# Okay, I Know that's Not Really What the Song's About, But...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-know-thats-not-really-what-the-songs-about-but/595024 "2011-09-03T03:44:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-know-thats-not-really-what-the-songs-about-but/595024/21 "2011-09-05T05:11:27Z")

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To this day, I maintain that Far East Movement’s **Like A G6** is a tribute to the Pontiac G6. There is some internet rumor about it being about the Gulfstream G6, but since no such jet exists, that rumor is obvious internet fluff.

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**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-know-thats-not-really-what-the-songs-about-but/595024/22 "2011-09-05T06:31:55Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> To this day, I maintain that Far East Movement’s **Like A G6** is a tribute to the Pontiac G6. There is some internet rumor about it being about the Gulfstream G6, but since no such jet exists, that rumor is obvious internet fluff.

This is more of a misheard lyric thing with me and this song; I first heard it in a restaurant/bar and thought it was about “cheese sticks.”

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-know-thats-not-really-what-the-songs-about-but/595024/23 "2011-09-05T06:43:15Z")

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> [@Cuckoorex](#):
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> This is more of a misheard lyric thing with me and this song; I first heard it in a restaurant/bar and thought it was about “cheese sticks.”

Speaking of, I highly recommend [Roll a D6](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VJWHL2K3I)

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-know-thats-not-really-what-the-songs-about-but/595024/24 "2011-09-05T06:54:22Z")

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> [@AskNott](#):
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> _Rosie_, and _Cracklin’ Rosie_ are both about masturbation. Browne makes it more overt. I guess I read a different Diamond interview; he said the song was about getting drunk on cheap wine…

Yes, and I’d suggest that’s all the Neil Diamond song is about–getting drunk on cheap wine.

Hell, I remember my parents buying bottles of crackling rose wine (Mateus from Portugal is a great example) back in the late 60s/early 70s, and having it with dinner. My parents were not wine connoisseurs, and this was, to them, something fancy–it was imported, after all. And cheap; I don’t recall the price, but it couldn’t have been more than $3 a bottle.

“Crackling Rose, you’re a store-bought woman”? Yep, that about sums it up. You buy crackling rose at the store, and it (she) will get you loaded, cheaply.

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