Song Meanings and Facts

Song Meanings and Facts

Author: Amanda London

About K-Pop Music

K-pop

K-Pop Music

K-pop, as you likely already know, is an abbreviation for Korean pop(ular) music.  For all intents and purposes we can presume that pop music, as we recognize it today, originated in Anglo-America. So in some other...

Dear Mom

Dax

“Dear Mom” by Dax

Not much is currently really known about the background of Dax, a rapper from Canada who is reportedly of Nigerian descent. But judging by this song the presumption can be made that, as with shall...

Shoop

Big Twan / Salt-N-Pepa

“Shoop” by Salt-N-Pepa

It can likely be argued that Salt-N-Pepa were the first popular feminist rappers. They were pioneers not only in terms of being some of the first female hip-hoppers to embrace racy clothing but also dropping...

Hot Sauce

K-pop / NCT DREAM

“Hot Sauce” by NCT Dream

Of course the title of this song (“Hot Sauce”) – unless maybe if it were being dropped by Weird Al Yankovic – is a metaphor. Or rather, let’s say that it establishes the motif upon...

Higher Power

Coldplay

“Higher Power” by Coldplay

This is perhaps as close as we’re ever going to get to a gospel song being dropped by a mainstream act like Coldplay. What that means is here we have a musical piece with a,...

U Can't Touch This

MC Hammer

“U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer

Some of the most-iconic rappers in history never resorted to offensive language, threats of violence or the espousement of mammonism to secure their fame. This was most notable true for a brief time during the...

Toxic

Britney Spears

“Toxic” by Britney Spears

Britney Spears has described this song as being about a girl who finds herself “addicted to a guy”. Over time we have come across a number of similarly-themed tunes, perhaps she being the artists who started the...

Jerusalema

Master KG / Nomcebo

“Jerusalema” by Master KG (ft. Nomcebo)

Leave it up to African musicians to actually create a gospel song which proves to be a global hit. Such was the case with 2019’s “Jerusalem” (aka “Jerusalema”, as the city is termed in Zulu), which became...

Tones and I

Tones and I

Tones and I

Tones and I is without a shred of doubt one of the most famous pop singers and songwriters in her home country of Australia and the world in general. She has held the all-time...

Bye Bye Baby

Taylor Swift

“Bye Bye Baby” by Taylor Swift

Looking at the lyrics of “Bye Bye Baby”, it’s kinda understandable why Taylor Swift may not have released it with the original edition of Fearless. It is in fact a tale of romantic heartbreak, as its...