You know that annoyingly upbeat/do-wop/poppish song “Rich Girl” by Down With Webster? If you don’t, you do now (sucker).
Well, it was playing on the radio today while I was driving to school; and since I was busy with traffic, I had to suffer through the song long enough to catch this… bizarre part
(bolding mine) WTF?! Did he just say what I think he said?
“…yeah, off…”
OK. I thought this was going to be about the Hall and Oates song. Shows my age, I guess.
This is a remarkable level of suggestiveness for pop lyrics?
I don’t think it holds a patch to “Afternoon Delight” or “really like your peaches, want to shake your tree.”
Pop songs have ALWAYS been about sex. Always.
Of course they have. Rock & Roll, from blues singers of the 40’s singing about “rockin’ and rollin’” as a euphemism for having sex. They couldn’t really call it “fuck music”.
After we figure this out, we can work on “If You Seek Amy” - I think there my be a sexual innuendo in that song but it’s too subtle for me.
That was* hilarious*!!
No kidding. And a group called “Down with Webster”? All I can think of is this.
I guess maybe we’re missing something, but listen to a Top 40 station and you’ll hear much worse than that.
Sadly (but true), I thought of a retarded kid holding a dictionary.
Not all songs can be as forward as Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills or Big Man With A Gun.
April Wine already did it.
Me too. I’ll save you a seat on the porch at the old folk’s home.
I don’t see why she shouldn’t rely on her old man’s money. And he’s got a lotta nerve calling her a bitch.
It seems that I’m just gonna come clean with the joke.
It appears that whole song is just about a rich girl who has money, who the singer really hates.
It’s not supposed to contain “secret sex lyrics,” as the band’s music seems to be pop/do-wopish; I just made that up.
The singer is trying to be cool by using slang that he clearly doesn’t know the meaning to (a la this Macdonald’s ad).
It’s just that I found it funny that he was **trying **to say that the girl’s father/friends keep giving her money, but what he **really **said is that they keep having intercourse with her.
When I heard that quoted part of the song, I was nearly on the floor cause I kept imagining this rich girl being gang-banged in the middle of the song’s narrative.
Clearly, he has no class. 
Me too. 
Also, daddy’s money is apparently “backing it up”.
This is what happens when white suburban boys listen to too much Ludacris and decide they want to be all rough n’ urban.
No, no - he says “it’s a bitch, girl”. There’s plenty of sexism to be found in their lyrics without looking for it (I, like most in this thread, am referring to H&O, having never heard this Down With Websters noise).
At about 2:18 while he’s ad-libbing at the end. I was maybe 10 and I was shocked! So shocked me and my girlfriends listen to it again and again just to make sure he said “rich, rich bitch”. Then we giggled and played it some more.
Holy Crap, we oldsters were right It is Hall & Oates’ Rich Girl. Sorta. Someone who can actually rap should have done it.
