10 Famous Songs With Creepy Undertones You Totally Missed

2. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q A fun track, this one, with an interesting sound, catchy chorus and a bridge section designed for enthusiastic drunken blabbering. But creepily enough "Come On Eileen" is actually about coercive sex:
Come on Eileen, Oh, I swear what he means, At this moment you mean everything. You in that dress, My thoughts I confess, Verge on dirty, Oh, come on Eileen.
That's right, every time you shout the phrase "Come on Eileen!" you're joining in with the narrators attempt to peer pressure poor old Eileen who has "grown, so grown" in recent times to go to bed with poor old Johnny Ray, the guy mentioned in the first line of the song who voices his sadness over his stagnant sex-life on the radio. In moving listeners to such an extent that they all join in with the persuading, the whole world is trying to convince a single young girl to have sex with a desperate cry-baby? I'm pretty sure that's the dictionary definition of "creepy"! (Don't hold me to that.)
 
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