Puff the magic dragon was once sung by Christian band Peter Paul and Mary and was NEVER about marijuana. The writer of the song is fed up about having to debunk that myth. It's about growing up and loss of childhood innocence.
Most of the producers for this channels gave up on research a long time ago. You can tell quickly when these lazy Millennial and Gen Z folks took over. Straight to misinformation and lack of education.
@@TheDeadJester Boomers preferred to take horse medicine and inject bleach rather than trusting vaccines simply because an old pudgy man in a cheap wig told them vaccines would turn them communist. Don’t even start.
These were THE songs when I was in high school. I've only listened to the first song and my mind is blown. We didn't have smart phones and computers were so slow because of the modems. So, a lot of us didn't look up lyrics. Some CDs would have the lyrics on the cover and I would get so excited. Most didn't. 😮😂
1:47 Unless you got some top-secret source, Mel B has never confirmed it. Any article I can find just says a nameless "co-writer" or "insider". There's no emphasis on the "E" in "Easy V".
I think it's both about losing Hilel (sp?) to heroin but also about Anthony's struggle. I remember watching their Behind the Music, and he had the lyrics written out, and the band loved it and they all went to get their instruments...and that's how it all started.
"I don't know, but don't ruin it because that was my graduation song. "... same Izzy 🤣 Also, geez... how many years was that song used at graduations because I'm like a year older than Jayse and started high school when Izzy was like one year old?
The Pearl Jam song reminds me of my little sister. We grew up together only to discover as 33/30 respectively that she was not my biological father’s daughter. He knew it. He raised her. He recently passed and I will always love him for being so loving. RIP James.
REACT I have song has a darker meaning. Song is Barracuda by iconic band, Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson). Both sisters wrote song about creepy music executives when they were starting out music back in the 70's.
The entire Hanson album was written by the brothers at such a young age, the album is so deep and kind of dark if you relisten as an adult. They all were so insanely talented, such old souls!
Shoutout to the woman that said Hansen looked like girls because the joke in my family as an androgynous little girl was that I was the forgotten Hansen brother 😂😂
I think this is the best thing about music. People can find their own meaning in the song but also as teens and kids we don’t see a lot of the same meanings we do as adults.
If it's Trent Reznor, pre-2000, the answer is always Heroin (and/or alcohol). Even when heroin is not the main character, heroin is a major backing character. Also, most people only hear the intro and first half of the chorus from Closer, they selectively tune out everything else. Like, "My whole existence is flawed, You get me closer to God" is the actual center point of the song. All the lyrics are about him being at his lowest and trying to find some spiritual elevation, or at least distraction.... but no, it's just an overt fornication song. Which is the perfect lead-in to Under the Bridge, another heroin song.
@@rochellecarter762 No I wouldn't have considered Hanson a boy band. But I remember the teenage girls during the time they were popular going crazy for them.
Okay I felt like that one didn't belong in this list bc the lyrics and the music video (as you mentioned) are literally telling you exactly what the song is about, they're not trying to hide it.
I graduated high school in 2001. The 90s and early 2000s had THE best songs. I know I'm going to offend a lot of people, but most of the music now sucks. I've never heard of LEN though.
7:02 “Waterfalls” is about the consequences of illicit pleasure seeking, whether it's drugs or sensual delight. It's a cautionary tale about living within the moment vs. living for the moment.
"zig-a-zig-ah" is not about cigars, it's literally an insider word the Spice Girls made up for sex. It phonetically describes the in-and-out motion ending with an "O", that's what it means.
Biiiiiiiiiiig enjoyed this one! So much fun watching this video. :) I always enjoy throwbacks to my era in the 90's! Next time, please include a song from Toad The Wet Sprocket! I don't really have a song in particular - but if I were to suggest one it'd be one of these - Brother, Good Intentions or Hobbit On The Rocks. I LOVE that band so much and feel that others should experience them as well. :) Top favorite album of theirs would have to be In Light Syrup. :D
Alll the rumors about Wannabe aren’t true, and no one has confirmed any of it except Zig-ah-zig-ah literally mean S--X (confirmed by Mel C in an interview years ago) Kinda disappointed with this content dude.
Funny thing about Blue by Eiffel 65 - Someone told me that what he actually says in the chorus is "I'm blue, if I were green I would die" I haven't been able to unhear this ever since 🤣🤣
Alive by Pearl Jam was about more than just that. Yes, the first verse was about Eddie Vedder's dad. But the rest was really good story telling. There was mother son incest happening. Alive, Once,and Footsteps were a trilogy of songs about a man becoming a serial killer.
Mean those rap in wannabe is they called the innicial of them. MC is Melanie C, easy V is Victoria beckham, we got Em is Emma bunton, we got G is Geri halliwell.
Like a stone by Audioslave. Most people think it’s a love song “ I will wait for you there like a stone “ but the song is actually about death and him waiting there like a stone is referring to a tomb stone
Dan Wilson who is the lead singer and main writer for Semisonic was previously in the band Trip Shakespeare along with his brother Matt and Semisonic bandmate John Munson. It's a different vibe but in listening to their music you will hear that he's a master songwriter, who has also written for or co-written with Pink, Adele, The Dixie Chicks, Phantogram, Jon Batiste, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift and many others. He also happens to be a pretty talented visual artist.
I'm still waiting for the day one of these "hidden meaning" in songs videos will actually feature Dido's Don't leave home. BRilliant, brilliant wordplay disguising a song about something far more nefarious as a simple love song.
Wanna watch me act half my age? Throw Hanson’s MMMBop on the big screen with the surround sound speakers and move back the furniture! I will ALWAYS be moved to joy by that song and its video just encapsulates the brothers’ relationship and personalities (just for the song of course).
Sometimes I wonder for certain songs how people don't realize the lyrics they are singing along to... like Waterfalls, Janie's Got A Gun and Under The Bridge are so clear in what they are about 😅
I think a music one that they should do is forgotten music groups, like do they remember these groups : Life house, Switchfoot, 3 Doors Down, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, Everclear, etc
Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" About a songwriter trying to meet a deadline by pulling an all-nighter, but here it is 3:35am or 3:34am (25 or 26 minutes until 4am) and he's still trying to stay awake ("getting up to splash my face") and come up with something ("searching for something to say") but he's starting to get woozy from how late it is and how tired he's getting ("spinning room is sinking deep") and regretting that he put it off until it was so last minute ("should've tried to do some more" because now he's "wondering how much I can take" trying to stir up his imagination when sleep is just pulling to him to throw in the towel and call it a day).
Izzy wasn't a deep thinker but some of us were contemplating the meaning of life young . I got in trouble for a poem that I wrote in 5th grade it was - Murder , oblivion , death and pain the life of a man is all in vain for in this end we're all the same on lifes white sheets our bloods the same .
dont even have to wait for it, under the bridge is about heroine, one of my fav songs, got me through some rough times in my adolescence never touched hard drugs thankfully, at least none that werent given by a doctor, even then i generally had left overs, dont like taking meds when i dont have to
I was mildly surprised by some songs that had a deeper meaning, even if they were simple in nature like Hanson’s, but just a little sidenote, when Alive came on the screen, and all the people were trying to mimic that sound he makes when he sings, I was cracking up. 😂
I remember in weezer video when i requested 'do react to songs with disturbing backstories/dark meaning' in comment and u guys did a couple videos include this, i'd be like 'my request is granted, thanks'... 🙂🙏🏼
There was a rumor about blue, that it had to be changed before MTV would air it. The original was. I'll bleed i will bleed I will die. Cause I will bleed, I will bleed I will bleed I will die.
Nine Inch Nails pretty hate machine was released in December 1989 and is still one of my favorite 80's albums. Gotta disqualify Janie's got a gun if it was released in the 80's. Great song though
