I think by now it would be more appropriate to refer to Swift’s satire as “Britneyesque”, wouldn’t you say?
Fang? Fang? You know, it’s weird. Whenever Soupy would hold up a F, you see K.
What’s the “Huh”? “All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to F-U-C-K me.” In what way are those lyrics ‘nonsense’? “If U Seek Amy” = “F-U-C-K me.” It’s a simple substitution to (barely) mask the naughty thing actually being said. (Naughty Britney!) The fact that the literal lyrics don’t make sense is the point: the literal lyrics are not the actual lyrics. What she is apparently saying is not what she’s actually saying.
Seriously, you guys are helping me feel smarter about this. Even I get it to this degree.
The verses don’t make a lot of sense either, BTW, since they exist chiefly to support the conceit that a person named “Amy” exists (“Oh baby baby, have you seen Amy tonight? Is she in the bathroom, is she smoking up outside?”). But then we find out at the chorus there’s no Amy! The whole song is a way to say something naughty! That Britney – always the subtle one.
Makes you wonder what, exactly? I’m happy to respond to this but I don’t know what the hell is meant by it.
Beware: It’s actually quite the infectious little ditty.
Fitting, as the singer likely is as well.
I’m going to have to listen to it too, because I can’t figure out how If can sound like F, or Seek could possibly sound like C K.
The “seek” isn’t “C K.” The “seek Amy” is “C K me.” In other words “see” (without the final “k”) forms the “C,” and the “k,” along with the first syllable of “Amy” forms the “K.”
Seek doesn’t sound like CK. But seek Amy does sound exactly like CK me.
Shoulda known I’d be pipped. Damn, you guys are quick on the trigger finger!
*Leave Britney alone! *
Lordy, I love the Dope…
His point was that there’s no double meaning, because “…are begging you to if you seek Amy” doesn’t make any sense in context when it’s spelled that way. A little cleverness could have had it work both ways. But that costs extra.
Not that “see you in tea” makes any sense.
Actually similar efforts were around in 1982 and possibly before that.
When I was a kid, they had to use backwards masking to put the evil hidden messages in the pop music.
Now get off my lawn!
Ha! I see what you did there.
Yeah, exactly. The Cole Porter song, “Let’s Fall in Love,” is an actual double entendre, and not SUPER clever–but at least it works both ways. Birds do it, bees do it, etc. could mean they fall in love but really means they have sex.
It is official: some of you people really will argue about anything. Anything at all.
There are a LOT of songs that make no sense at all but are still popular. There was an era damned near full of be bop a loo and sha na na and stuff like that. Mony, Mony? Louis, Louis? That redneck Kid Rock had Bawitdaba. Iko, iko? Smooth Criminal?
The list is endless. Pop music is usually just catchy, not thought provoking.
But at least it has proper grammatical structure, if you assume “tea” is some sort of closed event.
Don’t you worry AminoLady, the junior Madonna has nothing to fear from me. She’s one in a long line of entertainers making a living on teenage lust, and she’s maybe the tenth or twelfth to sing that particular joke. It’s an honorable, honest living, and I don’t slag on her for playing the coquette as long as she can.
The senior Madonna, at 50, is still one of the highest paid entertainers in the world. Maybe Britney Spears can keep it going that long.
Asshole, asshole, a soldier went to war,
To piss, to piss, to pistols by his side,
Fuck you, fuck you, fo’ curiosity!