer was with a 16-year-old groupie. Sharona is a real estate agent now and uses the domain. He ended that relationship, but it took me one year to leave my relationship. And before you knew it, he told me that he was in love with me. I was maybe 16, 17, he was about nine years older than me and was introduced to me at that time by a girlfriend. We were both in relationships when we met. Sharona Alperin was the girl who inspired The Knack’s Doug Fieger to write My Sharona. 4 | My Sharona – Sharona admits it was written for her as an underage girl Which means THE song that launched Madonna’s entire “taboo sex queen” persona - which, decades later, would involve her as a fifty-something repeatedly flashing her breasts on stage - is actually about a man. I was saying… that I may not really be a virgin - I’ve been battered romantically and emotionally like many people - but I’m starting a new relationship and it just feels so good, it’s healing all the wounds and making me feel like I’ve never done this before, because it’s so much deeper and more profound than anything I’ve ever felt. I wasn’t just trying to get that racy word ‘virgin’ in a lyric. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times he said… Next you’re going to tell me she doesn’t actually call cab drivers “taxi men.”ģ | Like a Virgin – Madonna’s songwriter admits it’s about a man getting over a breakupīilly Steinberg wrote the lyrics to Like a Virgin. I don’t listen to pop music and I, like, it’s not even my style of music, that song. – Miley Cyrus admits she’s never heard a Jay-Z song Just another thing to add to your list of Journey psyche outs. It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve learned that there is no South Detroit. I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit. God forbid.īut Steve went with South Detroit because… (Yes, it’s a spot where Canada is south of the U.S.) And Don’t Stop Believin’ is NOT about a Canadian. South of Detroit is a river, and south of that is Windsor, Canada. In an interview with New York magazine, Steve Perry recognized that there couldn’t be “a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit”… because it doesn’t exist. Songs forever ruined when their true meanings are revealed 1 | Don’t Stop Believin’ – Steve Perry admits there’s no such thing as “South Detroit” Prepare to have your mind… well, not blown. And most of the time, what they actually mean is way less cool.įor this list, I found 11 songs that were ruined (or, at least, altered from their perceived meaning) all because the artist, or lyricist, or, in one case, underage sexual partner, started talking. Sometimes songs don’t mean what we think they mean. Artists like Journey, Miley Cyrus, John Lennon, and Madonna mythbust their own lyrics - and forever change how we’ll interpret their songs.
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