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Monday morning, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart’s band, Eurythmics, with their world-beating song. According to Ever-Reliable Wikipedia, Lennox claimed “The lyrics reflected the unhappy time after the break up of [their former band] The Tourists…’Sweet dreams are made of this’ is basically me saying: ‘Look at the state of us. How can it get worse? I was feeling very vulnerable. The song was an expression of how I felt: hopeless and nihilistic.’ Stewart however thought the lyrics too depressing, and added the ‘hold your head up, moving on’ line to make it more uplifting.
“Lennox also said that people had misinterpreted lines like ‘Some of them want to use you … some of them want to be abused’ to be about sex or S&M when that was not the intent.”
Thanks to YouTuber Adriano Celentano
In all fairness to people, the reason they think that part involves S&M is because, in that part of the official video, she’s smiling and holding a riding crop…
True. I suppose though that she would say that that was a metaphor for how she felt the rest of the world was treating her.
Oh, she’s a sweetheart. Her rendition of Under Pressure, with David Bowie, always brings a tear to my eye.