Billy Idol: White Wedding Meaning

Song Released: 1982

White Wedding Lyrics

Hey little sister what have you done
Hey little sister who's the only one
Hey little sister who's your superman
Hey little sister who's the one you want
Hey little sister shot gun!

It's a nice day to start again
It's a nice day for a...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 18th 2017 !⃝

   Shotgun is when a girl hits you in the ass with silos while yanking your.rod..like a shotgun..you have to be in the know..like swinging hammer in Alabama in chili peppers song is about a boy in drag..

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2. anonymous

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   Nov 20th 2017 !⃝

   I thought it was about abortion.

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3. chrissieg

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   Oct 13th 2017 !⃝

   First like most I thought it was about his siter Then I thought it was about the girl he loved getting marrid to someone else but he was saying lest start again begging to leave the bloke at the alter for him
4. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2017 !⃝

   I think it could be about the rapture of the church age and his people are the bride at the wedding. Whos your super man is Jesus. When theres nothing left in this world, start again.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2017 !⃝

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6. anonymous

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   Aug 2nd 2017 !⃝

   The way I always interpreted it was that the girl (possibly his sister) was marrying a black guy and he didn't like it because he is a racist. He kept threatening the non-white guy by saying "nothing is safe in this world" and told the girl to marry a white guy stressing the words "WHITE wedding" multiple times during the song.
7. anonymous

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   Dec 23rd 2016 !⃝

   "Little sister, what have you done?"well she has become a witch. Now, number two, Little Sister" has become a Neo Nazi.

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8. anonymous

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   Dec 23rd 2016 !⃝

   My,my none of you get this song. Clueless! Perhaps it wasn't meant this way, either of the two interpretations, and this isn't MY take on the song. Number 1: Wicca uses this song as a new member becomes a witch...notice the witches digging a hole outside the church.Next,
   nails are pounded into the coffin to the beat of the song. Then, the wedding party from hell, then blood is drawn as he slides the ring on her finger.
   Number two is more Badass and who would want anything to do with white supremacy, not me, but they do claim this song. A "white wedding" yeah. "I've been away for so long" is *Hitler* talking. "It's a nice day to start again" means raising the spector of the Third Reich, again, AND everyone in the church raising their arms halfway to salute Hitler, *heil Hitler* didn't ANYONE catch that? and of course, destroying the church even though there are only white people in it... The bike, and the bike driving through the stained glass. Crystal clear.

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9. anonymous

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   Dec 23rd 2016 !⃝

   My my none of you get this song. Clueless! Perhaps it wasn't meant this way, either of the two interpretations, and this isn't MY take on the song. Number 1: Wicca uses this song as a new member becomes a witch...notice the witches digging a hole outside the church.Next,
   nails are pounded into the coffin to the beat of the song. Then, the wedding party from hell, then blood is drawn as he slides the ring on her finger.
   Number two is more Badass and who would want anything to do with white supremacy, not me, but they do claim this song. A "white wedding" yeah. "I've been away for so long" is *Hitler* talking. "It's a nice day to start again" means raising the spector of the Third Reich, again, AND everyone in the church raising their arms halfway to salute Hitler, *heil Hitler* didn't ANYONE catch that? and of course, destroying the church even though there are only white people in it... The bike, and the bike driving through the stained glass. Crystal clear.

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10. anonymous

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    May 23rd 2016 !⃝

    The song is about getting back to cocaine after a while :)
11. anonymous

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    Mar 25th 2016 !⃝

    Horrible for anyone to chose this as their wedding song and act it out.
12. anonymous

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    May 10th 2015 !⃝

    I believe that this song is about his sister as well. However I think that he is upset that his sister is marrying the bastard that knocked her up and he is a horrible man that beats etc. So then when Billy Idol asks his sister who her superman is, it is him who saves her from her husband who is hurting her therefore there is a double meaning for the use of shotgun in the song. So there is the shotgun wedding in the traditional sense and the shotgun of the brother coming to rescue her from her abusive husband. So when he is saying that its a nice day to start again, she doesn't have to worry about her "husband" anymore because Billy took care of him with a shotgun. Then he mentions that he has been gone for so long he has been in prison serving time for killing the husband and when he gets out his sister is back on the same path yet again.
13. anonymous

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    Dec 14th 2014 !⃝

    Drugs, sex, rock and roll-doesn't that say it all. Billy Idol wanted to be controversial, and he was. Some things never change--and being bad seems cool even more so today.

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14. anonymous

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    May 31st 2014 !⃝

    When you watch the video, you see then throughout the video making hail Hitler signs. I think because of that " White Wedding " is a reference to white people uniting, no matter what the propaganda might lead you to believe.

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15. anonymous

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    Nov 19th 2012 !⃝

    Haha you guys are disgusting. I love how corrupted all of you are. First thing you think of is incest. NO! Morons. It is about his little sister getting pregnant before getting married. Which was not as common as it is these days....It was looked down upon. Hence the remark of purity being gone.

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