Popular songs that are actually creep-y

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Good lord...

Creepy songs were hip in the 80s.

Imo, Gene Simmons deserves prison

Messy wrote:

Tim's always hilarious!

I removed the one from Falco, Jeanny. That was just too bad. They played that in the disco and I danced on it. Had no idea what it was about. He wanted the perspective of a rapist being chased by the police and his girlfriend was like: fun! and acted along in the video.

The list wouldn't be complete without a creepy Dutch one, very popular in the 80s from a very popular Dutch band with screaming young girls.



Belle Hélène
Doe Maar

So it's come to this
That you're lying here next to me
And in the twilight of the morning
I look at your face
You're the same but different
I haven't seen you for so long
You're suddenly no longer a child
But so beautiful and at least seventeen

[Chorus]
Oeh, belle Helene
Helene, ma belle
Oeh, belle Helene
Helene, ma belle

[Verse 2]
I don't know if it's good or bad
That I wanted to make love to you
And whatever anyone else may say
I liked it with you
The way you're sleeping next to me
I've never seen you like this
You suddenly don't seem like a child anymore
But so beautiful and at least seventeen

[Chorus]
Oeh, belle Helene
Helene, ma belle
Oeh, belle Helene
Helene, ma belle

Oh my goodness. After some Googling (btw the comments are still: what a nice song) I found this. First thought it was sarcasm, but no.

This is from a radio interview, in which Ernst talks about (Belle) Hélène:

ERNST ABOUT BELLE HELENE:

Belle Hélène, that's a beautiful story... That's about Hélène of course, and I met her for the first time somewhere in the Melkweg, I think. She had come with Johnny and she was seven years old. And we went back home in the bus, I was sitting in the front, and Johnny said: 'Here, take her for a moment' and put that seven-year-old girl on my lap in the bus. And she slept in my arms the whole way back. And somehow that was such an important feeling for me... That was in the period that I always felt a bit down and suddenly I felt, eh, important to someone, that someone had the confidence in me to sleep in my arms. And I think that's when we both fell a little bit in love with each other. She certainly did like me because she wanted to stay with us all the time, and I went to the movies with her and we did all sorts of things together.

But then there was a long time that I didn't see her again. Her parents had split up and her mother lived in Amsterdam and her father lived in Eindhoven, so every now and then you saw her again. Then I lost her for years again and at one point I hadn't seen her for five years or something. And I went somewhere in Eindhoven and suddenly she was standing there, stunned. And she was seventeen... Well, what a shock, suddenly having a woman like that in front of you, instead of...

But anyway, that's what the song is about.

This ’80s classic is as famous for its themes of longing and lust as it is for its incredibly cheesy music video which sees Richie playing a drama teacher (watch it, you won’t regret it). So why is it creepy? It’s actually about a teacher who harbours a crush on a blind student.

This is a popular one at weddings and it’s not exactly surprising, even the riff is sentimental-sounding. The thing is, the song is actually about a stalker. No, this isn’t just us reading into the lyrics too deeply, Sting has actually confirmed it as fact.

Jazzy wrote:

This ’80s classic is as famous for its themes of longing and lust as it is for its incredibly cheesy music video which sees Richie playing a drama teacher (watch it, you won’t regret it). So why is it creepy? It’s actually about a teacher who harbours a crush on a blind student.

Oh goodness. I never noticed.

You can leave your hat on is a pro woman song. He makes fun of the creep. I always liked Randy Newman. He isn't a creep.

Clocking in at nearly 12 minutes, Jim Morrison's epic "The End" is a bad trip that builds up to an insane, surprising end. The psychedelic rock epic has widely been interpreted as a goodbye to childhood innocence, and Morrison has said as much in interviews. It begins calmly, with the singer bidding adieu to his only friend, the end, before taking a lyrical tailspin into wilder verses, begging the listener to "ride the snake" and "ride the highway west." The final section is done as a spoken word narrative retelling the story of Oedipus, with the narrator telling his father that he wants to kill him and telling his mother he wants to have sex with her.

Oh and Kate Bush of course. That whole book was creepy. Didn't she go after a ghost? Tineke did it better.

Jazzy wrote:

Clocking in at nearly 12 minutes, Jim Morrison's epic "The End" is a bad trip that builds up to an insane, surprising end. The psychedelic rock epic has widely been interpreted as a goodbye to childhood innocence, and Morrison has said as much in interviews. It begins calmly, with the singer bidding adieu to his only friend, the end, before taking a lyrical tailspin into wilder verses, begging the listener to "ride the snake" and "ride the highway west." The final section is done as a spoken word narrative retelling the story of Oedipus, with the narrator telling his father that he wants to kill him and telling his mother he wants to have sex with her.

As much as I love The Doors, that song will never play on my radio.
Morrison was a sick man in many ways

He has a psychopath stare.

The Specials - Ghost Town

Just another Springsteen song about a boy and a car and a girl. Except this time the driver offering to whisk his gal away from her town full of losers is Charlie Starkweather, the real-life spree killer who rampaged through the American west for two months in the late Fifties in the company of his “pretty baby,” 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate. Bruce had given a voice to desperate souls before, but those were usually good people fallen on hard times. He’d never sung about tramps like these, and his drawl takes on an appropriately sociopathic chill, while his harmonica scrapes like a rusty weathervane atop an abandoned barn. When Charlie’s captors demand to know the reasons for his cruelty, we’re at the moment all horror movie fans recognize, where a psychotherapeutic explanation surfaces. Starkweather’s flat shrug of a rationale: “There’s just a meanness in this world.”

So gorgeous, yet absolutely creepy and unsettling. An absolute work of fine art.