The two I can think of are:

  • It’s Not Unusual
  • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
  • GoddessGundy@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 hours ago

    My boyfriend said he thought about me when we listen to Saturday Night by the Misfits. I’m like… do you want to murder me?..

    The lyrics always sounded very murdery to me. I think they did an amazing job of making it sound romantic but bf read through the lyrics after that and hugged me when I got home and said he definitely didn’t want to murder me.

    Edit: Ok this one is purely personal but I just got done with work and it came out on the playlist, Achilles Come Down by Gangs of Youth.

    I learned this song from my daughter. I let her control the music when we’d drive to school and back but I immediately loved this song because unlike me, she has an amazing voice. This is one I only ever heard underneath her crystalline soprano while she sang along.

    It was always so beautiful that I didn’t focus on the song so much as her. She made a haunting, sad song a beautiful, pleasant memory for me because now she’s had her license for a while, she’s doing her thing being an ambitious senior. I don’t get to listen to her sing anymore between my work and her school/social schedule.

    I miss the days when I stayed up after a 12 hour shift to take her to school because I miss listening to her sing. I brain was fuzzy and that morning sun seared my eyeballs but I cherish every morning now because I don’t have many left. I acutally miss everything about my kids needing me now that one has been independent for quite a few years and the other two are almost independent. I’m listening right now and all I can hear is her voice.

    Fuck that shit hits hard. Im going to be an empty nester soon. Fucking FUCK. Fuck does it hit hard. I should be proud. I am! Jesus am I. I don’t know how I was blessed with these people, bio and adopted, that’s how vlessed I am, but I don’t want to look the gift horse in the mouth. Fucking wow, am I proud. But really I’m sad, too.

    /soliloquy

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Rock-a-bye, baby

    On the tree top

    When the wind blows

    The cradle will rock

    When the bough breaks

    The cradle will fall

    And down will come baby

    Cradle and all

    We sing that shit to literal babies, what the fuck is wrong with us?

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    You are my sunshine

    The other night dear As I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms But when I woke up I was mistaken so I held my head and I cried You are my sunshine My ONLY sunshine

    It doesn’t get any better from there

    Edit: I will never understand how to format things the way I want them to sorry

  • SinkingLotus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago
  • unicornBro@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 day ago

    Happier - by Bastille and Marshmello. It might depend on the listener tho.

    Aint it fun - Paramore

    Honestly, i don’t like that a lot of radio music is so sad. I have to look to real oldies to find a happy song.

  • EponymousBosh@awful.systems
    1·
    1 day ago

    Like half of Fall Out Boy’s discography. “Hum Hallelujah” gets a special mention for literally being about a suicide attempt. Also “Dance In the Dark” by Lady Gaga, “Stomach Vs Heart” and “Humor of the Situation” by Barenaked Ladies (“Angry People” as well), “Slip Slidin Away” by Paul Simon, “When I Come Around” by Green Day…suffice it to say, I enjoy this trope a lot :P

  • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 day ago

    Brown Sugar

    A lot of that album was pretty subversive but hidden behind upbeat rock. The olds didn’t realize what the kids were listening to because they just heard pop rock.

    • Wolf@lemmy.today
      1·
      1 day ago

      This is probably a controversial opinion, but Ive always felt a little bad for the guy this song is about.

      I think it’s unfair for her to say he doesn’t care a thing about her. He obviously does. If he didn’t he wouldn’t want her to still be a part of his life.

      This song is just about two people who want different things out of their relationship, and the singer is just unable to accept it.

      She has the ability to cut him out of her life if that’s what she really wants, same as he does. She should cut herself free if it’s too painful for her to be his friend.

      • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        1 day ago

        I feel that. Maybe this song is her way of cutting herself free? Or by telling him to make a decision, she’s giving him more autonomy than if she just left. Like she’s saying, “Look, we need to commit to a decision, no more up and down, which way would you have it?”

        • Wolf@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 day ago

          Or by telling him to make a decision, she’s giving him more autonomy than if she just left. Like she’s saying, “Look, we need to commit to a decision, no more up and down, which way would you have it?”

          I can see that, though it feels to me like from the context of the song they have already had that discussion at least once before.

          I know that it hurts when you feel a certain way about someone and they don’t feel that way about you- it can hurt a lot and it can take time to come to terms with it- and I don’t’ think removing yourself from their lives is an unreasonable solution if you are having trouble dealing with it- so I definitely feel empathy for the singers pov as well.