I agree with both of you.
On the flip side of the drama, there’s also My Wife by The Who:
But it loses some of its impact because of the over the top humor in the song.
The Andrews Sisters also seem to have given little thought to the meaning of the lyrics.[4] According to Patty Andrews, “We had a recording date, and the song was brought to us the night before the recording date. We hardly really knew it, and when we went in we had some extra time and we just threw it in, and that was the miracle of it. It was actually a faked arrangement. There was no written background, so we just kind of faked it.”[5] In under ten minutes they made a record that sold seven million units and sat at number one on the Billboard magazine chart for seven weeks.[5][1] Maxine Andrews recalled, “The rhythm was what attracted the Andrews Sisters to ‘Rum and Coca-Cola’. We never thought of the lyric. The lyric was there, it was cute, but we didn’t think of what it meant; but at that time, nobody else would think of it either, because we weren’t as morally open as we are today and so, a lot of stuff—really, no excuses—just went over our heads.”
So, you mean** AFTER **they had a hit song, they were told of the suggestive nature and were aware **AFTERWARDS. **
Yes, exactly that. They were unaware in a late recording session with no time spent with the lyrics. Again, believe it or not, not my problem.
He doesn’t argue for a reason, he just argues.
I linked to the wikipedia article to prove my point, he goes and quotes the same article to disprove it. Whatevs.
One of my college roommates said that when she was a tween, she and her friends on a basketball team liked that song, “Pearl Necklace”, and that’s what they named the team, not having a clue what the song was really about. She later borrowed (ahem) a can of spray paint out of the garage and spray-painted that phrase on a retaining wall. Her dad drove by a couple days later and knew she had done it, because it was her handwriting and the paint was a very distinctive color. :smack:
In recent years, I saw a show on IIRC VH-1 about the old-time groupies, and Sweet Connie (whose day job was schoolteacher!) said, “I blew all the guys in Grand Funk except for Mark Farner, and he later became a Christian.”
Here’s the “sausage fest” 
video. Those ATVs look like disasters waiting to happen.
You were trying to prove that the singers of the hit were aware and intended the double meaning, and indeed they were not when they were recording it and performing it. So, they did not intend a double meaning.
I have no doubt that the song had a (not very) hidden meaning in it’s earlier incarnation. But the new lyrics and new performers had no such meaning. So the **hit song **Rum & Coca Cola, **as performed by the Andrews sisters, **the version we are talking about had no such hidden meaning.
You dont argue for a reason, you just argue.
The song writer (actually plagiarizer, but same difference) had the meaning firmly in mind. The fact that the singers missed that meaning at first is not really relevant. I’m done here.
does every song written by the sex pistols count?
The J. Geils’ Band “Centerfold.”
You were too shy to talk to her in high school and now that you’ve seen her as a centerfold, you think she’ll want to have sex with you. It doesn’t normally work that way dude.
Honestly, not that I can think of. Musically they may not be your cup of tea, but lyrically, I don’t find many (if any) of their songs in bad taste. (And how many of them were “hits,” anyway?)
Uh…he’s the frontman of a beloved rock band with a chart-topping song, I’m thinking the odds are in his favor.
Just like songs about murder, I don’t think of them as sung from the perspective of the lead singer of a band.
Filter - Hey man, Nice shot
I like the song…
No one’s brought up Into the Night by Benny Mardone?
The very first clearly sung words are: “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they said…” Ewww!
“I’d take you into the night, and show you a love like you’ve never seen before.” 
“Yeah, Mister Mardone. Because I’m a child!” :eek:
Worse yet, Jagger sang “thirteen years old” in the live version (on Get Yer Ya-yas Out), recorded in Nov. 1969).
D.O.A. by a band called “Bloodrock”.
Mentioned in post #113.
I did not know that. Thanks for the clarification.
Not if only US hits are considered. While it reached No. 2 in the UK, “God Save the Queen” gained only notoriety, not popularity, in the US. I remember it (along with the rest of the London Punk movement) being introduced to us Yanks by the NBC news magazine show, “Weekend”.