‘Always’ – Bon Jovi
Another power ballad classic on the list is Bon Jovi’s 1994 hit single “Always”. After churning out love hits like “I’ll Be There for You” and “Bed of Roses, Bon Jovi began to get a reputation as a romantic baladeers. However, if you listen closer to the lyrics, the song actually has much darker underpinnings. Jon Bon Jovi later explained, “It’s a sick little twisted lyric. So many people feel it’s so romantic and so wonderful, but truthfully, this guy is practically a stalker. He’s a sick human being.”
Always Bon Jovi
‘God Is Dead’ -Black Sabbath
In 2013, when Black Sabbath released the bands comeback album ’13’, it featured the track “God Is Dead?”, which was a huge hit, but sparked a backlash of controversy. While people philosophized the lyrics and tried to understand if the lead singer Ozzy Osbourne and his pals were rejecting God, simply athiests or questioning the relevance of God in today’s society, Ozzy cleared it all up for us. He said “I was in a doctor’s office and there was a magazine in there with that line on the cover. I thought, ‘Yeah — people flew planes into the World Trade Center because of God, there’s all this **** going on in the world in the name of God.'” Geezer added, “Ozzy gave me that line, and I wrote the lyrics. I wanted to call the song ‘American Jihad’. Ozzy continued, “I’m the guy at the front singing it; I would have had a **** army after me . . . In the early days [of BLACK SABBATH], there was a lot of backlash from religious groups . . . I was sent letters written in blood. In my house I must have 25 **** Bibles, each with a marked-up passage that [the sender] wanted me to read.”
God Is Dead Black Sabbath
