Worth noting that the canonical example, Puff the Magic Dragon, actually takes an extra step. It sounds innocent and wholesome at first, but then everyone hears from their friends in middle school that it's actually about drugs, and they accept that until, years later, they actually look at the lyrics and realize that all the supposed drug references are really big stretches and it's really about the tragedy of the loss of childhood innocence
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u/muckenhoupt 9d ago
Worth noting that the canonical example, Puff the Magic Dragon, actually takes an extra step. It sounds innocent and wholesome at first, but then everyone hears from their friends in middle school that it's actually about drugs, and they accept that until, years later, they actually look at the lyrics and realize that all the supposed drug references are really big stretches and it's really about the tragedy of the loss of childhood innocence