Now I know three songs with pressure in it

and these three songs comes with different background stories and the word pressure is used in very

different meanings depending on from which time they're written. Don't you think that a word has

different meaning depending on in which time and space it is told?


Firstly came Under pressure(1981) by David Bowie and Queen/ Freddie Mercury,

and it became a hit  song in the 1980's.

It's about love and why can't we give ourselves one more chance and it's about

the whole world. During that time when Under pressure was written the Berlin Wall was still up as a

reminder of the 2nd world war,

I was in Berlin this May 2016 and and some of the wall is still there to this day(most of it was destroyed 9 sept 1989) to remind about that war and it is now there for tourists to take a look at and it seems harmless when it's just some broken wall but back in the day there was watchtowers and soldiers shooting those trespassing. And although that wall was there still people could go through, escaping from communist east to west.  

Freddie Mercury and David Bowie wrote the lyrics, improvised the song.


then I heard Pressure by Ylvis in 2012, (see that I'm ignoring the Vanilla Ice cover song?)

This is a rap with lyrics about put the right amount of pressure on it, 'cause you gotta know how to,

like you're in control, the funny lyrics turn into the meaning of the pressure of the weather, which fits

the Norweigan boys, talk about the weather is a daily business.

and today I heard No pressure with Ray Lamontagne, it seems to have been released this year ,

20 jan 2016.  The song is about how he doesn't want to see his loved one crying. It's rock n' roll and

that soothing voice of Ray. Anything you want to be you can be. It says not when it was written but

it's released like ten days after Bowies passing so I'm thinking about that.

And that is three songs about pressure that I've heard of. Cheers!