Hidden Metaphors in pop songs

5dollakarl

listening to the words in whip your hair, theres a whole bridge actually detailing it doesn't matter what type of hair you have you can whip it back and forth. I think this could be interpreted as a strong metaphor for acceptance of all races and that whipping your hair relates to shaking off stigma and "haterz". :eek::eek:

Would you all agree?

Does this happen in other songs???

super_furry

Nope. That's the only song.

GrizzlyMan

are your ears still bleeding???

starbelgrade

This post is harder to read than the OPs.

heyheyhey1982

I have no idea what your are on about.

FreeOSCAR

"Like a candle in the wind" is a simile I suppose.

OutlawPete

Ignoring the OP's agenda; with regards to metaphors in songs I like ..

Tupac's version of Me & My Girlfirend as opposed to the raped version by Beyonce & Jay-Z that removed the metaphor entirely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4u-fSA3sMc

Look for me ..
Lost in the whirlwind '96, Bonnie and Clyde
Me and my girlfriend, doing 85 when we ride
Trapped in this world of sin, born as a ghetto child
Raised in this whirlwind (c'mon)

Our childhood years recall the tears heart laced with venom
Smokin sherm, drinkin malt liquor, father forgive 'em

Me and my girlfriend, hustling, fell in love with the struggle
Hands on the steering wheel, blush, while she bail out bustin
Fuck em all, watch em fall screaming, automatic gunfire
exorcising all demons!

Mafias on the side, my congregation high, ready to die
We bail out to take the jail back, niggaz united

Our first date, couldn't wait to see you naked
Touch you in every secret place, I can hardly wait
To bust freely, got you red hot, you so happy to see me
Make the front page primetime, live on TV

Nigga my girlfriend, maybe forty-five but she still live
One shot make a nigga's heartbeat stop

My girlfriend, blacker than the darkest night
When niggaz act bitch-made she got the heart to fight
Nigga my girlfriend, though we separated at times
I knew deep inside, baby girl would always be mine

Picked you up when you was nine, started out my life of crime
with you, bought you some shells when you turned twenty-two
It's true, nothin compares to the satisfaction
that I feel when we out mashin, me and my girlfriend

All I need in this life of sin, is me and my girlfriend
Down to ride to the bloody end, just me and my girlfriend

I was too immature to understand your ways,
inexperienced back in the days
Caused so many arguments and strays
Now I realize how to treat ya, the secret to keep ya
Bein faithful now cause now cheatin's lethal

We closer than the hands of time, deeper than the drop of mankind
I trust you dearly, I shoot blind
In time I clock figures, droppin niggaz as we rise
We all soldiers in God's eyes -- now it's time for war

Never leave me baby, I'm paranoid, sleepin witcha
loaded by my bedside crazy
Jealous when you hang wit the fellas, I wait patiently alone
anticipated for the moment you come home

I'm waitin by the phone this is true love, I can feel it
I've had a lot of women in my bed, but you the realeast
So if you ever need me call, I'll be there through it all
You're the reason I can stand tall, me and my girlfriend

I love finger fuckin you, all of a sudden I'm hearin thunder
When you bust a nut, niggaz be duckin or takin numbers
Love to watch you at a block party, beggin for drama
While unleashing on the old timers, that's on my mama

I would trade my life for yours, behind closed doors
the only girl that I adore, everything I'm askin for
Talkin to me beggin me to just, take you around
Seventeen like Brandy you just Wanna Be Down

Talkin loud when I tell you be quiet you move the crowd
Bustin rounds, activatin a riot, that's why I love you so
No control, down to roll, unleash
After a hit you break apart, then back to one piece

Much love to my one and only girlfriend, the world is ours
Just hold me down, baby witness the power
Never leave a nigga alone, I love you black or chrome
Turn this house into a happy home, me and my girlfriend.

_feedback_

My eyes are sore.

Sykk

"Move bitch, get out the way, get out the way, get out the way"

Clearly a metaphor for

"Excuse me lady, would you mind moving to your left as much as convenience allows so I may pass?"

stovelid

I always thought the Kiss lyric Suck My Cock Until A Million O' Clock was an interesting and frank metaphor for the interminable passing of time and our inabiltiy to adequately contextualize our place within it.

Colilfc

I was whipping my head back and forth along with the song and then I collapsed in agony with severe whiplash.

sbsquarepants

Absolutely not - there are very few pop songs with anything like a metaphor in them, they are mostly just catchy tunes and meaningless words liberally splashed with sexy bodies in the video(not in this case obviously - unless you're garry glitter i suppose!:eek:)
There are exceptions of course, but not too many.

strokemyclover

Keep smokin' them doobs OP!

Gillington

That you Jim!?

Oh_Noes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzv_EwxMl0

Es aren't good kids.

5dollakarl

Was just listening to Rihannas S&M after this and realised the whole song is a very clever metaphor for how she does not care what the media think of her and that she feels comfortable acting sexy.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me" is a clear indicator of this. The video is also clearly depicting the medias knee jerk reactions in criticising her for acting, how she sees it, as freely and expressively. The fact that the cameras still follow her is a clear indicator that the media blow her sexual expressinalism out of proportion simply for something to write about this.

Never loved Rihanna more than now!

FreeOSCAR

Don't feed him folks.

sbsquarepants

Oh_Noes wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzv_EwxMl0

Es aren't good kids.

Hey, they're very much malligned and misunterstood!

Korvanica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKQ_pdhyj4

Twin-go

"If You See Kay" OP

(the Script)

chin_grin

Any pop song that has the word "baby" have subliminal messages. If you play the song backwards...............it sounds better (Opinion courtesty of Bill Hicks......except the "baby" bit.....).

kiddums

So what are the metaphors in these songs op?

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Someone was going to do it.