If you find yourself drunk anywhere in Britain, start singing this song really loudly and you will make scores of new friends who also like to be drunk while singing loudly. Good times.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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I was curious, as I've heard the song countless times but never really paid much attention because I don't really like the killers.
So I searched for them.
It's funny reading the comments
That's not what the song is about lol
That's definitely what the song is about. Have you never heard the lyrics?
Have you?? It's about getting cheated on, he's clearly not on board with it lol
Cuckolding doesn't imply consent. In fact it pretty specifically implies that the man doesn't know it. The word has been in the English language for almost a thousand years, whereas the fetish is relatively new.
Fun fact: giving someone "bunny ears" by putting two fingers behind their head used to be referred to as "the horns of the cuckold", and it meant that you were saying that person's wife had been unfaithful.
He wrote "cucked" which is modern slang
So? The definition is the same.
You can look these things up before you comment.
Why on earth would I look up the original definition for a word when someone used the slang that derived from it and I already knew both definitions?
That's just turning the adjective into a verb. It's literally the same thing. This is a common practice in the English language. It doesn't change the meaning, only how it's used in a sentence. If someone "cucks" you, that's them doing the action that makes you a cuck(old).
4chan/Incel culture has co-opted "cuckolding" from a consensual kink to mean just plain old getting cheated on.
So you really think the fetish came first? Because the word predates the modern fetish usage by like 800 years.
It comes from the cuckoo bird, which engages in nest parasitism. It lays its eggs in another bird's nest to be raised by birds that aren't its parents.
Kink culture has co-opted it from plain old getting cheated on to a consensual kink.
My kink is watching people argue over the difference.
May I watch you watching them? Because that's my kink.
Sick fuck!
Ugh, another "literally". Fuck that, let's not validate incel nonsense.
....if you're not going to do anything about it, i.e. watch it happen, that's the definition of cuckoldry
Have you never heard the lyrics?
I have probably heard this song over 10k times, if I'm lucky. If you were alive in the UK in the 00s, there was no fucking escape.
I swear half of the rock genre is about getting cucked. Every 2000s rock group and was 4 middle aged dudes singing about their wife cheating on them
That just sounds like country music with a distortion pedal added in.
Isn't that Rockabilly?
Nah, Rockabilly at least has a tone of doing something, having agency (or drowning your sorrows in a drink, so there's the country angle).
tfw "being cheated on (consensually)" has somehow developed the same meaning as "being cheated on (nonconsensually)"
Don't make this another "literally", please.
Its all the same in my eyes