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One or more of the artists/characters is a Time Lord.
Jeff Tweedy performed a massive Xanatos Roulette to have a moderately successful band
Jeff Tweedy is best known for his involvement in Uncle Tupelo and 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.
He started by joining 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 Sire Records, a division of Warner Bros. Records.
Soon 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 Reprise Records, whose president, Howie Klein, allowed him to make increasingly experimental records.
After Wilco had a moderate fanbase, Tweedy somehow tricked Time Warner, which owns Warner Bros., into merging with America Online 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.
Kid Rock is lying about his age.
"It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long....Singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' all summer long..." But that song's from The Seventies; in '89 we were rockin' out to Paula Abdul and Milli Vanilli. '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.
Tom Petty's "Melinda" and Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night" are about the same couple.
The 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. Also, in the first song, he had intended to depart for Melinda's first thing in the morning...but apparently couldn't wait that long.
The song "Don't Come Around Here No More" is about The Mad Hatter falling for Alice and getting mad when she leaves the tea party he went to all that trouble to set up for her.
This would explain why The Hatter eats Alice at the end of the video (Revenge!).
MC Skat Cat and his gang come from the same world as Roger Rabbit.
The 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.
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.
The "this" in "U Can't Touch This" is entirely unrelated. We're not sure about the "it" in "(You Got It) The Right Stuff".
Voltaire's "When You're Evil" and Warren Zevon's "Mr. Bad Example" are being sung by two crooks engaged in an Eviler Than Thou - type contest.
The infamous mondegreen from the Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze is in fact not a mondegreen at all!
Although 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.
Taking the above even further: there are no mondegreens at all! Those are the actual lyrics in all cases.
So 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.)
The hero of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" did shoot the deputy — but not the sheriff.
There are several major questions left unanswered by the song: what's all this about the deputy? Who did kill him, when and how and why? Why is everyone convinced the singer did it? 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? Isn't it a coincidence, when all is said and done, that the deputy was killed pretty much at the same time as the sheriff but apparently in a completely unrelated manner? A 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 at all, just the deputy wandering by — he shoots and flees, believing that he'd killed the sheriff in self-defense.
The protagonist of Cake's "The Distance" is literally on a horse.
The 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? Unless 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, and although he's going very fast by horse standards, even with minimal rest periods, it's going to take him forever. No wonder his girlfriend's pissed.
The woman the letters are addressed to in Elvis Presley's "Return To Sender" does not exist, nor does the address she supposedly lives at.
Why would this woman, trying to ignore her former lover, go through all the trouble of sending back his letters 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. Also, such things are usually denoted with a stamp of some sort, which the average woman isn't likely to have. The whole love affair was a delusion, and neither the woman nor her mailbox exist.
The woman in "Return to Sender" is progressively upping the ante on her rejection.
First 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.
The video for Yellowcard's "Light Up The Sky" takes place after the Third Impact.
Two Words: Tang Rain.
The devil deliberately lost the wager in "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" as part of a Xanatos Gambit.
As Fry correctly notes in Futurama "Hell Is Other Robots," a fiddle made of gold would sound really 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. Johnny 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 Seven Deadly Sins.
The golden fiddle in "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is metaphorical.
It 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.
Particle Man is one of Dr. Wily's creations, and he's weak to whatever Triangle Man is packing.
Let's see... The song features Particle Man, Triangle Man, Universe Man, and Person Man, all of whom fit the naming scheme for Robot Masters, and their varied and bizarre descriptions suggest that they're just the kind of weirdoes that a mad scientist would assemble. What Particle Man himself is like is, the song says, "not important", which suggests he doesn't have much characterization beyond how he moves across the screen, "doing the things a particle can", i.e. the standard theme-based move-and-attach patterns of a Mega Man boss. Even less is said about Triangle Man, but "they have a fight, Triangle Wins", in the case of both Particle Man and Person Man. Not Triangle Man, necessarily, just Triangle, and most bosses in the Mega Man series give you a weapon that's named after them: Metal Man gives you Metal Blades, Top Man gives you Top Spin, etc. Universe Man is the largest of the level bosses, but "usually kind to smaller man", so as intimidating as he seems, his weapon isn't likely to be very strong.
Alternatively, Particle Man is a retelling of the story of Watchmen by Alan Moore.
Particle Man is the second Nite-Owl, a man of science with a submersible flying machine and an inferiority complex, Person Man is Rorschach, a seemingly disturbed individual with a very mysterious identity he no longer sees as being his true self ("What's he like? It's not important."), Universe Man is the godlike Dr. Manhattan, and the pyramid-themed supergenius Ozymandias is the victorious Triangle Man.
"Particle Man" is a retelling of the Elric family tragedies from the Full Metal Alchemist anime.
Inspired by this video, but while Particle Man is Ed, and Triangle Man is Envy, Hoenheim is Universe Man, as evidenced by his mastery over Alchemy and immortality (second hand is his life and family amongst the mortals, millenium hand is his immortality, and eon hand is the Truth), and Alphonse is Person Man, comparatively the normal observer, no special powers and not a very outstanding personality for most of the time, with his most noticeable feature is living his life as a garbage can.
"Particle Man" is the story of Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man.
It warrants mention. Death is Particle Man, "doing the things a particle can" like being in two places at once, being two things at once, moving through walls. The Auditors, who hate Person-ness and Death after he gains a personality, as well as existing in threes, are Triangle Man. Azrael is Universe man (he's got a clock with a second hand, millenium hand, and an aeon hand) and is the only one not to be even temporarily defeated by, or even challenged by Triangle Man (the Auditors). And Person Man is people.
Statue Got Me High is about the Necrons.
The statue kills the singer by atomizing him. Also, the song makes reference to a "monolith."
The mysterious virus in the Australian version of the "What I've Done" music video is the T-Virus of Resident Evil fame.
The pharmaceutical company that created the virus looks suspiciously similar to that of the Umbrella Corporation, and the description of what the virus was supposed to do ("social control") certainly fits the destructive nature of the Ebola virus, from which the T-Virus spawned.
James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree of "James James Morrison Morrison"
Dupree 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.
by the Chad Mitchell Trio is the same person as the narrator/singer in Steely Dan's "Cousin Dupree". Delilah from "Hey There Delilah" is a prostitute (with a Heart of Gold, of course).
Most 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 sappy song.
Leon Redbone is divine
He 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.
Every 1980s song takes place in a shared universe
My 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.
Every DragonForce song is about an army of ghosts who fight each other eternally after every other living thing dies.
The narrator of Dragonforce's "Heart of a Dragon" is Eragon. (Or at least the song is inspired by the book.)
First, we'll cover the chorus:
Proud and so glorious
Standing before of us
Our swords will shine bright in the sky
When united we come
To the land of the sun
With the heart of a dragon we ride
The "we" in here is the Varden. It is the opener for an epic battle.
Next we'll cover this stanza:
We are flying on wings in winter sky
With fire burning deep inside
We are warriors of endless time forever and on
On wings of steel an ancient flight
We see the powers that unite
The gods will now send us a sign of battle once more
Through the valley we ride
Full of glory we soar
Where the fights will be raging
For now and for more
When united we come
And divided they fall
Tonight you will witness it all
Most of this song actually talks about the final battle under Farthen Dur. The "we" in this part is Eragon and Saphira. The "valley" mentioned here is the huge valley of the Beor Mountains.
The girl from the "Damn Good Times" video
The store clerk is the singer of "Ana Ng," while the singer of "Damn Good Times" is a bystander.
is Ana Ng. The narrator in Modest Mouse's video for Dashboard
The 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.
is an older version of Near from Death Note.
The narrator in Modest Mouse's "Dashboard" is Shinji
Based 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...!!!"
Monster Magnet's "Space Lord" is narrated by Satan addressing his worshippers just before the battle of Armageddon.
"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.
Monster Magnet's "Space Lord" is narrated by Megatron/Galvatron.
Most of the lyrics can fit into this theory, but here are the highlights. *"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.
Electric Light Orchestra's "The Whale" is a Space Whale.
Just listen to those synthesizers.
The whale from The Decemberist's "The Mariner's Revenge Song" is the ghost of the protagonist's mother
The protagonist mentions hearing her after her death; the whale appears after the protagonist hears her and gives her son a chance at taking revenge into his own hands.
The narrator of "We Both Go Down Together" by the Decemberists is the 'lad of eighteen' from "The Mariner's Revenge Song"
The narrator is callous, handsome and deluded, and he would rather believe that he's in a tragic love affair with a lower class girl than admit he's, well, a crazy rapist. And now the girl's pregnant, and he's going to push her off a cliff and scarper. Romantically, of course. (The baby is Leslie Anne Levine, but that's another story.)
The person who wrote the song "MacArthur Park" is GLaDOS.
Both 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.
The protagonist of "Hollaback Girl" is a hollaback girl.
Sure, 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.
The "tall handsome man" described in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand" is, in fact, God
Every single line of the song can fit into this theory, but here's the best ones:
The subject of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand" is, in fact, Santa.
The singer of Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' For You" has taken the place of someone who was condemned to Hell.
A 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.
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
Weezer knows this. See "Pork and Beans".
"Tribute" by Tenacious D refers to the events at the end of The Pick Of Destiny
At 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.
"Tribute" is the Unreliable Narrator version of Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
Either because they forgot, or because "we had a rock-off with the devil and lost" does not make good music.
The Greatest Song In The World from "Tribute" is...
... one of the following:
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer is a Mutant
His 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 Marvel Celestials weren't just messing with human DNA.
Serj Tankian is Altair from Assassin's Creed.
Being 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 Frank Zappa.
The person being scrutinized in "What's He Building in There?" by Tom Waits is a Promethean, and the singer is suffering from Disquiet.
Most 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".
Tom Waits is not a Real Human Man; he was made up to scare children
Eat your greens, or Tom Waits will come into your bedroom at night and drink all the liquid out of your brains!
Tom Waits is the Evil Twin of the Cookie Monster
They 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?
Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and NIN's "Only" and "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" is from the POV of a mental patient
And that patient is Shinji Ikari.
Trent Reznor lives in a shitty house
Have 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.
James LaBrie of Dream Theater is the reincarnation of Victoria/Nicholas from "Scenes from a Memory".
The 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.)
The Point-Of-View character of Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" has... issues.
C'mon, what sane person would use slicing herself open as a metaphor?
The Point Of View character of Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" is Harley Quinn.
At least one AMV with that song, Harley Quinn, and the Joker demonstrates this.
'Al' from Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" is a stranded time traveller.
"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 Time Machine 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.
Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is Albedo Piazolla.
Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is Alfonse Elrich
There's evidence on You Tube. And the name's right.
Al from "You Can Call Me Al" is Chevy Chase.
It's right there in the official music video!
'Uninstall' by Chiaki Ishikawa is about Haruhi Suzumiya'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.
The 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'.
David Bowie is from another planet.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is based on his life, but with technology instead of music.
Bowie 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.
The people in the "Saving Me" video are given Shinigami Eyes
When they find the eyes, they see what it does. Once they save someone, they die of a heart attack.
Regina Spektor is our universe's Purity Sue.
Let'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. Defector From Decadence (Soviet Union)? Check. Humble? Check. Sickeningly 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 (because Heroes Want Redheads), 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 magical katana and an exotic, telepathic animal companion, too. Total unrealistic Mary Sue.
The Point-Of-View character of Pink's "Cuz I Can" is Murdoc Niccals.
Listen to "Cuz I Can". Doesn't that song describe Murdoc perfectly?
The Gorillaz will cover "Cuz I Can" any day now
Consider: 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).
Now, 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 "Super Globetrotters", "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, Trope Overdosed 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!")
Daft Punk are a rogue Dalek and Cyberman
Always appearing in mechanical looking "costumes", electronically distorted music, knowledgable about aliens...
Kelly Clarkson's "Never Again" is about a woman who was murdered by her boyfriend.
It'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.
Kelly Clarkson's "Because of You" is told from the perspective of the daughter of one of the protagonists of Brokeback Mountain.
She'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 The couple in Live's "The Dolphin's Cry" are Dinotopians.
What with all that jazz about the 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 human?
Avenged Sevenfold's "Bat Country" was made as propaganda by Nyarlathotep.
After 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.
Voltaire's "The Headless Waltz" is narrated by Robespierre.
Seriously. A depressed, half-dead, hallucinating Robespierre.
Madonna is a cyborg.
Her 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.
The narrator of Barenaked Ladies' "Another Postcard" has a split personality.
This 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.
The Servant's "Cells" is about playing video games.
"Now you go to bed/I'm staying here/I've got another level that I wanna clear"? "We eat Chinese off our knees/And look for each other in the TV screen"? The 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.
"Hotel California" is the Hotel Earle from Barton Fink.
A Hell Hotel 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 Barton Fink, either the Hotel Earle is real, or the Eagles are capable of Time Travel or prophecy.
The songs "Mr. Richards" and "Diminished" by R.E.M. are the same event from different perspectives.
Both 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.
The narrator of Elvis Costello's "Alison" is planning on shooting the title character.
When he says "I know this world is killing you" and "my aim is true", he means them in more than one way.
Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" is about the Museum Fremen in God Emperor of Dune.
God Emperor of Dune is set thousands of years after the first three Dune books. The planet Rakis (formerly known as Arrakis) has become a lush paradise, although a small region is preserved as desert, and a small group of descendants of the Fremen still practice the old ways. They are considered more of a curiosity and a tourist attraction than anything and are now known as "Museum Fremen." The second verse of "Wish You Were Here" describes them perfectly: "Did they get you trade/Your heroes for ghosts/Hot ashes for trees/Hot air for a cool breeze/Cold comfort for change?/Did you exchange/a walk-on part in the war/for a lead role in a cage?" Of course, since "Wish You Were Here" came out a few years before God Emperor of Dune, Pink Floyd is also capable of time travel.
Jimmy Page is cursed.
The following people connected to Jimmy Page all died in their 30s.
Fifty Cent is a Terminator.
He's got the right build and the right voice, and he's survived being shot nine times. 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.
"I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd is about a date rape.
Yeah, the title is blatant; but if you listen to the lyrics, they're rather disturbing at points. For instance, "We can do it till we both wake up". The spoken word part near the end is also incredibly creepy.
The KLF are timelords
Or rather The Timelords... So Yeah.
The KLF will have a reunion, or a re-release of some of their work in 2010.
Why? They started in 1987, and 2010 is 23 years later. The KLF, being Discordians, can't resist it.
The song was originally written for the film version of Breakfast At Tiffany's, but Morrissey seems to have had In Cold Blood 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 homoeroticism and "the romance of crime" as reccuring themes, often combining the two.
The members of Kraftwerk are robots.
They even admit it in "Die Roboter."
"Voodoo Cowboy" by Cat Empire is about Death of the Endless.
The 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.
Why 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.)
The person referred to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" is Roger Daltrey.
And concurrently, the same person referred to in "Who Are You?" is Carly Simon. The two had a tryst in the early 1970s that ended badly. Carly wrote "You're So Vain" to get back at him. When he finally realised what was going on, Roger came up with "Who Are You?" to express his feelings about the whole thing - lamenting that nobody can measure up to her but recognising that she was a duplicitous, evil woman who he never truly knew.
The person referred to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" is the same person in Billy Joel's "You Had to be a Big Shot" and Sheryl Crow's "My Favorite Mistake".
And probably also whomever Alanis Morissette is angry at in "You Oughta Know". And possibly the real Deep Throat.
"You're So Vain" is about Odin, ruler of the Norse pantheon.
M Tv WANTED Britney Spears to make a comeback.
They 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.
Why do you think they keep trying to manufacture pop groups? It's a symbiotic relationship!!!
106 & Park: Top 10 is rigged
This rumour started when Beyonce had a song off the Gold Member 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.
Dani California was shot by an insane lover..
..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.
The narrator of "With or Without You" by U2 is talking about his relationship with a prostitute.
Yes, 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?
The woman in "With ot Without You" is a vampire.
The "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.
"Running To Stand Still" by U2 is not about the effects of heroin addiction on a young couple in Dublin. It's about vampirism, too!
"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.
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.
It would have worked if Warren Zevon hadn't had any fans. It works better in redneck country.
The narrator in "I Shot the Sheriff" shot the sheriff because the sheriff shot the deputy.
The 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 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 Just Between You And Me 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.
The child in "Cats in the Cradle" is an Enfant Terrible acting on the Law Of Disproportionate Response
The 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 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:
"Please Don't Stop The Music," "Low," and "Just Dance" are all taking place at the same night club
"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.
There is no such thing as Music.
"Music" is random waves of energy that are perceived 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.
The Song "Provo's Lullabie" isn't a lullabie.
Rather, it's one last heartfelt goodbye from one provo to another. Consider:
The "Prom Queen" from Lil Wayne's song also rejected Avril's "Sk8r Boi"
What a bitch.
The shooting in "99 Problems" is somehow related to the one in "Can’t Knock the Hustle."
Think 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.
The narrators of "Skullcrusher Mountain" and "The Future Soon" are the same person at different stages of his life.
He eventually does come close to achieving his dream of becoming Emperor Scientist, but winds up with Everything But The Girl in the end. It's rather sad. Possibly "Code Monkey" fits into the cycle as well when the protagonist is trying to raise some money for his experiments after college by taking a day job.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's "Weeping Song" is narrated between two vampires.
The 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 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.
Yuri The Only One
It's all kind of obvious if we analyize some of the shout outs.
by the Leet Street Boys is not a pop love ballad full of geek/otaku references, but a pop ballad about a Yuri Fanboy explaining to a girl who is interested in him that Het Is Ew.
REM's "World Leader Pretend" and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" are being sung by the same narrator
The Narrator is a world leader of some sort dealing with a struggle. However, unlike most interpretations, the struggle isn't from within, but without.
He'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".
Also, 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. The 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 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 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. In the song "Copacabana," Lola shot first.
Either Rico or Tony dropped the gun in the scuffle; Lola took it and either shot Rico dead, or shot Tony by accident. Either she pinned it on the surviving man but lost her mind out of guilt, or Tony took the fall for her out of love.
It would explain why she's so depressed in the last verse.
None of the members of ZZ Top can leave the band without the band breaking up entirely.
Let'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.
They know this; after all, it is known as La Grange's Theorem.
Dragonforce's music is powered by spiral energy
They only pretend to be using computers. In reality, they're using the power of spiral energy. They haven't told anyone because they don't want to be attracting the attention of the Anti-spirals. What? They're Hot Blooded enough.
The tale of Imaginos Desdinova in Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos Concept Album is true.
Imaginos after helping to instigate World War 1 for 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 Blue Oyster Cult as Sandy Pearlman.
All of Rob Zombie's lyrics are drawn from real life experience
Jesus 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...
The Queen song "Bicycle Race" is about a young Chinese man in China shortly after the Cultural Revolution finished
He'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.
Some Bands music videos exist in their own universe.
The My Chemical Romance Theory:
Revenge era MCR is the Same band as Black Parade MCR, the music video Im not okay is how they meet in high school and formed a band, Teenagers was a concert they put on for their classmates that ended up in a riot, Helena is about the lead singer lossing his girlfriend and peforming at her Funeral, after they died in an accident through a series of event they became the black parade which lead to the WTTBP, I Dont Love you is a music video they made in the after life, Famous last words is kind of the end, they are no longer popular and lost their followers, if your wondering where the Ghost of You fits in, it is a story of their ansistors.
The protagonist in Gary Moore's "Over the Hills and Far Away" was framed by his best friend.
The 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.
Most of the video for Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" is a dream or a hallucination
At the start of the video, she's getting touchy-feely with her 'boyfriend' and then she falls or gets pushed off a balcony. The rest of the video is a dream that she has while unconcious or dying, which explains why it's so damn weird.
Shakira isn't human
Humans don't move the way she does in the video for "She Wolf." Of course, this raises the question of what she is.
The kid from The Offspring's "You're Gonna go Far, Kid" is the same person as the Narrator from the Flobots' "Handlebars"
Given that his methods included the use of a thousand lies and a good disguise, it should be no surpise that it ended in pain.
The girl who released the balloons in "99 Red Balloons" knew exactly what the consequences would be.
Didn'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 off? 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.
This page is controlled by Warner Music Group.
Same initials; deprecating music videos (just like what Warner Music Group did to You Tube); insulting Kid Rock (in revenge for Kid Rock slamming Atlantic Records); thinking Dragonforce is God (they are signed to Warner Bros. Records); there are many other examples right on this page. And odds are good that some people here edit The Other Wiki saying Weird Al sucks.
The members of the band A-ha are comic-book characters come to life.
The 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 Power Trio 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.
The Dragonforce song "Through the Fire and Flames" is about Armageddon. Also, "Heroes of Our Time" is about going to heaven.
Seriously, look up the lyrics for those songs and try to prove me wrong.
All of Tool's music videos take place inside Adam Jones's subconscious, Psychonauts style
No wonder they're so weird and Mind-Screwy. Alternatively, the videos are actually allegorical dream sequences imagined by Maynard James Keenen, which inspired him to write the songs.
Weird Al Yankovic turned to music as therapy against an eating disorder.
Look at his songs. "Fat". "Eat It". "My Bologna". "Lasagna". "I Love Rocky Road". "Living in the Fridge". "Spam". "Addicted to Spuds". "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch". "Taco Grande". "Waffle King". "Grapefruit Diet". I posit that no other human being has ever written this many songs about food. Not to mention other things, such as the fact that he did a much-belated parody of "MacArthur Park" (which is about a cake), and "Albuquerque" is bookended with a rant about sauerkraut and has a roughly one-minute stretch where all he does is list different types of doughnuts. But hey, it seems to have worked for him; he's been thin as a rake throughout recorded history.
"Hotel California" is a cockroach's revenge for the Roach Motel.
Roaches can check out any time they like but they can never leave.
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