# Another thread overanalyzing pop songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [May 5, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406 "2021-05-05T03:26:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/41 "2021-05-11T18:13:32Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > Cher’s former lover is bisexual. Maybe. Or maybe Cher is a lesbian. (Which I guess makes Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman her beards.) She had an affair with a straight girl who’s gone back to men. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/42 "2021-05-11T18:22:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > > I thought everybody knew this? > > A previous time I posted it, I got pushback from the 'Dope. So not everyone, at least. I don’t think I’m pushing back on it but I do question it. Is there any support for this theory outside of the songs? Has McCartney said it’s true? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/43 "2021-05-11T18:57:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I don’t think I’m pushing back on it but I do question it. Is there any support for this theory outside of the songs? Has McCartney said it’s true? Fir me, it is my own theory. I’ve never heard any official comment on it. (If it happenes to be true, I still came up with it myself. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/44 "2021-05-11T19:55:27Z")
You’ll notice that I did not specify the gender of the ex. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/45 "2021-05-27T13:14:02Z")
Nilsson - “Coconut”. If the sister put the lime in the coconut and it gave her a bellyache, why would the doctor tell her to put the lime in the coconut to make her feel better? ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/46 "2021-05-28T17:39:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > > > Nothing to eat and no T.V. > > > > > > > Looking in the mirror don’t get it for me uh-huh > > > > It ain’t no big thing > > > > > > Lita’s so bored she’s got nothing to do but look at herself in the mirror, and it’s just not that entertaining. > > Sure, but pretty much everyone knows that staring at yourself in a mirror is boring. Unless you’re Rockwell and you feel like someone’s watching you. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406/47 "2021-05-28T17:46:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > > > I was accused of overthinking pop songs when I came up with this theory a few years ago - Ric Ocasek is Jessie and Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” is a prequel to The Cars’ “My Best Friend’s Girl”. > > Fun theory, but “Jessie’s Girl” was released in 1981 and “My Best Friend’s Girl” in 1977. Well, if we go with the theory that Carly Simon is the girl, anything can happen. One minute she won’t pick fresh flowers for him or wear cologne, then she’s saying quick come here and all over him again. And that was in 1980. Waters muddied enough for you? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-overanalyzing-pop-songs/941406.md?page=2)