Why is he singing this song to a child?
2006-11-06 02:48:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
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Soft cell Tainted love.
(please ignore the ladies at the bottom)
2006-11-06 03:10:43 · update #1
I have loved this song for many years,I have never seen the video until now.It has disturbed me.I need an explanation of why he is singing to a child?Is he a pervert?
2006-11-06 03:16:44 · update #2
This a really old song. I remember when it first came out.
Soft Cell did do a nice version of it though and took it to it's very dark side.
BTW: the writer Ed cobb was a fellow horse breeder and friend and aquaintance of mine for many years.
He never did say what it really meant...
2006-11-06 02:51:52 · answer #1 · answered by Kaustaub 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well I don't know about the Soft Cell video, but I don't think the song and the lyrics on their own should be taken as anything other than a dysfunctional adult relationship.
I take it the Soft Cell video made it out to be something involving someone young which I would agree is disturbing. There's a good reason never to watch MTV. Songs and other types of poetry are better left to the subjective interpretation of the listener/reader. That way everyone can find their own and preferably non-disturbing meaning in a song or poem.
(Crap, now I'm going to think about this whenever I hear that song from now on...)
FYI here's the song lyrics:
Tainted Love
Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
From the pain that you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night
(chorus)
Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted love
Tainted love
Now I know I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
You don't really want IT any more from me
To make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you'LL think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way
(chorus...)
Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm going to pack my things and go
Tainted love, tainted love (x2)
Touch me baby, tainted love (x2)
Tainted love (x3)
2006-11-06 08:47:51 · answer #2 · answered by Zee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not an original Soft Cell song. It was written by Ed Cobb, a member of the The Four Preps quartet. The first recording was sung by Gloria Jones in 1964. In 1981 the song was covered by Soft Cell und thus became a worldwide hit single.
2006-11-06 02:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by dwave 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi It was a "Northern Soul" Classic in the UK by Gloria Jones, it was covered by Marc Almond (Soft Cell) as he was a regular at Wigan Casino etc in those days... and then made into a gay version... the video was all about his fantasies and had deep homoerotic allusions....it is still inferior to Gloria Jones version check it out...
2006-11-06 04:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-15 10:47:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea (I have never seen the video?) but there are all kinds of people in this world and unfortunately, the music industry is often a safe harbor for each and all of them...
Hence the Nine Inch Nails video for "f**K you like an animal." What purpose did the child sucking her finger serve and it just so happened to be the producers daughter too! Disturbing to say the very least!
Most human beings don't understand what they themselves do or why. and often to justify this kind of thing, they feel the need to not only share it, but popularize it by mainstreaming it merging together music art and porn, through popular video channels, Those in the know do it and are deplorable, those who are stupid, join in and become desentisized to it. They do it and show this kind of thing to make it right by popular consensus... Knowing it is not.
Completely ignorant of the fact that the human mind is highly suceptable to images like these being flashed over a television or video screen and what is abnormal and weird or unacceptable, soon starts to become a rationally adjustable situation that your brain learns through desensitization and repitition to eventually think is not all that bad.
These images (especially to the male mind) are highly addictive and why entertain them or feel the need to share them? It is a perversion of innosence, music and video and I think it should be illegal to use the image of a child in any way that may seem suggestive or harmful.
Like I said though... I have not seen the video so I don't know exactly how bad it is, but I do know the song very well and don't think it would be an appropriate thing, to sing something like this to a child!
2006-11-06 03:04:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
I haven't seen the whole video, just clips of it. However, the song is about obsession. He is obsessed with a person who does not love him back.
2006-11-06 02:50:42 · answer #7 · answered by nmtgirl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can´t say about soft cell but the cover "Tainted Love" of Marilyn Manson....meaning...Crazzzzyyyyyyyy.....I like it!
2006-11-06 02:51:40 · answer #8 · answered by stephen149 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
in the video i remember it was a bloke in the video not a child, i thought marc almond was singing to him and that they were supposed to be gay?
2006-11-06 02:57:43 · answer #9 · answered by donna ellen 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very weird!!! I have no idea! Don't take it too seriously though, they were a band out to shock at the time.
2006-11-06 03:42:08 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋