That said, Grande did make a valiant attempt to defend some of the sillier lines like “I only want to die alive,” explaining, “It means life is so short - there’s no reason to not enjoy it and there’s no reason you should be anything but yourself.” It absolutely doesn’t mean that, but good for her for trying. ‘I am not going to sing a grammatically incorrect lyric, help me, God!’” she recalled, referring to lines like “Now that I’ve become who I really are.” But “Max was like, ‘It’s funny - just do it!’” which only presents us with a further conundrum: Which of these people is worse? (Just kidding, Arianators, it’s Martin.
#Just the way lyrics free#
PlayĮven Grande, who had barely, uh, broken free from Disney stardom at that point, found the lyrics so stupid that she flat-out told the double-digit Grammy-nominated songwriter she wasn’t going to sing them. One glance at the credits does reveal people who should know better, though, including German DJ Zedd, veteran songwriter Savan Kotecha, and… well, well, well. 3 ‘Break Free’ĭon’t come for us, Arianation: We’ll be the first to absolve Ariana Grande of any blame for the lyrics of “Break Free.” (But maybe Google Richard Butler and rethink that name, guys.) After all, it’s not like she wrote them.
After writing the line “Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower,” he was said to grin and declare, “Let the fuckers figure that one out!” Despite its incoherence, “I Am the Walrus” still managed to get banned by the BBC because of the line “Girl, you’ve been a naughty boy, you let your knickers down.” They might not have known what it meant, but “sounds kinda gay” was good enough for them in 1967. The resulting song is a mishmash of lines pulled from other songs and books, including an old nursery rhyme Lennon used to sing as a child, and straight-up nonsense. He was also pretty grumpy about the success of Bob Dylan, who he believed was “getting away with murder” by writing nonsense, and became determined to show everyone that he “could write that crap, too.” Play The last straw was when a student from his old high school wrote to him that the school was teaching a whole class about Beatles lyrics. However, Lennon’s biggest inspiration for writing the song, even beyond drugs, was his exasperation at Beatles fans endlessly overanalyzing his lyrics. According to John Lennon, he came up with the first line of the song during an acid trip and the second line during his next trip, and it wouldn’t be at odds with the final product if he’d just gone line by line like that. If you had to hazard a guess at what “I Am the Walrus” is about, you’d probably say, “Drugs? Is it drugs?” And you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. Playįortunately for singalong enthusiasts, they regained their faith in the American public to completely disregard the words they’re saying. The rest of the lyrics abstractly describe some kind of breakup? Long-distance relationship? Minor disagreement? It’s deeply unclear, but nothing is more so than which way who wants it. What way do they want it? The statement is expressed from two different viewpoints in the song, each time with different desirability (“Believe when I say that I want it that way” versus “I never wanna hear you say, ‘I want it that way’”). But that same group of people couldn’t begin to tell you what the lyrics that are basically etched into their DNA actually mean. Go up to any group of people born between approximately 19 shriek “Tell me why!” in their faces, and they’ll almost certainly reproduce the rest of the chorus of the Backstreet Boys’ signature song in perfect five-part harmony. Rest assured, though, that that will never happen with these songs because they don’t mean anything whatsoever… 5 ‘I Want It That Way’
You’re flying along the highway, creating a perfect road trip moment with your crew, and the next thing you know, you suddenly realize you’re singing about the joys of crystal meth and school shootings. Most of us are perfectly fine singing along to some random guy’s Spotify playlist without a single clue what the words mean.
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