Displaying 8 items of Lyrics To Go with the tag "manipulation".
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256 - Little Black Backpack
November 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
abuse, beating people up, little black backpack, manipulation, stroke 9
The guys listen to and discuss Stroke 9's minor hit Little Black Backpack. A song that slides down the slope of 90's anger and gets creepier and more controlling the longer it goes. More than likely the most frightening song about a fashion trend in a long while.
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169 - That'll Be The Day
March 18th, 2024 | 51 mins 26 secs
buddy holly, buddy holly and the crickets, manipulation, mind games, sexism, that'll be the day, the crickets, the day the music died
Seth and Marc unfurl the lyrics to The Crickets' (by the way of Buddy Holly) hit That'll Be The Day. Does it surprise us that this song is filled with a litany of different kinds of mental manipulation? No, not at all. Are we going to still cover it? Absolutely.
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155 - Want You Bad
December 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
clothesline, dominatrix, manipulation, the offspring, want you bad
Seth and Marc return to The Offspring to dip into their hit song Want You Bad. Have you ever found yourself in a relationship with someone who is too nice? So you write a song about how you wish they would completely change who they are, get tattoos, and start treating you bad? Me neither.
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130 - Inside Out
June 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
eve 6, gaslighting, inside out, manipulation, the heart in a blender song
The guys put Eve 6's biggest hit Inside Out in a blender and watch it spin around to a terrible oblivion. It's kind of hard to tell exactly what's going on here though the general meaning of the song is somehow understood... sort of like knowing carbon monoxide could be filling a room and that you can die of it but you can't see it.
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127 - I'm On Fire
May 29th, 2023 | 42 mins 42 secs
bruce springsteen, daddy, emotional blackmail, i'm on fire, little girl, manipulation, the boss
We know many people love The Boss.... including us! But you can't deny the strangeness and, yes, creepiness of his spooky hit I'm On Fire. This song hits you with the "little girl/daddy" and cleans up the place with some good emotional manipulation right at the end for good measure. And yodeling for desert!
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124 - Judy's Turn To Cry
May 8th, 2023 | 55 mins 14 secs
emotional blackmail, gaslighting, it's my party, johnny, judy, judy's turn to cry, leslie gore, manipulation
Seth and Marc go through the high school drama of Judy's Turn To Cry, the sequel to It's My Party. The biggest question going through these lyrics leaves us with is: Who would want to date any of these pieces of shit?
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104 - Figured You Out
December 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
chad kroeger, figured you out, gaslighting, kroeger, manipulation, misogyny, nickelback, yikes
Seth and Marc can't get enough shitting all over Nickelback. This time, it's their weird and questionable pro-bro-anthem Figured You Out which posits that even though the narrator loved all of these behaviors from the beginning, it's okay to suddenly change course and say he knows the "real" her and dump her while nothing changes. Classic.
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13 - Dance Hall Days
March 12th, 2021 | 36 mins 44 secs
american psycho, chung, creepy, dance, dancehalls, days, hall, manipulation, wang, wang chung
Marc and Seth dive deep into the mind of the Patrick Bateman-esque singer of Wang Hung (not Hung Chung.) Join them on their nostalgic trip down memory lane back when you could grab your lady by whatever you wanted to and try to manipulate her by using her "darkest fears" against her through the power of suggestion.