Hey everyone welcome back to most amazing top 10, Im your host Che Durena.
Growing up Im sure a bunch of you had songs your parents would sing to you to help you
go to sleep, either that or they would play bangers like baby shark to get you pumped
up in the morning
Yo that song slaps so goddamn hard, its unreal.
I want everyone to go into the comments and post all the best remixes of that song.
But back on topic a lot of you guys know that there are some twisted meanings to some of
these songs.
Actually there are so many songs with dark subtext that we have brought you todays list
of Top 10 Scary Meanings Behind Childhood Songs - Part 2, Make sure you stick around
for the whole list because I snuck in some disney bangers.
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10 Pop goes the weasel
This is the song that is implanted in ever jack in the box ever.
Which is such a weird toy, a box with a little clown in it, that only has one purpose of
scaring you.
Toys used to suck before we had video games.
One old toy was literally a ball on a string that you would try and put in a cup.
It had terrible graphics.
Back to pop goes to weasel, the song sounds like a cute little tune of a monkey chasing
a weasel and something about thread and a needle.
The lyrics dont matter, the meaning behind them is what we want.
This song is all about poverty, pop goes the weasel is old english slang meaning having
to sell your coat for food.
The monkey is debt waiting to crash in on you.
Great song for kids to teach them about capitalism.
9 Friends on the other side, Princess and the Frog
Knowing that this song is actually evil isnt too hard to point out, its sung by a witch
doctor.
Never trust a guy who says he can tell you your future using black magic.
The song has the evil Dr. Facilie singing about how hes going to help the movies sweet
prince but then as the title reveals turns him into a frog.
Now its not the fact that is guy is a back alley charlatan that makes this song scary
but how he constantly references his friends on the other side.
The dudes talking about demons.
He gets all his magic and powers and junk from dark evil spirits chillin in the underworld,
why isnt there anything about that in the fine print.
Also Voodoo in real like is really messed up.
I read about Witch doctors in africa eating albino people because they thought it would
give them power.
Next time someone wants to tell you your future using voodoo just get some ice cream instead.
8 Here we go around the Mulberry bush
Another one that sounds like such a good time, dancing around a bush outside.
I bet there would be a big bonfire and all these people dancing barefoot.
I think Im just describing burning man.
But as suspected the happy tune in this kids songs also has a hidden meaning.
Here we go around the mulberry bush references how female prisoners in the 19th century would
walk around a mulberry bush for exercise.
So this song is less about a bunch of hippie dippie people wearing flowy clothes and dancing
around on psychedelics, and its more about trying to get your steps in while looking
over our shoulder so you dont get shanked.
I bet if I dig long enough I could find that the magic school bus theme is actually about
yakuza mob boss cutting off your pinky finger because of bad behaviour
7 Toxic love, Ferngully the last rainforest
I remember this song from when I was a kid, it was so good and listening to it today for
this list reminded me that its a really sexy song.
It sounds like something that would be played in a james bond movie while he seduces whoever
the bond chick is.
Even though this song sounds like a sweaty good time its actually about how pollution
and greed is killing the environment.
You thought you were gonna have a sexy evening listening to some jazzy beats but once again
your reminded that climate change is happening and were running out of water.
Reminders about how your suppose to recycle and reduce your carbon footprint is even in
jazz now.
What more do you need, stop with the polluting.
6 Georgie Porgie
Gerogie porigie pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry.
Jeez dude brush your teeth, Ive never received a kiss so bad I had a cry after.
This song has actually two underlying meanings.
The song is about the first duke of buckingham George Villiars and a possible gay love affair
between him and king james the first.
People suspected the two had a secret relationship because they were seen together constantly
and George Villiars rose through the political rankings much faster than anyone else.
As you all know I love when people spill the tea and this is some of the best tea around.
A secret love affairs leading to promotions and political power, what is this?
HBO?!
All that being said, even though its some of the juiciest gossip in town its not very
scary.
The part about kissing the girls and making them cry is way more messed up.
That was in reference to how George Villairs would apparently force himself on women.
So we can confirm that this dude sucks.
5 Poor unfortunate souls, The Little Mermaid
I gotta say out off all the songs in the Disney universe, the villains get to belt out some
of the best ones.
And this is high on the list.
But something that I never picked up on as a kid is that the whole song is a metaphor
for selling your soul to the devil.
Ursula basically tells Ariel ill give you what you want but your gonna have to put your
soul on the line to get it.
She even shows her the other souls shes harvested in the process, Ursula goes hard in the paint
went it comes to business.
Can we point out that Ariel is willing to do this for a boy shes never even met.
This reminds me of all those lonely middle aged women who got tricked by nigerian princes
to give up their life savings.
I dont even feel that bad for Ariel, shes a rich kid who got played.
I mean we all loved the fire fest documentary
4 Rub a Dub Dub
Rub a dub dub three men in a tub, you know a song about a butcher, a baker and a candlestick
maker just rubbin and dubbin in a tub.
You know just a casual guys night.
Even though you have an idea of where Im going to take this your actually way off.
This is because over time the lyrics to this song have been changed again and again.
It sounds like a song about three dudes sharing a tub.
But the original lyrics were about the three dudes outside a window looking in on three
women in a tub.
The whole thing is about three gross peeping Toms just looking in on some ladies trying
to get some privacy.
Its crazy how these three guys were able to find each other and all have the same illegal
hobbie.
3 10 little indians
This one is an american nursing rhyme, and with a title like that I never would have
guessed.
The song is super racist, like 1940s cartoon racist.
It basically states that native american people unintelligent.
Its crazy the stuff you used to be able to get away with.
Some stuff from back in the day is sooooo crazy.
I dont know if youve even seen the old disney cartoon where donald duck is nazi but I dont
think that would pass on the disney channel today.
To shed some more light on why this song has a heart full of hate.
In some versions, the words indians are replaced with the n word.
Such a nice song to sing to kids right before they go to sleep.
2 Hellfire, The hunchback of Notre Dame
Oh my god if they only knew the foreshadowing when they wrote this song.
I wonder if the guy who wrote it is a time traveler with a wicked sense of humor.
Well the song is about how Judge Frollo is tempted by Esmerelda and how its her fault
for tempting him.
Its not his fault for being a horney little judge.
He also sings about how if he cant have her, he wants her to burn in hell.
Like dude chill out bro, theres plenty of fish in the sea, you dont have to be wishing
people will burn in hell because they wont respond to your messages on tinder.
Esmerelda might not be into you because your coming on to strong, like try playing hard
to get.
1 Savages
One of the best disney movies of all time, Pocohauntas, is also one of the most disturbing
because it highlights the genocide that was carried out by the eurpean settlers.
The native americans were just chillin looking at the colors of the wind and these guys had
to cross the ocean and ruin everything.
And the song Savages has to be the peak of racism in the whole movie.
I mean just the title of the song is horrible.
As the song is taking place it shows a montage of everyone gearing up for war.
I guess the scary meaning behind it is how all these terrible things that are taking
place while this song was being sung were actually way worse in real life, the european
settlers did so much damage to the native americans that they still havent recovered.
Well everyone that is our list, Thank you all so much for watching, I hope you all enjoyed
it.
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Until next time Ive been Che Durena and I need to rewatch The hunchback of Notre Dame
to see how hot Esmerelda was.