The music universe is one of the most creative that exists, but this means that many artists are pressured to live new experiences all the time. It is true that this can help the composition and creation of great stories that we will all later enjoy as a song. However, Other artists choose the route of imaginationto innovate with their mind and create narratives that, although they have not lived, they can imagine what they would be like.
I am interested in these stories almost more than those that come from lived events, I like when people put themselves to the test and take their creativity to the maximum. There are thousands of songs that tell us false stories, because the original composer has not experienced them in the first person, but the person reading it may have. And that’s fine.
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The whole world is full of invented stories, cinema, theater, literature… and music was no different. We are constantly trying to figure out if something is real or fictitious., but what does it matter? The important thing is to connect with the story.
Aitana – ‘With Honey On The Lips’
The second finalist of OperaciĂłn Triunfo 2017 has been a great example of evolution when composing. The young woman did not know how to create songs when she was at the Academy. She herself has confessed during her visit to the 2023 edition of the program that she learned to compose outside of it and that she got classes to train in it.
This is how he managed to compose one of the songs on his first studio album, With honey on the lips. A track he created while in a relationship with Miguel Bernardeaubut the single was about a breakup —and no, they weren’t in crisis at the time.
She herself confessed in several concerts that she composed the lyrics while He imagined what their breakup could be like.. “For me this song is very special because I wrote it for someone I love very much, and I put myself in the worst situation, which was that we were no longer together. So, of course, Imagine how painful it is for me to sing this song, putting myself in that place. (…) It is a very beautiful song or, at least, that’s how I feel,” said the Catalan in a concert in September 2022.
With honey on your lips It is one of the songs that has resonated most with the public throughout their career and they continue to ask for it at every concert. And no wonder, it is a very intimate song in which anyone can feel reflected.
The Fool’s Song – ‘Joseph’s Mother’
Another of the songs that we have been listening to all our lives and that tells us an invented story is Joseph’s mother from The Song of the Fool. A lyric that you have surely sung at the top of your lungs at karaoke with your friends, at a nightclub, at the parties in your town…
Well the same Dani Martin confessed a few years ago in The Anthill that the theme of the album Moods Published in 2003, it was not based on a true story. The singer stated that “It’s a bitch to tell this, but it’s not true. JosĂ© doesn’t exist either, I fit into the meter when writing the lyrics.”
Furthermore, what the singer added surprised some fans as he admitted that “it’s a stupid song, I admit it.”
Eminem – ‘Stan’
We could spend hours highlighting several of his works from Eminem’s long career in music, but in this case we are going to talk about his great Stan. One of the great hits of the 2000s. It should be noted that the word stan became so famous that in 2017 the word was included in the Oxford English Dictionary to refer to “an overly enthusiastic or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.”
Marshall Matters In the video clip he tells the story of how a fan who is obsessed with Eminem He ends up murdering his pregnant wife and himself after seeing that his idol did not answer the letters he wrote to him.
Eminem has accustomed his audience to recounting the events of his life in his songs, so many people wondered if at some point in his career he experienced this unpleasant experience. But no, it was not a real story that happened to the rapper.
“When I heard ‘your picture on my wall,’ I thought ‘Hey, this could be about someone who takes me too seriously.’ So I knew what I was going to write about before I wrote it. A lot of times when I write songs, vI have visions of everything I write. This was one of those.“, commented the artist about his famous song.
Taylor Swift – ‘Teenage Love Triangle’
Taylor Swift She is the queen when it comes to telling her private life in her songs. The composer is inspired by the love she feels, and, above all, by her lack of love to write the lyrics that will end up being the favorites on the playlists of many people around the world.
Although our Tay He prefers to speak from the feelings he experiences, Throughout his career he has had to invent stories that have not happened to her. It’s very difficult to have so many studio albums with stories that you have lived.
Among these stories, there is a great story that the young woman told in Folklore. In the album she released throughout 2020, the one from Pennsylvania told the story of a fleeting summer love linked to a love triangle, with which many followers felt identified.
Swift has acknowledged on several occasions that in her mind she created a love triangle that she called Teenage Love Triangle and intertwined the songs Cardigan, August and Betty. This story told in different themes stars three characters: Betty, James and Inez.
The love triangle begins when James cheats on Betty with Inez, a fleeting summer romance. Each song is intertwined, telling the three different perspectives of the characters.
‘Betty’
Betty begins with James explaining to Betty about his infidelity, in which he apologizes for the affair he had with Inez in the summer: “You heard the rumors from Inez, you can’t believe a word most people say.” times, but this time it was true, the worst thing I did was what I did to you.
‘Cardigan’
Cardigan, Betty shows James how much it hurt her that he cheated on her with Inez. She also tells him everything he lost by cheating on her: “I knew I would curse you for a long time, chasing shadows in the grocery line, I knew you would miss me once the excitement expired.”
‘August’
Lastly, in AugustInez relates that she did fall in love with James and how much it hurt her that their story was so fleeting and that her lover’s heart belonged to someone else: “But I can see us losing our memory, August slipped into a moment in the time because you were never mine, and I can see us twisted in the sheets, August sipped like a bottle of wine because you were never mine.”
And you, Do you know more songs with false stories?
