Hey my Good People of mingel2, I'm on a roll this week I posted 3 forums and they a phenomenal hits thanks to you. I want to stick with music this week, let's continue the fun. My Loyal "Vocal Avengers" Do you remember a time when good music meant something? Do you remember hearing a song by your favorite artist and that song stuck in your head, so you sing & dance to it. Later you purchased the cd. Now for conscious minds, have you ever listen to a song and for once you listen to the words of the song and the title of the song appears to be simple but the words say something else. Sometimes the words is in riddle form , sometimes dark message, while other times its just a silly song with not much content. Like I remember the song " Hotel California". When I was young, I used to think that song was talking about just a dusted hotel in the middle of a desert or something but when I hear the words Oh wow its has nothing to do with a Dusted California hotel....I know what the songs about but I only tell upon request. What I want is to hear from you folks on subliminal songs of all time that captivate you and lets us in on the message to the song by your favorite artist?
Hear from me soon!

Good topic!

Yes, song lyrics often have multiple layers. When you're listening casually, maybe just catching the chorus... the song can have a pretty simple sort of message. But you listen deeper...

Most recently for me: Chandelier by Sia

I'd liked the song when hearing it on the radio:

"I gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier. I'm going to live like tomorrow doesn't exist."

Sia has such a strong and powerful voice and if I had a good voice this is a song I'd sing karaoke!

But upon a closer look, it's really a sad song about a woman that is feeling disaspoable:

"I'm holding on for dear life, won't look down, won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight."

"Sun is up, I'm a mess
Gotta get out now, gotta run from this
Here comes the shame, here comes the shame"



I have several more, I'll have to think of a couple of others!

Juliel_e

hey you thanks for following my forums , you know you said it right on the money. Another song comes to my is Eminem " Rain Man". What do you thing " Rain man about? to the world, you may think its a bout a man in the rain, a special needs man, or even, think about a man with raining money" nope! that song talks about a man with a weird relationship with the devil. the devil gave him power of musical creation for exchange for his soul. weird right?

I give you another one. when you hear the song "Umbrella" by Rhianna what comes to mind? about a umbrella. nope its about the opposite of rain man but its a woman with the same deal with the devil but a woman protagonist instead.

Good ones!

Another favorite of mine:

Speedway - Morrisey

Seems to be a confession: "All of the rumors keeping me grounded, I never said that they were completely unfounded."

I think more than a confession, it's a song about taking power away from people who slam you with words. Kind of like "sticks and stones may break my bones..." To me it's a song about turning the tables around ("can you see it in your heart, can you delve so low?") and refusing to let someone "win" by worrying about what they say. It's a powerful song.

Lots of Morrissey's songs can fall under this topic, he's a brilliant lyricist!

It's not time to make change
Just relax
Take it easy
You still young ...
Of Cat Stevens

See I'mma tell you like Wu told me
Cash rules everything around me
Singin' dollar dollar bill y'all (dollar, dollar bill y'all)
Singin' dollar dollar bill y'all (dollar, dollar bill y'all)


Pimpin' got harder cause hoes got smarter
On the strip is something they don't wanna be a part of
Rather be up in the club shakin' for a dub
Then triple times the money and spending it like they wanna
They got they mind on they money, money on they mind
They got they finger on the trigger, hand on the nines
See everyday they feel the struggle, but staying on they grind
And ain't nobody takin' from us, and that's the bottom line

But I know there's a drop in the block
You move slow
You getting' pressure from cops
You don't know not to lay low
Because 25 to life is no joke
To all my real gorillas thuggin'
On top of corners every day strugglin'
All the beautiful women getting' money
Washin' them dollar bills like laundry

No need to cherish luxuries ,
cause everythin' come and go,
Even the life that you have is borrowed
Cause your not promised tomorrow,
So live your life as if everydays' gon be your last,
Once you move forward can't go back
Best prepare to remove your past

Cause ya gotta be willin to pray
Yea There gotta be (there gotta be) a better way oh,
Yea ya gotta be willing to pray
Cause there gotta be (there gotta be) a better day ay

Whoever said that this struggle would stop today ,
A lot of niggas dead or locked away
Teenage Women growing up with aids



Cause thats the life when your
Living in the (ghetto) oh
Eating in the (ghetto) or
Sleeping in the (ghetto, ghetto)
Thats the life when ur
Living in the (ghetto)oh
Eating in the (ghetto) or
Sleeping in the (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto)

Blondey 111,

are you serious ?....lol that's an actual song " My Ding ALing?...lol so I guess its not about a shiny bell on a bike huh?....lol

Almokdad


niiiiceeee......

Unknown_Romeo


I take it you a wu fan , me too cash rules everything around this world......

Just for you to hear Eyeamyourhost39

Chuck Berry - My Ding A Ling http://youtu.be/UaEC-lWSlmI

Here's another: Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel

It is beautiful and cheerful, about a spiritual epiphany:

"He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
I had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
I just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home"

I just recently heard that it's also about Peter Gabriel's departure from Genesis. He's said "It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get... It's about letting go."


"So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
Till I thought of what I'd say
And which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home"

This makes me love this song that much more.

JulieLe

wow see, I just learned something....good one!

Another one... Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.

Cohen is a wonderful poet and his lyrics are always complex. Is this song about religion? But there is quite a bit of darkness here as well:

"Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya

And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"

Cohen says about the song: "The only moment that you can live here comfortably in these absolutely irreconcilable conflicts is in this moment when you embrace it all and you say “Look, I don’t understand a f*****g thing at all – Hallelujah!” So I say it's about acceptance. One of my favorite themes.

Rodger Waters 'the tide is turning'

When I very first heard the opening few lines I thought, what a morbid song, but then it hit me.

One of my favourite songs ever and will be my funeral song.
Makes me think of my kids but right now I dedicate it to the children of Syria.


I used to think the world was flat
Rarely threw my hat into the crowd
I felt I had used up my quota of yearning
Used to look in on the children at night
In the glow of their Donald Duck light
And frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning
But oh the tide is turning
The tide is turning

Satellite buzzin' throught the endless night
Exclusive to moon shots and world title fights
Jesus Christ, imagine what it must be earning
Who is the strongest, who is the best, who holds the aces, the East or the West
This is the crap, our children are learning
But oh the tide is turning
the tide is turning

Now the satelitte's confused 'cos on Saturday night
The airways were full of compassion and light
And his silicone heart, warmed to the sight, of a billion candles burning.
Oh the tide is turning
The tide is turning

I'm not saying the battle is won
But on saturday night all those kids in the sun
Rested technologies sword, from the hands of the warlords
Oh the tide is turning
The tide is turning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td6CD3J9kiY

op I find sometimes those on the radio... don't even give you the title anymore or who it is by... like a guessing game sometimes...
I love hearing the meaning behind the song ... some you can guess...
but others your like really all this time I thought it was becouse of this ... one song I think back on... Golden Earring - Radar Love...

https://youtu.be/Zf53Pg2AkdY

like yours too Joethebricky ...

that song was funny ...

I like that too ... always a interesting thought ... why did I have this kind of life ... what if I did not and was born in someone else shoes ...

wanted to add ... this lady Gaga song just a illusion ...
now I am guessing its meaning is something to do with her
breakup with her BF... but could be all wrong ...that's what neat till u hear the reasoning behind songs ...

Mysticalview21,

hey my friend , well lady gag always have subliminal songs. she part of a power sisterhood in the business.