I think Dee Snider is pretty cool, I just don’t want to LOOK like Dee Snider. You know?
And Pink looks scary, like a cross between Rainbow Bright and Marilyn Manson, with a little bit of Madonna’s lingerie period thrown in.
That would have been way too cool, wouldn’t it have… 
If this song comes on the radio, I do not change the channel. In fact, I turn it up. Yeah, you heard me.
And c’mon now, whores? Sluts? Do we even call people that anymore? I think Christina made some questionable aesthetic choices in that video, but Lord knows questionable aesthetic choices are sort of a trend with her. There are three women in the video who aren’t Christina, however, and even Christina is tolerable, since she isn’t doing that “fluttering hand as somatic component to my gratuitous arpeggios” thing.
Give me the hot beats, and I am a happy man. And Missy Elliott’s gonna give me the hot beats more times than not. You want to get angry with some people, get angry with Destiny’s Child. That is a cynical money-making machine, and my only consolation for knowing that Destiny’s Child exists is that they’re going to take two months too long to put out an album at some point, and no more TRL for them.
In sum: Lady Marmalade-hot beats. Destiny’s Child-pure evil. Hope I’ve cleared it up for everyone. 
That’s awesome! It actually means something. Who woulda thunk? This bit of information has truly enhanced my enjoyment of the song, if not my enjoyment of watching Chrisdeena Aguisnider vigorously shakin’ her booty bone in the video…
And I finally understand the meaning of a favorite song–
Sitting here, la la,
Waiting for my ya ya…
Thanks, FisherQueen!
I just this bore repetition at this juncture.
Cartooniverse
Don’t worry, I don’t think anyone here has ever let facts get in the way of a good joke!
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Now that you say it, I do remember this…euphemism.
A) Your interpretation makes a lot of sense
B) If anyone who ever sang this song could enunciate, I might have figured this out. My transcription was a pretty accurate version of what I was hearing.
C) Cool! Thanks for the info!
Now if only I could figure out which one of the women is which. (I’m so out of touch with popular music…)
There’s the black one with the long, fake reddish-pink hair (which is a strangly attractive look). I believe based on face-shape that she also affects a Marylin Monroe look later in the video and (if she’s the same woman) is far less attractive in the Marylin Monroe get-up than she is with the metallic red hair.
There’s the one who’s seen one too many showings of Cabaret and Rocky Horror. The one in the leather-bikini.
There’s the one with the bad-scary-exploding blonde hair who looks like the Joker in drag (but has a decent voice). Um…aren’t hookers supposed to be attractive? Eeeww.
Isn’t there a fourth one? I’m sure there is, but I can’t remember her…look. <checks> Ok, she doesn’t do much, but she’s got dark hair and is wearing something vaguely authentic-looking (for the Moulin-Rouge period). She wears the sort of teddy-like get-up that I always associate with Frank-n-furter in Rocky Horror, a pink tutu and feathers in her hair. She’s also the first dancer we see after the “Hey sistahs, soul sistahs” bit.
I know the woman at the end names them, but somehow I can’t hear/understand her over the music.
Fenris
A porno movie? Anyone hoping for a porno is going to be very disappointed after watching this video. Compared to beach wear, most the girls are fairly well covered and other than the lyrics, there’s not much that sexually provactive in the video.
I think Myra looked very nice actually and I really like her voice. She doesn’t feel the need to to go over the top on every single note like Christina. Actually I couldn’t watch Christine very long. Her hair frightened me so badly that I had to hide under the couch. I’m still here actually, just having finally dragged my keyboard under here with an over-ripe banana.
Well, I must go now. I do believe the dust bunnies are organizing against me. Let me know when it’s safe to come out.
No, no, NO! “Yaya” here refers to his grandma - it’s the Greek word ‘giagia’.
racks his brain for the cite um… Casey Kasem? I know I heard it somewhere, honest.
Besides, I like this explanation better.
Lil Kim.
Pink.
Christina Aguilera
Mya
Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot
Somehow missed this post: after some thought, I believe I’ve arrived at the answer: Christina was dressed like that because she understood that there was going to be a remake of Stephen King’s IT and she wanted to practice for the role of Pennywise.[sup]*[/sup]
Fenris
[sup]*[/sup]Pennywise, for those not in the know, was an evil clown.[sup]1[/sup]
[sup]1[/sup]Yes, I know there was more to Pennywise than that, but I don’t feel like explaining or putting in spoiler space.