Results for “bigotry and disgust”

Songs

Say You Love Me

Rodney Crowell

A road-worn narrator, hungover and rattled by a bar-room bigot, turns to his partner and demands verbal reassurance rather than…

insecurity and reassurance aging and mortality bigotry and disgust

Short People

Randy Newman

Randy Newman puts on the voice of a bigot ranting about short people, using the absurdity of the target to expose how prejudice…

prejudice and bigotry satire of hatred's logic unreliable narration

Please Take

Wire

A blunt, almost domestic-scale confrontation song built around one sustained image of betrayal-as-stabbing, delivered with a…

betrayal complicity disgust with manipulation

Sickman

Alice in Chains

A first-person spiral through self-loathing and addiction, where the speaker names himself diseased and watches control slip…

addiction self-disgust loss of control

Love Like Anthrax

Gang of Four

Gang of Four turn a love song inside out, treating romantic feeling as a disease vector rather than an emotion. The track is…

anti-romanticism alienation self-disgust

Heart-Shaped Box

Nirvana

A grinding, image-drunk portrait of romantic dependency, framed as a body trapped inside someone else's body. Cobain piles up…

codependency and entrapment illness and the body sarcasm as self-defense

Naomi

Neutral Milk Hotel

A distorted, obsessive love song that swings between tenderness and revulsion, built around the fixation of a narrator who both…

obsessive desire idealization vs. disgust possession and control

Risingson

Massive Attack

Risingson is a woozy, disoriented plunge into club-night paranoia, narrated by someone half-seduced and half-repulsed by the…

nightlife excess and comedown identity dissolution paranoia and manipulation

Damaged Goods

Gang of Four

Gang of Four fuse the language of romantic breakup with the language of consumer transactions, treating a relationship like a…

commodification of relationships alienation desire vs. disgust

Run Like Hell

Pink Floyd

A pounding, paranoid rocker from the second half of The Wall, built almost entirely on a chanted command to flee. It stages the…

paranoia and surveillance fascism and mob violence guilt and self-disgust

You Need To Calm Down

Taylor Swift

A bright, bubblegum pop track that pivots halfway through from scolding online trolls to a broader plea for LGBTQ acceptance.…

online harassment LGBTQ solidarity celebrity feuds

Hateful

The Clash

A short, jittery song built as a call-and-response addiction narrative, where the speaker's supplier is addressed with the…

addiction and dependency self-deception isolation

Fascination Street

The Cure

A pulsing invitation to a night of self-destructive escape, dressed as seduction but shot through with dread and disgust. The…

compulsion and addiction toxic intimacy escapism

Mercury in Retrograde

Sturgill Simpson

A road-weary musician catalogs the exhausting fakeness of fame—hangers-on, journalists, and industry rituals—while using…

fame and its costs authenticity vs. performance exhaustion and disillusionment

Paranoid Android

Radiohead

A three-part suite that moves from claustrophobic paranoia to vindictive fantasy to a kind of exhausted, apocalyptic prayer.…

technological/social overload status anxiety and greed alienation and paranoia

Sheela-Na-Gig

PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey turns the offer of a woman's body into a confrontation, borrowing the name of a medieval carved figure to skewer male…

female sexuality and shame rejection and humiliation the body as spectacle

The Soft Parade

The Doors

An eight-and-a-half-minute suite that refuses to stay in one shape, moving from a mocking sermon about the failure of prayer…

failure of religious faith spiritual and sexual hunger consumer culture as spectacle

Sunshine

Alice in Chains

"Sunshine" is a fragmented, anxious meditation on contamination and unworthiness, built around a recurring parable of a man who…

self-loathing spiritual searching contamination/disease

Say No Go

De La Soul

De La Soul takes on the crack epidemic of the late 1980s not through gritty street reportage but through wordplay, sampling, and…

addiction and its generational cost complicity versus resistance community warning and moral instruction