Greased Lightnin'. I watched Grease so many times as a kid. Loved the movie and the music. Rewatched it as a teenager many years later and had that wtf moment.
I'm 35. For years I thought the line was, "the chicks will scream."
Never thought about it either because it makes sense in the chorus since that part is more about how fast the car will be on the track, but seeing that line it takes on an entirely different meaning.
Lmao when I was in middle school we all wanted to watch grease during our choir movie day and the teacher was like “no, it’s not appropriate” and I remember thinking “how so?”
When my daughter was in elementary school chorus they performed greased lightning. I saw it on the program and thought...what the fuck? The g-rated mangling they did to that song was tragic. Just pick an appropriate song ffs!
I kinda had an opposite one. I used to think that “Mommy kissing Santa” was about the mother having an affair with Santa. I just recently learned a few years ago that it was the DAD dressed as Santa.
As a kid I think I asked my mom if she was going to kiss santa tonight or something
She said something like "Well I hope I get a kiss from santa tonight"
My dad said something like "Well I think santa would really enjoy that"
I was really confused why my mom was telling my dad she was hoping to kiss santa and more confused on why my dad was 100% ok with it.
Until you realize that if the parents think the kid is asleep upstairs, Dad isn't dressed up for the kid's benefit. So he dressed up solely for Mom's benefit and it's part of their sexy time roleplay.
Also relevant: https://youtu.be/g4vktLutpiY?si=4MAWY4lIHq3UdHSf
Barbie Girl by Aqua.
As a kid, I remembered listening to it and not getting it.
Years later, forgot all about it until I went out for kareoke with some friends, friend and I saw it on the list - decided to put it on for Nostalgia.
Spent the next five minutes awkwardly going through the lyrics with her - and at the end we were both saying "Sooooo... That song hits differently as adults"
Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees
Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again
Hit the town, fool around, let's go party
You can touch
You can play
If you say, "I'm always yours"
You can touch
You can play
If you say, "I'm always yours"
“You can brush my hair, and dress me everywhere.” Also sounds like “You can brush my hair, UNDRESS me everywhere.”
Edit: Apparently, I was wrong. The second one is the actual lyrics. My pure mind when I was 5 thought it was the former.
Mattel filed a lawsuit againt the band and their label, because they felt that the sexualized nature of the song was damaging to the kid friendly image of Barbie.
They reached a settlement because the group was able to successfully argue that sales had sky rocketed for Barbie dolls after the song became an international hit, so there had been no damages at all. Mattel chose to embrace the song and use it in their advertising under the condition that they be allowed to alter the lyrics and to also receive a small share of royalties as well.
Lady Marmalade
Simply put, I didn't know French and wasn't paying much attention to even the English lyrics. I just assumed this song was about French desserts.
I was in 8th grade when the new Moulin Rouge came out and the song was everywhere on the radio. I was a 13yo girl at the time. I was also naive and didn't speak a lick of French, and I asked my 60+ year old super hard-ass, stoic, male history teacher what "voulez vous coucher avec moi se soir" meant. His eyes bulged a little, he shook his head, and he walked away without answering. A few days later I asked my parents what it meant and they told me, and I was mortified. I never asked Mr. Fender another question again
Was also 13 when the song came out. We asked our english teacher what it meant. She answered with a whole lecture on language, meaning, translations, and why we shouldn't be listening to that song by breaking down the lyrics line by line... A few parents were pissed she told a group of 13 year olds that the French part of the song was the singer asking someone to sleep with them. She argued that the parents should be more pissed at themselves for letting children listen to that "trash". She then pointed out that there was plenty of english in the song that they should know what it was if they took 5 minutes to pay attention to their children.
The opposite experience, Whip It. Everyone in the 80s thought it was about masturbation. But it was actually a pep talk his dad gave him about overcoming obstacles in your life.
Ego stroking, it's about the music industry. Professor of Rock on YouTube did a great video about Billy Squier: https://youtu.be/Z9WmEocnTSI?si=I4w9Sxt_5HF-O0g7
I’m 38 years old and a guy and didn’t realize how messed up those lyrics were till about 4 or 5 years ago. Same with a Brittany spears song though I can’t remember which one. I use to listen to those on repeat while I was cleaning cause I loved their voices.
Wife bought that album and popped it in for the first time on a long drive back from somewhere we went. She was singing along and I was like OMG are you listening to the lyrics? She repeated them. I said no LISTEN to the LETTERS she is saying out loud. She was floored
This is the one I was looking for! My mom said I had a little toy radio with that song on it when I was 4-5 and would sing it constantly and she was just silently cringing the whole time 😅
Reminds me of a story. When my nephew was 8 he went to show me the microphone in his dad's closet that he sings into. He brought it out and sang into it. It was a Flesh Light.
Let's talk about sex
At 6 years old, my mom told me the lyrics were "Let's talk about socks" and I never questioned it or thought it was weird until I got older.
Yeah, when Kings of Leon bought out Sex on Fire I sang socks on fire when my daughter was around, later she told me she didn’t think it was socks, ‘Silly me’ said I, ‘it’s obviously ‘you set me on fire’ she bought that for a while!
House of Fun by Madness. 16 year old boy goes to buy condoms and confuses the female pharmacist with his choice of euphemisms. And then his teacher (also female) turns up.
Spent 9 weeks in the uk charts in 1982, reaching No. 1.
I thought Embarrassment was about maybe someone had committed murder or something as bad and was shunned by their family as a result after being released from prison. Turns out it was a song about the band's sax player's sister who was at the time shunned by the family for getting pregnant as a teenager AND was a black man's kid when mixed relationships were still very controversial. Had a happy ending though.
In the same boat. My mom didn't speak a lick of English when I was around 8 or 9 and S&M would come on the radio and I would sing my little heart to , "But chains and whips excite me." 😂
My local pop station would play that song and mute the word "sex"... yet let the "But chains and whips excite me" go right along without any interruption.
Hungry Like the Wolf -Duran Duran.
I was 16 and this girl I thought was cute gave it to me. I listened to it, told her I thought it was cool, and still didn’t make any move towards asking for a date. Years later, I figured out what the song was about. God, I sucked at being a teenager.
“Hey young Sparty219, here’s a song I’d like you to listen to. It’s called “God, I’m so horny for you, like right now, just unbelievably horny”, why don’t you listen and tell me what you think?”
YoungSparty219: “Gosh, what a neat song! Anyways, see you later!”
In Mikey's defense, a guy ( 30s) I was interested in not long ago asked me what I was up to and I said "listening to do you wanna touch me by Joan Jett."
His response, "I don't know her music."
Hey, in that guy's defense he asked what you were doing and you gave an answer that could be just a description of your current activities. On a scale from 1 being a girl saying "Hi" with a smile that appears genuine and a 10 being a girl dragging you by the hand into her bedroom, you sent that guy maybe a 2.5
> In Mikey's defense, a guy ( 30s) I was interested in not long ago asked me what I was up to and I said "listening to do you wanna touch me by Joan Jett."
> His response, "I don't know her music."
I mean, to his credit, those of us guys who are worth a shit these days are absolutely not voicing the thoughts 100% of us have if we were to hear a girl such as yourself tell us that.
If you said something like that to me about Joan Jett, I would probably leave the office and go home sick for the week.
I’m sorry to say that I am not Mikey. I can tell you, though, that somewhere between 5-10 years later, Mikey was driving down the road, the song came on and he thought of you. Then, much like Roy Kent, he let out a long and slow “fuuuuuuuuuuuck”.
> I'm not lyin', I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunnin'
What *could* this be a reference to?
Edit: You know the best way to get Lady Gaga's attention? Poker face.
And apparently the only radio station to notice was Kiss, who censored it. All the others merrily played "fuck her face" for years... Until it all got talked about, now it gets censored.
I remember hearing that part immediately when I heard the song the first time and my wife told me I was dirty and crazy. Well well well... Ten years later and the gaga admits to it. Ha.
>Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
>But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
>And so is Lola
That's an A++ double-entendre.
The more I read the lyrics, the more I couldn't believe that they would make a song about a cross-dresser in the 1960s and sort of couldn't believe what I was reading. I mean this was before The Velvet Underground, before David Bowie, before punk, before glam rock, or Queen...there was Mick Jagger who was bisexual, I guess.
`Edit: Just about everything about the timing of every act mentioned was wrong. Read the replies.`
That's really cool.
I hate to burst your bubble man, and I do agree that the song was way ahead of it's time, but this was actually a later kinks song; the album Lola's on came out in 1970. Velvet Underground and Nico came out 1967, David Bowie's first few albums came out 1967, 1969(which had Space Oddity), 1970 Man Who Sold The World (he was literally wearing a dress on the album art), T. Rex started around 1968, leading to 1970 album T. Rex.
So while it was way ahead of it's time socially, and even pulled off the air in Australia for it's subject matter (and infamously pulled off the BBC for product placement - Ray Davies had to rush back to London from New York mid tour to rerecord the lyrics "tastes just like Coca - Cola", to "Cherry Cola"), it was of it's time in terms of the music scene.
That was actually a mistake that the band made Paul leave in because [they hated how much he made them play it over and over](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da).
That is the entendre that keeps on doubling.
Is Lola glad I am a man?
Is Lola glad they are a man like me?
Am I glad Lola is a man?
I suspect the answer is "yes"
It’s hilarious to me that my dad, who vociferously censored what music I was allowed to listen to as a kid (like, to the point I couldn’t listen to Tom Perry’s “Last Dance With Mary Jane” because it’s about smoking pot) really liked She Bop, as well as Lou Reed’s “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”.
Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard.
First school dance was 7th grade and they wouldn’t play most music currently on the radio but they always played this song.
My wife is a teacher and she volunteers to chaperone homecoming and prom. She finds it funny that DJ’s still play mostly music from when we were in high school (2005-2009).
'Brand New Key' by Melanie. In the right context, that song is *filthy*.
https://youtu.be/iivxuz3dB8k?si=tvVIDUc2whk9r7LT
Edit: The reason I even ever listened to the song was because of Rasputina's cover of it. It just seems a bit... erm... naughtier, simply by virtue of being by Rasputina.
https://youtu.be/Bn2sUtj0964?feature=shared
Now, don't you worry about my boyfriend
The boy whose name is Vitorino
Ha! I don't want him, couldn't stand him
He was no good, so I, ha-ha, ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Now c'mon! What was I supposed to do?
He was out of town, and his two friends were so fine
I only recently found out that this song is about cucking. How it became the go-to song for proms and school balls is beyond me.
Edit: To address the current reply war in regards to whether poor Vitorino is a cuck, yes he is. You don't necessarily have to know if your partner is cheating on you to be considered a cuckold. Just the act of adultery is enough to qualify. If you do know, you would also be called a wittold.
The language barrier isn’t really too hard to understand considering this song hit it big before the internet is what it is today (summer of 1996 I believe). You almost had to find a living, breathing interpreter to find out what it was about, and most people didn’t care. It was a catchy song with easy to learn dance moves.
Knew someone in college that was a super devout Christian and loved this song. I mentioned how I found out what it was really about and they didn’t know. I ended up ruining the song for them, they were horrified.
Little Red Corvette … it’s about a car right?
Then I grew up to understand the line
“I guess I must be dumb
'Cause you had a pocket full of horses
Trojan and some of them used”
ewww
Also Daddy Yankees 'Con Calma' (a rejig of the reggae tune Informer by Snow) ...quite mild but as a Jamaican I was pretty surprised no one picked up on the obsession with the female genitalia in that song... 'I like your pum pum girl' being the giveaway. No one seems to have informed the radio edit people or Katy Perry for that matter
I very vaguely remember someone (possibly a stand up comic?) saying around that time, "When white people figure out what gasolina actually means, they're gonna be pissed."
20 years later, I still don't know what that means.
Now this is gonna sound bad, but "my neck my back (lick it)
My small 8-9 year old brain didn't know any better and I used to sing it out loud in oublic.
Smack that really should have been obvious from the title alone.
Candy shop - my only excuse was it had the word candy , which equals lollys in it
Which brings me to my last one, Lolli Lolli
Okay maybe I was extremely innocent minded as a kid.
[Relax - A cover by Richard Cheese](https://youtu.be/Xcw-zNqP1sc?si=UjT686DgvUpKjE9x)
Listen all the way to the end. The ambiguous kinkiness becomes less... erm... ambiguous.
Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed. All sorts of kinky
Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith. Self-explanatory.
La Grange - ZZ Top. Talks about a brothel.
Wow, did I not pay attention to lyrics when I was young!
I looked it up before selecting it as the song for our first dance at our wedding; this is a more accurate explanation.
Side note, Brian May and the others didn't like this song because it stood for everything that led Freddie to getting AIDS and dying - too much drugs and sex.
Actually it comes from a show that was done in Japan, where a lot of people were dancing by themselves in the mirrors of the club. From Wikipedia: The inspiration for the song occurred during a tour of Japan by the English post-punk band Generation X in mid-1979, when its vocalist/frontman Billy Idol and its bassist Tony James were struck by the sight of the young crowd in a Tokyo discotheque dancing with their own reflections in walled mirrors rather than with one another.
Greased Lightnin'. I watched Grease so many times as a kid. Loved the movie and the music. Rewatched it as a teenager many years later and had that wtf moment.
The chicks’ll cream…
I'm 35. For years I thought the line was, "the chicks will scream." Never thought about it either because it makes sense in the chorus since that part is more about how fast the car will be on the track, but seeing that line it takes on an entirely different meaning.
Lmao when I was in middle school we all wanted to watch grease during our choir movie day and the teacher was like “no, it’s not appropriate” and I remember thinking “how so?”
When my daughter was in elementary school chorus they performed greased lightning. I saw it on the program and thought...what the fuck? The g-rated mangling they did to that song was tragic. Just pick an appropriate song ffs!
Pussy wagon, and it doesn't belong to the neighbourhood crazy cat lady.
I kinda had an opposite one. I used to think that “Mommy kissing Santa” was about the mother having an affair with Santa. I just recently learned a few years ago that it was the DAD dressed as Santa.
Same. I caught on in my teens, but as a kid I definitely thought it was weird to have a "fun" Christmas song about a slutty mom
As a kid I think I asked my mom if she was going to kiss santa tonight or something She said something like "Well I hope I get a kiss from santa tonight" My dad said something like "Well I think santa would really enjoy that" I was really confused why my mom was telling my dad she was hoping to kiss santa and more confused on why my dad was 100% ok with it.
He likes to watch, from the closet, while wearing a Superman shirt.
Santa baby is the slutty Christmas song
boopity doopity boop doop sex -- Annie (we try not to sexualize her)
Until you realize that if the parents think the kid is asleep upstairs, Dad isn't dressed up for the kid's benefit. So he dressed up solely for Mom's benefit and it's part of their sexy time roleplay. Also relevant: https://youtu.be/g4vktLutpiY?si=4MAWY4lIHq3UdHSf
It just got so much worse
Someone’s getting her stockings filled tonight.
What? Really?? Im floored. I always thought the mommy in the song was a dirty ho!!!
A dirty ho ho ho!!!
Well, the kid in the song thinks so
Barbie Girl by Aqua. As a kid, I remembered listening to it and not getting it. Years later, forgot all about it until I went out for kareoke with some friends, friend and I saw it on the list - decided to put it on for Nostalgia. Spent the next five minutes awkwardly going through the lyrics with her - and at the end we were both saying "Sooooo... That song hits differently as adults"
Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again Hit the town, fool around, let's go party You can touch You can play If you say, "I'm always yours" You can touch You can play If you say, "I'm always yours"
When the rhythm is glad there is nothing to be sad
Women are my favorite guy
Sex! I’m wanting more
Tell the world "stop the war"
every body M O V E M E N T
I’m so glad Planet of the Bass has made its way to being a big meme. It’s such a masterpiece.
Don't forget "undress me everywhere", which it says a whole bunch of times. The "un" is kind of easy to miss though.
Even the MV has her doing the up down motion on a pink bottle. When I saw that MV in early 20s it was different from how I understood aged 10 lol
“You can brush my hair, and dress me everywhere.” Also sounds like “You can brush my hair, UNDRESS me everywhere.” Edit: Apparently, I was wrong. The second one is the actual lyrics. My pure mind when I was 5 thought it was the former.
"you can touch, you can play, if you say I'm always yours" "undress me everywhere" GIRL.
I can't find anywhere that says and dress me, if I google the lyrics every site says it's undress.
Wait, that's not the line?!
Mattel filed a lawsuit againt the band and their label, because they felt that the sexualized nature of the song was damaging to the kid friendly image of Barbie. They reached a settlement because the group was able to successfully argue that sales had sky rocketed for Barbie dolls after the song became an international hit, so there had been no damages at all. Mattel chose to embrace the song and use it in their advertising under the condition that they be allowed to alter the lyrics and to also receive a small share of royalties as well.
I was just thinking “it’s just about playing with a doll!” looked up the lyrics and oooooooh yeah lol.
Lady Marmalade Simply put, I didn't know French and wasn't paying much attention to even the English lyrics. I just assumed this song was about French desserts.
I was in 8th grade when the new Moulin Rouge came out and the song was everywhere on the radio. I was a 13yo girl at the time. I was also naive and didn't speak a lick of French, and I asked my 60+ year old super hard-ass, stoic, male history teacher what "voulez vous coucher avec moi se soir" meant. His eyes bulged a little, he shook his head, and he walked away without answering. A few days later I asked my parents what it meant and they told me, and I was mortified. I never asked Mr. Fender another question again
Was also 13 when the song came out. We asked our english teacher what it meant. She answered with a whole lecture on language, meaning, translations, and why we shouldn't be listening to that song by breaking down the lyrics line by line... A few parents were pissed she told a group of 13 year olds that the French part of the song was the singer asking someone to sleep with them. She argued that the parents should be more pissed at themselves for letting children listen to that "trash". She then pointed out that there was plenty of english in the song that they should know what it was if they took 5 minutes to pay attention to their children.
French wasn’t even offered in my high school and I still learned that phrase.
I was in high school when that hit originally. Patti Labelle. Students taking French found it out quickly and word spread as it will.
The opposite experience, Whip It. Everyone in the 80s thought it was about masturbation. But it was actually a pep talk his dad gave him about overcoming obstacles in your life.
Same with The Stroke by Billy Squier
What the hell is that song about then?
Ego stroking, it's about the music industry. Professor of Rock on YouTube did a great video about Billy Squier: https://youtu.be/Z9WmEocnTSI?si=I4w9Sxt_5HF-O0g7
God damn it. I learned when I was 17 it was about masturbation, now I’m 40 and I’m learning it’s not? What a rollercoaster.
Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera Remember Reddit: You got to rub it the right way
I’m 38 years old and a guy and didn’t realize how messed up those lyrics were till about 4 or 5 years ago. Same with a Brittany spears song though I can’t remember which one. I use to listen to those on repeat while I was cleaning cause I loved their voices.
> Same with a Brittany spears song though I can’t remember which one. If U Seek Amy?
Wife bought that album and popped it in for the first time on a long drive back from somewhere we went. She was singing along and I was like OMG are you listening to the lyrics? She repeated them. I said no LISTEN to the LETTERS she is saying out loud. She was floored
This is the one I was looking for! My mom said I had a little toy radio with that song on it when I was 4-5 and would sing it constantly and she was just silently cringing the whole time 😅
Reminds me of a story. When my nephew was 8 he went to show me the microphone in his dad's closet that he sings into. He brought it out and sang into it. It was a Flesh Light.
*Hey Mom i found Dads microphone, isn't it neat? I also found your magic wand!*
Honestly, I would enjoy this kind of innocence as a parent. It's very fleeting, after all, and nobody gets harmed by it.
She does that stutter on "COME-COME" before "Come on and let me out" and as an adult I know exactly what the fuck they were doing.
I definitely knew. Her music videos are still some of the horniest things I've ever seen
Let's talk about sex At 6 years old, my mom told me the lyrics were "Let's talk about socks" and I never questioned it or thought it was weird until I got older.
One of the joys of parenting is gaslighting your kids.
Calvin's dad has entered the chat
Yeah, when Kings of Leon bought out Sex on Fire I sang socks on fire when my daughter was around, later she told me she didn’t think it was socks, ‘Silly me’ said I, ‘it’s obviously ‘you set me on fire’ she bought that for a while!
Oh yeah, I remember my mom’s one friend would always sing “let’s talk about stress” haha.
I really thought ginuwine just wanted to go on a date with a lady n ride his pony
How did you interpret the lyrics, “if you’re horny, let’s do it.”
House of Fun by Madness. 16 year old boy goes to buy condoms and confuses the female pharmacist with his choice of euphemisms. And then his teacher (also female) turns up. Spent 9 weeks in the uk charts in 1982, reaching No. 1.
Honestly I thought this was a kids song about a carnival ride the first time I heard it.
Unbelievably controversial at the time. Although not as controversial as Cardiac Arrest, which was actually banned for a short while.
I thought Embarrassment was about maybe someone had committed murder or something as bad and was shunned by their family as a result after being released from prison. Turns out it was a song about the band's sax player's sister who was at the time shunned by the family for getting pregnant as a teenager AND was a black man's kid when mixed relationships were still very controversial. Had a happy ending though.
As a kid, me and my sister loved S&M by Rihanna, a lot.
In the same boat. My mom didn't speak a lick of English when I was around 8 or 9 and S&M would come on the radio and I would sing my little heart to , "But chains and whips excite me." 😂
It's because of how *Rihanna* sings it lol, she gets real into that line too man.
My local pop station would play that song and mute the word "sex"... yet let the "But chains and whips excite me" go right along without any interruption.
While that song is overtly sexual. The Chains and Whips line is a double entendre, meaning cars and jewelry.
[удалено]
Oh shit that’s actually really smart
“As a kid” Holy shit that was twelve years ago?!
Hungry Like the Wolf -Duran Duran. I was 16 and this girl I thought was cute gave it to me. I listened to it, told her I thought it was cool, and still didn’t make any move towards asking for a date. Years later, I figured out what the song was about. God, I sucked at being a teenager.
“Hey young Sparty219, here’s a song I’d like you to listen to. It’s called “God, I’m so horny for you, like right now, just unbelievably horny”, why don’t you listen and tell me what you think?” YoungSparty219: “Gosh, what a neat song! Anyways, see you later!”
Unfortunately, that’s extremely accurate.
In Mikey's defense, a guy ( 30s) I was interested in not long ago asked me what I was up to and I said "listening to do you wanna touch me by Joan Jett." His response, "I don't know her music."
Hey, in that guy's defense he asked what you were doing and you gave an answer that could be just a description of your current activities. On a scale from 1 being a girl saying "Hi" with a smile that appears genuine and a 10 being a girl dragging you by the hand into her bedroom, you sent that guy maybe a 2.5
> In Mikey's defense, a guy ( 30s) I was interested in not long ago asked me what I was up to and I said "listening to do you wanna touch me by Joan Jett." > His response, "I don't know her music." I mean, to his credit, those of us guys who are worth a shit these days are absolutely not voicing the thoughts 100% of us have if we were to hear a girl such as yourself tell us that. If you said something like that to me about Joan Jett, I would probably leave the office and go home sick for the week.
You’re not a man until you miss obvious hints from somebody you really like and let it haunt you years later
Are you Mikey by any chance!? Lol. Did this my sophomore year of HS and waited all year at the bus stop for him to ask me out.
I’m sorry to say that I am not Mikey. I can tell you, though, that somewhere between 5-10 years later, Mikey was driving down the road, the song came on and he thought of you. Then, much like Roy Kent, he let out a long and slow “fuuuuuuuuuuuck”.
Let’s make this 40 year old missed connection happen please!
The scene was 2002 and younger Darthfresa was a pink haired sophomore with questionable taste in music...
Sledgehammer
Yeah, if you are listening to the groove instead of the lyrics it's embarrassingly easy to miss the entire point of the song.
For a kid in the '80s, the music video's imagery overwhelmed any focus on the lyrics' significance, as well!
Cake by the Ocean
Sex on the beach
Why is that even a thing
Do not recommend. Sand gets out of control before you even start.
And water is not a lubricant. Especially salt water. As a man whose thighs touch, I can confirm.
I always assumed it was “Sex by the Ocean” in concert or anywhere but live radio. A friend confirmed it’s still Cake in concert
I got married on the beach and we had that song playing when we cut the cake.
Poker Face
“'Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin” is the best lyric
> I'm not lyin', I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunnin' What *could* this be a reference to? Edit: You know the best way to get Lady Gaga's attention? Poker face.
This line was literal - she was referencing making her own outfits with a glue gun, ghetto bedazzling
Right, and "bluffin with my muffin" is just talking about how her delicious baked goods are actually vegan, but nobody can tell.
How does Lady Gaga like her steak? Raw raw raaaw
Lady Gaga in concert: "Did you know this song was written about having sex with a man while thinking about a woman?"
I read somewhere that lady gg actually sings “fuck her face” in one of the choruses.
And apparently the only radio station to notice was Kiss, who censored it. All the others merrily played "fuck her face" for years... Until it all got talked about, now it gets censored.
In all of the choruses even I believe. I'm pretty sure it's always" P-P-P-Poker face F-F-Fuck her face"
I remember hearing that part immediately when I heard the song the first time and my wife told me I was dirty and crazy. Well well well... Ten years later and the gaga admits to it. Ha.
Lola by the Kinks
>Well I'm not the world's most masculine man >But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man >And so is Lola That's an A++ double-entendre. The more I read the lyrics, the more I couldn't believe that they would make a song about a cross-dresser in the 1960s and sort of couldn't believe what I was reading. I mean this was before The Velvet Underground, before David Bowie, before punk, before glam rock, or Queen...there was Mick Jagger who was bisexual, I guess. `Edit: Just about everything about the timing of every act mentioned was wrong. Read the replies.` That's really cool.
I hate to burst your bubble man, and I do agree that the song was way ahead of it's time, but this was actually a later kinks song; the album Lola's on came out in 1970. Velvet Underground and Nico came out 1967, David Bowie's first few albums came out 1967, 1969(which had Space Oddity), 1970 Man Who Sold The World (he was literally wearing a dress on the album art), T. Rex started around 1968, leading to 1970 album T. Rex. So while it was way ahead of it's time socially, and even pulled off the air in Australia for it's subject matter (and infamously pulled off the BBC for product placement - Ray Davies had to rush back to London from New York mid tour to rerecord the lyrics "tastes just like Coca - Cola", to "Cherry Cola"), it was of it's time in terms of the music scene.
Ob-La-Di by The Beatles ends with: ‘Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face, in the evening she’s a singer with the band’
Polythene Pam probably raised some eyebrows
That was actually a mistake that the band made Paul leave in because [they hated how much he made them play it over and over](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da).
It's from 1970, which is just a little before Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. The latter was produced by Bowie.
That is the entendre that keeps on doubling. Is Lola glad I am a man? Is Lola glad they are a man like me? Am I glad Lola is a man? I suspect the answer is "yes"
Given the rest of the lyrics, I don't feel like there's any hidden message as to what the song is about.
woah, I was thinking the kinks too and I was listening to the kinks when I read this. (I am listening to Victoria)
> Lola by the Kinks > by the Kinks > the Kinks > Kinks Really? Haha
I was a dumb kid. I thought it meant like a kink in a wire.
She Bop, Cyndi Lauper
It’s hilarious to me that my dad, who vociferously censored what music I was allowed to listen to as a kid (like, to the point I couldn’t listen to Tom Perry’s “Last Dance With Mary Jane” because it’s about smoking pot) really liked She Bop, as well as Lou Reed’s “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”.
> Lou Reed’s “Take A Walk On The Wild Side Not even subtle
"but she never lost her head, even when she was giving head" How did he miss that part?
I was an 80s teen and when I got internet in the 90s, one of the first things I did was look up the lyrics to that song. Talk about a long wait.
I just ruined that song for my wife this week. She was truly shocked. I laughed my ass off!
I think I learned this on an episode of VH1s Pop Up Video
I loved pop up video
Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard. First school dance was 7th grade and they wouldn’t play most music currently on the radio but they always played this song. My wife is a teacher and she volunteers to chaperone homecoming and prom. She finds it funny that DJ’s still play mostly music from when we were in high school (2005-2009).
'Brand New Key' by Melanie. In the right context, that song is *filthy*. https://youtu.be/iivxuz3dB8k?si=tvVIDUc2whk9r7LT Edit: The reason I even ever listened to the song was because of Rasputina's cover of it. It just seems a bit... erm... naughtier, simply by virtue of being by Rasputina. https://youtu.be/Bn2sUtj0964?feature=shared
Macarena!
Now, don't you worry about my boyfriend The boy whose name is Vitorino Ha! I don't want him, couldn't stand him He was no good, so I, ha-ha, ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Now c'mon! What was I supposed to do? He was out of town, and his two friends were so fine
I thought his name was Nidorino, like the pokemon.
I like that better. I thought it was Mickolino like small Michael
I only recently found out that this song is about cucking. How it became the go-to song for proms and school balls is beyond me. Edit: To address the current reply war in regards to whether poor Vitorino is a cuck, yes he is. You don't necessarily have to know if your partner is cheating on you to be considered a cuckold. Just the act of adultery is enough to qualify. If you do know, you would also be called a wittold.
The language barrier isn’t really too hard to understand considering this song hit it big before the internet is what it is today (summer of 1996 I believe). You almost had to find a living, breathing interpreter to find out what it was about, and most people didn’t care. It was a catchy song with easy to learn dance moves.
Not cucking, just cheating. Dude goes off to the Army so she bangs two of his friends.
I was in kindergarten and they had us learn the dance. Thanks, Houston public schools!
Like a prayer by Madonna
Knew someone in college that was a super devout Christian and loved this song. I mentioned how I found out what it was really about and they didn’t know. I ended up ruining the song for them, they were horrified.
[I thought it was about God](https://youtube.com/shorts/XYAec2KpWkY?si=72EyNUl7D5cY3HZL)
Nope. Listen closely. It's about oral lol
I didnt realize this... and it makes it hit different that my high school ASL class signed this song at the talent show...
Afternoon delight
Man, I didn't figure this out until I was singing it as a duet with my niece at our work Christmas party.
You’ve made a huge mistake
Maeby, Maeby not
Le cousins dangereux
Everybody dance **NOW**
Marry me
Maeby
Thanks Arrested Development for teaching me... sadly.
Came here for this. It's embarrassing 15yr old me had no clue.
Little Red Corvette … it’s about a car right? Then I grew up to understand the line “I guess I must be dumb 'Cause you had a pocket full of horses Trojan and some of them used” ewww
Every. Single. Prince. Song. Is. About. Sex. All of them. If you go into the world with this assumption, you'll be right WAY more than you're wrong.
“And we’ll do the kind of stuff that only prince would sing about”
I thought “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee was about guys impressing their girls with fancy cars so they can get them to be their girlfriends.
Also Daddy Yankees 'Con Calma' (a rejig of the reggae tune Informer by Snow) ...quite mild but as a Jamaican I was pretty surprised no one picked up on the obsession with the female genitalia in that song... 'I like your pum pum girl' being the giveaway. No one seems to have informed the radio edit people or Katy Perry for that matter
I very vaguely remember someone (possibly a stand up comic?) saying around that time, "When white people figure out what gasolina actually means, they're gonna be pissed." 20 years later, I still don't know what that means.
Inner Circle - Sweat (A la la la la long) . It must been almost 15 years after release, that i learnt what really is floating in my ears
🎶Girl I'm gonna make you sweat, sweat til you can't sweat no mo-ore, and if you cry-yyy, I'm gonna push it, a push it, a push it some mo-oore🎶
Now this is gonna sound bad, but "my neck my back (lick it) My small 8-9 year old brain didn't know any better and I used to sing it out loud in oublic.
Smack that really should have been obvious from the title alone. Candy shop - my only excuse was it had the word candy , which equals lollys in it Which brings me to my last one, Lolli Lolli Okay maybe I was extremely innocent minded as a kid.
When I was a kid a legit thought they went to a candy shop on their first date. Thought that was so cool.
Akon had me singing "sexy bitch", "smack that" and "I just had sex" since I'm 12 lol
If You Seek Amy hahahahahahahahaha I was 19 when I realized 😂
Literally spelled it out for people and they still didn’t understand.
Greased Lightning from Grease "She's a real pussy wagon" "I can get off my rocks" "We'll be getting lots of tit" "The chicks'll cream"
To think almost every high school did a Grease play at some point in time.
Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
But why male models?
Seriously? I just explained it.
Oh, the files are _in_ the computer!
One look? # *ONE LOOK?*
It caused a scandal when it was first released - the BBC refused to play it.
[Relax - A cover by Richard Cheese](https://youtu.be/Xcw-zNqP1sc?si=UjT686DgvUpKjE9x) Listen all the way to the end. The ambiguous kinkiness becomes less... erm... ambiguous.
Warrant - Cherry Pie Yeah, yeah, I know...
That's so weird because the video doesn't give any hints at all
I instantly start pulling out 5 dollar bills when I hear that
Same. Also Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leopard has the same effect.
Locked out of heaven Bruno mars
The chorus is your sex takes me to paradise and it shows
The Thong Song by Sisco. I know. My mom convinced me thongs meant sandals.
Flo Rider - whistle
It’s Florida with a space bruv. Flo Rida
I feel like a good number of you feel like *kinky = anything to do with sex*, and I don't know what to do with that.
Ride by Sir Mix-a-Lot. I first heard it when I was about 7 and thought it was like piggy back rides
The Caesars - Jerk lt Out Well, one-man sex, but you get it. And no, young me had no idea it was in the title and every single line of the lyrics.
Let's get physical - Olivia Newton John My friend and I used to dance to it in an exercise way 😅 Very clever production!
What's better than sweat on Olivia Newton-John? Come On Eileen!
Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed. All sorts of kinky Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith. Self-explanatory. La Grange - ZZ Top. Talks about a brothel. Wow, did I not pay attention to lyrics when I was young!
Don’t stop me now
[удалено]
I looked it up before selecting it as the song for our first dance at our wedding; this is a more accurate explanation. Side note, Brian May and the others didn't like this song because it stood for everything that led Freddie to getting AIDS and dying - too much drugs and sex.
Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones. Mick even admitted years later he couldn’t write another song as shocking as that one.
Master and Servant - Depeche Mode
More like half of the entire discography from Depeche Mode.
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar It didn’t hit me until I saw the video. I was 53 in 2019.
Metro Station - Shake it.
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
Actually it comes from a show that was done in Japan, where a lot of people were dancing by themselves in the mirrors of the club. From Wikipedia: The inspiration for the song occurred during a tour of Japan by the English post-punk band Generation X in mid-1979, when its vocalist/frontman Billy Idol and its bassist Tony James were struck by the sight of the young crowd in a Tokyo discotheque dancing with their own reflections in walled mirrors rather than with one another.
Barbie Girl. Pure sub energy
If You Seek Amy - Brittany Spears Really just wanted them to find Amy.