However, not every artist is so on the nose, and there are a slew of songs you didn't know are about drugs. Here are 14 secret drug songs that may surprise you. Some of the songs on this list are certainly up to interpretation. Not every artist is just going to come out ...
However, not every artist is so on the nose, and there are a slew of songs you didn't know are about drugs. Here are 14 secret drug songs that may surprise you. Some of the songs on this list are certainly up to interpretation. Not every artist is just going to come out ...
“eight miles high,” it’s hard to imagine their reaction to Lou Reed singing about standing on the corner waiting to buy 26 bucks worth of heroin. Sure, it was one of the first popular songs to glamourize slinging drugs, but it was also one of the most forward-thinking, cool rock ...
” but by sharing a tale of personal loss, and how Lo had to “spend my days locked in a haze” in order to move on. Sia’s “Chandelier” is a song about using alcohol to ineffectively numb anxiety, and eventually spinning out ...
It didn’t matter what street you turned down: This bouncy, head-bopping earworm was the song coming from everyone’s car in late 1998, warning listeners, to the tune of triumphant horns and a crisp piano hook, about being used forthat thing— be it sex, drugs, money, or otherwise. ...
Lou Reed wrote so many songs about drugs that when he wrote songs that werenotabout drugs, people tended not to believe him. Such was the case with "Perfect Day," which many presumed to be another ode to addiction. "No, that's not true," hesaidin 2000. "I don't object to that,...
Lou Reed wrote so many songs about drugs that when he wrote songs that werenotabout drugs, people tended not to believe him. Such was the case with "Perfect Day," which many presumed to be another ode to addiction. "No, that's not true," hesaidin 2000. "I don't object to that,...
Last year Camper Van Beethoven released La Costa Perdida (loosely “the lost coast”) which is a set of songs about Northern California (see Northern California Girls or Come Down the Coast as examples). This year Camper Van Beethoven releases the companion piece to this album “El CaminoReal...
Lou Reed wrote so many songs about drugs that when he wrote songs that werenotabout drugs, people tended not to believe him. Such was the case with "Perfect Day," which many presumed to be another ode to addiction. "No, that's not true," hesaidin 2000. "I don't object to that,...
This song is about a married woman who can't conceive with her husband so she goes about having one night stands with strangers to get herself preggers. "So we found this hotel, it was a place I knew well We made magic that night. Oh, he did everything right He brought the woman ...