Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel - It's about the penis. A Natural Woman, Aretha Franklin - It's about a woman having an orgasm. Summer of 69, Bryan Adams - It's reminiscing about sex...see title. Gloria, Van Morrison - It's about a girl who comes over your house just to !@#% your brains out. Night Moves, Bob Seger - awkward first time sex. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin - It's about a woman who loses it and burns her house down. Pretzel Logic, Steely Dan - It's abut time travel. God Save the Queen, Sex Pistols - It's about pissing off ....... EVERYBODY!!! You're So Vain, Carly Simon - It's about everybody on this board.
Flobots - Handlebars You will get the meaning as the song goes on, starts out as a wtf kind of song but makes sense in the end. Lots of other better songs to choose obviously, but this is the one I could think of that has meaning in it, and chances are no one else will think of doing it in your class.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y2L2KyWi1Fk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Nas - "I Gave You Power". Not lots of meanings, but a cool song from the perspective of a gun.
This song has a lot of deep meaning and philosophical thoughts towards the middle/end verses: Spoiler <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MCBfVGHDCn0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I've got a ton of them, unfortunately, I don't have a ton of time nowdays so here are a few off the top of my head with brief explanations: Tupac--Shed So Many Tears -'Pac is dismayed over giving his life over to the darkside and asks God for forgiveness. That he "lost so many peers" and had "so many homies in cemetary" is a reference to how many people he knew that also gave their lives to the darkside. Jay-Z--D'Evils -In this song, Jay-Z discusses coming up in the drug game as an alternate meaning from his true intention of telling the world he sold out to the dark side ("da evils" i.e. devils), which is why he sampled Snoop Dogg's "Murda Was the Case" in which Snoop Dogg raps of how his life improved after selling out. It's also an explantion of how he is down for whatever cause the so-called Illuminati want him to do, which is the reason he sampled Prodigy's verse from the "I Shot Ya" Remix. Ne-Yo--Closer A subtle ode to Lucifer if you listen close enough (I don't have enough time to explain in detail right now but some phrases should really stick out). Maraiah Carey--My All Combined with the music video and it's symbolism, Maraiah, in a black nightgown, reminesces of her encounter with Lucifer (when she was in a white, "pure," towel) and longs to be with him again. Eminem--My Darling Eminem battles his sleeping pill addiction in one explanation while blatanatly and more obviously fighting his demons which he sold his soul to. Beyonce--Crazy in Love Beyonce is falling madly in love with a man in one explanation while alternatively is giving her life over to the darkside. Jay-Z literally lights the spark that damns the real Beyonce in a "car" as Sasha Fierce is born (and SHE said herself Sasha Fierce was born in this music video). Lupe Fiasco--Kick Push On a more tame subject, Lupe encourages people to keep grinding in life when people don't accept them while using the theme of skateboarding. Lupe Fiasco--The Cool (album) Lupe uses three characters to explain how the one has to play The Game through The Streets to achieve The Cool. Easily the deepest track on the C.D. is "Streets on Fire," a song about the ills of AIDS at first glance but in reality mental disease that inflicts all of society. Like I said, I really don't have time to explain all of that in deeper detail and I have even more examples, just limited time these days.
In all seriousness, I wrote a 10 page paper on Kanye West's Jesus Walks vs Lupe Fiasco's Muhammad Walks. Just find something you're interested in that has some substance and you can easily write a two page paper on it.
