![Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova:]()
Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova: "It's about when you're young and you see people in groups and you think about what they did for you - and they did nothing. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. Bands like The Clash just petered out. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it do? Fuck all" - Noel Gallagher
![The Killers - 'Human':]()
The Killers - 'Human': "I didn't know the line 'Are we human or are we dancer' was going to be so controversial! I had seen a Hunter S. Thompson interview where he talks about America and says he fears that we're raising a generation of dancers. And I adapted that, basically. The verse is about the decline in our values and our morals, but everyone just picked up on the chorus" - Brandon Flowers
![Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games':]()
Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games': "I was writing about this guy I'd been seeing and the way our relationship was at the time. It was a time in my life when I had let go of my own personal career ambitions and just enjoyed being with him at home. He would come home from work and play video games. I would write and watch him. When I was writing that song, I was reflecting on the sweetness of it but also something else I was longing for at the same time" - Lana Del Rey
![Queen - 'The Show Must Go On': Written when Freddie Mercury was dying from AIDS, the song was released just six weeks before his death. Mercury's writing partner, Jim Hutton, said:]()
Queen - 'The Show Must Go On': Written when Freddie Mercury was dying from AIDS, the song was released just six weeks before his death. Mercury's writing partner, Jim Hutton, said: "To me, the most autobiographical line was: 'My make-up may be flaking but my smile still stays on.' That was true. No matter how ill Freddie felt, he never grumbled to anyone or sought sympathy of any kind. It was his battle, no one else's, and he always wore a brave face against the ever-increasing odds against him."
![Muse - 'New Born':]()
Muse - 'New Born': "It's about a semi-fear of the evolution of technology, and how in reality it's destroying all humanity. My fear is that we can't control it, because it's moving faster than we are, so the song's setting myself in a location in the future where the body is no longer important and everyone's plugged into a network" - Matt Bellamy
![Arctic Monkeys - 'Brianstorm': 'Brianstorm' was written about a man named Brian, who turned up in the band's dressing room after a gig in Osaka, Japan.]()
Arctic Monkeys - 'Brianstorm': 'Brianstorm' was written about a man named Brian, who turned up in the band's dressing room after a gig in Osaka, Japan. "When he left the room, we were a bit freaked out by his presence. So we did a brainstorm for what he was like, drew a little picture and wrote things about him. He definitely left a mark on us. He might have been a magician. He might even be here now. But if we ever find out who he was, it might spoilt it" - Alex Turner
![Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Burn The Witch':]()
Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Burn The Witch': "It's embarrassing to talk about something personal even if I sing about something personal. Not that everything was always shrouded in mystery before, but on Lullabies I felt a little persecuted because I fired my best friend and it was really hard and it wasn't about music. And I didn't say anything, thinking that people would respect that decision. But instead, I felt these social rocks hitting me. Instead of saying, "I feel persecuted," I wrote "Burn the Witch." I thought, "Well this is clear as day" and it's more interesting than writing "What the fuck is your problem?" But people didn't pick up on it." - Josh Homme
![Biffy Clyro - 'God & Satan':]()
Biffy Clyro - 'God & Satan': "I got married last year, so a lot of the lyrics are about me and my wife. The track questions what's there for us when we die. Everyone has lost someone close to them, and whenever that happens you do start to question your own existence, and you do start to think, 'Maybe there is no grand picture after all'. But while we're here, we might as well try and make people happy and make ourselves happy. It sounds defeatist but I'm almost happy that there is no happy ending. As far as I'm concerned your happy ending is happening right now" - Simon Neil
![David Bowie: 'Space Oddity':]()
David Bowie: 'Space Oddity': "In England, it was always presumed that it was written about the space landing, because it kind of came to prominence around the same time. But it actually wasn't. It was written because of going to see the film 2001, which I found amazing. I was out of my gourd anyway, I was very stoned when I went to see it, several times, and it was really a revelation to me. It was picked up by the British television and used as the background music for the landing itself. I'm sure they really weren't listening to the lyric at all. It wasn't a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon landing. Of course, I was overjoyed that they did."
![Foo Fighters - 'Stacked Actors':]()
Foo Fighters - 'Stacked Actors': "It's a response to living in Hollywood for about a year and a half, and my disdain and disgust of everything plastic and phony, which is the foundation of that city." - Dave Grohl
![Nirvana - 'Dumb':]()
Nirvana - 'Dumb': "That's just about people who're easily amused. People who not only aren't capable of progressing their intelligence, but are totally happy watching 10 hours of television and really enjoy it. I've met a lot of dumb people." - Kurt Cobain
![Beyonce - 'Bow Down':]()
Beyonce - 'Bow Down': "I woke up, I went into the studio, I had a chant in my head. It was aggressive. It was angry. It wasn't the Beyonce that wakes up every morning. It was the Beyonce that was angry. It was the Beyonce that felt the need to defend herself.
Anyone that says 'Oh that is disrespectful,' just imagine the person that hates you. Imagine the person that doesn't believe in you, and look in the mirror and say 'bow down, bitch,' and I guarantee you'll feel gangsta. So listen to that song from that point of view again if you didn't like it before!"
