Dark lyrical messages inside your favorite songs – The ethereal magic of music has the power to transport you not only to new worlds, but into inexperienced emotions. We tune into the radio or, more likely Spotify, as a means of channeling someone else’s experience. When we’re sad, music can bring us up, and when we’re happy, a song can pull us down. Music has the power to unite and divide us, it is perhaps the most influential art on our daily lives.
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Popular music, more so than even television and movies, has a way of bringing us into the zeitgeist. Not all your friend’s have seen Minions or Captain America: Civil War, but chances are they’ve all heardRihanna’s ‘Work’ or Pharrell’s ‘Happy’. The omnipresence of music in our lives means that we don’t find it all that unusual when movies have pop soundtracks because it channels our own musical experience. To completely avoid music would mean locking yourself in a cabin in the woods, or else losing your hearing entirely. For all that, many of us actually spend very little time actually listening to what is happening in the songs we’re listening to. We hear the chorus, we feel the beat and that’s it. How often does it happen that you really listen to a song you’ve maybe heard a hundred times before? How often are you surprised by how little of it you understood, or how you never really paid attention to the lyrics?
This list is here to force you to listen by pointing out the hidden dark meanings in some of your favorite songs. Some of these might be obvious to you, but chances are, they aren’t to a lot of people. What other songs should we have included? What song has the darkest meaning?
15. I Shot The Sheriff, By Bob Marley
The alleged meaning behind this song comes from one of Bob Marley‘s ex-girlfriends. According to Esther Anderson, the song is not about the Sheriff or law enforcement at all. Rather, it’s about birth control, which Bob Marley strongly opposed! At the time that Anderson and Marley were dating, she had been prescribed birth control by a doctor, which Marley felt was murder. Marley really wanted his girlfriend to have his child, believing it a sin that she was killing his sperm, and ruining their beautiful, perfect love. This sheds new light on some of the lyrics, such as “Every time I plant a seed/He said kill it before it grow.” Who would have thought?
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