The Terrible Travis Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 My little brother has this frog toy where you press a button on it and it starts start dancing while playing "Shake It" by Metro Station. Because of that, I always thought it was just some cool dancing song. Earlier last year I looked it up on YouTube though and when I started to listen to the lyrics closer, I began to realize that this was not a dancing song... Link to post Share on other sites
Rhyme Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I also didn't know that U+Ur Hand by Pink was about masturbation. English isn't my first language, so I didn't even understand that it meant You + Your Hand Link to post Share on other sites
Rhyme Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 1 minute ago, Telecaster68 said: To be fair 'u + ur' is barely English... That's true, but it still cunfused me until a few years ago. I figured when she sang 'just you and your hand tonight', she meant making a puppet out of your hand or something Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 18 hours ago, Rhyme said: 18 hours ago, Telecaster68 said: To be fair 'u + ur' is barely English... That's true, but it still cunfused me until a few years ago. I figured when she sang 'just you and your hand tonight', she meant making a puppet out of your hand or something Texting laziness. Link to post Share on other sites
manny-senpai Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 On 2/10/2017 at 10:49 PM, Azrael said: Noooooooo. It was aBout the year. 69 isn't sex As much as I'd like to agree with you " When Adams appeared on The Early Show in 2008, he was asked about "Summer of '69" and its lyrical meaning. Adams said the song was about sex and making love in the summertime. "69" is a reference to the sexual position, 69." source Link to post Share on other sites
WobblyWallaby Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 On 1/24/2017 at 4:56 PM, Waist of Thyme said: That Counting Crows song about putting up a parking lot in paradise. "Don't care about spots on my eyeballs, leave me the birds and the bees." I didn't know what "the birds and the bees" meant until years after I heard that song. Now that I think about it, spots on eyeballs probably refers to STDs. That counting Crows song is a cover of a Joni Mitchell song...the original line is: Hey farmer farmer put away that D.D.T. now. Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, Please... I don't know why counting crows changed it but not sexual. At least I don't think Joni didn't meant it that way. Afternoon delight and Crimson and Clover are on a list of many. Link to post Share on other sites
Azrael Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 1 hour ago, WobblyWallaby said: That counting Crows song is a cover of a Joni Mitchell song...the original line is: Hey farmer farmer put away that D.D.T. now. Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, Please... I don't know why counting crows changed it but not sexual. At least I don't think Joni didn't meant it that way. Afternoon delight and Crimson and Clover are on a list of many. Bullshit! Crimson and Clover refer to Eulogy Jones' two slaves in Fallout3 *LOL* why is everyone ruining my songs Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 9 hours ago, WobblyWallaby said: That counting Crows song is a cover of a Joni Mitchell song...the original line is: Hey farmer farmer put away that D.D.T. now. Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, Please... I don't know why counting crows changed it but not sexual. At least I don't think Joni didn't meant it that way. Afternoon delight and Crimson and Clover are on a list of many. No Counting Crows did not change the lyrics. They https://www.google.com/search?q=counting+crows+big+yellow+taxi+lyrics&oq=counting+crows+bi&aqs=chrome.2.0j69i57j0l14.12803j0j4&sourceid=silk&ie=UTF-8 Link to post Share on other sites
WobblyWallaby Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 2 hours ago, fuzzipueo said: No Counting Crows did not change the lyrics. They https://www.google.com/search?q=counting+crows+big+yellow+taxi+lyrics&oq=counting+crows+bi&aqs=chrome.2.0j69i57j0l14.12803j0j4&sourceid=silk&ie=UTF-8 Well thank god...I had lost all respect for them. My baby does the Hanky Panky went from cute to disturbing for me fairly recently. Link to post Share on other sites
Dragonista Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I am dying inside reading just the first page of this thread. I used to run a dance club for kids- I always tried so hard to choose popular yet appropriate songs, but oh geez so many of my choices are here. Edge of Glory and Like a Prayer being two of them. Just re-listened to them now- WHAT must the parents have thought *facepalm* Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 On 2/26/2017 at 0:29 PM, tiggywinkle said: I am dying inside reading just the first page of this thread. I used to run a dance club for kids- I always tried so hard to choose popular yet appropriate songs, but oh geez so many of my choices are here. Edge of Glory and Like a Prayer being two of them. Just re-listened to them now- WHAT must the parents have thought *facepalm* I have the same problem (though not with a bunch of kids). Relistening to a lot of these songs, esp. the two you mention make the tips of my ears turn red in embarrassment ... LOL Link to post Share on other sites
Zile Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Ha! Basically every song about sex ever. I am super clueless about songs. I was in my late twenties before I understood what 'I touch myself' was about. It's sad, really. Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 I've been kind of wondering... does anyone try to reinterpret any songs? I know some of them are explicitly about sex, so it doesn't really work, but others you can maybe stretch the meanings a bit. Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 2 hours ago, RoseGoesToYale said: I've been kind of wondering... does anyone try to reinterpret any songs? I know some of them are explicitly about sex, so it doesn't really work, but others you can maybe stretch the meanings a bit. Well, for the longest time I thought Edge of Glory would have made a better theme song for the US Olympics Gymnastic team several years ago than that Phillip Phillips song they were using at the time ... Link to post Share on other sites
Araminta Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Disobey, by Kate Havnevik. I was sure it was about doing what you want with your life and not giving in to what society is expecting from you, and not about committing adultery. Link to post Share on other sites
Retronaut Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 I'm reading some of this thread and I'm somewhere between astounded and horrified, thinking Argh! Why did that song have to be about THAT?? We were having a conversation at work within the last year about "misheard lyrics" and we got onto the remix of Tori Amos "Professional Widow". One of us said they misheard the constantly repeated line "It's got to be big" as "He's got a big dick", and another said "Well let's face it, that's what she's getting at really isn't it?" My jaw hit the floor. I don't know what I'd thought she was getting at....but it sure as hell wasn't that. (Incidentally, my brother hears "Saturday pig".) Link to post Share on other sites
X86 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 On 2015-2-12 at 5:11 PM, Austerlitz said: It's amazing how things can go over your head when you're ace! Hahahahahah Link to post Share on other sites
X86 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Whistle by Flo Rida — it seems pretty obvious now, but I was twelve when that song was everywhere. Link to post Share on other sites
breakdown_mc Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Shut up and drive by Rihanna. Thought it was about literal driving. Also, Angry Jonny by Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
Kai99 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 7:04 PM, RoseGoesToYale said: I've been kind of wondering... does anyone try to reinterpret any songs? I know some of them are explicitly about sex, so it doesn't really work, but others you can maybe stretch the meanings a bit. All of the time! I thought this one song was about a father/daughter relationship, only till as the song progressed it became obvious they were talking about romance. I still prefer to imagine it as that way though. The song is Work Song by Hozier. And Shut Up and Drive is about sex! Well you learn something new everday. Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of AVEN Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 On 23/06/2015 at 0:41 AM, Frozen Fairy said: So I DID realise it was about sex quite quickly, but for those who don't know, in Katy Perry's 'Birthday', I'm affraid her 'big balloons' aren't actual balloons... Woah woah woah what? I mean I got how some of it was about sex, but I never thought about it like that. O_o I just realised what the big balloons are. Link to post Share on other sites
Tintinfan Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 there are too many to count.... I suppose one i will remember always is Independence day by David Byrne (yes its old). First line - Now and then I get horny, at night we do there are a surprising amount of David Byrne songs about sex....Pity, the tunes are amazing. on a different note- why can't songs just say in the title that they are about sex- It would save so much confusion. Or why can't there be less songs about romance - we are not all obsessed about it Link to post Share on other sites
Mychemicalqpr Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I was just thinking last night, does "I really really really really wanna zigazigaaah" in Wannabe mean...? Sometimes I can't tell if I'm onto something or if I'm thinking too much. Link to post Share on other sites
chair jockey Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Rightly or wrongly, popular musicians have been known for their very high libidos for a long time. Plus they are businesspeople and putting sex in songs makes more money than not putting sex in songs. And censorship in the past made innuendo far more common than it is today. My least favourite innuendo, from a 1980s disco song, is spoilered because of how severe it is: Spoiler The song "You Spin Me Round" says: "Open up your love cause look out here I come." Link to post Share on other sites
argar Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 A friend of mine had to explain to me that this song is about sex. I still don't really completely see it. Link to post Share on other sites
aeimquy159 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 December by Collective Soul has the lyric "Turn your head now, baby, just spit me out". Ever since it came out in 1995 I always thought that line was sexual. Chores: Don't scream about, don't think aloud Turn your head now, baby, just spit me out Don't worry about, don't speak of doubt Turn your head now, baby, just spit me out Link to post Share on other sites
Sean_Bird Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 "If You Seek Amy" by Britney Spears. I didn't get it until after wondering why someone else in the car was smiling and laughing the entire time it played on the radio. I loved that song until I realized what it was about. Also- I had no idea that "Stronger" was about sex. D: Link to post Share on other sites
X86 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 On 2017-3-26 at 2:13 PM, chair jockey said: Rightly or wrongly, popular musicians have been known for their very high libidos for a long time. Plus they are businesspeople and putting sex in songs makes more money than not putting sex in songs. And censorship in the past made innuendo far more common than it is today. My least favourite innuendo, from a 1980s disco song, is spoilered because of how severe it is: Hide contents The song "You Spin Me Round" says: "Open up your love cause look out here I come." Is that what that song is about!? Link to post Share on other sites
Chorvus Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 Wow. Reading what other people have posted as sex songs is really surprising to me... I didn't realize they were all about sex? Are they really? I'm a little skeptical. I also didn't realize "If You Seek Amy" by Britney Spears was a literal "iF yoU seeK aMY" (FUCK ME) until a few days ago. It still doesn't seem super... clever, I suppose? Still has a good beat. Link to post Share on other sites
<No longer active> Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 i dont have any song to add really... i basically assume every song is about sex unless i can prove it otherwise. I used to exclusively listen to the UK charts and the 'Now that's what i call music' discs, so like 95% of my childhhod songs are sex. it's sad, but that's the way the world is.... Hey BUUUTTTT, 'We don't have to take our clothes off' by Jermaine Stewart is a favourite of mine. Link to post Share on other sites
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