Posted on 08/06/2022 6:00:29 AM PDT by C19fan
Lyndsey Parker Lyndsey Parker·Editor in Chief, Yahoo Music Fri, August 5, 2022 at 4:54 PM Robbie Grey of Modern English in 1983. (Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) Robbie Grey of Modern English in 1983. (Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) “The amount of times we get told people got married to our song, made love to that song for the first time… whatever, it's lovely. But literally the lyrics are about a couple making love as the atom bomb drops and sort of melting together,” Modern English frontman Robbie Grey says with a chuckle. “But that's quite good. I like the fact that it's got layers to it — that people can get what they want from it. … I like the fact that it's like a love song, but with a dark lyric.”
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there's always room for Jello.
Try “Party at Ground Zero” by Fishbone. Not vague at all, and rocks hard.
The writer said it was literally about dancing. "Pogoing" which was a fad back then.
But people read whatever they want to into songs. I wouldn't think of "I Melt With You" as any kind of protest song. It seems like it was mostly driven by the rhymes. It doesn't sound like it's about the end of the world.
You've seen the difference
And it's getting better all the time.
“Pogoing” - I remember that in the early 80’s.
Sometimes the guys would slam into each other.
It seemed to be the precursor to moshing.
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