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Glad I'm not alone, I try to listen to lyrics but am much more into the sounds and feelings of the instruments and voices. I always feel like I'm doing the songwriters a disservice but I spoke to a musician and she said as long as I get an emotional response one way or another, they have done their job :)
There's this advert for Freeview TV that uses the instrumentals from Enola Gay by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I don't know if anyone intentionally decided to have a song about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki associated with their TV streaming company or if there's some exec out there that doesn't know what the song is about wanted for the advert and everyone else was too afraid to tell them no.
Most of Streetlight Manifesto's songs are like this. Incredible music, dark and/or philisophical lyrics.
"This is a total bop, the horns are on point, and- oh, it's about not knowing your place in the world. What about this one? Sounds super awesome, shit. It's about the singer's mother dying of cancer. Wait, this slaps anyway, adding to playlist!"
I've started paying attention to music more in recent years, and I am shocked how much of it is about or related in some way, to sex. Like it all music made to have sex to? Like is this part of focus group work for songs??
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax