35 Songs That Everybody Gets Wrong

Naturally, we've ended up with a lot of different lyrical interpretations to history's most popular songs. And pretty much all of them are B.S.
35 Songs That Everybody Gets Wrong

A lot is made about the lyrical content of songs. So much so that, naturally, we wind up with more than a few different interpretations that are usually presented with fact.

Well, all of them are bullshit and you knew the day would come when we debunk those myths. Our readers researched the origins of these popular songs, and we gave $200 to the winner ...

ER M.I.A'S Grammy- nominated Paper Planes is usually thought to be A about a drug dealer. It's actually a satire of immigrant stereotypes. The topic i
THE BEATLES stereo disc ICOMDACT PARLOPHONE DIGITAL AUDID HELP! According to John Lennon, the Beatles' 1965 song Ticket to Ride isn't about trains.
88 63 John Hughes developed the plot and wrote the popular 80's teen flick, Pretty In Pink, based on the lyrics of the title song. (It's too bad that
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U2's song One is not a love song. The band have been told by many fans that they played the song at their weddings, prompting Bono to respond, Are
The Village People's songs were meant to be serious. David Hodo (the construction worker) said the group's French songwriters originally intended no j
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In 1970, the Grateful Dead released Casey Jones, which features the lyric Driving that train, high on cocaine We didn't mean for people to go start
PAUL SIMON's BEAUTIFUL & AMBIGUOUS FIRST SOLO SINGLE WAS CONCEIVED WHILE PAUL WAS BROWSING A CHINESE FOOD MENU IN NYC. AN EGG-AND-CHICKEN DISH CALLED
THE ONE I LOVE THOUGH OFTEN DEDICATED TO LOVED ONES THIS SONG IS ACTULLY ABOUT USING SOMEONE AND HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY MICHAEL STIPE AS BEING INCREDI
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I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats is not a song about the It's the response 16-year- disappointment of going old Brenda Ann Spencer back to
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Total Eclipse of the Heart sounds like it's about having a lifelong relationship or getting mamied. It keeps talking about being together forever! The
It wasn't just Lorde's life-long fascination with aristocracy that She also credits led her the this 1976 National to pen hit Royals... Geographic p
Let's Go All the Way by Sly Fox has to be about sex, right? Not so, says author Gary Mudbone Cooper (right) Not about getting laid, unless that It
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Many people believe the Rush song The Trees is a complex metaphor for social equality and the division between social classes. (It's really just dru
Smells Like Confusion Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit has a history of confused meanings, even to the songwriter himself. Kathleen Hanna of Bikini

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