Revealing the True Meanings Behind These Misunderstood Songs

Published on 07/06/2023
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Can’t Feel My Face

With The Weeknd, nothing is ever black and white. When you first hear the music, you might think it’s a love song, however the lyrical meaning is much different. The actual description of what happens when one consumes too much of a substance is “can’t feel my face.” As if this substance were a lady, the artist figuratively depicted his relationship with it. It’s more like a drug addict’s confessions.

Can’t Feel My Face

Can’t Feel My Face

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Who Let The Dogs Out?

This Calypso-lite music included a lovely (and later frustratingly omnipresent) call-and-response inquiry that never got answered, another song whose meaning was hidden by its party anthem vibes. After the song’s release in 2000, asking who let the dogs out became low-hanging comic fruit, which meant that most people were unaware that it was “a man-bashing song.” It’s a song about a good time being ruined by men catcalling and pestering women, according to songwriter Anslem Douglas in an interview with Rock Cellar Magazine.

Who Let The Dogs Out

Who Let The Dogs Out

 

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