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Welcome back to the Most Amazing channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and I am back singing…embarrassing myself… bringing
you the spooks – we’ve been doing this for years… you know the drill by now!
SO you guys loveeeeed our recent video – the Top 10 Scary Meanings Behind popular songs
– before we get into it … last time I asked you what your favourite songs are and
so many of you poured out answers … This time… why don’t you tell me your least
favorite – the real earworms.
I never could stand Crazy Frog… if we could call that a song?!
OKAY so we had Old Town Road in our thumbnail for part one, although I don’t make the
thumbnails and nobody told me!
SO… well…
I thought I had better put it at number 10! SO Old Town Road has been one of the most
talked about songs in MERICA.
A duo between Lil NAS X and Billy Ray Cyrus - It mixes rap and country in an unlikely
fusion, but people think it is all about ….well… let me read you the lyrics…
Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road - I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more
– Now replace the word horse for the word…you make one up.
People think it is DUTTY.
If it was…
I wouldn’t be that scared….
Like…sure it is a bit lewd… but scary, nah.
In actuality though… the meaning is all about being stuck at home living a drop out
life…which is scary enough in itself.
X said the song came as he dropped out of college, angered his parents and was living
with his sister….
He said he felt like a loner cowboy who wanted to run away.
Okay, back to the undeniable spooks 9 -Total Eclipse of the Heart
We learn something new every day and today I learned that Total Eclipse of the Heart
is A Vampire Love song!
I think maybe I love Bonnie Tyler and that song EVEN MORE NOW!
The certified Platinum single was written by Jim Steinmen who claims that actually it
was about living dead blood suckers.
In an interview with Playbill, he said: with 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', I was trying
to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love
song.
Its original title was 'Vampires in Love' because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu,
the other great vampire story.
If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines.
It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark.”
THIS IS VERY Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I LOVE it.
In the narrative of the song, now its clear to me that a mortal woman has fallen in love
with a vampire, who she waits for at night hoping he will make her immortal, too.
8 - The Boomtown Rats - I Don’t Like Mondays Even if you don’t know this song…
I think we can all agree that Monday’s actually kind of suck.
Today is Monday and like… we’ll the reason I am wearing so many bright colours is because
I am trying to inspire myself to think positively.
If you don’t know the song….
Well its pretty famous – although it was released 40 years ago.
The Irish group Boomtown Rats is fronted by none other than Sir Bob Geldof … but not
that many people know that their most famous number one hit was actually about a School
shooting.
The lyrics kind of give it away - And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home.
And mother feels so shocked Father's world is rocked And their thoughts
turn to their own little girl Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen Now,
it ain't so neat to admit defeat They can see no reasons 'Cause there are no
reasons What reason do you need.
– It seems that the hit was a retelling of a school shooting massacre at a San Diego
elementary school in 1979.
The perpetrator, 16 year old, Brenda Anne Spencer was arrested and when she was asked
what her motive was, she simply said “ I don’t like Monday’s”
7 - The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar I love the Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger was the ultimate hottie.
If he was 40 years younger….well… he would probably have his pick of women and honestly
I can’t think of anything worse than dating a famous Rockstar … but you get what I mean.
The Rolling Stones had many bangers, one of which was Brown Sugar, but it seems that the
song is about sex with an young girl sold into slavery – have a listen to the lyrics
- Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, Sold in a market down in New Orleans, Scarred
old slaver know he's doin alright, Hear him whip the women just around midnight, Ah brown
sugar how come you taste so good, (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.
Must not make comment on Mick Jagger and younger women.
Must not.
6 - Tom Jones – Delilah WHY WHY WHY, DELILAH ! I am all about a bit
of Tom Jones – I saw him once in London for 2 pounds fifty due to a clerical error.
Best two fifty I ever spent, he was magnetic….
79 years old and still a hottie.
Delilah came out in 1969 and people now think of it as a TJ classic.
But like… if you listen to the lyrics, it is actually woefully dark!
She was my woman - As she deceived me I watched and went out of my mind….She stood there
laughing I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more My, my, my, Delilah - Why
why why Delilah….
So before they come to break down the door…Forgive me Delilah I just couldn't take any more.
The song is clearly about a man driven mad with jealousy and kills the person he loves
because of it….
Which…you know…irony.
He famously cheated on his wife with 250 women.
5 - Phil Collins – In The Air Most of us remember Phil Collins’ In The
Air Tonight as being all about a drumming gorilla in a Cadbury advertisement, but actually
it is much darker – if you listen to the lyrics the songs is clearly about watching
someone drown….
They read like a horror story – have a listen: Well if you told me you were drowning, I would
not lend a hand I've seen your face before my friend ,but I don't know if you know who
I am, Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes, So you
can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies.
The song was written as Collins was breaking up with his wife….which seemed to be where
the urban legend began… many peoples say that the song came from Phil himself did actually
watch a man drown and that man has previously attacked his wife…another version of the
legend says that he witnessed a man drowning someone but was too far away to help.
Later, he hired a private detective to find the man, sent the perpetrator a free ticket
to his concert and played the song with a spotlight on the the killer.
4 - Baha Men – Who Let The Dogs Out Did you guys get that song when you were young?
When I was a wee nipper in the UK this song was playing all the time.
I even heard it live at some pop event at the Birmingham NEC.
What a treat.
While this song may have been a kids birthday party classic, it is actually pretty awful
– the Baha men are referring to women as dogs and the song is about trying to…erm….give
a dog a bone them.
The scariest thing about this song is how often it was played around kids.
It was even in a Rugrats movie!
3 The Cranberries – Zombie The song is called Zombie, so I guess it already
has a scary name, but the song is not about a living dead corpse… but actually about
the Irish fight for independence and a response to the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington in which
two young children died.
The IRA issued a statement afterwards to say that Responsibility for the tragic and deeply
regrettable death and injuries caused in Warrington yesterday lies squarely at the door of those
in the British authorities who deliberately failed to act on precise and adequate warnings.
Zombie was written in protest to the deaths and became the bands biggest hit, although
the BBC banned the bands music video for the hit.
2 - Eagles Hotel California I went by the Hotel California a few years
back with Danny and Landon while we were at Vid Con.
So The song has two scary meanings – on the surface it is about a spooky hotel – which
is obvious in the lyrics - This could be heaven, this could be hell.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
… then there is the whole devily but - we are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast they stab it with their steely
knives, But they just can't kill the beast.
Uh oh.
Aint no body want to be stabbed with the steely knife.
BUTTTT the song has a whole other meaning which is just as scary – it seems the song
is also about the dark side of the American dream and the self-indulgence and excess it
promotes.
Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to
the phone right now?
Why….
Cause she’s DEAD. Taylor was never trying to hide the spooks in Look What You Made Me
Do – her 2017 comeback single after snakegate – the beginning of the music video takes
place in a graveyard after all.
BUT after a deeper dive into the music video, it became apparent that Taylor was referencing
a whole wealth of scary things – let’s start with the bathtub of diamonds, it has
been widely speculated that this was a dig at Kim Kardashian’s Paris Robbery, where
her jewels were stolen and she was bound and gagged in the bathtub.
There is also a wider robbery scene in which Taylor is at the front of a heist….in the
background there is an engagement ring…Kimye famously had hers stolen.
Taylor also crashes her car -her Ex boyfriend Calvin Harris was in a car crash before they
broke up.
Taylor is also heading up a plastic robot doll factory – taking direct aim of her
bad blood squad.
There is also the whole 13th snake thing and the killing off of all the old Taylors.
I could go on forever.
I LOVED IT.
It has had over a billion views on Youtube.
I kinda miss Snake Taylor – I’ve got a list and your name is red underlined.
I check it once.
And then I check it twice, OH.
Okay, that was fun… were you into part two?
Let me know!
Also let me know your LEAST favourite songs – mine is still crazy frog….
And anything by M people…sorry.
Comments from part 1 – where I asked favourite songs:
Hey Judge Let It Be Wrote: 1) Hey Jude- The Beatle’s 2) Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen 3)
Rocket Man- Elton John
Skittle Gamer said: Toes By Glass Animals Believer By Imagine dragons Say Amen By Panic
at disco
Kay talking Taylor…are you guys into Calm Down…
I didn’t like Me as much but Calm Down has me bopping…
I didn’t mean to turn this video into Taylor appreciation day!
TAN FRANCE DRINKING TEA!