What is the most misused song in history?

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Edit: I'm a retard and forgot to explain the thread.
This is a thread for songs that are used for anything that completely ignores the context and/or meaning of said song.
My candidates are
"Do you Realize???" By the The Flaming Lips
and "No Rain" by Blind Melon

 

[Your Starter for 10]

I think it's pretty settled.

When Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," a song that's an amalgam of William Burroughs proto-tranny quips, anecdotes about Iggy's dead heroin dealer bringing around a motorized dildo, and general teen anti-consumerist whining got used to shill for a Carribean cruise line.

I mean you could say when The Beatle's Revolution was used for Nike, but you could also take Revolution sarcastically, so at least there's a bit of wiggle room.

I always wish they did a Sudafed ad with Phil Collins' Susudio. Wouldn't really be ironic, but it would be fun.

 

[Nameless One]

Pumped Up Kicks, the Pink Floyd discography, Nine Inch Nails discography, System Of A Down discography, and most "punk" songs.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Born in the USA.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Hey Ya. The song even calls out people who don't listen to the words.

Every Breath You Take. It's not a love song, you morons.

Hallelujah. There are a bazillion covers out there of people who don't realize that Leonard Cohen is a sarcastic motherfucker.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I think it's pretty settled.

When Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," a song that's an amalgam of William Burroughs proto-tranny quips, anecdotes about Iggy's dead heroin dealer bringing around a motorized dildo, and general teen anti-consumerist whining got used to shill for a Carribean cruise line.

I mean you could say when The Beatle's Revolution was used for Nike, but you could also take Revolution sarcastically, so at least there's a bit of wiggle room.

I always wish they did a Sudafed ad with Phil Collins' Susudio. Wouldn't really be ironic, but it would be fun.

Sususudafed lmao!
I think about the same thing but with "That Life" by Unknown Mortal Orchestra and a Metlife ad.

 

[i440BX]

"Every Breath You Take" by The Police.
Many people think it is a romantic song, but it is actually about Big Brother.

 

[ye's Official KF Burner]

Obligatory "Stairway to Heaven" post

 

[Nameless One]

Most Led Zeppelin songs are misunderstood and no one listens to the lyrics. I'll further add The Doors and almost all bands that got big like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Beatles, Panthera, Megadeth, literally almost all black metal with discernable lyrics. I can go on given how many retards there are who listen to music as pure noise rather than understanding anything about music theory or were actually in music classes to have deeper appreciation for the stuff they listen to. Almost everyone carves out their own meanings for any song you can think of. Just go read personal comments left behind on YouTube to see. Still, I feel like you end up looking like a massive nerd and faggot for telling others how they're supposed to understand a song the creator would otherwise piss themselves laughing about. Ring around the rosie is greatly misunderstood and you see no one giving a shit about it. Before caring, ask yourself if the people who made the song would have given a shit, and if you have decent tastes in music you'll discover almost no one would as long as it doesn't make them look bad.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Careless whisper. Because it's got that sax everyone is like "oo la la sexy sex song you must wanna fug" but the lyrics are like "i have cheated my woman and now I'll never get to enjoy the simple pleasures of being in a relationship with her and now i think I'll never be happy"

 

[Tablet County]

Almost everyone carves out their own meanings for any song you can think of. Just go read personal comments left behind on YouTube to see.

Not that I don't know what comments you're talking about and also find them gay, but is finding your own meaning in a song really a bad thing?

 

[Shroom King]

Baby Got Back giving women an excuse to be lardasses.

 

[Plantation Barbie]

Independence Day by Martina McBride.

Hannity used that song in his shows opening for years. It's a song about murder suicide, not patriotism.

 

[Neodanthril]

American pie
People misundertand that it is a shit song and think anyone ever wants to hear it at the bowling alley

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

"Every Breath You Take" by The Police.
Many people think it is a romantic song, but it is actually about Big Brother.

I always thought of it as a song about a stalker.

 

[Hamstirer]

. I'll further add The Doors

The doors are pretty understood, even the guy that sang for them understood that they sucked.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Ring around the rosie is greatly misunderstood and you see no one giving a shit about it. Before caring, ask yourself if the people who made the song would have given a shit, and if you have decent tastes in music you'll discover almost no one would as long as it doesn't make them look bad.

Not gonna lie, I was waiting for someone to mention "Ring Around The Rosies"

 

[i440BX]

I always thought of it as a song about a stalker.

You are correct, Big Brother stalks people. But I remember from an interview of Sting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take#Origins_and_songwriting

I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realise at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control.

 

[ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni]

Song is about murder
For years people treated it like a love song

 

[The Connected Nose]

Hey Ya. The song even calls out people who don't listen to the words.

Y'all don't hear me, ya just wanna dance.

Hallelujah. There are a bazillion covers out there of people who don't realize that Leonard Cohen is a sarcastic motherfucker.

ngl it was rather hilarious when that one bitch was mournfully singing it on SNL after Orange Man won in 2016. you'd think someone had just killed her family.