Miller High Life fueled blatherings on all things uninteresting and fleeting. Nostalgia and Schadenfreude are both held in high regard.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
What's It All Mean?
So I've found a new thing to do on the internet when I'm bored. No, it isn't porn. I said new thing to do, not my all time favorite thing to do. I recently was trying to find the lyrics to a song I was listening to, and came across a website, www.songmeanings.net, that provides lyrics to songs and also allows people to comment on what they believe the meaning of the song to be. I thought it would be interesting to see if people actually provided meanings to songs with completely obvious meanings. And did they? Of course they did. Never underestimate the stupidity of people. Especially of people on the internet.
The first song I looked up was "All You Need is Love" by the Beatles. A golden oldie. Everyone has heard it many times over. But does anyone know what it means? According to the user "landingstill" the meaning of "All You Need is Love" is that "love is all you need." The user "Lady Madonna" adds: "this song is just staying the obvious love is everything,its the purpose of life its self." I think that "Johnny0225" summed it up best when he wrote "Meaning is pretty simple-all you need is love."
Thanks to these helpful retards, I was able to solve that mystery. I tried to move on to a song with a more obscure meaning: "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus. For those of you who've never heard this skater-pop song before, I've linked it below.
The song obviously gives the listener a lot to think about. "Kathy" starts off the discussion by going out on a limb: "Think its probably how a lot of people feel when ure young and u have a crush on a particular person but feel unnoticed." "Punkkiwi666" interjects with: " My friend told me this song is about teenage lesbians." "LilBlondeKagome"disagrees with that interpretation: "Dude, this song is soooo about guys/girls. Whoever told yopu is was about lesbians, must have problems. Anyway, Luv this song! Me and my sister used to yell it loud, when we were in her car. We had the windows down, too." She certainly paints a vivid picture, doesn't she? At the end of the day, though, "Dressed2Depress" finally nails what this song is really about: "this song has a simple message: LISTEN TO IRON MAIDEN."
I've noticed that the dialogue in these discussions can tend to veer off topic, so I decided to check out another song with a somewhat identifiable meaning, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. Right from the start, I could tell that it was going to be a bumpy ride. Here's the exchange:
by kevin
How do they want to have fun? By masturbating, of course.
by 21pinksocks
It says " girls just want to have fun" not guys.
by llama37
Girls masturbate too
by smilesloveme
not really
by nietzsche 66
Girls do just wanna have fun. And girls do masturbate. Or at least they should. Everyone should. It's yours to play with, and only you know what you like best!
I'm not an expert on Nietzsche, but I do believe the above line is a direct quote from his work "Human, All Too Human."
The final song I checked out was Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day." For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of hearing this song before (I'm looking at you, Grandma), I've linked it below. Fair warning, though: Cube uses crude language and states his displeasure of ham, sausage, or bacon. So if you're offended by either of these things, you may not want to listen. (Now I'm looking at you, Grandpa. I know you can handle the salty language, but I don't want the anti-bacon sentiment to push you over the edge.)
This song is obviously about him having a good day." "Fremont" seems confused by the point of the website and doesn't provide the song's meaning, but instead just summarizes, like he's a 3rd grader giving a book report: "Nobody Cube knew got killed, and he didn't have to kill anyone. He got drunk, stoned and laid. It was a good day." "StoneKyle" gives us the meaning of the song, but isn't afraid to admit that the song is bittersweet for him: " this is an awesome song. about ice cube having a good day. kind of makes you feel unimportant though. i mean, the goodyear blimp never says I'M a pimp."
