Some songs are sappy, and others are wild. And some noteworthy songs from years ago are just straight-up weird. Let’s take a look at four of the weirdest songs you may have never even heard before!
1. “Having My Baby” by Paul Anka
Alright, we know it’s romantic to write a song about the woman you love. But for some reason, referring to them as a baby-maker kind of kills the mood of the whole track. This 1974 song by Paul Anka feels less like a tribute to the mother of his kids and more of a song about his fetish.
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“The need inside you, I see it showin’ / Whoa, the seed inside ya, baby, do you feel it growin’?” Come on, now. It’s dastardly that this song is so catchy, because the lyrics are just straight-up weird.
2. “Two Sisters” by Clannad
“Two Sisters” by Clannad is actually a very good Irish tune. However, the subject matter of the original source material is a bit… strange. Dark, even.
“Twin Sisters” was popularized by Clannad in 1976, but the original song was an old Irish folk tune called “The Twa Sisters”. The original song is actually a murder ballad of sorts that follows the story of two young siblings. It’s not a kid’s tune by any means.
The song might have an upbeat melody, but the lyrics are about one of the sisters throwing the other into a river and watching her slowly drown. When the girl’s body floats to the shore, somebody makes a harp (or sometimes a fiddle, depending on the version) out of her dead body. When the instrument/dead body is played, it incriminates the other sister through song. Lovely!
3. “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred
If you were born before 1991, you definitely know this song. In fact, you might be surprised that this track is on a list of weirdest songs you’ve probably never heard. Everyone’s heard it, right? Wrong! The younger generation has been spared this song, but we think we should bring it back for nostalgia’s sake. This is one that you just need to listen to (and watch) to get just how delightfully odd it is.
4. “Summer Girls” by LFO
Who doesn’t love a good nonsensical song? This track by LFO is full of what sounds like utter nonsense. It’s certainly catchy and charted pretty well when it was released in 1999, but the lyrics are quite lacking in quality or sense.
At its core, it’s a love song about a girl that the narrator met in the summer. But lyrics like “Hip Hop, marmalade, spic and span / Met you one summer and it all began” are barely coherent.
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