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Old 09-06-2014, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Twilight Zone
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Can you name any songs whose melody does NOT match the lyrics? What I mean is where the melody is upbeat but its lyrics are gloomy? Or vice versa too, where the melody sounds melancholy but the lyrics are upbeat?
For starters, I have one where the melody is upbeat but the lyrics are sad. It's called Kind Of A Drag.


The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag - YouTube
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Old 09-06-2014, 07:41 PM
 
Location: ohio
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I never listened closely to the lyrics of this one when it was out. Years later I had my first relationships and breakups and I realized this song is not about travel.


Vacation Lyrics-the Go Go's - YouTube
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Old 09-07-2014, 03:16 PM
 
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Sometimes it's the title that does not match the melody. A good example is the song by the Beau Brummels. Even though it's about sorrow, its title is " Laugh, Laugh."
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Old 09-07-2014, 08:13 PM
 
Location: ohio
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How about a fun upbeat song about....

Winter depression
Anne Murray-Snowbird

Guy lost his girl to his best bud
The Cars-My Best Freinds Girlfreind

Guy cheats on girlfreind at her own party...And she will cry if she wants to, but you can dance to it.
Leslie Gore-Its My Party
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Old 09-08-2014, 08:57 PM
 
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Old 09-08-2014, 09:05 PM
 
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That's his new one^. I think it stinks....like everybody is saying on YouTube "sounds like some rap or hip hop s*** with a Southern accent.....that ain't country". I agree and don't like it. Strange it's #1 on the current charts.


Now what he was doing a few years back.......oh hell yeah here. He likes to push the boundaries. People say if he keeps that ^^^^ up and doesn't go back to this vvvv they will quit him and it will be his last.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AZLUohDCGo
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Old 09-08-2014, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
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Third Eye Blind's peppy "Semi-Charmed Life" has been on several soundtracks and pop radio but openly describes meth use and sex acts.

THIRD EYE BLIND LYRICS - Semi-Charmed Life
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Old 09-09-2014, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Utah
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Used to love this song until I listened to the lyrics.

Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks - YouTube
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Old 09-09-2014, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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I never listened closely to the lyrics of this one when it was out. Years later I had my first relationships and breakups and I realized this song is not about travel.


Vacation Lyrics-the Go Go's - YouTube
It's more of metaphor of needing a vacation from heartbreak or whatever than actually taking a vacation. It's all about the subtext.

That said another Go Go's song is a contradiction, If their lips were really sealed, they wouldn't be singing about it would they?


The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed - YouTube
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Old 09-10-2014, 08:17 PM
 
Location: ohio
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Simlar to Kind of a Drag, same era....
Tremolos-Here Comes My Baby


Here Comes My Baby- The Tremeloes- 1967 - YouTube
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