Doing a search came up with loads of misheard lyric threads, but what I want to talk about are the one or two lines in a song that just don’t make sense; lines that bug the crap out of you every time you hear them.
There’s a radio station here that plays recent songs, but also a few from the 90s. I frequently hear odd lyrics on my drive to and from work, but these two are the worst offenders:
R. Kelly’s Ignition Remix
Does he know what “playing the field” means with regards to seeing women? I wonder, 'cause if I’m trying to get a guy to play the field, it’s because I’m not that interested and would prefer that he goes off and sees other ladies.
I have no idea what that means. None at all. Is everything clear while she’s clothed, but it’s suddenly a mystery once she’s naked? A murder mystery with an old white lady?
Then there’s Neneh Cherry’s Buffalo Stance
What, exactly, is a buffalo stance? No clue. Not a one.
So what lyrics poke at you regularly? Oh and if you know what mine mean, feel free to explain.
I don’t know if we’re supposed to answer or not, but You’re so vain is about a particular person and the point is that you’d have to be obnoxiously vain to think it was about you, even if it was.
Like if I’m bitching about “Guy A” a guy would have to be pretty vain to assume it was him, even if it was.
I can find something to puzzle over in the lyrics of almost any song, so I guess I’ll just start with the song that’s stuck in my head right this moment: Paul Simon’s Loves Me Like a Rock.
You mean one of those cute litte Pet Rocks from the seventies? Maybe she was a geologist? A crackhead?
'The hell? You’re writing a song about a past event in which the music was that which you are now currently writing? Is this some sort of time warp thingy?
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Thespis:
Mercury: Here come your people
Thespis: People better now
I contend that not a single person in the world knows what that means. Lord knows many have tried to figure it out. All have failed.
I think the “Ignition” lyrics are purposefully absurdist. My favorite line from that song is “We got food everywhere/As if the party was catered.” If there’s food everywhere, than the party actually was catered! It’s not a simile!
Most of a Hollaback Girl. I guess the most confusing line is “This my shit/this my shit.” I don’t even bother wondering why she spells bananas, because that might be the funniest, dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in a song.
Absolutely. Carly has even revealed who she wrote the song about:
Carly’s participation in this year’s charity auction created an intense media buzz when she offered to reveal the identity of the person(s) she had in mind when she penned the song “You’re So Vain” to the highest bidder, but only after they agreed to abide by a confidentiality agreement.
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On August 4th, the gavel cracked at $50,000 for Carly’s “Dream Secret”. The winner (Dick Ebersol - an NBC executive) and nine of his friends will join Carly at her home in a few weeks, at which time she will sing You’re So Vain while her guests enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and vodka on the rocks. At midnight, Mr. Ebersol alone will learn Carly’s closely guarded secret.
Heard a Black Eyed Peas song on the radio, where I’m pretty sure one of the lyrics was something like “I’ll play Bobby, you play Whitney.” And it was song about how much he loved her. Um, of all the relationships in the world, that’d be one of the last I’d use to demonstrate my love.
“Hey baby, wanna be the Tina to my Ike?” is worse, but only by a little bit.
The way I read it, hundreds of people will listen to that song on the radio, but only one of them is vain enough to say, “Aha, I’ll bet it’s about me!” while the rest of us wonder, “What jerk did she write that about?”
Whatever tickles your fancy Girl
It’s me and you like Sid and Nancy
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Like, the song is her shit, not someone else’s, and she can roll how she wants to, in her own inimitable style. Now it’s her turn, pay attention, playah.
