The song “Watch What Happens Next” is premised on the pressure the singer, Waterparks’ frontman Awsten Knight, feels in being compelled to conform to the ideologies which dominate the particular genre of music the...
Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls” is a song that was heavily inspired by “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash. Anyone familiar with that classic track would recognize it as one of the first raps which...
Tove Lo’s “Talking Body” is about a casual intimate relationship the singer is in. In Tove’s own words, it is based on a situation where she and her partner utilized bedroom fun – and plenty...
“Cool Girl” is a love song presented in the type of unorthodox fashion that only artists like Tove Lo can bring forth. The narrative is premised on a sense of freedom that she and...
“Winter Bear” starts off with BTS’ V arguably addressing a romantic interest. But as the track progresses, the lyrics become increasingly symbolic and thus more challenging to decipher. As many of us know, bears...
The title of this track apparently stands for two very explicit words (which we can’t put here), and these unprintable phrases make their appearance during the choruses. The “F” stands for a swear word (which...
As of August 12, 2019, rapper Lil Uzi Vert’s “Zoom” is a leak and considered to be an incomplete state. Thus in its current condition, it is relatively monotonous, even for an artist like...
“Face to Face” is a song where singer Ruel is suffering from unrequited love but with a strange twist. You see, he never actually met the woman he is infatuated with. Instead the addressee is...
The easiest way to understand Evanescence’s “Lithium” is by realizing that, generally speaking, the titular “lithium” is an allusion to depression. Or as the song’s writer and performer, Evanescence’s lead singer Amy Lee, puts it,...
Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” is a song that comes with a specific history. And being privy to it would elucidate what the symbolism used throughout is actually based on. And in a way, even though...