Grandma's licensed favourite sing-a-long after a number of sherries, Tom Jones' "Delilah" tells the story of a person stabbing his girlfriend to dying after discovering her dishonest on him.

"She stood there laughing / I felt the knife in my hand and he or she laughed no extra," Jones sings.

Why, why, why, Tom?

Psy's 2012 mammoth hit "Gangnam Type" and its video are, in accordance with Adrian Hong, a Korean-American advisor, a satire concerning the prosperous Gangnam area of Seoul and the way others from South Korea aspire to stay that way of life.

"Koreans have been form of caught up on this spending to look rich, and Gangnam has actually been the vanguard of that," Hong advised The Atlantic.

"I feel a number of what [Psy] is declaring is how foolish that’s," he added. "The entire video is about him considering he's a hotshot however then realizing he's simply, you understand, at a kids's playground, or considering he's taking part in polo or one thing and realizes he's on a merry-go-round."

Launched in 1983 within the midst of the Chilly Warfare, Nena's "99 Luftballons" is a protest music that warns of the hazards of the battle. 

The music imagines a state of affairs wherein 99 balloons are launched into the air from East Berlin and by accident fly over the Berlin Wall into West Berlin, which on the time was underneath Soviet management. The balloons are mistaken for UFOs, leading to a cataclysmic conflict. 

"Man, who would have thought that it will come to this?" Nena sings. "99 years of conflict leaves no room for victors."

Eagles' 1977 traditional "Resort California" isn't, regardless of what the title could recommend, a couple of resort in California. Neither is it a couple of man dying and going to hell, as some followers have urged.

"It's principally a music concerning the darkish underbelly of the American dream and about extra in America, which is one thing we knew so much about," frontman Don Henley stated in a 2002 interview.

"I don't ever wanna really feel / Like I did that day," goes the refrain to the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers' 1992 music "Underneath the Bridge."

The day lead singer Anthony Kiedis is referring to was on the peak of his heroin and cocaine habit when, as a substitute of being at dwelling along with his girlfriend, he was "downtown with fucking gangsters taking pictures speedballs underneath a bridge."

One other music about drug use, this time buried beneath the guise of a tacky pop hit a couple of whirlwind romance, is The Weeknd's "I Can't Really feel My Face" from 2015.

"I do know she'll be the dying of me / At the very least we'll each be numb," the music opens.

The Weeknd appeared to verify the music's hidden which means on 2017's "Reminder" as he referenced its nomination for music of the yr on the Nickelodeon Children' Alternative Awards.

"I simply received a brand new award for a children present / Speaking 'bout a face numbing off a bag of blow," he sings.

A bona fide indie anthem, Foster the Individuals's 2010 smash hit "Pumped Up Kicks" describes the homicidal ideas of a troubled youth named Robert, who’s jealous of his friends' sneakers.

"All the opposite children with the pumped up kicks / You higher run, higher run outrun my gun," goes the refrain.

Mark Foster, the group's singer, advised CNN in 2012: "I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' after I started to learn concerning the rising pattern in teenage psychological sickness. It was terrifying how psychological sickness amongst youth had skyrocketed within the final decade."

Having topped the charts all around the world and bought over 4 million models, Outkast's "Hey Ya!" is without doubt one of the most profitable songs of the 2000s.

Beneath its upbeat melody and catchy refrain, it's additionally André 3000's unhappy tackle the state of modern-day relationships.

"Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh / Are we so in denial after we know we're not completely happy right here (Y'all don't need to hear me, you simply need to dance)," he sings.

Though typically regarded as a love music, The Police's 1983 music "Each Breath You Take" is in truth a couple of possessive lover who’s watching "each breath you are taking" and "each transfer you make."

"I didn't understand on the time how sinister it’s," frontman Sting, who wrote the music within the wake of his cut up from Frances Tomelty, advised The Unbiased in 1993.

As Don McLean alludes to in his 1971 music "American Pie," the monitor is concerning the "day the music dies."

The phrase refers to a aircraft crash in 1959 that killed Buddy Holly, The Large B
opper, and Ritchie Valens and successfully ended the early period of rock 'n' roll.

"I can't keep in mind if I cried / After I examine his widowed bride," McLean sings.

Electrical Avenue is the title of a market road in Brixton, London, that, within the late 1800s, grew to become the primary on the planet to be lit by electrical energy.

In 1981, the realm was the middle stage for the Brixton riots, which took place because of the excessive ranges of poverty and unemployment prevalent among the many Caribbean migrants in Britain on the time.

Eddy Grant's 1983 music of the identical title is concerning the riots. 

"Who’s responsible in a single nation / By no means can get to the one / Dealin' in multiplication / And so they nonetheless can't feed everybody," sings Grant, who emigrated to London from Guyana in 1960.

Skinny Lizzy's 1977 hit "Dancing within the Moonlight" feels like a cheery music, each in title and in sound.

Actually, nonetheless, it's a monitor about heroin habit, with which frontman Phil Lynott struggled all through his life.

"I at all times get chocolate stains on my pants / And my father, he's going loopy / He says I'm livin' in a trance," sings Lynott. 

To not be confused with Skinny Lizzy's music of the identical title, Boffalongo's "Dancing within the Moonlight" — which was most famously coated by Toploader in 2000 — has a really darkish backstory.

"On a visit to St. Croix in 1969, I used to be the primary sufferer of a vicious St. Croix gang who finally murdered 8 American vacationers," writes Boffalongo's Sherman Kelly on his web site. 

"At the moment, I suffered a number of facial fractures and wounds and was left for lifeless," he added. "Whereas I used to be recovering, I wrote 'Dancin within the Moonlight' wherein I envisioned an alternate actuality, the dream of a peaceable and festivity of life."

UB40 are recognized for his or her feel-good reggae anthems, however quite a lot of their songs have darker meanings, most famously "Crimson Crimson Wine," which is about, who would have guessed, alcoholism.

One other is "One in Ten." The music title refers back to the roughly 10% of the native workforce claiming unemployment advantages within the British band's dwelling area in the course of the summer time of 1981.

"No person is aware of me, even although I'm at all times there / A statistic, a reminder of a world that doesn't care," goes the music.

On the face of it, Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The usA." is an uncomplicated celebration of American patriotism.

Scratch beneath the floor, nonetheless, and what you get is as a substitute a bitter critique of American society, advised by way of the lens of a Vietnam veteran struggling for work upon his return from the conflict.

"Come again dwelling to the refinery / Hiring man says, 'Son, if it was as much as me,'" sings Springsteen within the third verse.

Within the fifth and remaining verse, he sings: "I'm 10 years burning down the highway / Nowhere to run ain't received nowhere to go."