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{{quote|''Now they're trying to come up with meanings for [[The Beatles (band)|Beatles]] songs. I never understood what any of them were about, myself...''
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▲{{quote|''Now they're trying to come up with meanings for [[The Beatles (band)|Beatles]] songs. I never understood what any of them were about, myself...''|'''[[Ringo Starr]]'''}}
Memories of that overzealous English teacher, who forced you to accept that every character, every scene and every action had a ''[[wikipedia:Allegory|deep inner meaning]]'' have led to widespread fear on the part of readers and viewers everywhere that every tale secretly contains some other story being told in [[Subtext]].
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** One could probably fill half the pages of the Literature section with Key's maunderings. This is the fellow, after all, who claimed that the word "sex" was embedded on Ritz crackers (by what method, he never quite explained) and in just about every single advertisement you ever heard of. He had a particular hate-on for liquor and tobacco advertisements, seeming to think that subliminal inserts in those ads were almost singlehandedly responsible for alcohol and tobacco addiction.
* Freddie Mercury insisted unto his death that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had not only no hidden meaning, but no meaning at all. Due to this, [[Freud Was Right|most theories revolve around his bisexuality]], which he ''also'' denied ([[Ambiguously Gay|well, refused to confirm]]) until his death. To be fair, though, the song definitely ''sounds'' like it might have some meaning deeper than "Mom, I just shot a guy and the police are after me, help..."
** Quoth the man himself, in what should be the motto of
{{quote|Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. Fuck them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there.}}
* [[The Beatles]] get this a ''lot'':
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