8 Songs That Would Never Be Played In A Stadium Again If People Actually Listened To The Lyrics

"Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen

Ah, yes, the other majorly misinterpreted Springsteen song, which Glee recently butchered during its high school graduation episode (don't ask me how I know that). Judging by the title of the song and its honky-tonk sound, you'd think it'd be an appreciation of a time in your life when everything was perfect. Well, it kind of is, and it's really f*cking depressing.

The song's perspective is from a middle-aged man who's reminiscing about high school with the former-stud baseball player who now drinks his days away at a roadside bar, the former-knockout who's now divorced with two kids and can only stop crying when she thinks of her 18-year-old self, and other characters whose descriptions begin with "former." These are people whose lives turned to sh*t after they graduated high school, and all they have are their memories and their beer bellies. U-S-A! U-S-A!

"Blitzkrieg Bop" by the Ramones

The true meaning of the Ramones first (and best?) single is still undetermined, but we do know one thing about the track: "Blitzkrieg Bop is named after the Nazi World War II tactic "blitzkrieg," which translates to, "Blow everything the f*ck up." That's not to say "Bop," which was originally titled "Animal Hop," is a Nazi-sympathizing song; rather, the Ramones likely just enjoyed the way "blitzkrieg" and "bop" sounded together, and they never gave it another thought. But the next time you're at a football game and hear 40,000 people singing in unison to a song titled after a war tactic with the lyric, "Shoot 'em in the back," it's best to not think of Hitler.

"Enter Sandman" by Metallica

When I think of baseball, I think of nightmares and war and dragons burning your flesh and (originally) crib death and the creepy way James Hetfield whispers, "Hush little baby, don't say a word." Long before the lyrics to "Enter Sandman" were written, Kirk Hammett and Jason Newsted came up with the riff that a million pimple-faced teenagers have, like, totally wailed to. But Hetfield, who based the song on his own childhood growing up with an ultra-religious father and a mother who died when he was 16, was worried that it sounded too commercial, hence the frightening, dripping with blood lyrics. /draws "METALLICA RULES" on three-ring binder

"YMCA" by the Village People

To quote Village person David Hodo, a.k.a. the Construction Worker:

We had finished our third album Cruisin', and we needed one more song as a filler. Jacques wrote "Y.M.C.A." in about 20 minutes - the melody, the chorus, the outline. Then he gave it to Victor Willis and said, "Fill in the rest." I was a bit skeptical about some of our hits, but the minute I heard "Y.M.C.A.," I knew we had something special. Because it sounded like a commercial. And everyone likes commercials. "Y.M.C.A." certainly has a gay origin. That's what Jacques was thinking when he wrote it, because our first album was possibly the gayest album ever. I mean, look at us. We were a gay group. So was the song written to celebrate gay men at the YMCA? Yes. Absolutely. And gay people love it." (Via)

Haha, NASCAR types singing THE gay anthem.