The rock legend’s 1993 hit “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” has long been misunderstood. But before Meat Loaf died he explained his famous lyric.
was working on a reality competition show named after “I’d Do Anything for Love ,” his 1993 No. 1 hit that won him his one and only Grammy.— have remained one of rock’s great mysteries about what exactly “that” was which he wouldn’t do.
The ambiguous lyric “But I won’t do that” has been seemingly open to interpretation for years, but really it’s just been misunderstood.“It’s the line before every chorus,” revealed the “Bat Out of Hell” singer, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday.Like the video, the lyrics to the song were long shrouded in mystery.
But Meat Loaf admitted to Yahoo! that the lyric’s meaning isn’t crystal clear: “The problem lies because … you forget what the line was before you get to ‘I won’t do that.’ ” Still, the song remains one of the most memorable in Meat Loaf’s catalog. In fact, “I Would Do Anything for Love” was recently used in the trailer of the upcoming Hulu series “Pam and Tommy,” based on the torrid relationship of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.After Lorraine Crosby sings “Then you’ll see that it’s time to move on,” he sings “I won’t do that.” And after she sings “Sooner or later you’ll be screwing around,” he responds “I won’t do that.
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