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1[[WMG: Dr. Dre is [[{{Satan}} the Devil]]]]
2Both Music/{{Eminem}} and Music/SnoopDogg have rapped about selling their souls for success. Snoop Dogg wrote a whole song about it, entitled "Murder Was the Case" In a throway lyric Eminem declares that he's sold his soul and will never get it back. Other than the rappers themselves, Dr. Dre is arguably single-handedly responsible for their lasting success. Ergo: Dr. Dre is the Devil. He's the entity that met Music/RobertJohnson on a crossroads. He evidently decided if he was going to give out musical talent in exchange for souls, he might as well produce as well. It's not clear whether Dre is actually Lucifer himself or merely another demonic entity in charge of soul for musical success trades.
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4[[WMG: The woman in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q536JTSe40M this]] video for Music/{{Aqualung}}'s "Brighter Than Sunshine" is already dead.]]
5The video consists largely of a wandering man, lost in his grief, haunted by memories of his beloved... with occasional flashbacks to happier times. At times, his thoughts of her are so strong, he thinks can almost touch her - or she could be a ghost.
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7[[WMG: The narrator in the song "The Old Apartment" by the Music/BarenakedLadies has accidentally broken into the wrong apartment]]
8The narrator mentions all the things that have changed:
9
10-> Why did you paint the walls?\
11Why did you clean the floor?\
12Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?....\
13 Why did they pave the lawn?\
14why did they change the locks?
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16''Obviously'' the wrong apartment!
17* But why would they take the mousetrap and the dishrack from the narrator's old apartment? Because the old apartment was next door and either it had been torn down since they moved in and the narrator moved out, or maybe because the narrator and the girl were squatters and the people in the new apartment had gone over to see if there was some homeless-people stuff they could loot?
18** To replace their own mousetrap and dishrack, of course!
19** Mousetraps and dishracks don't tend to be especially distinctive things. The narrator might just ''think'' they're his mousetrap and dishrack because they look like his.
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21[[WMG: Jeff Tweedy performed a massive GambitRoulette to have a moderately successful band]]
22Jeff Tweedy is best known for his involvement in Music/UncleTupelo and Music/{{Wilco}}. Uncle Tupelo was successful, but he was never satisfied sharing the songwriting credits with Jay Farrar. What he wanted was a successful album in his own band, which he knew how to get.
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24He started by joining [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tupelo#The_Plebes_and_The_Primitives a garage band with Jay Farrar and his brothers]] and swiftly changing their name and lineup. The new band got a good reputation fast by looking like a new genre and getting a few good reviews, which were engineered by Tweedy. Uncle Tupelo then proceeded to shun major record labels so that no one would suspect a thing. They finally signed with Creator/SireRecords, a division of Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.
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26Soon after, Jay Farrar ''conveniently'' left the band, leaving Tweedy and the other members of Uncle Tupelo to rename themselves 'Wilco'. Having just signed with a division of Warner Bros., it was easy to sign with a ''different'' division of Warner Bros. That was Creator/RepriseRecords, whose president, Howie Klein, allowed him to make increasingly experimental records.
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28After Wilco had a moderate fanbase, Tweedy somehow tricked Time Warner, which owns Warner Bros., into merging with AmericaOnline and forcing it to cut costs. This included firing Klein. The new president didn't want to pay for the new album, ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,'' so Tweedy raised an uproar about it and sold the album to ''yet another'' different division of Warner Bros., Nonesuch Records. The resulting news coverage caused loads of critics to notice the album and they proceeded to dump massive praise on the record. ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'' is still their best-selling album.
29** Having accomplished this, he's now masterminding [[GenerationXerox The Blisters']] rise. Which at the moment consists mainly of holding them back - a Lollapalooza appearance and TV commercial was one thing while they were still little kids, but now that they're teenagers they've throttled back to [[http://spencertweedy.com/5853/what-i-like-to-think-of-as-our-homage-to-the-basement-tapes.html audio-only tracks on Spencer's blog]] and the occasional local UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} appearance, the idea being to avoid at all costs a BoyBand image and the inevitable {{Hatedom}} that leads to. Given the examples since 2005-06 of not only Series/TheNakedBrothersBand (the closest analogue), but the Music/JonasBrothers and Music/JustinBieber, that {{Hatedom}} would've become a black hole destroying not only any indie cred the kids might hope ever to have, but that of Tweedy senior and Wilco itself. Keeping a low profile till they get through HighSchool = wise move.
30** The answer is stating us in the face - ''Sue Miller'' is behind all of this! Just look at the timeline: Uncle Tupelo breaks up and Wilco forms just at the time Tweedy and Miller would be getting serious about their personal relationship, the label switch happens a year or so after Lounge Ax closed leaving Miller with more time to manage Wilco...
31[[WMG: Music/KidRock is lying about his age.]]
32"It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long....Singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' all summer long..."
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34But that song's from TheSeventies; in '89 we were rockin' out to Music/PaulaAbdul and Music/MilliVanilli. '70s music was too old for Top 40 radio and too new for oldies stations -- NOBODY listened to it, unless they were old enough to have bought the albums when the songs were current.
35* It's a cover story for his true identity: a werewolf. He probably hasn't been to UsefulNotes/{{London}}, though. (For those who have not heard the song, the backing track samples Music/WarrenZevon's "Werewolves of London".)
36* The song was a tribute to his dad, who loves to party (seriously, he may look like a clean-cut car dealer, but he'll have rock music blasting ''every weekend.'' His motto: "Since you're awake anyway, come join the party!"), and his dad played the "Best of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd" LP a ''lot.''
37* [[TakeThat No, his designated ghost-songwriter was born in 1989.]]
38* Obviously you are unfamiliar with the [[TheDeepSouth American South]] (the entire region, not just Alabama). Regardless of the year, we DO sing "Sweet Home Alabama" all summer long.
39** ''Michigan'' is considered part of the South?
40** Quite a few people listened to Skynyrd and Music/LedZeppelin all the time in '89. What else were we going to listen to, [[OldShame Paula Abdul and Milli Vanilli]]? ;) Or power metal? Or ''oldish-school rap''? Seriously, 1970s rock is better than most of the late-'80s alternatives for backyard barbequeing.
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42[[WMG: Music/TomPetty's "Melinda" and Music/RoyOrbison's "I Drove All Night" are about the same couple.]]
43The lyrics to "Melinda" recount the narrator's efforts to save up enough money to go and see Melinda. He indicates that upon his arrival, which will probably be in the dark of night, he shall have to enter her home through a window. "I Drove All Night" is the conclusion, in which the narrator relates his journey to Melinda herself after waking her up and making love, having indeed arrived at night.
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45Also, in the first song, he had intended to depart for Melinda's first thing in the morning...but apparently he couldn't wait that long.
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47[[WMG: The song "Don't Come Around Here No More" is about TheMadHatter falling for Alice and getting mad when she leaves the tea party he went to all that trouble to set up for her.]]
48This would explain why The Hatter eats Alice at the end of the video (Revenge!).
49* No, the Mad Hatter is [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]. No cake for Alice.
50
51[[WMG: MC Skat Cat and his gang come from the same world as [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit.]]]]
52The style of the characters (toon and human alike) and the world in which they live in the music video of Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" bears a striking resemblance to that of Roger Rabbit's world.
53* Alternately, they're from ''Film/CoolWorld'' and the two main characters are StarCrossedLovers.
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55[[WMG: The "it" in "Oops!...I Did It Again" and the "that" in "I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" are one and the same.]]
56The "this" in "[[Music/MCHammer U Can't Touch This]]" is entirely unrelated. We're not sure about the "it" in "[[Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock (You Got It) The Right Stuff]]".
57* The "that" in "I'd Do Anything for Love" is explained in each lyric. Meat Loaf sings two things he will do for love and then one thing that he won't. Then he sings that he "won't do that", referring to the one thing he referenced earlier. Example:
58--> I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
59--> I would do anything for love, I'd never lie to you and that's a fact
60--> But I'd never forget the way you feel right now, oh no.
61--> I would do anything for love, but I won't do that. Oh no, no I won't do that
62** Unless Britney Spears is referring to forgetting how her lover feels right then, not going all the way that night, doing it better than she would with her lover, forgetting her lover, leaving her lover, or cheating on her lover, it isn't.
63** And if it is, then we should feel very sad for her lover.
64
65[[WMG: Voltaire's "When You're Evil" and Warren Zevon's "Mr. Bad Example" are being sung by two crooks engaged in an EvilerThanThou - type contest.]]
66* So who won?
67** They both lost to the guy from Blue Öyster Cult's "Career of Evil".
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69[[WMG: The infamous misheard lyric from the Jimi Hendrix song ''Purple Haze'' is in fact ''not misheard at all!'']]
70Although [[ExecutiveMeddling nervous record execs]] forced an "official" explanation of the strange lyric, Hendrix (known for stirring up things) knew exactly what he was saying. "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy!" Further, he refused to go along with the "official" lyric in concert, where the execs could not touch him.
71* Also supports the theory that Hendrix was bisexual.
72** Hendrix registered as a homosexual with the US army, ''supposedly'' to avoid the draft. ()
73*** No, Hendrix enlisted in the Army to avoid jail. He was in the 101st Airborne when he reportedly tried to convince his command that he was a homosexual and compulsive masturbator. He was given an honorable discharge for "unsuitability for military service".
74*** "Whatever it is that GIRL put a spell on me"
75*** Now, ''that's'' a mishearing. <grin>
76----> "Whatever it is that {{GIRL}} put a spell on me"?
77
78[[WMG: Taking the above even further: there are no mishearings ''at all!'' Those are the ''actual lyrics'' in all cases.]]
79So Eddie Vedder is talking about forty five virgins and a pelican ("Glorified G"). Sade is recounting the adventures of a Spoon Operator. Benny and the Jets have electric boobs (her mom does too), Steve Winwood wants you to bring him a pile of love, and the guy in Gin Blossoms really is assuring us that he's no sheep or dragon (anyway he's got no place to go; "Hey Jealousy"). The only question is, what does this mean? (Aside from certain songs being more interesting.)
80* So what happens when something is misheard more than one way?
81** They're ''both'' right. [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes We make our own realities,]] [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein after all.]]
82* The above theory is, for the record, all [[Music/DuranDuran Simon LeBon's]] fault. "Shake up the picture of the lizard mixture"? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
83
84[[WMG: The hero of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" ''did'' shoot the deputy -- but ''not'' the sheriff.]]
85There are several major questions left unanswered by the song:
86# What's all this about the deputy?
87# Who did kill him, when and how and why?
88# Why is everyone convinced the singer did it?
89# And why are they after him "for the killing of a deputy", as opposed to the killing of the sheriff and a deputy? Don't they ''know'' he killed the sheriff?
90
91Isn't it a coincidence, when all is said and done, that the deputy was killed around the same time as the sheriff but in what looked like a completely unrelated manner?
92
93A possible explanation: after years of taunts and veiled threats from the sheriff, the singer is a paranoid wreck. The day he's set to leave town, he's so convinced that the sheriff won't let him go that the moment he glimpses a police uniform -- not the sheriff, just the deputy wandering by -- he shoots and flees, believing that he'd killed the sheriff in self-defense.
94* The singer could have shot one guy by accident, but not two. And he says he has [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial has no idea how a bullet of the same caliber as his pistol ended up in the Deputy]].
95
96[[WMG: In "I Shot the Sheriff," the deputy cottoned on to the sheriff's persecution of Bob.]]
97When the confrontation went down, the deputy advised the sheriff that his threatening to shoot Bob was illegal, and he would be forced to take the sheriff into custody. The sheriff drew his weapon on the deputy, and Bob fired on the sheriff in defense of the deputy's life. The sheriff, however, was able to fire on the deputy before Bob could take him down.
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99The officers that arrived on scene found a guy with a criminal record holding a gun and two dead law enforcement officers. They made the natural assumption.
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101Bob is hoping that the results of the ballistics tests will bear out his story and that his cooperation with the investigation of the shootings will help his defense in the shooting of the sheriff; if he admits to shooting the sheriff, then why deny shooting the deputy...UNLESS he's telling the truth.
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103
104[[WMG: The protagonist of Cake's "The Distance" is literally on a horse.]]
105The song seems contradictory -- if he's "going the distance", therefore only covering the same amount of ground as the other drivers, and "going for speed", therefore going very fast, how come he's taking so incredibly much longer than everyone else, so long that the trophy's been handed out, the fans have gone home, "the sun has gone down and the moon has come up"? Surely that would imply he's going very ''slow'', that he's not going for speed at all?
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107Unless when they say he's "striving and driving and riding on his horse", they're being perfectly ''literal''. This nut has entered the Daytona 500 on a horse. He's going very fast by horse standards; but even with minimal rest periods, it's going to take him forever. After all, your average horse has only one horsepower in its "engine."
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109No wonder his girlfriend's pissed.
110* Just because he's "going for speed" doesn't mean he's getting it. (You can't rev a horsie to 200 mph.) Nonetheless, this is an excellent explanation.
111* That, and the "going the distance" stuff is clearly about a track runner. Drivers don't ''crouch'' at the starting line. And the part where he's actually going for distance - the sun has come down and the moon has come up, and long ago somebody left with the cup. This guy stayed behind to practice again and again because he lost, constantly trying to beat his old time and be a contender come the next race.
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113[[WMG: The woman the letters are addressed to in Music/ElvisPresley's "Return To Sender" does not exist, nor does the address where she supposedly lives.]]
114Why would this woman, trying to ignore her former lover, go through all the trouble of sending his letters back instead of, say, burning them? Plus, it'd take longer than one day for the letters to go through the post office, into her mailbox, back out, and returning to the singer's.
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116Also, such things are usually denoted with a stamp of some sort, which the average woman isn't likely to have.
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118The whole love affair was a delusion. Neither the woman nor her mailbox exist. When the fella tries hand delivery, things are gonna get heartbreaking.
119* This is pointed out in the song's chorus:
120--> "Address unknown \
121 No such number \
122 No such zone"
123* You don't have to have the stamp. Writing "Return to Sender" on the envelope will work. If she intercepted the mailman at the mailbox and immediately did this, the letter could indeed get back on the very next day.
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125[[WMG: The woman in "Return to Sender" is progressively upping the ante on her rejection.]]
126First she tells the post office that the letter should be returned ['Return to sender']. Then she tries to deny the existence of her house ['address unknown' and 'no such number'], and then she tries to deny the existence of the '''area''' ['no such zone']. She even tries to deny her own existence ("no such person"). This is in the forlorn hope that the sender will get the message that she doesn't want to see him. We do not want to know what happens when he attempts hand-delivery.
127* Two words: Restraining. Order.
128
129[[WMG: The video for Music/{{Yellowcard}}'s "Light Up The Sky" takes place after [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the Third Impact]].]]
130Two Words: Tang Rain.
131* Did you see how depressed and slightly deranged they all looked? ''None'' of them had a special person who made them happy; and even after surviving, they couldn't relate to each other. The "Tang Rain" made them happy because they knew what it meant by then: an all-powerful being had given them a second (third?) chance at happiness.
132* Given that the song's about dedication to a heartbroken loved one, this makes some sense.
133
134[[WMG: [[{{Satan}} The devil]] deliberately lost the wager in "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" as part of an EvilPlan.]]
135As Fry correctly notes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' "Hell Is Other Robots," a fiddle made of gold would sound bad. Surely the devil was aware of this. We can only conclude that he lost the wager on purpose to further some other more nefarious plot. A counterargument would be that the devil has supernatural powers and could ''make'' a golden fiddle sound good if he wanted to... but since he's going to have to give this one away if he loses, he probably wouldn't bother anyway.
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137Johnny had better be careful because he's not out of the woods yet. And Johnny's boast at the end, "I'm the best that's ever been," sounds an awful lot like Pride, widely regarded as first among the SevenDeadlySins.
138** Pride is not just a deadly sin, it is the deadly sin associated with ... Lucifer, AKA the Devil. Lucifer pride caused him to challenge God, after all.
139* In "The Devil Came Back To Georgia," Johnny lost the rematch, having used the golden fiddle; this is not made clear because Charlie Daniels could not bear to portray the devil winning.
140* The yet unreleased sequel to "The Devil Came Back To Georgia" is called "Johnny Realizes What An Idiot He Was To Bet His Soul On A Fiddle"
141* Also in "The Devil Came Back to Georgia," we learn that Johnny now has a baby boy. It's possible that the ultimate goal of EvilPlan was to get two souls, not just one. (Or even three; it's not stated in the song who the child's mother is or whether she's married to Johnny.) And if ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' is to be believed, parents can sell, bargain, or wager away their children's souls without the consent or even knowledge of the child.
142
143[[WMG: The Devil [[UnwittingPawn set up Johnny]] so that he would get his soul [[XanatosGambit whether he won or lost.]]]]
144If the Devil won, then he gets the soul outright. If Johnny wins, than he will instantly become proud enough for it to be sinful and getting sent to Hell when he dies. Johnny even acknowledges that it's a sin for him to accept the wager, and it could well be a mortal one. Either way, the Devil wins.
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146Also, as pointed out on [=McSweeney's=] Internet Tendency, the Devil was looking for a soul to ''steal''. Not win in a fair contest, but ''steal''. The devil tempted Johnny; Johnny accepted, and the contest itself didn't matter. Johnny was already lost.
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148[[WMG: God will recruit Johnny of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in His eternal battle with the Devil.]]
149Despite being human, Johnny managed to defeat the Devil in a fiddling contest. That's no simple task.
150
151[[WMG: The golden fiddle in "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is metaphorical.]]
152It symbolises the proof that Johnny is the best fiddler ever because he beat the devil. That's why, in the return match in "The Devil Came Back To Georgia," Johnny says he has to "get the fiddle back in tune": he's trying to get his skill back after years of lack of use.
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154[[WMG: Johnny is the son of the devil, and thus can rival the devil in fiddling like no ordinary mortal can.]]
155The devil totally insulted his grandmother.
156
157[[WMG: James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree of [[http://people.bath.ac.uk/su3bugs/songs/song/james.htm "James James Morrison Morrison"]] by the Chad Mitchell Trio is the same person as the narrator/singer in Steely Dan's [[http://www.steelydan.com/lyr2vn.html#track7 "Cousin Dupree"]].]]
158Dupree is staying on his Aunt Faye's couch because his mother disappeared at the end of town. His brains have turned to applesauce from the trauma of losing his mother at the age of three... The very same age when he and his cousin used to play together so frequently, which is why he's seized onto her as the major female figure in his life.
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160[[WMG: Delilah from "Hey There Delilah" is a prostitute with a Heart of Gold.]]
161Most of the music video consists of her wandering the streets and standing on corners wearing ''a lot'' of makeup and a tiny skirt. It's an interesting twist to a [[{{Glurge}} sappy song]].
162
163[[WMG:Leon Redbone is divine]]
164He was first born the love child of 18 year old Jenny Lind and 56 year old Paganini in 1838 in Bombay. The gods wept at the glory of his birth, causing monsoons. He was born again on October 29, 1929 and the uproar caused the stock market crash 34 minutes later. Getting it wrong twice, he reincarnated himself as a musician.
165
166[[WMG: Every 1980s song takes place in a shared universe]]
167My Michelle is friends with Gina (who is Living on a Prayer), and they are both bridesmaids at Little Sister's White Wedding. Unfortunately, the groom wishes he had Jesse's Girl, who comes from a small town (in a lonely world), a suburb of Paradise City, Where The Streets Have No Name. The seedier parts of Paradise City are known as the Jungle. You can get there if you have a Fast Car, but you just Can't Drive 55. Jack wants to run off to there, but Diane insists they aren't missing nothing. SOMEBODY in this mess wears a Raspberry Beret.
168* But which of them was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar?
169** The chick with the Raspberry Beret?
170* And they all wear sunglasses at night.
171* And they in turn have spawned the modern generation of song characters. Wendy, who split up with the narrator of "Born To Run", is the mother of [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Dani California]]. Dani's officer father has a sister named Rita who's a meter maid.
172** The narrator of "Born to Run" then was forced into the draft for the Vietnam War, (which is good for absolutely nothing) where he lost a brother(who had a girlfriend named Rosallitta in the states and was in a rock and roll band before he got drafted). When he came back to the U.S.A., where he was Born In, he wandered around aimlessly for a while, eventually coming back to the town he went to high school (located in the Badlands) in where he met up with his old friend the baseball player and reminisced about their Glory Days and the "Freeze Outs" they used to have on 10th Avenue. He also met his old girlfriend Mary who lives up the block with her kids that she's raising all by herself. He tried writing a book, but got tired of it one night and convinced Mary to go Dancing in the Dark with him. Eventually, she and her kids ran off with him in his Cadillac down Thunder Road. They settled in Baltimore, but one night he went out for a drive Into the Night on the Backstreets in the Darkness at the Edge of Town and didn't come back. He wandered around with a Hungry Heart for a while, hooking up with an old girlfriend in Atlantic City at one point, but while he was driving around listening to Radio Nowhere he came back to town just in time for The Rising, where he was Blinded By the Light and met Mary again and they have been living together happily so far, who knows what will happen when they're Living in the Future.
173* Jack vents his frustration by burning down the house.
174* What about Debbie, who just hit the wall, and her husband Ben, who's a CPA?
175** She's Gina's cousin.
176*** Debbie also had an obsession with a girl named Jenny (whose number was on the wall), until her cousin Frankie simply told her to relax.
177* And yes, this is a Land of Confusion, also who has the invisible touch? Whodunnit? Who read Between the lines? And best of all, who's an Illegal Alien. Music/{{Genesis|Band}}
178** Yeah, Only in Your Dreams, Sweet Child o' Mine. Maybe you're Turning Japanese or Dancing on the Ceiling? Your dreams remind me of childhood memories.
179*** Happy Birthday Baby Jane. Me And Sarah Jane were Der Kommisar as she said Rock Me Amadeus as we spent our Mony Mony. Eventually we had a White Wedding, but that was back in the Summer Of '69. Also in Our House there was an Intruder, but don't worry, he's Not One Of Us, knowing this I whacked him to death with a Sledgehammer Then I went to jail Big Time, but then I committed JailBreak . Also I'm part of a gang called The Wild Boys.
180[[WMG: The girl from the "Damn Good Times" [[http://www.tmbg.com/VIDEO/proVid.cgi?song=Damn_Good_Times&album=VIDEO&vid=1 video]] is Ana Ng.]]
181The store clerk is the singer of "Ana Ng," while the singer of "Damn Good Times" is a bystander.
182
183[[WMG: The narrator in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penvn9VL32Y Modest Mouse's video for "Dashboard"]] is an older version of Near from Manga/DeathNote.]]
184The story about visiting the Sargasso Sea to chase down a fish is clearly a metaphor for Near's chase of Kira; the loss of the narrator's right hand symbolic of Near losing most of the SPK to Mello's Death Note.
185
186Also, observe his behavior at 3:11 in the video. That ''must'' be Near.
187
188* Also, it took place in the fisherman-filled pub from the episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' with Old Gregg. Manga/DeathNote and ''The Mighty Boosh'' would make one hell of a crossover, especially with the entirety of Modest Mouse on board.
189
190[[WMG: The narrator in Modest Mouse's "Dashboard" is [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]]]]
191Based on mental impressions from hearing the song. He's delusional and thinks a carload of mannequins (not even ''complete'' mannequins - guess which one's head is broken off?) is him and the other teenagers on a fantastic road trip. "And we screamed and we screamed...!!!"
192
193[[WMG: Monster Magnet's "Space Lord" is narrated by Satan addressing his worshippers just before the battle of Armageddon.]]
194"I lost my soul when I fell to Earth" and "I left my throne a million miles away" refer to him being cast out from Heaven. Lines like "Give me the strength to split the world in two now" further support this interpretation.
195
196[[WMG: Monster Magnet's "Space Lord" is about the Master from Series/DoctorWho.]]
197Specifically, the John Simm version. Lyrics like ''I've been stuffed in your pocket for the last hundred days'' - Fob watch anyone? And his throne a million miles away? Gallifrey.
198
199[[WMG: Monster Magnet's "Space Lord" is about an EldritchAbomination.]]
200Cthulhu would be the obvious choice, but Cthulhu never seemed to ''care'' about splitting the world in two -- that's just what would happen when he woke up. But it could be Nyarlathotep.
201
202It doesn't have to be out of Lovecraft.
203
204And the "throne a million miles away" has to be some kind of poetic license since, in space, a million miles isn't far at all. That's just under four times the distance to the Moon at its apogee.
205
206[[WMG: Monster Magnet's "Space Lord" is narrated by [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatron or Galvatron]].]]
207Most of [[http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/monster+magnet/space+lord_20095620.html the lyrics]] can fit into this theory, but here are the highlights.
208* "Stuffed in your pocket for the last hundred days" could refer to Megatron's reverse-engineering while offline and helpless in the live-action movie or ''Animated'', or Galavtron's enslavement by Unicron.
209* He ''did'' split the world in two in many continuities when he raised up the Decepticon army.
210* "I lost my soul when I fell to Earth" could be the incident in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' when BW Megatron "borrows" the spark of the original, or to Megatron's reforging into Galvatron by Unicron, completely destroying his personality as a result of his falling in battle on Earth... That line could be ''anything'', as most Megatrons ''did'' fall to Earth.
211* "Built in my nightmares and using my name" could be another reference to BW Megatron taking the spark of the original... He ''was'', metaphoricly, asleep; hence it was a nightmare in which the new body for BW Megs was built, and BW Megs did use his name.
212* The car in the field in a column of flame is an Autobot; certainly, he's killed enough of them.
213
214[[WMG:Music/ElectricLightOrchestra's "The Whale" is a SpaceWhale.]]
215Just listen to those synthesizers.
216
217[[WMG: Based on the above, Mr Blue Sky is The Whale.]]
218If it wasn't the Space Norwegians, then it was the Space Japanese. ''That's'' why he had to hide away for so long (so long, every night and day). Eventually, The Whale may have gotten MagicPlasticSurgery to get a pretty face and be welcomed to the human race. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: even MagicPlasticSurgery doesn't fool Mr. Night]].
219
220[[WMG: The person who wrote the song "[[{{Narm}} [=MacArthur=] Park]]" is [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} [=GLaDOS=]]].]]
221Both of them talk in a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} manner, both seem to have no concept of humanity, and (most damning) both of them are ''obsessed with cakes''.
222* Does this mean Richard Harris is Cave Johnson?
223* Also, if the song isn't really about cake, then that means the cake is a lie.
224* Next thing you know, somebody will be doing [[TemptingFate a version of [=MacArthur=] Park sung in GLaDOS's voice]].
225--> "[=MacArthur=] Park is melting in the dark, all the green, sweet icing flowing down..."
226** Maybe in VideoGame/{{Portal}} 3?
227
228[[WMG: The protagonist of "Hollaback Girl" is a hollaback girl.]]
229Sure, she says she "ain't no hollaback girl". But the title refers to her, and it could have easily been "No Hollaback Girl" if she were telling the truth.
230* If she's not a "Hollaback Girl," then why does Gwen Stefani drive a car that has "Hollaback Girl" emblazoned on the bonnet in the video?
231* Also, double negative: "ain't no hollaback girl" = hollaback girl.
232
233[[WMG:The "tall handsome man" described in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand" is, in fact, [[GodIsEvil God]]]]
234''Every single line'' of the song can fit into this theory, but here's the best ones:
235* "He's a god, he's a man, he's a ghost, he's a guru" - pretty clearly fits into the Father/Son/Holy Ghost schema, plus a "spiritual teacher" to boot.
236* "He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul..." sounds pretty God-like to me. "...but there won't be a single thing that you can do," the next line, reinforces how sinister this God-figure is.
237* The section beginning "You'll see him in your nightmares..." all the way through to "...on the TV screen" evokes the idea of omnipresence, or at least of ''memetic'' omnipresence. The "God as meme" idea has been around as long as the idea of memetics itself (of course, the word "meme" originated with prominent atheist Richard Dawkins, so make of that what you will).
238* "You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan" - well, who are we always told has a Plan for the universe? According to many, this "great Plan" will lead to the eternal damnation of ''billions of people'' - if that's not catastrophic, I don't know what is.
239* And, finally, the phrase "RedRightHand" itself is from ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', where it refers explicitly to the vengeful hand of God. Look at the bullet point directly above - what kind of plan would a vengeful deity design and direct? The liner notes to ''Murder Ballads'', another album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (''Red Right Hand'' originally comes from their previous album, ''Let Love In''), erroneously identify the phrase as referring to Satan (it appears in ''Song of Joy'' on that album, but it's only mentioned once); but hey, this is WildMassGuessing. That particular note is a deliberate RedHerring.
240
241[[WMG: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds's "Red Right Hand" refers to either ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} or [[Creator/StephenKing Randall Flagg]].]]
242
243[[WMG: The subject of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' "RedRightHand" is, in fact, ''Santa.'']]
244Consider the line "He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy." Who else but Santa Claus would need such a gesture? He is known for making the ultimate distinction between "naughty" and "nice".
245
246"He'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy" - this line refers to the dream of Santa, which usually disappears as a child grows older. In this song, Santa has returned to instill Christmas spirit in the hearts of adults.
247
248"He's a god, he's a man, he's a ghost, he's a guru": Santa Claus has the omniscient powers of a God, the compassion of a man, the mysticism of a ghost - how exactly does he enter and deliver presents for so many houses in such little time? - and the spirit of a guru who teaches that giving is better than receiving. Enough said.
249
250The lines involving him giving you money and finding you a car if you don't have one clearly refer to Santa's sack of gifts for every boy and girl.
251
252The line "You'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams" is a reference to the darker side of Santa. Just look at another well-known song about him: "he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake." This Santa is fully aware of the power he has over you and can be a terrifying figure if you've been bad.
253
254When you see him "in your head, on the TV screen," it is a sign of the pervasiveness of Santa come Christmas season.
255
256Lastly, the description fits: his coat is probably "dusty black" from climbing down so many chimneys, and he wears his gloves to cover the Red Right Hand that corresponds with his general red-and-white color scheme. No doubt about it: the "tall handsome man" is Santa.
257
258[[WMG: The singer of Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' For You" has taken the place of someone who was condemned to Hell.]]
259A prominent line goes "I'm livin' for givin' the devil his due", and given the title and most common phrase in the song, what else could this be referring to? However, he may not be in Hell ''yet''; he speaks of time being against him and needing to savour it.
260
261[[WMG: In the future, all music will be produced by Timbaland, and all singers will be kidnapped and forced to provide vocals for his run-of-the-mill pop songs]]
262Weezer knows this. See "Pork and Beans".
263
264[[WMG: "Tribute" by Tenacious D refers to the events at the end of ''The Pick Of Destiny'']]
265At the end of ''The Pick Of Destiny'', Tenacious D go up against the Devil in a rock-off and end up winning, partly due to their awesome music, and partly because of luck. However, the rock-off is so awesome (to mortal minds, at least) that Tenacious D end up not being able to hold on to the memory of the rock-off completely; they just remember that they battled him for their souls in some form of musical contest and won. Realising that they needed a way to hold on to that memory, they wrote ''Tribute'' as a literal tribute to their efforts that day and as a way of immortalising it.
266
267[[WMG: "Tribute" is the UnreliableNarrator version of ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'']]
268Either because they forgot, or because "we had a rock-off with the devil and lost" does not make good music.
269
270[[WMG: The Greatest Song In The World from "Tribute" is...]]
271... one of the following:
272* "Stairway to Heaven"
273** Not only is Stairway regularly placed at the top of lists of the greatest songs ever, the HBO version of "Tribute" transforms into a Stairway homage at the exact moment they start playing the Greatest Song In The World.
274* "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
275** Certainly the shiny demon would appreciate the irony, as well as the song being quite good. The only issue is neither Kyle nor Jack appear to play the violin.
276* "Helter Skelter" (original by Music/TheBeatles)
277
278[[WMG: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer is a [[ComicBook/XMen Mutant]]]]
279His nose light not only glows, but also cuts through heavy fog at such a rate that a ''fast'' flying sleigh has clear enough visibility for landings all over the world. Clearly the {{Creator/Marvel}} Celestials weren't just messing with human DNA.
280* He's a ''flying'' reindeer. Good thing, too. He'd be useless to pull a sleigh at night otherwise -- road vehicles are only supposed to show red lights to the ''rear''.
281
282[[WMG: [[Music/SystemOfADown Serj Tankian]] is Altair from Franchise/AssassinsCreed.]]
283Being a Time Lord who lived during the Third Crusade (if only through VR), he is disgusted about our behavior in the current age and thus tells us in music during his spare time. Hopefully, he won't decide to kill us. And as anyone with eyes (And Google Image Search) can tell you, the being now known as Serj was previously Music/FrankZappa.
284
285[[WMG: The person being scrutinized in "What's He Building in There?" by Music/TomWaits on his album ''Music/MuleVariations'' is a [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Promethean]], and the singer is suffering from Disquiet.]]
286Most of what the singer claims about the subject are baseless rumors spread by others who have suffered Disquiet from the same Promethean. However, certain items are true. "He has no dog" because the Wasteland would cause the poor thing to suffer. "He took the tire swing down from the pepper tree" to discourage the neighborhood kids from coming near. "He has no friends, but he gets a lot of mail"; the mail is from his throngmates. "He has subscriptions to those magazines" to facilitate his study of human life. When the singer claims "He was on the roof the other night/Signaling with a flashlight", he has misidentified the use of Pyros. What the subject is "building" is a new Promethean, and he recently suceeded, which was what was "moaning low".
287
288[[WMG: Tom Waits is not a Real Human Man; he was made up to scare children]]
289Eat your greens, or Tom Waits will come into your bedroom at night and drink all the liquid out of your brains!
290
291[[WMG: Tom Waits is the EvilTwin of the [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]]]]
292They both have gravelly bass voices. Listen to "C Is for Cookie." Now listen to "God's Away on Business." Doesn't it sound like Cookie could sing that other song?
293* Best. Theory. Ever!
294** Hey, have we ever seen them in the same room? And that's why CM appeared on the Colbert Report -- Tom already went on the Daily Show.
295* Nonsense, Tom Waits is clearly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KDM_kTiYEw Rowlf the Dog]]... or a shadow counterpart to Jim Henson.
296** And Cookie Monster is actually the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZeciX-3wfs lead singer of Rammstein]].
297
298[[WMG: Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and NIN's "Only" and "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" is from the POV of a mental patient]]
299And that patient is [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]].
300
301* "Crazy":
302-->I remember when, I remember, I remember [[MindRape when I lost my mind]]\
303There was something [[LotusEaterMachine so pleasant about that place]]\
304Even your emotions had an echo\
305In so much space\
306And when you're out there\
307[[HumansAreBastards Without care]],\
308Yeah, [[HeroicBSOD I was out of touch]]\
309But it wasn't because [[WrongGenreSavvy I didn't know enough]]\
310I just knew too much\
311[[MindRape Does that make me crazy?]]\
312[[{{Tsundere}} Does that make me crazy?]]\
313[[BloodKnight Does that make me crazy?]]\
314Probably\
315And I hope that you are having the [[{{Otaku}} time of your life]]\
316But [[{{Deconstruction}} think twice]], that's my only advice\
317C'mon now [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter who do you]], [[LadyOfWar who]] [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl do you]], [[CallingTheOldManOut who do you think you are]]\
318Hahaha, [[OurSoulsAreDifferent bless your soul]]\
319[[UnwittingPawn You really think you're in control]]\
320[[MadScientist Well I think you're crazy]]\
321[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans I think you're crazy]]\
322I think you're crazy\
323Just like me\
324My [[TheHero heroes]] had the heart [[HeroicSacrifice to lose their lives out on a limb]]\
325And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them\
326Ever since I was little, ever since I was little [[HumongousMecha it looked like fun]]\
327And it's no coincidence I've come\
328[[GainaxEnding And I can die when I'm done]]\
329Maybe I'm crazy\
330[[{{Yandere}} Maybe you're crazy]]\
331[[AssimilationPlot Maybe we're crazy]]\
332[[ParanoiaFuel Probably]]
333
334* "Only":
335-->Now I am somewhere I am not supposed to be\
336And I'm seeing [[PeopleJars things I really shouldn't see]]\
337
338* "Every Day Is Exactly The Same":
339--> Every day is exactly the same (x2)\
340[[DysfunctionJunction There is no love here]]\
341[[AssimilationPlot And there is no pain]]
342
343[[WMG: [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] lives in a shitty house]]
344Have you ever seen a Nine Inch Nails video? "Closer" has entire rooms full of broken lightbulbs and cockroaches. "Perfect Drug" has a stupid swamp in the garden and two zombie women apparently haunting the place. "Into The Void" is just a big red box. People who have more knowledge on the subject will surely be able to confirm or discredit this assertion.
345* For a time, he moved out of his house and into the scene of the Manson Family murders. You need to live in a pretty crappy place for that to be a step up.
346
347[[WMG: James [=LaBrie=] of Music/DreamTheater is the reincarnation of Victoria/Nicholas from "Scenes from a Memory".]]
348The news report at the end of the album refers to the JFK assassination, meaning Nicholas's part of the story takes place in 1963. Assuming that Victoria was reincarnated immediately after her death, this would place Nicholas's birth in 1928, which means he was 35 when he went to the hypnotherapist, who, according to band interviews, was the reincarnation of Edward and killed Nicholas at the end (the record static at the end of the album indicates that the phonograph was bumped during the struggle.)
349* James [=LaBrie=] was born in 1963, the same year Nicholas died, and was 35 years old while the album was being recorded (1998-99).
350* 'cept that the news coverage is of John F. Kennedy ''Junior's'' death, which took place in 1999 ("another tragedy in a long string of misfortunes"). All this means, however, is that Labrie ''WAS'' Nicholas, but he survived the assault and is pretending to have been killed so the nest reincarnation of Edward wont come after him.
351[[WMG: The Point-Of-View character of Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" has... [[MadnessTropes issues]].]]
352C'mon, what sane person would use slicing herself open as a metaphor?
353* [[EmoTeen Oh, I dunno.]]
354* Agreed: Everyone around her thinks she's going crazy and obviously thinks this guy, whoever he may be, is bad for her and is trying to keep her away from him for her own good. So is he married or abusive or a mob boss or is she too fragile to be in a relationship or what?
355
356[[WMG: The PointOfView character of Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" is Harley Quinn.]]
357At least one AMV with that song, Harley Quinn, and the Joker demonstrates this.
358
359[[WMG: 'Al' from Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" from ''Music/{{Graceland}}'' is a stranded time traveller.]]
360"Angels in the architecture" could be a reference to Renaissance sculpture. Al could be 'Betty's' "long-lost pal" if he went back in time and became one (after getting his TimeMachine working again). Al asks "What if I died here?" which would be quite a problem if it happened in another time, since your loved ones ("Where's my wife and family?") wouldn't have any idea what had happened to you. There's a few references to Al being "a foreign man" without any explanation as to how he got to another country, and it'd be natural for him to have "no currency" since money from his time may not be recognised by other times.
361* Note that not all time travellers are Time Lords.
362** It's possible he really ''is'' [[Series/QuantumLeap Al]], and after Samuel Beckett never managed to return on his own, he was sent back when trying to tinker with Ziggy didn't quite turn out as planned.
363
364[[WMG: Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Albedo Piazolla]].]]
365
366[[WMG: Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Alfonse Elrich]]]]
367There's evidence on Website/YouTube. And the name's right.
368
369[[WMG: Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is Chevy Chase.]]
370It's right there in the official music video!
371
372[[WMG: Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]]]]
373Because why not.
374
375[[WMG: 'Uninstall' by Chiaki Ishikawa is about Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya's thoughts during the 11th Hour. She's just created the mother of closed spaces, and the universe is about to experience of mother of all reboots.]]
376The lyrics in the song refers to 'being a speck of dust in the universe', an idea Haruhi came upon while attending a baseball game and tries to fight throughout the series. The lyrics also mention the urge to destroy everything and anything, which can be related to Haruhi's 'melancholy'.
377
378[[WMG:Music/DavidBowie is from another planet.]]
379''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' is based on his life, but with technology instead of music.
380
381Bowie is also Major Tom. He either lost communication with his home planet (which is also called Earth - he probably thinks our world is named "Terra") and drifted through space until he wound up here, or was abducted and returned by aliens. Ziggy Stardust is the translation of his alien name into our language.
382* No, he's [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers The Sovereign.]]
383** [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} AND one of]] TheFairFolk -- how far down does this rabbit hole go?
384*** '''And''' [[EccentricMentor a mysterious trickster mentor]] to [[Music/FlightOfTheConchords New Zealand musicians]] -- pretty far.
385
386[[WMG: The people in the "Saving Me" video are given [[Manga/DeathNote Shinigami Eyes]]]]
387When they find the eyes, they see what it does. Once they save someone, they die of a heart attack.
388
389[[WMG: Music.ReginaSpektor is our universe's PuritySue.]]
390Let's break this down: Meaningful name ("Queen Spirit")? Check. Beautiful singing voice? Check. Spunky and cheerful? Check. Proficiency with a random musical instrument? Check. Speaks several languages fluently? Check. DefectorFromDecadence (Soviet Union)? Check. Humble? Check. [[Sickeningly SugarBowl sweet]]? Check. Smiles and Sunshine and Universal Love in her presence? Hell yes, you can power a lightbulb just by holding it near her. Just plain cooler and better than you? Check. Red hair, bright blue eyes, "pouty lips," and "large and supple breasts?" Check. Unique, frilly outfits? Check. New words get made up to describe her? ''Reginasaurus'', anyone? She probably has a fucking [[InfinityPlusOneSword magical katana]] and an exotic, [[BondCreatures telepathic animal companion]], too. ''Total'' unrealistic Mary Sue.
391* Therefore, Regina Spektor is a self-insert of God. Who is a 13-year old girl. Who is also Creator/RobinWilliams. Who is [[VideoGame/MetalGear Revolver Ocelot]]. Who was...''Russian.'' With a ''spectre'' for a father and a warrior ''queen'' for a mother... it all makes sense.
392
393[[WMG: The Point-Of-View character of Pink's "Cuz I Can" is [[{{Music/Gorillaz}} Murdoc Niccals]].]]
394Listen to "Cuz I Can". Doesn't that song describe Murdoc perfectly?
395
396[[WMG: The Music/{{Gorillaz}} will cover "Cuz I Can" any day now]]
397
398[[WMG: The WesternAnimation/NewKidsonTheBlock's infamously terrible Cartoon is a ''[[StealthParody Parody]]'' of CelebrityToons]]
399Consider: In one of the show's interview segments, the guys mention that the show's writers lived with them for a while and picked their brains for cartoon ideas (despite all evidence to the contrary).
400
401Now, we know that both Joey and Donnie have a mischievous streak. More important, ''they were children in the seventies''. Anyone growing up on a heavy diet of Saturday morning television in Boston then would have had more than enough terrible Celebrity Cartoons (think "SuperGlobetrotters", "The Brady Kids", "Partridge Family In Space," and so on). It is not entirely out of the question that they "fed" the writers the most crazy, bent, cliched, JustForFun/TropeOverdosed ideas they could think of just to see what would happen. (Though they did have the good sense not to suggest "make us all superheroes!" "Send us into space!" or "Add a squishy little alien to the cast!")
402* Alternatively, the whole thing is intentionally bad because it is a WriterRevolt.
403* A similar argument can be made for their [[ChristmasSongs Christmas Album]], which, aside from a couple of songs, sounds downright half-assed... perhaps intentionally.
404
405[[WMG: Music/DaftPunk are a rogue Dalek and Cyberman]]
406Always appearing in mechanical looking "costumes", electronically distorted music, knowledgeable about aliens...
407
408[[WMG: Kelly Clarkson's "Never Again" is about a woman who was murdered by her boyfriend.]]
409It's implied that the guy's current girlfriend will be his next victim ("But when your day comes/And he's through with you/Then he'll be through with you"). The chorus also mentions the singer's face being 'everywhere', which could refer to her murder being a hot topic with the media. "It was you/Who chose to end it like you did" and "You knew/Exactly what you were doing/Don't say/You simply lost your way" is a less {{Anvilicious}} way of saying, "Don't even ''try'' pleading insanity." "She may believe you/But I never will" is self-explanatory.
410
411[[WMG: Kelly Clarkson's "Because of You" is told from the perspective of the daughter of one of the protagonists of ''Film/BrokebackMountain''.]]
412She's talking alternately to her parents, who kept secrets, were ashamed of themselves, and undoubtedly took their frustrations out on their children. Now that she's old enough for her own romantic relationships (whatever they may be), she fears them because of how badly her own parents got along (or because she knows they can be deadly, if her father was [[strike: Kaworu Nagisa]] Toby Maguire's character).
413
414[[WMG: The couple in Live's "The Dolphin's Cry" are [[Literature/{{Dinotopia}} Dinotopians]].]]
415What with all that jazz about the [[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin dolphins]], of course. But the damning evidence is the line about "breathing together". The Dinotopian word for marriage literally translates to "breathing together" -- and this term, in turn, came from the dolphins. Now the question is this: why assume the couple are [[IntellectualAnimal human]]?
416
417[[WMG: Music/AvengedSevenfold's "Bat Country" was made as propaganda by [[CosmicHorror Nyarlathotep]].]]
418After he decided to use rock music as one of his tools. (That decision came early enough.) Just look at the lyrics -- the singer talks about seeing the world differently after some experience, and more specifically seeing everything burning and shaped in unnatural ways. And he loves it. While Nyarlathotep never expressed a taste for fire, the words otherwise more or less exactly sync up with the rapid decay of the narrator's mind in the original tale. And it's not as though the Crawling Chaos is unfamiliar with propaganda -- other than the 1,000 forms, it might be his defining trait.
419* Same thing with "[[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Black Hole Sun]]".
420
421[[WMG: Voltaire's "The Headless Waltz" is narrated by Robespierre.]]
422Seriously. A depressed, half-dead, hallucinating Robespierre.
423* Or maybe...[[IncrediblyLamePun Voltaire?]]
424** Truth in advertising with that pothole there. Incredibly.
425* Alternately, it's Saint-Just.
426
427[[WMG: Music/{{Madonna}} is a cyborg.]]
428Her voice sounds a little more synthesized with each album she records. And she refuses to age. In 20 years, she'll sound exactly like [=GLaDOS=].
429
430[[WMG: Creator/JudyGarland was reincarnated four years after her death as Music/RufusWainwright.]]
431Just check out his Garland tribute show. It speaks for itself.
432
433[[WMG: The narrator of Music/BarenakedLadies' "Another Postcard" has a split personality.]]
434This explains why he's being stalked by mail rather than in person and how the stalker found him "even though I packed and moved my home." The choice of chimpanzees, which would initially amuse him, eventually creeps him out but keeps him captivated; who else would know him that well? The narrator even began suspecting that he was going crazy, and a split personality ''is'' a brand of craziness.
435* Either that or it's someone trying to drive him crazy. It could well be that the narrator is the same easily distracted man-child from "One Week" dealing with a baffling problem that, to him, has no immediate explanation: his pissed-off ex who, realizing that he seems incapable of remorse, decides to avenge herself by playing to the flaw that ruined their relationship: his tendency to focus on pointless trivia to the exclusion of all else. He can't bring himself to feel her pain but he can be driven mad wondering who's sending him another postcard with chim-pan-ZEEEEEEEEES!!!
436
437[[WMG: The Servant's "Cells" is about playing video games.]]
438->"Now you go to bed\
439I'm staying here\
440I've got another level that I wanna clear"
441
442-> "We eat Chinese off our knees\
443And look for each other in the TV screen"
444
445The song is obviously sung from the perspective of a man who spends all of his time either playing video games ("the Sun goes up and the Sun goes down") or daydreaming about playing them because his life is so boring.
446
447[[WMG: "Hotel California" is the Hotel Earle from ''[[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Barton Fink]]''.]]
448A HellHotel in Los Angeles where you can check in any time you like, but can never leave? Sounds like the Hotel Earle. However, because "Hotel California" was released years before ''Film/BartonFink'', either [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis the Hotel Earle is real]], or the Eagles are capable of TimeTravel or prophecy.
449
450[[WMG: The songs "Mr. Richards" and "Diminished" by [[Music/{{REM}} R.E.M.]] are the same event from different perspectives.]]
451Both deal with a man facing the consequences of his actions. It is implied in both songs that it was due to something he said or some sort of public relations nightmare. In both songs, the man is also experiencing legal trouble as a result of his actions. "Diminished" is from the viewpoint of the man in question; "Mr. Richards" is narrated by a member of the accusatory public. Which viewpoint is truer is left for the listener to decide.
452* Also, since "Diminished" takes place largely in a courthouse, and "Mr. Richards" mentions the subject's conviction and imprisonment, the latter is a sequel. It also came out chronologically later.
453
454[[WMG: The narrator of Music/ElvisCostello's "Alison" is planning on shooting the title character.]]
455When he says "I know this world is killing you" and "my aim is true", he means them in more than one way.
456
457[[WMG: Music/FiftyCent is a Franchise/{{Terminator}}.]]
458He's got the right build and the right voice, and he's ''survived being shot nine times.'' [[ImplacableMan He can't be bargained with.]] He can't be reasoned with. He doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And he absolutely will not stop, ever.
459
460[[WMG: "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd is about a date rape.]]
461Yeah, the title is blatant; but if you listen to the lyrics, they're rather disturbing at times. For instance, "We can do it till we both wake up". The spoken word part near the end is also incredibly creepy.
462* So it's essentially a non-seasonal sequel to ''Baby, It's Cold Outside''?
463
464[[WMG: The KLF are timelords]]
465Or rather [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF#The_Timelords The Timelords]]...
466
467[[WMG: The KLF will have a reunion, or a re-release of some of their work in 2010.]]
468Why? They started in 1987, and 2010 is [[ArcNumbers 23 years later]]. The KLF, being Discordians, can't resist it.
469
470[[WMG: [[Music/TheSmiths Morrissey's]] [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning cover]] of "Moon River" is about Perry Smith, sung from the perspective of Creator/TrumanCapote.]]
471The song was originally written for the film version of ''Breakfast At Tiffany's'', but Morrissey seems to have had ''Literature/InColdBlood'' in mind instead. The eerie backing track and vocal delivery combined with samples of a woman's terrified sobbing certainly gives the song a ''much'' more sinister vibe than previous versions. One starts to wonder if the "two drifters" are Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. And Truman Capote was widely rumored to have have been in love (and possibly sexually involved) with Perry Smith. To top it all off, it's performed by an artist whose work includes both [[HoYay homoeroticism]] and "the romance of crime" as [[AuthorAppeal reccuring themes]], often combining the two.
472
473[[WMG: The members of Kraftwerk are robots.]]
474[[CassandraTruth They even admit it in "Die Roboter." from ''Music/TheManMachine'']]
475
476[[WMG: "Voodoo Cowboy" by Cat Empire is about [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death of the Endless.]] ]]
477The main character is a wanderer with oddly coloured eyes; he purposely heads out to the very wastes of the desert "where ghost and spirits walk around like you and me" on horseback. He either falls asleep there, exhausted, or wanders into the Dreaming, and accidentally encounters Death in her brother's realm, in a dream personified for him as an endless lake in a contrast to the desert. He sees Death and falls in love, following her and preferring to embrace her (and die) than live to die alone.
478
479Why does he call her Annabelle? Annabelle is simply one of Death's pseudonyms, or a name the main character chooses for her upon seeing her, not daring to ask for her real name.)
480
481[[WMG: MTV WANTED Music/BritneySpears to make a comeback. ]]
482They have become too dependent on pop music. Once Rap and Rock pushed Pop music out of the way (for the second time), they were left with no music that had MASS appeal. So they tried to get people interested in Britney again by HELPING her manager and parents get her career back on track, hoping not only to restart her career, but also to help boost pop music back into the top ten so MTV could benefit.
483
484Why do you think they keep trying to manufacture pop groups? It's a symbiotic relationship!!!
485* This also explains why they haven't given up calling Music/MichaelJackson "The King of Pop."
486* They call him the "King of Pop" cause that's what he was. But they weren't benefiting from doing this after his personal troubles.
487
488[[WMG: ''106 & Park: Top 10'' is rigged]]
489This rumour started when Beyonce had a song off the Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember soundtrack that popped onto the top 10 within a day of its debut and then disappeared after the film had run its course - which was no longer than a week.
490* Another example: Music/BoneThugsNHarmony debuted a song on the show that never broke through despite fans organizing a small army of internet posters to vote. Ironically, that group of fans had no problem getting the vid on TRL.
491* Creator/{{BET}} has a "blacklist" that lists artists as "irrelevant" or too "intelligent." This list is given to vid programmers and explains that they must not put these artists in heavy rotation. This might explain the Bone situation. Apparently, they don't want artists that are too old and "irrelevant" or that are too intelligent. It explains their longtime shunning of alternative rap (with the possible exception of Outkast). Although Outkast was waaay too popular to ignore.
492** They also have now just recently started to ignore old school vids that was made prior to 2005 (before that it was 2001!!). They use to play old school vids from TheEighties, and TheNineties on 106 & Park's ''old school jam of the day''. Eventually they turned it to the ''flash back of the day'' that showed vids that were only a couple of years old, Which the original VJ's (Free, and AJ) LampShaded. Conspiracy Theorists believe BET is trying to bury old school hip-hop, Kinda like a PlausibleDeniability but for hip-hop. They also believe this is one of the reasons Free and AJ was let go, as they started to become vocal about the direction of the show.
493
494[[WMG: [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Dani California]] was shot by an insane lover..]]
495..who also happens to be the narrator. Dani left him for the "North Dakota man" (who's also the "gifted animator"). The narrator was then sent into a spiraling depression that eventually drove him mad. "It only hurts when I laugh" because of Dani's desperate attempts to fight back.
496
497[[WMG: The narrator of "With or Without You" by Music/{{U2}} is talking about his relationship with a prostitute.]]
498
499Yes, it's a beautiful love song and everything, but the core lyric from the chorus does sound like it's talking about addiction, as opposed to love. Also, the repeated lyric "And you give yourself away..." To other men, perhaps, in exchange for money?
500
501[[WMG: The woman in "With ot Without You" is a ''vampire.'']]
502The "stone set in [her] eyes" is the way the narrator describes the strange colour of her eyes. All the metaphors for addiction in the song and references to pain ("on a bed of nails she makes me wait", "my hands are tied", "thorn twists in her side") reflect the narrator's dependence on her, even though he hates to be dependent. She "gives herself away" by turning other people - including the band - into vampires.
503
504[[WMG: "Running To Stand Still" by Music/{{U2}} is ''not'' about the effects of heroin addiction on a young couple in Dublin. It's about vampirism, too!]]
505"So she woke up, woke up from where she was, lying still" is the woman waking up from sleep in a coffin. The whole song is an account of the narrator's turning. "Sweet the sin, but bitter the taste in my mouth" and "the poison from the poison stream" are thinly-veiled metaphors for tasting the woman's blood and being turned. The "needle chill" is the woman's fangs.
506
507[[WMG: Kid Rock hired people to make a big deal about him "stealing" from "Sweet Home Alabama" so that people wouldn't notice the "Werewolves in London" ripoff.]]
508It would have worked if Warren Zevon hadn't had any fans. It works better in redneck country.
509
510[[WMG: The narrator in "I Shot the Sheriff" from Music/BobMarley's ''Music/{{Burnin}}'' shot the sheriff because ''the sheriff'' shot the deputy.]]
511The deputy found something he shouldn't have, and the singer walked in just as the sheriff shot him. Bob Marley wouldn't say who shot the deputy because he knew the sheriff's gang (a combination of actors to be run out of town when it looked like the sheriff was getting lazy, and corrupt officers) would be able to [[FateWorseThanDeath keep him alive for a ''very'' long time]]. Later, when the sheriff had hired Eric Clapton for a temporary job, Clapton found the incriminating evidence, and realized that Marley ''hadn't'' shot the deputy. The sheriff attacked him, and the current deputy, not knowing the truth, joined the fray (no, not The Fray). Clapton accidentally shot the deputy in the confusion, who shot the sheriff during his JustBetweenYouAndMe speech. Clapton wanted to spare the deputy's unsullied name, knowing that the charges of shooting the corrupt sheriff would be cleared but still leave a mark.
512
513[[WMG: The narrator in "I Shot the Sheriff" used to plant marijuana seeds]]
514And the sheriff demanded they were killed before they grow
515
516[[WMG: The child in "Cats in the Cradle" is an EnfantTerrible acting on the LawOfDisproportionateResponse]]
517The second verse describes the father casually saying that he is unable to play with his son. The budding young psychopath swears vengeance: "He walked away, but [[SlasherSmile his smile never dimmed]], he said 'I'm gonna be like him, yeah, ya know I'm gonna be like him." Content to let his plot simmer for decades if necessary, the child finally has his revenge in the last verse:
518-->I said "I'd like to see you, if you don't mind."
519-->He said "I'd love to Dad, if I can find the time.
520-->You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu,
521-->But it's sure nice talking to you Dad,
522-->It's been sure nice talking to you."
523-->And as he hung up the phone it occurred to me,
524-->[[CruelTwistEnding He'd grown up just like me]], [[HoistByHisOwnPetard my boy, was just like me.]]
525
526One can almost hear the son's maniacal laughter as he hangs up the phone.
527
528[[WMG: The child in "Cats in the Cradle" has inherited his father's personality.]]
529It's genetic, nothing to do with the father neglecting him. They're both just natural introverts more comfortable working than interacting with their family.
530
531[[WMG: "Please Don't Stop The Music," "Low," and "Just Dance" are all taking place at the same night club]]
532"Please" and "Just Dance" are about girls who went to a dance club and got swept up by the atmosphere (or the alcohol or the prospect of a hookup). "Low" is from the point of view of a man who's watching "Shorty" get "low low low, low low low low" and hoping to score with her.
533
534[[WMG: There is no such thing as Music.]]
535"Music" is random waves of vibration in the air that are perceived and interpreted by our neurons as being sound. Only the deaf are at all free of this fairy tale, and even they get sucked in by those ever-more-powerful bass lines.
536
537[[WMG: The Song "Provo's Lullabie" isn't a lullabie.]]
538Rather, it's one last heartfelt goodbye from one provo to another. Consider:
539* The song mentions "bullets humming". They are in the middle of a firefight!
540* The mentions of gray hair and eventual death don't mean that the provo is still alive. It means that the second provo is trying to convinve the first that he will live to an old age.
541
542[[WMG: The "Prom Queen" from Music/LilWayne's song also rejected Avril's "Sk8r Boi"]]
543What a bitch.
544
545[[WMG: "Tha Carter II" is about a man (Mr. Carter) pleading his case before God, trying to get into heaven.]]
546The 'On the block' skits show life moving on after his death. At the end, God gives him a second chance at life, which is why Mr. Carter on Tha Carter III contains the line 'Hey Mr. Carter, tell me where have you been.'
547
548[[WMG: The shooting in "99 Problems" is somehow related to the one in "Can’t Knock the Hustle." ]]
549Think about it: Both videos are shot in black and white, one being his first single from his first album, and the other being what should’ve been the last single of his last album. He gets away in "Can’t Knock the Hustle," but "99 Problems" closes his story by having his past come back to get him. And since the shooters in the first video were all women, a bitch ''was'' one of his problems – the one he forgot about.
550
551[[WMG: Music/NickCave and the Bad Seed's "Weeping Song" is narrated between two vampires.]]
552The child-vampire is newly made, and the vampire who turned him has decided to show him the way life works. The people in the village are weeping because they'll all eventually die; but the undead are exempt from this-- or so it would seem. Immortality is [[WhoWantsToLiveForever an upsetting lot,]] and even though they should be theoretically free from sorrow, the vampires still grieve for something lost. (Alternatively, the vampire-father isn't weeping-- he's covered in blood.) The younger vampire might not realise that he is a vampire. Both are apathetic observers of the kind of misery they no longer have to take part in. The two vampires wait out their first long night together, finally falling asleep by dawn.
553** And of course, the refrain includes "This is a weeping song /A song in which to weep / While all the men and women sleep". And the first line uses the word "Son" which is a homonym of "Sun": "Go Son/Sun, go down to the water" - imploring the sun to set so they can be active and feed on the people they discuss. You can also imagine "weeping" as a stand-in for "bleeding".
554
555[[WMG: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189QSTKC5no Yuri The Only One]] by the LeetStreet Boys is not a pop love ballad full of geek/otaku references, but a pop ballad about a YuriFan explaining to a girl who is interested in him that HetIsEw.]]
556It's all kind of obvious if we analyize some of the [[ShoutOut shout outs.]]
557* First, the title. It clearly states that the male singer is only interested in {{Yuri}}.
558* "Like a [[Manga/{{Chobits}} persocom]] I'm teaching you." Teaching her that HetIsEw.
559* "Like a Franchise/{{Pokemon}} I pikachu." I'll look, but not touch.
560* "Like [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam Seed]] you're my [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny destiny]]." Considering the negative reputation of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]],'' that is not a compliment.
561* "For [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Yuna]] and [[Franchise/ThLegendOfZelda Zelda]] and [[Manga/{{Chobits}} Chi]] I'd do anything." If it's a love song, why mention three other girls? Unless he wants ''yuri'' of them.
562* "{{Yuri}} the only one for [[YuriFan me]]." Once again, we have the singer claim to be only interested in {{Yuri}}.
563* "Priceless Like a Platform/{{PS3}}" and "You and I make Creator/{{Nintendo}} Platform/{{Wii}}." If the girl has the market value of a [=PS3=], but her physical specs plus the singer's are equivlent to a Wii, then the girl is seriously overpriced.
564* "You're my [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Angel out of Tokyo-3]]." First off, due to HypeAversion, comparing ''anything'' to "Evangelion" is probably not good. Also, that implies that the girl is an EldritchAbomination dripping in Freudian and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Religious]] symbolism, quite likely to turn around and MindRape you at any point in time.
565* "Cell-shaded face in an [[FanVid AMV]]." No [=AMV=]s make good use of Cell shading on anything that wasn't cell-shaded before.
566* "Just like [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] you're the better half of me." Ranma hated his genderbending.
567* "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephy's]] Mom has got it going on." Okay, this part is a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, but it still has the singer mentioning the appeal of another woman [[spoiler: sort of.]]
568
569[[WMG: REM's "World Leader Pretend" and Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Viva La Vida" are being sung by the same narrator]]
570The Narrator is a world leader of some sort dealing with a struggle. However, unlike most interpretations, the struggle isn't from within, but '''without'''.
571
572He's some sort of dictator or warlord, most likely of eastern European or African origin. Various forces are coming down to take his position of power from him. For years, he thought himself to be all powerful, ruler of all he sees; but he certainly isn't now. He's a "pretend world leader".
573
574Also, he makes mentions on how he "knows the barricades" and recognises the weapons. Decades before, he too was a "revolutionary" who gained power by defeating the old, corrupt regime, only to create another corrupt regime. Now it's his time to be thrown from power by someone else, like his predecessor before him.\
575The second song comes after he has been overthrown. It's some sort of speech he's giving at his war crimes tribunal. It makes many mentions of how he's been humbled, that he "sweeps the streets [he] used to own". He starts to make references to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic religion and similar themes]]. He admits he was a liar and a crook, but "that was when [he] ruled the world". He even claims that his rise to dictatorship wasn't his intention, that a "wicked and wild wind" blew him towards the eventuality. He admits that people were disappointed that he just became another warlord: "People couldn't believe what [he'd] become". He goes on to mention the revolutionaries who want him dead and bemoans [[IJustWantToBeNormal being in such a position of power]]. He then admits that "Saint Peter won't call [his] name", admitting his guilt for the acts that he had committed. Whether this is honest truth or lies to get the jury on his side is up to you to interpret.
576
577[[WMG: In the song "Copacabana," Lola shot first.]]
578Either Rico or Tony dropped the gun in the scuffle; Lola took it and shot Tony by accident.
579* Tony was the one who got shot. The lyrics say, ''She lost her love.'' and ''She lost her youth and she lost her Tony/Now she's lost her mind!''. But that doesn't mean that she didn't accidentally shoot him.
580
581It would explain why she's so depressed in the last verse.
582
583Additionally, upon losing Tony, she turns to Rico for comfort in her deranged state and he takes advantage of her by manipulating her. In the end she gets fed up and kills Rico as well.
584
585[[WMG: None of the members of ZZ Top can leave the band without the band breaking up entirely.]]
586Let's say one of them left, and the other two tried to perform together. It wouldn't work. They would be considered a subgroup of the original three-member ZZ Top, and as everyone knows, the number of members of a subgroup must evenly divide into the number of members of the original group. Two simply does not divide evenly into three. To have a successful subgroup, they would have to go solo.
587
588They know this; after all, it is known as La Grange's Theorem.
589
590[[WMG: The tale of Imaginos Desdinova in Music/BlueOysterCult Imaginos ConceptAlbum is true.]]
591Imaginos after helping to instigate UsefulNotes/WorldWarI for [[CosmicHorror Les Invisibles]] continued to 'Sing Songs Nobody Knew' by using his powers to take the form of different artists over the years, eventually deciding to write and perform songs based off his own life... by forming Music/BlueOysterCult as Sandy Pearlman.
592
593[[WMG: All of Music/RobZombie's lyrics are drawn from real life experience]]
594
595Jesus really did live his life in a cheap motel on the edge of Route 66 (yeah). Suicide tanks, living dead girls and Pig Heaven are out there somewhere. Oh, and Mr. Zombie is both a Superbeast and an Electric Head. No wonder his movies are so twisted...
596
597[[WMG: The Music/{{Queen}} song "Bicycle Race" is about a young Chinese man in China shortly after the Cultural Revolution finished]]
598He's not in it for the revolution, but he doesn't give a damn about American pop culture icons either. He's completely apolitical, not caring about the Vietnam War or even being a good communist. He's in it for the ''cycling''.
599
600[[WMG: The protagonist in Gary Moore's "Over the Hills and Far Away" was framed by his best friend.]]
601The friend found out about his wife's affair with the protagonist. He staged the robbery and planted the protagonist's gun at the scene, either in revenge or in a failed attempt to force the couple to confess their relationship.
602
603[[WMG:Shakira isn't human]]
604Humans don't move the way she does in the video for "She Wolf." Of course, this raises the question of ''what'' she is.
605* Maybe she's a werewolf?
606** That's one theory. This Troper's brother thinks she's an alien, and there's one DJ who voiced the theory that she was a robot.
607
608[[WMG:The kid from Music/TheOffspring's "You're Gonna go Far, Kid" is the same person as the Narrator from the Flobots' "Handlebars"]]
609Given that his methods included the use of a thousand lies and a good disguise, it should be no surpise that it ended in pain.
610
611[[WMG:The girl who released the balloons in "99 Red Balloons" knew ''exactly'' what the consequences would be.]]
612Didn't it ever strike you as strange that the narrator of the song is not only the sole survivor, but also the one who started the whole thing? Maybe she's an evil genius, maybe she's the Devil, maybe she's God. But whatever she is, she knew perfectly well what she was doing.
613* And she was even willing to kill her beloved to do it. Her beloved was clueless about what the balloons would do, though.
614* Alternatively, the singer is a military leader who got bored. He bought/released balloons with his daughter, then told everyone they were some sort of threat, just to have an excuse to blow something up. Unfortunately, his daughter didn't make it.
615* In the German version it is strongly implied that the generals who launched the attack knew perfectly well what the balloons were but wanted an excuse to start a war and used the balloons as that excuse.
616
617[[WMG:Alternatively, "99 Red Balloons" is meant to show that LoveMakesYouDumb.]]
618The song begins with a girl and (presumably) her lover releasing balloons into the atmosphere. [[ItMakesSenseInContext This leads to nuclear war.]] The song ends with her, amongst the rubble, finding a [[BookEnds lone red balloon]] and "think(ing) of (him) and (letting) it go." This is followed by what [[OhCrap sounds like a]] [[HereWeGoAgain nuclear raid siren.]] You idiot, that "romantic gesture" is what started this mess!
619
620[[WMG:This page is controlled by [[FunWithAcronyms Warner Music Group]].]]
621Same initials; deprecating music videos (just like what Creator/WarnerMusicGroup did to Website/YouTube); insulting Kid Rock (in revenge for Kid Rock slamming Atlantic Records for Warner Bros.); thinking Dragonforce is God (they are signed to Roadrunner Records); there are many other examples right on this page. And odds are good that some people here edit Website/TheOtherWiki [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic saying Weird Al sucks]].
622* That also explains why WMG/TheBeatles WMG is on a different page.
623** And WMG/BohemianRhapsody, WMG/SouljaBoy (who's a Warner/Chappell songwriter), and WMG/TheProtomen. Actually, Bohemian Rhapsody was disowned by this page because Queen switched record labels from Creator/ElektraRecords, part of Warner Music Group, to Creator/CapitolRecords (and then to Hollywood).
624
625[[WMG:The members of the band Music/{{Aha}} are comic-book characters come to life.]]
626The music video for "Take On Me" tells a true story, albeit in a more romantic and poetic way. All back-stories of the band members are fabricated. They were originally pencil sketches in an unpublished comic book starring them as band members who lead secret lives as motorcycle racers, but became self-aware and broke the fourth wall to escape their comic book. This explains why they're ridiculously hot, they never age, Morten Harket's angelic singing voice, and the fact that they have PowerTrio personalities. After escaping from the comic book, they decided to continue on as a band and have hinted at the fact that they ''are'' comic book characters in several of their music videos.
627
628[[WMG: All of Music/{{Tool}}'s music videos take place inside Adam Jones's subconscious, VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} style]]
629No wonder they're so weird and [[MindScrew Mind-Screwy]].
630
631Alternatively, the videos are allegorical {{Dream Sequence}}s imagined by Maynard James Keenen, which inspired him to write the songs.
632
633[[WMG: "Hotel California" is a cockroach's revenge for the Roach Motel.]]
634Roaches can check out any time they like but they can never leave.
635
636[[WMG: "The Land of Make Believe" by Bucks Fizz is set in the TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 universe]]
637It's about a small child with psychic powers who is slowly going mad as a daemon possesses her. "The Land of Make-Believe" is the Warp, where dreams ''are'' reality. The daemon begins by whispering into the child's mind and sending alluring visions ("voices whisper, 'will you come and play...'"). The child resists at first ("never, never ever!"), but the daemon keeps "waiting, patiently till it can have [her] heart". Soon, the child's defences weaken, and she allows her new playmate to take control of her mind. As those around her realise what's happening, a witch-hunt begins ("you're an outlaw once again"), and the child must flee on a spacecraft ("into the blue, you and I"). The only place in the galaxy where she can now find safety is the Eye of Terror ("the Circus in the Sky"), where Chaos spills over into the material universe and the very laws of physics are twisted with insanity. "Superman" and "Captain Kidd" are the Chaos Space Marines and pirates that inhabit the Eye, and "time to change" refers to the mutations that the Chaos Gods bestow on their followers. At the very end of the song, we hear a little girl's voice reciting a poem that suggests the daemon has destroyed the mind of its host, and is now looking for another soul to consume... and the listener may be next.
638
639The only thing wrong with this theory is that the song came out several years before TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 did. But, well, time flows strangely in the Warp...
640
641[[WMG: There is no Pretty Texas Girl in Anna Nalick's "Soldier."]]
642The Pretty Texas Girl is a metaphor for something else, other than fighting, that serves as a way for the narrator's lover to serve his country, which could mean any number of things. It starts off with the narrator and the soldier falling in love, despite knowing that he will have to go off to fight soon. ("We didn't have time to feel sorry for what we did.") Then he's injured and comes back home and has no idea what to do with himself ("He was a soldier, he always was") and the pretty Texas Girl, the answer to his prayers, who makes the soldier believe he can live again, is whatever he chooses to do with himself after that, letting him continue to serve his country and feel useful. When "he called me tell to me he'd fallen in love with her," it means that he told her what he doing. Presumably, this career path took up a lot of his time, and the narrator will effectively still be sharing her lover with America. This explains why the narrator seems so chill about losing her man to someone else; it's not someone else, it's something else, and this keeps him from getting hurt again. Then, in the last verse, 'I'll be a gambler, and he'll be home free' means that she won't know when he'll have time to spend with her, but she's willing to make that sacrifice for him to be happy. And 'he's loving Texas, and I'll marry melody' means that she understands his need to serve his country because of her own need to express herself through music. 'Smile at the gates, 'cause their hate don't belong to you' could mean that her soldier got out of combat before getting ''too'' scarred for life, or it could mean that he went into politics but was of the rare honest breed of politician who genuinely wanted to help people and because of that, wasn't that succesful, but at least he had his integrity.
643
644The chorus could refer to his frustration at having been kicked out of the military and now having to jump around from random jobs because his need to be involved with his country is not being satisfied by deskwork. 'And if this life doesn't give you the love you expect, there's always the next' could mean that even if this job doesn't work out (or, even though the military didn't work out) there's still hope for the future.
645
646[[WMG: The "Sk8r Boi" is [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames CD-I Link.]]]]
647In both "works," BOI is mispelled. Also, [[RichBitch CD-I Zelda]] rejects CD-I Link twice, much like the AlphaBitch in Sk8r Boi.
648
649[[WMG: The singer of "The Christmas Shoes" is an UnreliableNarrator.]]
650This is why the song makes no sense if you examine it. (Why is this little boy with a dying mother all by himself in a store on Christmas Eve? How come nobody ever explained to him that Jesus doesn't care about Mommy having nice shoes when she reaches the Pearly Gates?) What happened was this: the boy was just an average kid who was just a little bit short of the cash needed to cover his shopping bill. The narrator, who has already admitted that he was "not really in the Christmas mood" and the kid had "counted pennies for what seemed like years" covered the rest (no more than a dollar or two) with the spare change in his pocket out of impatience and an interest to move the line along and get his own shopping done. He then concocts this tale of the sweet innocent waif and his poor mother on her deathbed so he can pat himself on the back for his act of "charity."
651
652[[WMG: The little boy in "The Christmas Shoes" is one half of a father-son con-artist team.]]
653The father drops him off in front of stores. The child goes inside, grabs the merchandise his father orders, and tells the sob story to whoever is around so they'll pay for it, in whole or in part.
654
655[[WMG: "The Golden Vanity" is sung by the defense attorney at a mutiny trial]]
656Who wouldn't mutiny after [[MoralEventHorizon what the captain did]]?
657
658[[WMG: "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me" is about DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal.]]
659Elvis's girlfriend apparently was swept off the ground against her will by Santa Claus last year. He is now unsuccessfully pleading for Santa to bring her back.
660
661[[WMG: REO Speedwagon's "Roll With the Changes" is about the Franchise/{{Transformers}}.]]
662Autobots, roll out!
663
664[[WMG: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was born near a Soviet nuclear dumping ground.]]
665The USSR simply threw their nuclear waste in the river, and that's where his mutation comes from. Presumably, his parents died of radiation sickness and Santa took pity on the orphaned fawn.
666
667[[WMG: The three ships "I" saw come sailing in [[YouFailGeographyForver to Bethlehem]] were starships with solar sails.]]
668They contained Christians from an extraterrestrial [=LARPing=] group on a pilgrimage to the Holy Planet.
669* So the song takes place in the ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' universe?
670
671[[WMG: In "Bust a Move", Larry's marriage is fake.]]
672We know Larry doesn't know the "you" of the song that well -- he's only described as his best friend's brother. So why choose him as the best man? Because the entire wedding is a sham, done for immigration purposes or something similar. Everyone who's close to Larry knows this and wants no part of it, so Larry's forced to turn to to "you".
673
674[[WMG: Music/JudasPriest's "Painkiller" and Music/BlackSabbath's "Iron Man" from ''Music/ParanoidAlbum'' are two chapters of the same story.]]
675In "Iron Man," a man is sent travelling through time and turned into a metallic effigy of himself. During the time he had to relearn how to move his heavy body, he had plenty of time to develop some serious rage against the normal humans around him. When he could finally move again, he set out to kill all of the soft pink humans.
676
677Just when human civilization was on its last leg, a metallic messiah, the Painkiller, arrives and battles the Iron Man for the fate of mankind.
678
679[[WMG: The Hotel California (The Music/{{Eagles}}) and the House of the Rising Sun (a traditional folk song [[CoveredUp popularized by]] Music/TheAnimals) are in the same universe]]
680The following takes the lyrics more or less at face value.
681
682The Hotel California simply traps your own body and soul for eternity. The House of the Rising Sun also traps you for eternity, but it will let you go just long enough to go bear a child. After you die, the House will call on that child, and then that child's child, and so on and so forth. In short, the Hotel California will only torment you forever. The House of the Rising Sun will torment you, your children, their children, and all your descendants, forever.
683
684[[WMG: The friends in "All My Friends Say" lied to the protagonist.]]
685The fact "All my friends say" is repeated over and over again suggests an UnreliableNarrator. The narrator really just broke down sobbing when his ex walked in with a new man and then drowned his sorrows; when his friends took him home, they agreed to lie to him about the fun he had should he call and ask what happened.
686
687[[WMG: Emilie Autumn's "Gothic Lolita" is about a girl in an arranged marriage.]]
688It explains why "the law won't arrest you, the world won't detest you", even though it's implied that the girl was raped.
689** Well, the lyrics are ''"the law won't arrest you, the world won't detest you, you never did any thing any man wouldn't do..."'' It's the narrator mockingly throwing back in her rapist's face his rationalization for raping a young girl -- that, Roman Polanski-style, all men secretly want little girls, and so why fault ''him'' for it for acting on it?
690
691[[WMG: The uncle in Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s "Red Barchetta" is [[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster Rob's son.]]]]
692Just think about it. He has a country place that no one knows about, similar to the cottage in the movie. Also, Rob drives a topless car that looks suspiciously like a red Barchetta. Eventually, he bought a new car and handed his old one down to his son. Somehow, over the years, Rob's veterinary clinic was transformed into a farm. When the "Motor Law" came, the son hid away the car in his barn. Even more coincidental? The album ''Moving Pictures'' came out in 1980, the same time period that the movie takes place in!
693
694[[WMG: At any given time, somewhere on planet Earth, at least one radio station is playing "[[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]]".]]
695Either that or "[[Music/TheEagles Hotel California]]".
696* And if it ends, so will the world
697
698[[WMG: The mysterious Soviet radio station has a quiet loop of ''Hotel California'' in the very background.]]
699''Stairway to Heaven'' is being played on thast one pulsar we never decrypted ([[SarcasmMode yeah,]] ''[[SarcasmMode that]]'''s [[SarcasmMode specific]]), and not, in fact, on earth.
700
701[[WMG: Sympathy for the devil from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} is as told by God ''to'' the Devil:]]
702* "Man of wealth and taste"- Angels are sexless. The Christian god is generally masculine, and lives on a flying golden throne with a giant pearl for a front door.
703* "Stolen many a man's soul and faith"- but in a good way.
704* "I was 'round when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain"- Not the Temptation, but the "Why have you forsaken me!?" bit during the crucifixion. God's ''always'' there.
705* Pontius Pilate: Ineffable plan.
706* St. Petersburg: More ineffable plan, maybe a bit of smiting on the side. Who do you ''think'' gave * Rasputin Super Not Dying Skills? (Alternately, Saint Peter's hill, not Leningrad/Stalingrad/etc).
707* Tank, general's rank, Blitzkrieg: The tank is the bomb shelters under London. Led them into a battle of faith versus fear during the air raids.
708* "Watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades over gods they'd made": * This one's difficult, but I want to say, not humans, but demons. Demons suck, so the guy upstairs gets some spitegloating points without taking away from the whole "perfect good guy" thing. If it's a reference to the Hundred Years' War (or some war that ''actually'' took a hundred years), American high school history classes cover about two sentences of it, and I haven't happened to do much research on my own about it, so... Any ideas?
709"Who killed the Kennedys... you and me"- God does everything, TheDevilMadeMeDoIt
710"laid traps for troubadours who got killed before they reached Bombay": More martyrs.
711"Every cop is a criminal... sinner a saint... heads is tails, just call me Lucifer": Happy OppositeDay! Oh, by the way? [++ Let There Be Light ++ ]
712And, most importantly, the "Won't you guess my name?" parts and the title itself: God is taking sympathy on the Devil, and trying to get the Devil to guess His Name Of Power and end the world, thus triggering the end of what is now seen to be a wholly unnecessary punishment without requiring the omnipotent being to admit to a lack of omnipotence.
713Personally, I really like this WMG.
714
715[[WMG: "Fireflies" by Owl City takes place in Franchise/TheMatrix]]
716The "10 million fireflies" is the matrix code and they "dance" with him because he's able to manipulate the matrix; unfortunately he's too reluctant to leave his old life (he "like[s] make[s himself] believe/That planet earth turns slowly/It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep" = he wants to believe that the matrix is the real world, abate a MundaneFantastic one) so he takes the blue pill and "they say farewell", but he can still occasionally see them.
717* My wife loves that song, and I am sick of it. I have you to thank for breathing new life into it.
718
719[[WMG: "Whisper" by Music/{{Evanescence}} is about Christ's death on the cross.]]
720"Speaking to the atmosphere/ No one's here and I fall into myself" is a reference to when God turned his back on Jesus while Jesus became the sin of the world. "I can stop the pain if I will it all away" is a reference to the fact that Christ could have changed his mind and said, "Forget humanity!" at any time, but didn't. "Fallen angels at my feet/ whispered voices in my ear" is describing demons tempting Jesus to do just that - forsake humanity. The spooky Latin chanting is the the voice of human souls begging Jesus to carry through and deliver them from evil.
721
722[[WMG: "Hey Mickey" is about a girl trying to keep a gay boyfriend.]]
723First, she refers to him as "so pretty" in the chorus. Mickey also appears to not be very interested in sexual activity with his girlfriend, considering she's practically begging for semi-sexual activities ("Don't say no Mickey!"), and she says, "Come on and give it to me anyway you can/ go an and give it to me I'll treat you like a man" but "treat you like a man" sounds suspiciously like "take it like a man" in the original version.
724
725[[WMG: "Far Side Of Crazy" is about Tara Gilesbie.]]
726
727
728[[WMG: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Evelyn Evelyn Evelyn]] are real, but are conspiring with Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley to pretend to be a hoax.]]
729
730The reason for this can be found in the lyrics to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWSLJszH70o A Campaign of Shock and Awe]]. The sisters are convinced that a musical career would become as exploitative as their circus appearances. They are using the people producing the CD to tell their story, possibly with embellishments or metaphor, because they believe it is the only way for people to consider their message and talents without becoming caught up in the freak show.
731
732[[WMG: "Before He Cheats" is an account of Carrie Underwood beating a man to the point of death]]
733
734Suuuuuure she's destroying his ''car''. Read between the lines. "I dug my key into the side of his purty li'l souped-up four wheel drive": She gouged out his kidneys, or perhaps his gall bladder. "And carved my name into his leather seat": She left the word CARRIE (and does that name sound familiar or what?) sliced into his arse. "I took a Louisville Slugger to both headlights": She reduced both his eyes to a bloody pulp with a baseball bat. "And slashed a hole in all four tires": She gave him the wounds of Christ. "I might have saved a ''little trouble'' for the next girl": She partially castrated him.
735* And why? Well, piercing his hands, feet and side - obviously revenge for him disliking "Jesus Take the Wheel". Note the spiteful reference to "redneck version of Shania karaoke" - if there's a phrase that better describes Carrie's music, I'd love to hear it. All that cheating he was "probably" doing is just her way of rationalizing it. Don't mess with an Series/AmericanIdol contestant, kids. They've already tasted hell.
736
737[[WMG: "Supermassive Black Hole" is about a BlackHoleSue]]
738
739Well, think about it. It's obvious when you see it was in Literature/TheTwilightSaga, which is about the [[SarcasmMode epic, perfect]] relationship between a Sue and her vampire boyfriend. And the lyrics "I thought I was a fool for no one, but oh baby I'm a fool for you"? Show the Sue's ability to get in everywhere and have everyone love her/him/them.
740
741[[WMG:If the Trans Siberian Orchestra were ever to be conducted by John Williams...]]
742...the world would explode from sounds of pure, unrefined SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
743
744[[WMG:Mary Anne and Wanda hooked up after disposing of Earl.]]
745* ...Are you referring to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Earl this]]?
746** I'm glad I'm not the only person to look at it that way.
747
748[[WMG: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFtWyvRMOk The Doctor's Wife]] was DeadAllAlong.]]
749''All'' of her vocal parts were imagined, not just the last two. The seizures were absence seizures, not grand mal seizures, and the decay that was the cause was the decay of the final death, not just of partial necrosis. The Doctor's prostheses, the artificial organs, will never bring her back, but will only give the mechanical semblance of a living body [[CameBackWrong around a brain and eyes that have long since ceased to function]]. [[TearJerker Quite sad, and saddening]].
750
751[[WMG: The narrator of "Me and Bobby Mc Gee" killed Bobby.]]
752
753[[WMG: The stamp-collecting old man in the Music/{{CAKE}} song ''Frank Sinatra'' is the physical manifestation of the ancient radiation that haunts dismembered constellations]]
754That was a long explanation. However, it makes perfect sense when you think about it. And by "perfect sense", I mean "about as much sense as any other WMG". Also, the aforementioned old man probably owns the skipping record with cobwebs falling on it.
755
756[[WMG: Armageddon was {{Averted}} by Rock 'n' Roll]]
757
758The rumors were true and Hitler was the Antichrist and, after his defeat, God and Jesus decided it was as good a time as any for Judgment. Jesus was reborn as a human shortly after the war ended, around 1947.
759
760God and Jesus had made the decision that, to reach the most number of people, Jesus would become a rock 'n' roller, a person who would have more influence than a rabbi. This ended up saving us all. It's unknown exactly when, but at some point Jesus, under his new name, decided he wasn't going to go through with it. He decided he was going to keep spreading his updated message through his, and continued in secret until about 7 years ago.
761
762It's time for the truth to be known. David Bowie is Jesus Christ.
763** This explains why the messianic themes from Bowie's music all but disapeared after ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust''. This could be when he decided to stay human "Rock 'n' Roll" Suicide, may refer to his own death, forsaking immortality.
764** Jesus was part of the house of David. Bowie took that name as a hint when he came to earth.
765** Then what explains RockMeAsmodeus?
766
767[[WMG: The songs "Hand Of Sorrow" and "In Perfect Harmony" are about the same person in alternate universes.]]
768
769A baby boy is abandoned by his mother in the woods. Then, the two timelines diverge. In "In Perfect Harmony", the boy is found by elves and raised to live in perfect harmony with nature yada yada yada. In "Hand Of Sorrow", the boy is found by some sort of government agency and raised to be a super soldier. Music/WithinTemptation.
770
771[[WMG: The Fratellis' "Costello Music" is really an awesome concept album.]]
772
773[[http://lydiduh.livejournal.com/2580.html#cutid1 For reals]]. Dear Broadway: I'm waiting for this rock opera.
774
775[[WMG: Johnny Gallagher's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r550gUdnf0o The Buried Boy]]" and The Spring Standards' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khnu2mGVb7E Breath and Sound]]" are about the same breakup from different perspectives.]]
776
777Both songs refer to swinging tree branches as the sun sets, sitting on a bench, and a boy on his knees. Johnny Gallagher dated The Spring Standards' Heather Robb in high school. Therefore, they wrote the songs about each other.
778
779[[WMG: Every musician, music artist, member of a band, or music executive is a space alien [[EldritchAbomination or worse]]) from a distant planet.]]
780What they have persuaded us is "music" is actually their hidden, subliminal brainwash mantra, which we have to surrendered to, repeatedly listen to, and repeat amongst ourselves like good,obedient drones, in exchange for our riches and livelihood. When we see a musician in concert, we are feeding them our positive energy like so much delicious chocolate while they feast on it from a raised platform above, commanding their enslaved masses. When they are fully engorged, soon and very soon, their home armada will attack and destroy the earth, and we will worship and thank them for it before being vaporized. It is already too late. Resistance is futile.
781* By the way, the RIAA does not actually exist, it's a diversionary red herring made up by the aliens to give us a false enemy to fight, so we can feel like we are "sticking up for the artists" without realizing they are our true aggressor. All bands and artists support music piracy as it allows their mind control to spread to as many people as possible. Those who publicly speak out against it are merely betting on the fact that if you tell people not to pirate music, they will of course be provoked to do the opposite.
782* ...and in case you are wondering, YES. [[Music/LadyGaga Gaga]] is their almighty [[BigBad overlord]].
783* Jossed. My father works in the record industry and he's from Earth. The antenna that he and his coworkers have is simply a strange medical condition. One that happens to target record executives.
784** Unless THEY brainwashed you to say that. And come on, the antennae was fairly obvious, what the hell else is Phil Spector hiding up there?
785
786[[WMG: Music/ToriAmos's "Past the Mission" is about a naïve, bookish girl who is convinced by a more worldly girl she has a crush on to help break her (the other girl's) boyfriend out of prison.]]
787I know, it's actually supposed to be about rape and/or Mary Magdalene, but this is how I was automatically inclined to read it before I went looking for other interpretations:
788
789The singer (who's book-smart but inexperienced) makes friends with a "hot girl" who "said she knew what [the singer's] books did not". This girl has a boyfriend whom everyone thinks of as a bad boy (though a popular one), but she thinks "she [knows] him better". He's probably older than the singer and the other girl. The singer is jealous of their relationship (this is what she "wanted [...] from him"), but doesn't say anything ("but I shut my mouth"). He ends up in jail, and the other girl either doesn't believe that he's guilty or doesn't care. She has a plan to break him out but needs help with something, so she goes to the singer, who agrees to help ("I said I was willing"). They make their escape "past the mission, behind the prison tower" with the guards on their heels ("closing every hour") and get away with it. The other girl hides the boy for a while ("she gave him shelter"), but she can't keep it up forever, and he goes on the run. Later, a body is found; the singer is "not sure that it's his", but the authorities are "using his name" (because it looks bad for them to have him on the loose). The singer doesn't know what really happened to him, but believes that the other girl does ("some things only she knows").
790
791... yeah, it's a bit of a stretch, but this is WildMassGuessing after all.
792
793[[WMG: The POV character in If I Were a Boy is just a teenager.]]
794
795She judges all males by one jerky boyfriend, and places a huge amount of importance on the relationship ("When you lose the one you wanted/ Cause he's taking you for granted/ and everything you had got destroyed"). Both of these indicate that the narrator doesn't have much experience with relationships. It could be a really important relationship, like a marriage, but one would hope someone who is married would have enough life experience to realize that not every man is a dick. Sure, she mentions "drinking beer with the guys" but ... Kids these days, you know? The whole song is very young in it's outlook.
796
797[[WMG: The main character of Music/TheDownwardSpiral is a [[ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac waste lock]].]]
798
799What it says on the tin.
800
801[[WMG: In "I Am I Said", when Neil Diamond says "...and nobody heard at all, not even the chair", he wasn't actually expecting a piece of furniture to hear him.]]
802
803A "chair" can also mean a chairperson at a meeting. Diamond is singing about bringing his troubles to an authority of some kind - he isn't literally talking to "no one there", but said authority figure is paying so little attention that he might as well be.
804** Alternately, he had every reason ''to'' expect a chair to hear him - he was trying to talk to Chairy from ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', who couldn't hear him because someone had just said the word of the day.
805
806[[WMG: "Teenage Dream" is about a suicide pact.]]
807It's the only way the characters in the song can "dance until they die" and "be young forever".
808
809[[WMG: The men from "Red Right Hand" "Black Wings" and "The Man In The Long Black Coat" are ''all the same person'']]
810
811And he's probably some kind of demon or god. Either way, he's probably not the kind of person you want to mess with.
812
813[[WMG: Leroy (from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown") was known, in his childhood, as [[Literature/EncyclopediaBrown "Encyclopedia."]]]]
814
815The books establish that Encyclopedia's real name is Leroy. As he grew up, the knowledge that he was smarter than everyone else in town corrupted him. He decided to use his powers of deduction, along with crime knowledge learned from working cases with his dad, to become a legendary hustler. He moved to the south side of Chicago and began his reign of crime.
816* The "jealous man" whose wife he messes with? Bugs Meany.
817
818[[WMG: [[Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} The Dead Boy]] isn't dead in the normal sense.]]
819
820This is an idea compiled from a number of Nightwish songs. We first learn of the Dead Boy from "Dead Boy's Poem", and that he was an artist. How he died is left a mystery, but it's likely he was born with sort of power (Deep Silent Complete) that was stolen from him upon his death.
821
822It is possible it was gifted to him by the Wishmaster. In terms of the Dead Boy's life, his story was told in the album Century Child: he was blessed at birth (his status as an Ocean Soul), but to remain blessed and keep his power he had to remain an innocent person, otherwise, the title of Ocean Soul would be "nothing but a name". Clearly, a war of some knd broke out in the Boy's home, and children were corrupted ("to see another black rose born") by the invasion. As the last remaining Ocean Soul, the Boy had to flee, his death faked. After his escape, the Boy is now in hiding, a wanderer who sees a great deal of the world and its hardships. On his travels, something happens, and he looses his innocence (Dark Chest of Wonders), perhaps due to a series of extremely bad choices on his part. He wishes he could get his innocence back (Wish I Had An Angel, "I'm in love with my lust, burning angel wings to dust"). The innocent boy "died", and he's nothing now (Nemo), and goes on a search to reclaim his lost light. Years pass, the boy takes a wife and has at least a daughter, who was born blessed like her father had been, but didn't understand the gifts she possessed (Eva). Eventually, fed up with everything and unhappy, he leaves everything behind and takes to the sea (The Islander).
823
824[[WMG: The narrator of The White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl" is female.]]
825
826That's why the girl's boyfriend doesn't consider it cheating.
827
828[[WMG: The protagonist of Music/KellyClarkson's Since U Been Gone video is a PsychoLesbian.]]
829It always bothered me that if the apartment Kelly destroys looks like it's been lived in for quite a while, making it unlikely that the guy had ''just'' broken up with the singer. However if you pay attention you'll notice not only does she only seem to be destroying just the woman's things (the bathroom, all the clothes in her closet etc.), there is barely any sign of the guy's stuff at all. In reality, the apartment belongs to the blonde woman who has dumped Kelly for a guy, so Kelly goes to house (a place they may have once lived in together, which would explain how she got in) and wrecks havoc.
830
831[[WMG: The Erlking in "Der Erlkönig" is a pedophile.]]
832
833Read the following excerpts of a literal translation:
834->"Thou dear child, come, go with me.\
835Very lovely games I'll play with thee."\
836...\
837"Dost thou want to come with me, pretty boy?"\
838...\
839"I love thee, thy beautiful form entices me;\
840And if thou art not willing, then I need force."\
841"My father, my father, he's grabbing me now!\
842Erl king has done me some harm!"
843
844[[WMG: The woman who seduces Ariel in Kamelot's The Black Halo was created by Mephisto.]]
845She looks like Helena because the body is either Helena's corpse reanimated, or a form completely constructed by Mephisto to placate the grief-stricken Ariel. Her personality doesn't match with the original Helena because the soul Mephisto gave the body was one from Hell, while True Helena is in Heaven and out of his reach.
846
847[[WMG: Tonight I'm Fucking you by Enrique Iglease and Ludicris is about rape]]
848Many of the lyrics such as "I want know you me/And it is ovious that I want you to","Your so damn prettyIf I had a type then baby it would be you",ludicris's line of "Tonight I'm gonna do/every thing that I want with you" and the entire chorus combined with the rather creepy tone both artists voices take during the song make it work better in the context of a rapist stalking his next victim than a guy about to have consensual sex with a willing woman
849
850[[WMG: Random/shuffle play on any music player always seems to be going back to the same songs because...]]
851* ...the random program gives the electronic device [[AIIsACrapshoot a small measure of sentience, so it keeps going back to songs it likes]].
852* ...the spirit world/God/whatever is trying to send us a message.
853* ...the programmers told the program to give weight to songs it plays because that's what the listener obviously wants to hear - but in random the player is assigning weight to whatever songs it is playing randomly, which are NOT the songs the listener chooses.
854
855[[WMG: Every pop song happens in the same universe.]]
856Rebecca Black lives in the same neighborhood that Kesha wakes up in after her wild night of partying. Fridays, when Rebecca goes out partying, this is the same one Kesha winds up at, and where Katy Perry kissed a girl.
857* Said universe is an EldritchLocation.
858
859[[WMG: "Pile of Kittens (in my Mind)" is sung by a college student whose cat, that he's had since grade school, has had to be put down.]]
860The melancholy tune gives the music video the feel of a ReallyDeadMontage.
861
862As for the digressions in the bridge? The narrator answering a couple questions someone asked.
863
864[[WMG: The one in The Temptations "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be4x2xdZ6fo Can't Get Next To You]]" who "can turn a river into a raging fire"? His super hero name is...]]
865...{{UsefulNotes/CLEVELAND}} MAN!
866
867[[WMG:The breakdown in "Das Auto Ist Kaputt" was staged as a SecretTestOfCharacter]]
868The guy was told his girlfriend was really, really shallow and just wanted a good car.
869
870[[WMG: Music/{{Adele}} is a RealityWarper in "Rolling in the Deep" music video]]
871...abelit a benovelent one. She knows what could happen if she could unleash the rage she felt by her jilted lover. So she went into an abandoned building, found (made ?) a comfey chair and let her emotions run wild while improvising a new song. The [[MemeticBadass Cocaine Ninja]] is the anthromophic personification of her rage and is the one that appears first, and then moves onto actions she whised she could do, (throw china ware and SET FIRE TO THE CITY!) and as she sings, she summons a drummer that let the beat vibrate throughout, and for a cool effect had glasses filled with water.
872** But in the end, she knows she's alone and that loneness sometimes strikes through.
873
874[[WMG: Music/{{Enigma}}'s first album is about literally getting CaughtWithYourPantsDown when judgment day comes.]]
875The first half of the album is [[IntercourseWithYou very sexual in nature]] while the second half suddenly starts talking about [[Literature/TheBible Revelations]] in a very cacophonous manner before suddenly asking for a renewal of faith. The protagonist is someone who had just given him/herself over to lust (one of the seven deadly sins) just in time for the second coming. The chaos implied in "The Voice and the Snake," which overpowers the heavily sexual "Mea Culpa" represents the protagonist panicking over getting caught in the act by Jesus himself, and the rest of the album presents him/her begging for forgiveness.
876
877[[WMG: The Ear Worm in "Ohrwurm" is from a younger sibling's potty training video.]]
878This troper, the eldest of five over eleven years, knows how catchy those songs can be. They ''still stick in one's head after umpteen years''!
879
880[[WMG: Carly Rae Jespen[[note]]the woman (she is 26) who sings Call Me Maybe[[/note]] is [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica a magical girl.]] ]]
881She says "I trade my soul for a wish" in a song, which essentially what [[MagicalGirl magical girls]] in Puella Magi Madoka Magica do.
882
883[[WMG: The BigBadWolf in the song "Little Red Riding Hood" (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs) has a painful venereal disease.]]
884He's grabbing his crotch when he sings "''You're everything a big bad wolf could want''" then he howls in pain.
885
886[[WMG: Rush's 2112 takes place in the TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 universe.]]
887Specifically, during the Age of Strife. Starman himself has some slight psyker powers, and he 'Device' that Starman finds isn't a guitar, but some piece of lost technology that works with those abilities. The "Wires that vibrate, and give music" are the device's own electronic workings, humming with power and screwing with Starman's head a little, which he interprets as music. As he presents the device to his leaders, they recognize it as lost technology, a simple 'toy that helped destroy the elder race of man', and destroy it. As he leaves his leaders, Starman's psyker abilities won't give him peace, focusing his mind on what remains of his device. When he sleeps that night, he has a vision of the Emperor's ultimate goal for humanity, as well as the splendor of the Emperor himself. Waking, he feels that he'll never see either the golden age of his dreams, nor the golden god leading them, and takes his own life... just as the Great Crusade arrives at his planet, and claims it.
888
889[[WMG: Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress Me Much" is about Iron Man.]]
890Rather than being about three guys - one know-it-all, one vain, and one very fond of his cars - it's all about one guy. And that guy is Tony Stark.
891** Was this song paid for by Tony Stark's business rivals and/or Iron Man's enemies then?
892
893[[WMG: Some of Pulp's songs from the late-80s to early-90s form a loose storyline.]]
894The storyline starts with the song Separations, where a man is seen to be leaving his girlfriend and moving away to a new town. The song follows how he begins to regret his decision to leave her almost immediately, but is determined to make a new start and put her behind him.
895
896Following on from this is Death II, where the same man goes out to the disco to try and forget about her and find somebody new. He stays out until 2am trying desperately to find someone, but just can't seem to do so.
897
898Live On is the morning after Death II; the man wakes up feeling and looking terrible after the previous night. He tries to reassert that he can carry on without his ex-girlfriend, but by the end of the song, he is very unsure about whether or not he can last another day without her.
899
900Don't You Want Me Anymore starts with a recap of the events of Separations, and sets the scene as eighteen months later. The man has tried to forget about his ex-girlfriend, but has finally cracked under the pressure and is on his way back to her, expecting her to welcome him with open arms. When he arrives, he finds that she has moved on and is now with someone else.
901
902There are other songs from this period that form separate storylines; Sheffield: Sex City tells the story of the morning after My Legendary Girlfriend, for example.
903
904[[WMG: The narrator of Music/TheSawDoctors' "N17" and Dropkick Murphys "Going Out In Style" are the same person.]]
905However many times he's managed to take [[UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} the N17 back to Tuam]] for a visit, he's come to accept that when the end comes his funeral'll be in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} since that's where [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora his life and the people who care about him]] now (and are likely to outlive him - thus, his kids but not his parents) are.
906** Tropes Are Not Recent and all, but note this was posted on St. Patrick's Day.
907
908[[WMG: "Just a Dream" by Nelly is told from the POV of the man who got dumped in "Single Ladies"]]
909"I shoulda put it down / I should have got that ring ..."
910
911[[WMG: Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses is a concept album]]
912At least the first half is. "Welcome to the Jungle" involves a character arriving in LA (the "jungle"). Once there, he slips into a decadent world full of sex ("Its so Easy"), alcoholism ("Nightrain"), crime ("Out ta get me"), and drugs ("Mr. Brownstone"). The first half of the album then ends with "Paradise City" with the main character in a gas chamber about to be executed.
913
914[[WMG: In Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer", the Cadillac's owner wasn't a Deadhead.]]
915All we know is that the sticker was on the Cadillac. Maybe someone else (whether a Deadhead or otherwise), due to being drunk or just thinking it would be funny, put the sticker on the car without the owner realizing it. Either the owner never saw it, or they did see it but didn't remove it at first for fear of ruining the car's paint job or something.
916
917[[WMG: The songs on Music/PeterGabriel's album ''Music/{{So}}'' tell a connected story.]]
918When we first meet our protagonist, he's coming home from work and feeling very emotionally tormented for some reason ("Red Rain"). After coming home, he tries to play it cool and hide his issues from his wife, and this leads to the two making love later that night ("Sledgehammer"). Once they're done, he finds he can't hide his feelings anymore, and confesses his problem to his wife: he got laid off. His wife encourages him to find a new job ("Don't Give Up"); the next day, he starts looking for one, but deep down, he has many doubts about whether he'll be able to stay in it ("That Voice Again").
919
920A small amount of time passes, and by the time we see him again, he's afraid that he might lose his mind like someone he read about in the news ("Mercy Street"); fortunately for him, however, he soon gets accepted into a new job. He spends the rest of the day celebrating this ("Big Time"), but that night, he has a nightmare about things not going well ("We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)"). On his first day of work, he goes through the day with uncertainty ("This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)"). When he arrives home, he reveals to his wife that the day went well, and he thanks her for helping him feel better ("In Your Eyes"). [[note]]Though, if you instead want to go by the original album order, "In Your Eyes" could instead be another point where his wife is giving him confidence about what's to come, and the album's story ends on an inconclusive note at "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)", without it being revealed if the day went well or not.[[/note]]
921
922[[WMG: "Don't Mess Around with Jim" is a ''Sequel'' to "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"]]
923
924More than just a case of SerialNumbersFiledOff, "Don't Mess Around with Jim" is the follow up to "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". Jim is the jealous man who beat up Leroy. Afterwards, he and his wife moved to New York where the cycle continued and he was killed by Slim.
925
926[[WMG: "Unfaithful" and "Take a Bow" tell the same story from different points of view]]
927Many people are bothered by the [[TheUnfairSex double standard caused by looking at the two songs together.]] This could be resolved if they're two different sides to the same story, but one of them is gender flipped so it still makes sense for Rihanna to sing it. The cuckholded partner from "Unfaithful" finally stood up for themselves and kicked the cheating partner out, refusing to accept excuses in "Take a Bow."
928
929[[WMG: Old Man Mose (from Music/LouisArmstrong's song of the same name) was a very nasty character.]]
930That's why the song about his death is so upbeat.
931
932[[WMG: The narrator of Parry Gripp's "It's Raining Tacos" is high on drugs.]]
933The last thing he saw before passing out from the high was a Taco Bell sign.
934
935[[WMG: "Sex Object" by Music/{{Kraftwerk}} is sung from the point of view of the girl that is being obsessed over by the narrator of "Jerkin' Back 'n Forth" by Music/{{Devo}}]]
936The narrator of "Sex Object" is fed up with the narrator of "Jerkin' Back 'n Forth" and his inability to give up his unquenchable thrist for everything but her love for him.

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