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I'm trying to make a list but the whole of music is vast and multi faceted. So I ask: What are your the creepiest love songs that stick out to you?
For example: "Every Breath You Take" by the Police or "Invisible" by Clay Aiken.
"Black No. 1" by Type O Negative.
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"More than Words"
"Baby it's Cold Outside" aka the Christmas rape song.
*Looks up lyrics to suggested songs* Well, that was interesting. Definitely ones to consider.
Any other contenders?
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I must admit "Little Piece of Heaven" seems like like a psychopath break up song than a love song.
Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance
The possessive and obsessive love of a stalker.
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"Baby it's Cold Outside" aka the Christmas rape song.
I had an ex- who used to play an Ella (not this one) version a lot.
Tam Lin, how raping a girl makes her fall in love with you and want to save you from the Queen of Fairies in all sorts of unpleasant trials.
Never listened to the words closely enough on that one.
[Rocks out]
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Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where The Wild Roses Grow.
To be honest anything from Nick Caves Murder Ballads Album.
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Well, surprisingly, The Beatles have a couple. Run For Your Life, if that counts, and Norwegian Wood, made creepy by implication in the very last line.
I don't know what precisely you mean by "creepy love songs", but a LOT of Leonard Cohen songs might count - and generally, if you are looking for haunting, heartfelt music Cohen should be on your radar anyway. There are elements of obsessive, unhealthy love in First We Take Manhatten and Everybody Knows (though both songs could be interpreted to be about larger things than personal love).
And, on the geekier end of the Spectrum, kinda hard to go creepier than Hey There Cthulhu , though the whimsical end credit song of Portal comes close :)
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Anthrax wrote a Nice F*!*in Ballad that is sort of a love song?
There is also Possession by Sarah MacLachlan. My wife and I danced to that one at our wedding because the whole album was, in her words 'a soundtrack to sex' and she loved the song (I also introduced her to Heather Nova). Later, we found out it is based on letters from an obsessed stalker. We probably should have paid more attention to the lyrics rather than that sultry voice she sings them in.
Yeah, lots of her songs have some pretty dark undertones, but what an amazing voice she has.
Although cliche and overplayed I have to admit every breath you take deserves a mention.
Crap, I didn't notice that the original poster mentioned it, never-mind then.
I once heard a DJ remark that "#1 Crush" by Garbage (a.k.a. "I Would Die for You") is frightening.
And... I don't know if "Dear Future Husband" by Meghan Trainor qualifies as a love song, since it addresses some hypothetical future mate the singer probably hasn't met yet, but it does sound ominous.
But my favorite? Hmm... It's hard to beat Eminem's portrayal of his love-hate relationship with Kim. He did quite a few great songs on the subject, but it's hard to get more disturbing than "Kim." But if that doesn't qualify as a love song, I guess I'll settle for "Love You More."
Kate Bush's The Kick Inside?
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"Baby it's Cold Outside" aka the Christmas rape song.This is first song that came to mind after reading the OP.
"What's in this drink?"
Which was a typical thing people in the 40s used to say when they drank more than they meant to. Sorry, I get annoyed when people call this a rape song using modern interpretations of the lyrics. Sure, some hipster blogger on the internet isolated each line of the lyrics and told everyone it was about rape. It wasn't about rape in Neptune's Daughter, the movie in which it appeared. If this is about rape, then The Gay Divorcee is about Grace & Frankie.
Kate Bush's The Kick Inside?
Throw in Infant Kiss with that one.
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And... I don't know if "Dear Future Husband" by Meghan Trainor qualifies as a love song, since it addresses some hypothetical future mate the singer probably hasn't met yet, but it does sound ominous.
What's so creepy about a song that demands a man to be determined later worship her unconditionally and completely and she might repay him with sex?
Oh, wait...
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And I will submit as my personal favorite creepy love songs: anything by the Smiths.
And I will submit as my personal favorite creepy love songs: anything by the Smiths.
Surely Marvin the Paranoid Android's favourite band
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Baby It's cold Outside updated for 2016 lol
"Nice Girls" by Health. It's not much of a love song, but the lyrics are stalker-y as hell and ultra-foreboding. I love how thrashy the guitars are, too.
"Lovefool", by the Cardigans. YMMV about how creepy it is, but you have to agree that the extent she is obsessed with her ex is unhealthy.
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Weird Al has written a number of over-the-top stalker songs, one of the earliest and greatest of which is "Melanie."
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Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) written/performed by Stephen Colbert
Charlene II (I'm Over You) written by Stephen Colbert and performed by The Black Belles
While its status as a love song is debatable, the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" is straight-up creepy.
It's deliberate, but Kesha has a pretty funny example... "Hunt You Down"
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"I Think I'm Turning Japanese" by The Vapors was another. It's catchy as all get out but is about a guy masturbating to the picture of a woman.
