Songs that are creepy/disturbing but are overlooked because they are catchy, etc

[Oniya]

'Shake it like a Polaroid picture'?  How did this thing come out after I graduated?  (Mind you, that bit isn't creepy or disturbing - just kinda weird.)

[AlizsahTheBard]

Witch Doctor by the Cartoons (Manipulating via Magic to get a girl to fall in love with you)

The Wizard by Madness - (Magical Manipulation again)

Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations (It sounds like an Incel National Anthem when you know lyrics...)

[Oniya]

Two from the Police:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

'I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day
And ask her if she'll marry me in some old fashioned way
But my silent fears have gripped me long before I reach the phone
Long before my tongue has tripped me
Must I always be alone?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svWINSRhQU0

'I will turn your flesh to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master
You'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger'

[RainyHigh]

When it came out, some of the people I worked with didn't really understand the blatant 'wrongness' (edit: I mean to say, just how effed up America is) of This is America by Childish Gambino. The video made it pretty obvious as well as the lyrics.  :-\

[Lux12]

Anyone ever stop to think about the lyrics to Plush by Stone Temple Pilots? I don't know if anyone else has already posted about it, but the lyrics sound pretty innocuous if relatively unremarkable at first (Which I don't say to knock STP as I do like them and that may be part of the point.) But then you hit the chorus...

And I feel, that time's a wasted go
So where you goin' to tomorrow?
And I see, that these are lies to come
Would you even care?

And I feel it
And I feel it

Where ya goin' to tomorrow?
Where ya goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel and I feel when the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

That last part of the chorus is where I began to realize there was something a bit more unnerving than a simple breakup song. I remember my friend pointing out that the chorus sounded as if it were about a murder. Sure enough, the lyrical imagery was inspired by a kidnapping and murder and Scott Weiland said that the imagery was really more of a metaphor for a "lost, obsessive relationship." I do believe Weiland meant for that obsessive part to be interpreted as being particularly unhealthy to put it lightly. It's not a particularly creepy sounding song, but it gets really unnerving if you pay attention to the lyrics.

[Oniya]

Anyone ever stop to think about the lyrics to Plush by Stone Temple Pilots? I don't know if anyone else has already posted about it, but the lyrics sound pretty innocuous if relatively unremarkable at first (Which I don't say to knock STP as I do like them and that may be part of the point.)

I don't think there's a single song that I've posted that I don't honestly like.  Of course, that's probably why I've paid enough attention to the lyrics to find the messed-up bits.  ;D

[RedRose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7o87WewTg8

[Lux12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZEjU0nZeo

Go-Getter Greg by Ludo

Admittedly, this song wasn't a megahit, but it was all over alternative rock radio or at least the local station during my senior year of high school. To put it bluntly, it's about one of those guys who just won't take no for an answer and while I don't think the listener was ever supposed to side with the character in the song, the band is trying to play what's frankly increasingly stalkerish behavior for laughs. Granted it's not he creepiest possible portrayal of this sort of thing and there's a few lines where it seems as if the band is trying to make this guy, the titular Greg look either annoying or just pathetic, but knowing how these things often go in real life...It's a lot less funny than they intended. I still don't know how to feel about this song. When I was 17/18 I rather liked it and kind of took at as a funny song about some annoying guy, but as I've gotten older and become more aware of how these things often end for the women on the receiving end....

[Azy]

I can't think of any songs off the top of my head right now, but it's interesting that someone is bringing the topic up.  Sometimes I'm listening to a song, and it has a nice catchy tune, but the lyrics are a bit creepy.  Oh, Animals by Maroon 5.  It didn't really sink in until I saw the music video. 

[Lyron]

Anyone ever stop to think about the lyrics to Plush by Stone Temple Pilots?

I actually didn't realize it before, lol. "Sex Type Thing" is another one. Granted, I misheard some of the lyrics, as I so often do, but it didn't occur to me that it was about rape until I finally looked up the lyrics sometime within the past few years.

[RedRose]

I never realized it was about gas chambers until I did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wag7cvR-vMo

Someone under the video says it's about passion, hmmm no

[Songbird]

It was only a little while ago that I realized how stalkery the song "Hello" by Adele sounds... :-X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be12BC5pQLE

It's too bad, because I love Adele and her music, but repeatedly calling someone when they clearly aren't interested is pretty stalkery. :-X

[Inari]

I'm surprised this one hasn't hit here yet...

Basically about being made into a prison bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8omHUHK4iXc

[RedRose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRdYUD-VyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0KYyGEBFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tGtZEFQccc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKaVr4G7Lc