Or maybe you still love it, but now you have a different perspective.

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    In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry. It’s such a nice catchy tune that I enjoyed until my partner pointed out:

    Have a drink, have a drive Go out and see what you can find If her daddy’s rich, take her out for a meal If her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel

    Which, ew.

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    Sting. Every step you take. It’s actually angry and malicious. There’s an interview with Sting saying something to that effect.

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      Do you maybe mean “Every Breath You Take” by The Police? That’s a common answer to this kind of question. A lot of people think of it as cute and romantic at first, but the song really talk about the Big Brother (from George Orwell’s 1984): a state of constant surveillance watching “every breath you take, every move you make”.

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        Yes that’s the one I’m talking about. I could have sworn I heard an interview about him talking about how it’s about someone stalking a former lover. Memory is weird that way. You’re interpretation is probably the one I’m going to go with from now on though I like that more.

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          Since you’ve gone, I’ve been lost without a trace
          I dream at night, I can only see your face
          I look around, but it’s you I can’t replace
          I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace
          I keep crying, baby, baby please
          Oh, can’t you see
          You belong to me?
          How my poor heart aches
          With every step you take?

          I understand the full lyrics, but most songs generally default to romanticism. If you’re not paying attention it’s easy to misinterpret.

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            If you’re not paying attention, you hear the “I’m watching you” part, which is creepy as fuck.

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    I don’t like Mondays from the Boomtown Rats.

    Mind, when I first heard it my English was not that good so I really only got the Chorus about not liking Mondays (and who does, eh?). Dismissed the “shoot the whole day down” as an idiom for something which I did not know.

    Then at some point much later I realized it’s actually a school shooting.

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    I remember listening to Frank Zappa’s Bobby Brown when I was a kid, not knowing English at all. Great song but very inappropriate for kids, which my parents probably thought was funny.

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    Uncle Kracker - Follow me. I used to sing the shit out of it, because I just liked the tune. Until I learn there was a whole different meaning than just “I’m the better guy” lyrics.

    I still humm it, but it hits differently.

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    A cute girl I knew a few years ago got the Orion Experience (group) on my radar and I learned recently that while yes the songs are clearly about a sexual deviant (which is what made them cool bruh), it’s about that kind of sexual deviant, because Orion very much likes kids apparently

    That fucking ruins everything and they’re bops that I can’t get out of my head sometimes, so that’s nice

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    “Vamos a playa” by Righeira carries a lightweight, upbeat tune that vacationers might hum on the way to the beach. But the Spanish lyrics reveal that it’s about the devastation left behind by nuclear armaments. And the schism between trying to live an ordinary life whilst having a nuclear Damocles sword waver over your head. That it became such a world wide hit makes it all the more ironic. I love it all the more for it.

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    Tears in heaven from Eric Clapton. I always liked this song, and didn’t have a special connotation. But after learning its backstory, now I just feel sadness when I hear it. :-(

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    Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. It’s a song about banging a slave, but I didn’t know that as a kid.

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    In the other direction from most of them here, “Losing my Religion” hit a lot harder before I realized it was just about anger.