Swedish rock band Ghost's 'Mary on a Cross' is a song about Sister Imperator and Papa Nihil's 'blasphemous' love affair, however this love song has been accused of encouraging blasphemy by many critics and media outlets. It briefly references God and uses religious...
Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" didn't make a big impression when it was first released. It was on the Billboard 100 for just a week, peaking at No. 41. American Songwriter quotes Bernie Tapuin, John's longtime lyricist, as saying that "Tiny Dancer" was a bit of poetic...
The song is a simple nostalgic statement about the discussions the three brothers and their parents had at a restaurant called Waffle House. Those discussions were about the three brothers' career plans, and they described their father as headstrong and their mother...
Stephen Stills's divorce from Veronique Sanson in 1979 was particularly hard on him. In the past, both he and Nash had had relationships with the same women, notable among them Rita Coolidge, which had caused friction within the band and even a breakup of the group in...
The Eagles had a smash hit with "Hotel California" in 1977. The song was No. 1 on the Billboard 100 during May of 1978, and it was on the chart for 19 weeks that summer. The record itself won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 1978. The song itself has had an...
"The Weight" is likely the best song ever produced by The Band. The lyrics are laden with meaning, and the debate about just what meaning has raged ever since the song was first released. First, was it "Fanny" or "Annie?" "Carmen or Karma?" Robbie Robertson wrote the...
The rock song "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by the English band Def Leppard was released in 1988 on the album "Hysteria." The song went on to become one of Def Leppard's most well-known and cherished songs, and it was an immediate hit, ranking in the top ten in several...
In May 1994, "Closer" was released as a single from Nine Inch Nails second album, Downward Spiral. Some have said the entire album is about a downward spiral of mental illness, essentially a "concept album" about following a person's journey that leads them to...
"I Like You," as its title suggests, is a love song from the male singer toward his female partner. He tells her that he likes her and that he'll give her various gifts and experiences were she to choose him as a romantic partner. For example, she wants to "go...
The song is about the hedonism of the moment. Whether it's performing near-fisting sexual acts in the back seat with a girlfriend, smoking marijuana to pass the time, or simply spending time with friends in either Compton or Inglewood, the point of the song is to...
Puth pines for a lost love in his song "Left and Right." He remembers the way he felt with her. He fixates on the way their intense sex in bed still titillates him through memories. Belying the sadness of the lyrics, the music of the song is both bubbly and upbeat....
This song is about a man trying to get his lady friend to have sex with him. In the song, the lyrics speak of dancing as a euphemism for sex. He and the woman are at a club where "... it's closing time," and he says that he doesn't want the night to stop. Also,...
