Music you didn't understand as a kid by now regret understanding?

[MegaHiro91]

As a Danish kid listening to a lot of English pop songs I didn't understand the lyrics, and now that I do understand them I kinda wish I didn't. Anyone feel similarly?

 

[Ikagura]

Understand as in getting the lyrics?

 

[Iguana-0]

The Song Daddy by Korn? That's one i wish i regret understanding.

 

[MegaHiro91]

Understand as in getting the lyrics?

Either or. Understand the language or understanding what the lyrics mean.

 

[Graw]

Not really. I tend to look at vocals as another instrument and don't really pay attention to the meaning behind the words. Most song lyrics are pretty dumb anyway.

 

[Antilocal123]

I wish I never understood Hi-C’s lyrics, not because of anything complex I just wish I knew of them when I was a kid lmao

“I took his bitch nostrils and filled 'em with coke.”

 

[Ikagura]

Not really. I tend to look at vocals as another instrument and don't really pay attention to the meaning behind the words. Most song lyrics are pretty dumb anyway.

And sometimes singers make faux-deep lyrics or that people think of a deeper meaning when a song is about something simpler.

In a similar way I am not fan of provocative ones for shocking value.

 

[partymembervii]

almost literally everything by death cab for cutie. incel music through n through that i regret enjoying as a kid

 

[Vexicrypt]

As a kid I didnt understand Linkin Park lyrics but somehow connected with their music anyway, its like I felt the themes on some level beyond language, which is the power of music in general I guess. Hearing it now with much better English doesnt really take from my experience even though the lyrics are not as vague and mysterious as I thought they were.

 

[JDCP]

good old 90s gangsta rap, as a kid it's the coolest shit around, but once you grow up and you realize how stupid and moronic the themes conveyed in those songs are, and specially when they glorify it or threat themes like prostitution, they kinda lose the cool factor. That doesn't mean I stopped enjoying them, they just carry with themselves a feeling that they didn't have before and that I wished stayed more as a childish power fantasy instead of a crude reality hiding behind a luxurious criminal life of exploitance Any Mexicans here might feel the same with their oh-so-popular Cartel songs.

That said, I can't really remember as far back as the times on which I didn't understand english, as I've been speaking it almost since I have memories of foreign songs (Despite english not being my native language) so I never had any problems understanding the lyrics, still back then I didn't understand so distant an ''unamerican'' accents like Portishead, Sugar Cubes or Cibo Matto songs had, so even though I knew they were in english they carried big mysticism around them because I really couldn't get what the fuck they were singing about, a feeling which somehow hasn't gone away probably because of nostalgia.

I do kinda miss back when I thought Dio songs were satanic and evil

I feel like I've had the exact opposite thing happen to me more otften as I grew up, songs I never liked as a kid I've enjoyed them a lot as an adult. Tango and Balkan Brass come to my mind which somehow grew on me when I became a teen

EDIT: just remembered a song I used to listen a lot in my teen days, and while I still love to listen to it understanding it kinda makes me shiver: Coast is Clear by Curve read em lyrics:

Spoiler: lyrics

Above my bed, in this ugly room
Hangs the whisper of the same man
You can't be my father
For the love we've shown
It's just a little to me
It's never enough to swallow those pills
Now I'm sick, and always will be
Take it, I don't want it
You can have what you like
Just don't try to trick me to sleep

THAT'S FUCKED UP and I never got it when I was that young.