Songs you've changed your opinion of...

...when you've found out about why/what they were written about?

I've been meaning to make a topic like this for a while, but it's only in the past 2 weeks when I found out that 'Kids' by MGMT was written about Andrew Wood has it come back in to my head. I listened to the song in a different light, and it's been upgraded from 'sh*te' to 'alright'.

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When I was... 15? I adored the song 'Crash into me' by Dave Matthew's Band (yes.. I know)

like, seriously loved it. Listened to it every day.

Then I read the lyric's to discover it was about masturbating over a girl he was watching undress from the privacy of his bedroom window, not the sweet love song I thought it to be.

Since that time I haven't liked it. The song's beauty was tarnished and to be honest I don't even see what I liked about it full stop- the music is like something from a 90's boyband hit, with jingly bells and soft bass. Ach, God.

Interestingly, it was around the time I had the revelation about the song I joined VR. I made a thread about how I hate lyrics being printed in CD cases and made a sutibly 'zany' reference to burning them in a nuclear reactor, and something about eagles with telescopes.

I was made fun of by Karl, over-reacted (in a shudderingly 'random' style insult where I changed Karl's post in a quote to being about how even his own mother wouldn't have sex with his corpse) asked him never to speak to me again and gt Tongy all fired up on my side.

Shortly after my simmering hatred of karl (which I now completely regret) almost lead to my tearful exit (forever) of VR, when I mistook him for lobstershagger and managed to offend Darren, Neen and just about everybody else important on the site.

Save karl- who was quite nice about it.

anyway, what was I saying? oh yeah- that song sucks.

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I still don't get why people suddenly stopped listening to his music, what he is/has done changes nothing about the quality of the tunes.

(Not that they were anything to write home about, but still.)

Because everytime I hear one I think of peadophilia.
And evertime one comes on people start talking about peadophilia.
And everything to do with him now also has to do with peadophilia.

I don't make the rules.

"It's a disgrace. He was one of the greatest rock legends this country's ever produced... he should be able to f*ck who he wants when he wants where he wants." - The awesome Jerry Sadowitz

The first time I heard Paper Planes by M.I.A, ages ago when it first came out, I thought it was about a diva gold digger who just bang-bangs you and takes your money.

I loved it when I worked out the lyrics were a play on the Daily Mail attitude to immigration.

i used to like the song 4st 7lbs. i could sort of relate to it (i'm a failed anorexic). But i don't like it in the same way as i used to, because of things i've read about it; i can remember, a few years ago, reading that it was meant to be making fun of anorexic people.

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i used to like the song 4st 7lbs. i could sort of relate to it (i'm a failed anorexic). But i don't like it in the same way as i used to, because of things i've read about it; i can remember, a few years ago, reading that it was meant to be making fun of anorexic people.

I'm not sure about that, Richey was a documented anorexic.

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i used to like the song 4st 7lbs. i could sort of relate to it (i'm a failed anorexic). But i don't like it in the same way as i used to, because of things i've read about it; i can remember, a few years ago, reading that it was meant to be making fun of anorexic people.

I'm not sure about that, Richey was a documented anorexic.

(i know that. But i think i can sort of remember reading that a lot of anorexics used to go up to him and give him apples and poems and the song was sort of something to do with that, how he was sick of them doing that.)

With its stupid, crammed lyrics and ridiculously long-winded structure (I know what I mean), but still their excellent musicianship and some quintessential '90s catchiness, I keep changing my mind over whether Stripper Vicar sits among Mansun's work as a paragon or as a parody - it's quite a paradox.

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