Puff the magic dragon was once sung by Christian band Peter Paul and Mary and was NEVER about marijuana. The writer of the song is fed up about having to debunk that myth. It's about growing up and loss of childhood innocence.
Most of the producers for this channels gave up on research a long time ago. You can tell quickly when these lazy Millennial and Gen Z folks took over. Straight to misinformation and lack of education.
@@TheDeadJester Boomers preferred to take horse medicine and inject bleach rather than trusting vaccines simply because an old pudgy man in a cheap wig told them vaccines would turn them communist. Don’t even start.
These were THE songs when I was in high school. I've only listened to the first song and my mind is blown. We didn't have smart phones and computers were so slow because of the modems. So, a lot of us didn't look up lyrics. Some CDs would have the lyrics on the cover and I would get so excited. Most didn't. 😮😂
1:47 Unless you got some top-secret source, Mel B has never confirmed it. Any article I can find just says a nameless "co-writer" or "insider". There's no emphasis on the "E" in "Easy V".
I think it's both about losing Hilel (sp?) to heroin but also about Anthony's struggle. I remember watching their Behind the Music, and he had the lyrics written out, and the band loved it and they all went to get their instruments...and that's how it all started.
"I don't know, but don't ruin it because that was my graduation song. "... same Izzy 🤣 Also, geez... how many years was that song used at graduations because I'm like a year older than Jayse and started high school when Izzy was like one year old?
The Pearl Jam song reminds me of my little sister. We grew up together only to discover as 33/30 respectively that she was not my biological father’s daughter. He knew it. He raised her. He recently passed and I will always love him for being so loving. RIP James.
REACT I have song has a darker meaning. Song is Barracuda by iconic band, Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson). Both sisters wrote song about creepy music executives when they were starting out music back in the 70's.
The entire Hanson album was written by the brothers at such a young age, the album is so deep and kind of dark if you relisten as an adult. They all were so insanely talented, such old souls!
Shoutout to the woman that said Hansen looked like girls because the joke in my family as an androgynous little girl was that I was the forgotten Hansen brother 😂😂
I think this is the best thing about music. People can find their own meaning in the song but also as teens and kids we don’t see a lot of the same meanings we do as adults.
If it's Trent Reznor, pre-2000, the answer is always Heroin (and/or alcohol). Even when heroin is not the main character, heroin is a major backing character. Also, most people only hear the intro and first half of the chorus from Closer, they selectively tune out everything else. Like, "My whole existence is flawed, You get me closer to God" is the actual center point of the song. All the lyrics are about him being at his lowest and trying to find some spiritual elevation, or at least distraction.... but no, it's just an overt fornication song. Which is the perfect lead-in to Under the Bridge, another heroin song.
@@rochellecarter762 No I wouldn't have considered Hanson a boy band. But I remember the teenage girls during the time they were popular going crazy for them.
Okay I felt like that one didn't belong in this list bc the lyrics and the music video (as you mentioned) are literally telling you exactly what the song is about, they're not trying to hide it.
I graduated high school in 2001. The 90s and early 2000s had THE best songs. I know I'm going to offend a lot of people, but most of the music now sucks. I've never heard of LEN though.
7:02 “Waterfalls” is about the consequences of illicit pleasure seeking, whether it's drugs or sensual delight. It's a cautionary tale about living within the moment vs. living for the moment.
"zig-a-zig-ah" is not about cigars, it's literally an insider word the Spice Girls made up for sex. It phonetically describes the in-and-out motion ending with an "O", that's what it means.
Biiiiiiiiiiig enjoyed this one! So much fun watching this video. :) I always enjoy throwbacks to my era in the 90's! Next time, please include a song from Toad The Wet Sprocket! I don't really have a song in particular - but if I were to suggest one it'd be one of these - Brother, Good Intentions or Hobbit On The Rocks. I LOVE that band so much and feel that others should experience them as well. :) Top favorite album of theirs would have to be In Light Syrup. :D
Alll the rumors about Wannabe aren’t true, and no one has confirmed any of it except Zig-ah-zig-ah literally mean S--X (confirmed by Mel C in an interview years ago) Kinda disappointed with this content dude.
Funny thing about Blue by Eiffel 65 - Someone told me that what he actually says in the chorus is "I'm blue, if I were green I would die" I haven't been able to unhear this ever since 🤣🤣
Alive by Pearl Jam was about more than just that. Yes, the first verse was about Eddie Vedder's dad. But the rest was really good story telling. There was mother son incest happening. Alive, Once,and Footsteps were a trilogy of songs about a man becoming a serial killer.
Mean those rap in wannabe is they called the innicial of them. MC is Melanie C, easy V is Victoria beckham, we got Em is Emma bunton, we got G is Geri halliwell.
Like a stone by Audioslave. Most people think it’s a love song “ I will wait for you there like a stone “ but the song is actually about death and him waiting there like a stone is referring to a tomb stone
Dan Wilson who is the lead singer and main writer for Semisonic was previously in the band Trip Shakespeare along with his brother Matt and Semisonic bandmate John Munson. It's a different vibe but in listening to their music you will hear that he's a master songwriter, who has also written for or co-written with Pink, Adele, The Dixie Chicks, Phantogram, Jon Batiste, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift and many others. He also happens to be a pretty talented visual artist.
I'm still waiting for the day one of these "hidden meaning" in songs videos will actually feature Dido's Don't leave home. BRilliant, brilliant wordplay disguising a song about something far more nefarious as a simple love song.
Wanna watch me act half my age? Throw Hanson’s MMMBop on the big screen with the surround sound speakers and move back the furniture! I will ALWAYS be moved to joy by that song and its video just encapsulates the brothers’ relationship and personalities (just for the song of course).
Sometimes I wonder for certain songs how people don't realize the lyrics they are singing along to... like Waterfalls, Janie's Got A Gun and Under The Bridge are so clear in what they are about 😅
I think a music one that they should do is forgotten music groups, like do they remember these groups : Life house, Switchfoot, 3 Doors Down, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, Everclear, etc
Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" About a songwriter trying to meet a deadline by pulling an all-nighter, but here it is 3:35am or 3:34am (25 or 26 minutes until 4am) and he's still trying to stay awake ("getting up to splash my face") and come up with something ("searching for something to say") but he's starting to get woozy from how late it is and how tired he's getting ("spinning room is sinking deep") and regretting that he put it off until it was so last minute ("should've tried to do some more" because now he's "wondering how much I can take" trying to stir up his imagination when sleep is just pulling to him to throw in the towel and call it a day).
Izzy wasn't a deep thinker but some of us were contemplating the meaning of life young . I got in trouble for a poem that I wrote in 5th grade it was - Murder , oblivion , death and pain the life of a man is all in vain for in this end we're all the same on lifes white sheets our bloods the same .
dont even have to wait for it, under the bridge is about heroine, one of my fav songs, got me through some rough times in my adolescence never touched hard drugs thankfully, at least none that werent given by a doctor, even then i generally had left overs, dont like taking meds when i dont have to
I was mildly surprised by some songs that had a deeper meaning, even if they were simple in nature like Hanson’s, but just a little sidenote, when Alive came on the screen, and all the people were trying to mimic that sound he makes when he sings, I was cracking up. 😂
I remember in weezer video when i requested 'do react to songs with disturbing backstories/dark meaning' in comment and u guys did a couple videos include this, i'd be like 'my request is granted, thanks'... 🙂🙏🏼
There was a rumor about blue, that it had to be changed before MTV would air it. The original was. I'll bleed i will bleed I will die. Cause I will bleed, I will bleed I will bleed I will die.
Nine Inch Nails pretty hate machine was released in December 1989 and is still one of my favorite 80's albums. Gotta disqualify Janie's got a gun if it was released in the 80's. Great song though
Let's go Izzy! I love when Izzy and Jayse are paired in these videos. They're so fun together.
Yup
I agree
Also Izzy knows no virgins.
Where’s Green day?? In the title and thumbnail but not in the video
Puff the magic dragon was once sung by Christian band Peter Paul and Mary and was NEVER about marijuana. The writer of the song is fed up about having to debunk that myth. It's about growing up and loss of childhood innocence.
Most of the producers for this channels gave up on research a long time ago. You can tell quickly when these lazy Millennial and Gen Z folks took over. Straight to misinformation and lack of education.
@@TheDeadJester Boomers preferred to take horse medicine and inject bleach rather than trusting vaccines simply because an old pudgy man in a cheap wig told them vaccines would turn them communist. Don’t even start.
I believe that song got banned in hongkong/singapore/mainland china for alleged drugs for awhile 🤔
Janie's got a gun makes me think of not another teen movie 😂😂😂
"JANIE'S GOT A GUN !!!!"
😂😅🤣
They should have done “Zombie” by The Cranberries
Wheres the Green Day segment? It says green day in the the title for you guys to right?
so u just randomly put Green Day in the title??
Right!?
Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters is literally about wanting to be a pilot.
The music video is so iconic!
Closing Time spawned my class motto: “Every new beginning, comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Producer: What's this song about?
Izzy, every single time: "Drugs! Sex!" 😂
These were THE songs when I was in high school. I've only listened to the first song and my mind is blown. We didn't have smart phones and computers were so slow because of the modems. So, a lot of us didn't look up lyrics. Some CDs would have the lyrics on the cover and I would get so excited. Most didn't. 😮😂
YES!!!!!
Love this video concept!!!! Also Izzy and Jayse are a great duo!!!!!
Somebody dropped the ball and lost the Green Day
Hearing Mmm Bop when Hanson is older, actually hearing and understanding the lyrics. Being 40….. whoa
1:47 Unless you got some top-secret source, Mel B has never confirmed it. Any article I can find just says a nameless "co-writer" or "insider". There's no emphasis on the "E" in "Easy V".
Blue is my fave 90s dance song
Just here to compliment Julie's music taste again. Just threw some NIN in there. The Downward Spiral is just on a whole other level.
Brittany and Izzy and Jayse are just so funny as for Brian Love you guy . Everyone was great
RHCP Under the Bridge is actually much deeper because he wrote it after losing a former band member to an overdose of Heroin.
I think it's both about losing Hilel (sp?) to heroin but also about Anthony's struggle. I remember watching their Behind the Music, and he had the lyrics written out, and the band loved it and they all went to get their instruments...and that's how it all started.
"I don't know, but don't ruin it because that was my graduation song. "... same Izzy 🤣
Also, geez... how many years was that song used at graduations because I'm like a year older than Jayse and started high school when Izzy was like one year old?
They still play it at graduations!
@@random_j._cosplay it is still being used to this day. And every time I laugh because people don't know that it's sarcastic lol
The Pearl Jam song reminds me of my little sister. We grew up together only to discover as 33/30 respectively that she was not my biological father’s daughter. He knew it. He raised her. He recently passed and I will always love him for being so loving. RIP James.
REACT
I have song has a darker meaning. Song is Barracuda by iconic band, Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson). Both sisters wrote song about creepy music executives when they were starting out music back in the 70's.
The entire Hanson album was written by the brothers at such a young age, the album is so deep and kind of dark if you relisten as an adult. They all were so insanely talented, such old souls!
Shoutout to the woman that said Hansen looked like girls because the joke in my family as an androgynous little girl was that I was the forgotten Hansen brother 😂😂
I think this is the best thing about music. People can find their own meaning in the song but also as teens and kids we don’t see a lot of the same meanings we do as adults.
Soo green day never appeared lol
Waterfalls said it all, how did you not know what they were saying.
where is the green day part? it's in the title but nowhere to be seen.
If it's Trent Reznor, pre-2000, the answer is always Heroin (and/or alcohol). Even when heroin is not the main character, heroin is a major backing character.
Also, most people only hear the intro and first half of the chorus from Closer, they selectively tune out everything else. Like, "My whole existence is flawed, You get me closer to God" is the actual center point of the song. All the lyrics are about him being at his lowest and trying to find some spiritual elevation, or at least distraction.... but no, it's just an overt fornication song.
Which is the perfect lead-in to Under the Bridge, another heroin song.
They should do a second episode of this one and do Phill Collins' In the Air Tonight
Hanson was a teenage boy brother band that all the girls seemed to to crazy over when I was growing up.
Mmm, I don’t think families with males that are also musicians who play together are officially categorized as “boy bands”.
@@rochellecarter762 No I wouldn't have considered Hanson a boy band. But I remember the teenage girls during the time they were popular going crazy for them.
Where's Green Day?
Welcome to Paradise would have been good to decipher.
Came here for Green Day
Semi-Charmed Life could have been another one. It’s actually pretty deep.
you should so a video about saddest songs, a try not t cry if you will , and include "concrete angel".. that song makes me cry
I knew the Aerosmith one a long time ago... Plus Steven Tyler created Janie's house for that purpose.
Why does the new guy looks like Chandler from Friends? lol
He's arden jones tho. indie musician i believe
The video vividly explains the meaning of Waterfalls
Yeah, I don't really know how you can miss it...
Yeah they break down the lyrics, but as a whole the song is about not going down a path of destruction.
Okay I felt like that one didn't belong in this list bc the lyrics and the music video (as you mentioned) are literally telling you exactly what the song is about, they're not trying to hide it.
I graduated high school in 2001. The 90s and early 2000s had THE best songs. I know I'm going to offend a lot of people, but most of the music now sucks. I've never heard of LEN though.
I graduated in 1991 and knew the meanings of most of these songs when they first came out.
Not from the 90', but Every Breath You Take would be my favourite from the 80s
To think that people would play this at weddings about love when it is really about a stalker!
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young; supposed to be about a guy trying to convince a Catholic school girl to give it up
7:02
“Waterfalls” is about the consequences of illicit pleasure seeking, whether it's drugs or sensual delight. It's a cautionary tale about living within the moment vs. living for the moment.
Missed opportunity to have Closing Time song as the last song review, but good episode tho!!
"zig-a-zig-ah" is not about cigars, it's literally an insider word the Spice Girls made up for sex. It phonetically describes the in-and-out motion ending with an "O", that's what it means.
An even darker fact about Alice by Pearl Jam is that the second verse is about attempted incest between mother and son.
They should have had run away train by soul asylum on this list💯
Rhyming "e" with "e": now known as "Play on words"
i like the ice cub t shirt guys singing voice
Biiiiiiiiiiig enjoyed this one! So much fun watching this video. :) I always enjoy throwbacks to my era in the 90's! Next time, please include a song from Toad The Wet Sprocket! I don't really have a song in particular - but if I were to suggest one it'd be one of these - Brother, Good Intentions or Hobbit On The Rocks. I LOVE that band so much and feel that others should experience them as well. :) Top favorite album of theirs would have to be In Light Syrup. :D
I love Jayse's new glasses!
Alll the rumors about Wannabe aren’t true, and no one has confirmed any of it except Zig-ah-zig-ah literally mean S--X (confirmed by Mel C in an interview years ago) Kinda disappointed with this content dude.
This kid with the hoodie and hat is literally Spicoli from Fast Times.
Funny thing about Blue by Eiffel 65 -
Someone told me that what he actually says in the chorus is "I'm blue, if I were green I would die"
I haven't been able to unhear this ever since 🤣🤣
I can totally see that
Yay, mondegreens! 🤣
Genuinely surprised that that people didn’t know what TLC’s waterfalls was about. It’s been 25 years or so.
Jayse the glasses look amazing on you
Alive by Pearl Jam was about more than just that.
Yes, the first verse was about Eddie Vedder's dad. But the rest was really good story telling.
There was mother son incest happening.
Alive, Once,and Footsteps were a trilogy of songs about a man becoming a serial killer.
Lets talk about how Izzy knew what zooted was?
You guys should've did Jeremy by Pearl jam because it talks about a kid from texas that passed away in front of his class
Fun fact: Food Network’s Alton Brown was the director of photography for R.E.M’s The One I Love.
Mean those rap in wannabe is they called the innicial of them. MC is Melanie C, easy V is Victoria beckham, we got Em is Emma bunton, we got G is Geri halliwell.
I'd love to see you do this with 80's songs.
"I ran" by flock of seagulls would blow their minds!
Good video guys. Izzy you are so pretty and love your reacts lol. Very cool bro
Like a stone by Audioslave. Most people think it’s a love song “ I will wait for you there like a stone “ but the song is actually about death and him waiting there like a stone is referring to a tomb stone
Dan Wilson who is the lead singer and main writer for Semisonic was previously in the band Trip Shakespeare along with his brother Matt and Semisonic bandmate John Munson. It's a different vibe but in listening to their music you will hear that he's a master songwriter, who has also written for or co-written with Pink, Adele, The Dixie Chicks, Phantogram, Jon Batiste, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift and many others. He also happens to be a pretty talented visual artist.
Izzy always says the wildest shit and I love it! Love izzy💜💜💜💜
I thought Under the Bridge was also about the death of their original guitarist as well? Or is it another song im thinking of?
I'm pretty sure it is "Under the Bridge"
so we just lied about Green Day huh?
Like yeah, why did they put GreenDay on the thumbnail and title...
I literally watched for Green Day
how is waterfalls a hidden meaning? its in the video
If Semisonic gets paid every time that song plays, they'd be literally closin
I'm still waiting for the day one of these "hidden meaning" in songs videos will actually feature Dido's Don't leave home. BRilliant, brilliant wordplay disguising a song about something far more nefarious as a simple love song.
Wanna watch me act half my age? Throw Hanson’s MMMBop on the big screen with the surround sound speakers and move back the furniture! I will ALWAYS be moved to joy by that song and its video just encapsulates the brothers’ relationship and personalities (just for the song of course).
Janie's got a gun is pretty easy to figure out.
you guy have some seriously sick minds
Sometimes I wonder for certain songs how people don't realize the lyrics they are singing along to... like Waterfalls, Janie's Got A Gun and Under The Bridge are so clear in what they are about 😅
The song "the impression that I get" by Mighty Mighty Bosstones is about waiting on the results of an STD test
"I'm not a coward, but I've never been tested, I'd like to think if I was, I would pass"
Pretty sure losing my religion is also about an obsessive love
The Mmmbop disrespect is unacceptable.
Much Love Iz!!!! Love when React hits us with these music type of videos
I think a music one that they should do is forgotten music groups, like do they remember these groups : Life house, Switchfoot, 3 Doors Down, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, Everclear, etc
I have known the meaning of MMMBop since 1997. Big Hanson fan here.
Hanson made music semi recently and they are pretty good
Eiffel 65 sounds like "I'm blue I'm in need of a guy". Now you will never get that out your head :)
I’ve only recently learned about the Hanson song and I was surprised. Granted, I had never paid attention to the lyrics. 😛
regardless of what closer is about, it's still gonna be on my boop playlist 😂
Time of your life was also my graduation song! Class of 2005. God, I’m old lol
Closer is one of my all-time favorite songs!
How could you listen to Janie's Git a Gun and NOT know what it was about? It's called listening to the lyrics.
Yes Izzy! Good riddance was my graduation song too!! 2002
6:15, Jayse, we’re gonna need you to not do that again. Don’t make me love you! Lol!
Losing my religion is a love song as said by the writer himself in an interview about the song for Dutch tv.
Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4"
About a songwriter trying to meet a deadline by pulling an all-nighter, but here it is 3:35am or 3:34am (25 or 26 minutes until 4am) and he's still trying to stay awake ("getting up to splash my face") and come up with something ("searching for something to say") but he's starting to get woozy from how late it is and how tired he's getting ("spinning room is sinking deep") and regretting that he put it off until it was so last minute ("should've tried to do some more" because now he's "wondering how much I can take" trying to stir up his imagination when sleep is just pulling to him to throw in the towel and call it a day).
So green day was a lie...lol
Izzy wasn't a deep thinker but some of us were contemplating the meaning of life young . I got in trouble for a poem that I wrote in 5th grade it was - Murder , oblivion , death and pain the life of a man is all in vain for in this end we're all the same on lifes white sheets our bloods the same .
Wow…why do they sound like they could be song lyrics?
@@ghunter182003 Maybe but that was all I wrote so it would be a short song and I can't write music .
I knew Janie’s got a gun, meaning since I first watched the video. The video makes it obvious what it was about. I was 13 when it came out.
I Knew What It Was About As Soon As I Heard It
The guy who played Todd in Christmas Vacation was also in that video. Apparently 1989 was a big year for Christopher Guest
dont even have to wait for it, under the bridge is about heroine, one of my fav songs, got me through some rough times in my adolescence never touched hard drugs thankfully, at least none that werent given by a doctor, even then i generally had left overs, dont like taking meds when i dont have to
6:39 🙄 LITERALLY NOTHING HIDDEN ABOUT WATERFALLS! It is all in the lyrics! AND clearly visualized in the video.
I was mildly surprised by some songs that had a deeper meaning, even if they were simple in nature like Hanson’s, but just a little sidenote, when Alive came on the screen, and all the people were trying to mimic that sound he makes when he sings, I was cracking up. 😂
Proof that people (me included) don't really listen to the lyrics most of the times
I remember in weezer video when i requested 'do react to songs with disturbing backstories/dark meaning' in comment and u guys did a couple videos include this, i'd be like 'my request is granted, thanks'... 🙂🙏🏼
There was a rumor about blue, that it had to be changed before MTV would air it. The original was.
I'll bleed i will bleed I will die. Cause I will bleed, I will bleed I will bleed I will die.
Nine Inch Nails pretty hate machine was released in December 1989 and is still one of my favorite 80's albums. Gotta disqualify Janie's got a gun if it was released in the 80's. Great song though