Song Meanings and Facts

Song Meanings and Facts

Author: Amanda London

Love is Pain

FINNEAS

“Love is Pain” by FINNEAS

The simplest way of describing “Love is Pain” is as Finneas depicting love as not being all gravy. As implied in the first verse, we usually embark on romantic relationships full of optimism, looking forward...

Perfume

Lovejoy

“Perfume” by Lovejoy

As with most, if not all songs we’ve thus far analyzed that are sung by Wilbur Soot, this one can also really get complicated if a listener decides to dive too deeply into the...

What You Are

Audioslave

“What You Are” by Audioslave

What the title of this song (“What You Are”) leads us to, as used therein, is the concept of the vocalist being overly willing to transform himself into the image of the addressee. And what...

Drama!

Erasure

“Drama!” by Erasure

It has been suggested that the addressee of “Drama!” would be an individual akin to a drama queen. But relying solely on that conclusion may oversimplify all that’s going on here. Yes, the person being addressed...

Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing"

Marvin Gaye

“Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye was sort of a master of putting out songs, like this one, that were overtly sexual yet at the same time not necessarily NSFW. After all, these lyrics speak to what we may...

Changes Are Coming

Daughtry

“Changes Are Coming” by Daughtry

“Changes Are Coming” is a track that encourages personal perseverance, with the two verses taking slightly different approaches in getting this point across. The first is more along the lines of admonishing the addressee, who can...

Frozen

Madonna

“Frozen” by Madonna

These types of pop songs that deal with these ubiquitous psychological maladies tend to be relatively deep. And in this case (“Frozen”) Madonna tries to go there, first and foremost contending with an addressee who...