What song did you love until you found out what it was about?

https://lemmy.world/post/21739754

What song did you love until you found out what it was about? - Lemmy.World

Or maybe you still love it, but now you have a different perspective.

“All that she wants” by Ace of Base. I read a deep dive into the band and it seems like they may have been formed after a neo-nazi group and that song might be about Jews trying to dilute the bloodline… so yeah kinda weird now.
Ace of Base’s Secret Nazi Past

Before he founded Ace of Base, Ulf Ekberg was a neo-Nazi skinhead. Did Ekberg use Ace of Base's success as an opportunity to erase his neo-Nazi past and rise to a position of geopolitical influence?

VICE
Oh fuck, no way.

cracked.com/…/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazi…

That was my first exposure to the theory, I’ve never been able to confirm nor deny it conclusively, especially since cracked.com back in those times was only mostly satire. Like 99% of the pieces were satire, and then they’d publish something that wasn’t satire, and this could be a good example of that. Either way, I bought their CD way back when.

A Pop Band Tricked Americans Into Being Nazis

Do you remember Ace of Base? I should tell you something: Ace of Base was probably a bunch of Nazis.

Cracked.com

That seems completely serious and not satire at all. Since I never saw the videos, my assumption was that ‘wants another baby’ was wanting multiple partners as in ‘I love you baby’, not a literal baby. The six pointed stars and the cradle is pretty fucking clear.

Now I’m guessing that the Sign is a swastika.

Thanks for the link, I’m gonna go throw that album in the trash and feel like a jackass for not catching on earlier.