‘Drain You,’ Nirvana Album art from Nirvana’s album Nevermind | DGCĪnother codependency song, this track from Nirvana’s breakthrough record Nevermind describes a love relationship as a fetal bond in which the lovers feed off of each other’s bodily fluids. The ultimate conclusion that White is “proud to be you” is either a beautiful and romantic declaration or a horrifying vision of codependency and loss of self depending on your perspective.ĥ. This complicated song covers the highs and lows of romantic companionship in just three verses. “And it might sound a little strange for me to say to you / But I’m proud to be you,” he sings, even though some of the things his love object does are annoying. You know how they say people who’ve been together a really long time will even start to look alike and have similar physical mannerisms? This exploration of longtime love from The White Stripes takes that a step further and suggests that frontman Jack White’s love has literally turned him into his love object. ‘I’m Slowly Turning Into You,’ The White Stripes Meg White and Jack White of The White Stripes | Michael Buckner/Getty Images I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control,” Sting said in an interview with The Independent.Ĥ. I didn’t realise at the time how sinister it is. To this day, many people misinterpret the track as a romantic love song when really it’s about an omniscient Big Brother-type presence that’s always watching. This song is interesting because musically it takes the form of a typical pop love song, but lyrically Sting was thinking of things like surveillance, control, and the dystopian world presented in George Orwell’s 1984 when he was writing the song. The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” was a massive hit, spending eight weeks at the top of the Billboard charts, but the lyrics are undeniably creepy. ‘Every Breath You Take,’ The Police The Police in 1979 | Martyn Goddard/Evening Standard/Getty Images “Because I knew my father, of course I sang on it, but I wasn’t shocked by it at all.”ģ. “I don’t think I understood the provocation,” she said in an interview. Charlotte has since said that she doesn’t regret recording the track, though she acknowledges it was purposefully provocative. The video, which features Charlotte laying in bed in just a shirt and panties with Serge shirtless in jeans pushed buttons even further. The song caused a scandal, raising accusations that it glamorized incest and pedophilia, but it still became a hit in France anyway. Some of the lyrics Charlotte sings are a bit ambiguous about a sexual relationship between a father and his daughter, which isn’t helped by the fact that the pair singing the song have that relationship in real life.
Serge recorded this with Charlotte in 1984, when she was just 12 years old. This duet between father and daughter about an incestuous relationship was highly controversial for obvious reasons. ‘Lemon Incest,’ Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg French singer and film director Serge Gainsbourg in 1983 at a press conference | Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images But it’s still a creepy love song written from the eyes of a stalker.Ģ. The song was included on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time and is one of Blondie’s best-known songs. The narrator of the song is constantly watching but never seen, determined that “one way or another / I’m gonna find ya / I’m gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya.” The hit from Blondie’s third album and the record that made them huge Parallel Lines sees Harry taking on the perspective of an obsessed stalker who follows her love object on the bus and to the supermarket. ‘One Way or Another,’ Blondie Debbie Harry of Blondie | Hulton Archive/Getty Imagesīlondie frontwoman Debbie Harry wrote this song from the perspective of an ex-boyfriend who’d been stalking her, according to her biographer Cathy Che. These songs range from awful misfires to songs that are considered some of the greatest of all time.
Here’s a list of ten of the creepiest love songs ever.
Obsession, codependency, and paranoia can be aspects of love that when explored in a love song make the tune go from romantic to dark and creepy. But sometimes, either purposefully or accidentally, love songs can turn unsettling. Sometimes the best way to express your undying love and devotion to someone is through song.
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