He sings in that breathy voice about daughters becoming lovers and turning into mothers. If I ever have a daughter, I think I'd like to be notified if John Mayer moved into the area.
Uncle Kracker - Follow Me
"I'll be the one to tuck you in at night"
"You're better off if you don't ask why"
Not only does the song passive aggressively blame the woman's vague psychological symptoms for their relationship troubles, the whole feel is paternalistic and controlling. They're going to find a skeleton handcuffed to a pipe in Uncle Kracker's basement.
Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
The song itself isn't so disturbing as the fact that she paid four Japanese women to follow her around not saying anything, as her 'muses'. ...The same woman who wrote Just A Girl.
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Self-explanatory
Backstreet Boys - Any of their songs, sung while over 30.
That Clay Aiken song where he sings about if he were invisible. Visions of "Hollow Man"...
And I've always thought that "Sunday Morning" by the Velvets was a little unsettling. Because of how dark and unorthodox the subject matters of every other song on VU&N is, I always assumed there was some dark, hidden meaning to "Sunday Morning," and it creeped me out that I couldn't figure it out.
I always thought the song was very much -intentionally- creepy. It was #1 in the U.S. for eight weeks because people mistook it for a love song, but that doesn't mean Sting didn't know exactly what he was doing.
Hahha...this topic intrigues me. I actually have a word document file on my computer entitled "Songs That Are Actually Creepy." Even though it isn't a very long list, here's what I have:
Clay Aiken - "Invisible"
The Beatles - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
Chicago - "Make Me Smile"
The Police - "Every Breath You Take"
I love how Sonic Youth showed that the Carpenters' "Superstar" can be very creepy.
Here are some others:
James Blunt - "You're Beautiful"
The Doors - "Touch Me"
Michael Jackson - "Ben"
Speaking of Michael Jackson songs, that "I wanna love you, pretty young thing" line could be considered having a different meaning than it had at first.
