It doesn’t work at all in my Southern one.
Amy’s hiding and they’re
going to find her.
Everybody wants to
Don’t you want to?
If you seek Amy…
Well, they can’t really fall in love, I suppose. But it grammatically makes sense. “All the boys and all the girls want to if you seek Amy” doesn’t make sense at all. It’s just nonsense.
How does Smooth Criminal not make sense?
And I had to explain to the debate team I coach (14-18 year olds) on an out of town trip why this song is not ok to sing loudly, particularly around adults who dictate whether or not I have a job. They really had no idea, as I’ve never seen such embarrassed kids in my entire life, but goodness.
Cut to the next time the kids were loudly singing “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga and I burst into hysterical giggles. I couldn’t tell them what that one is actually saying, so I just gave up.
Sort of, but it changes the intent. The original basically says that everyone wants to fuck Britney (because she’s so awesome, blahblah). Your changes mean others tell her what to do, making the song’s character/Britney more submissive and less awesome (since she’s doing what others tell her instead of saying everyone wants/wishes they could do her instead).
Agreed.
Not so sure about this “submissive” characterization. If everywhere you went, everyone was so attracted to you that they were saying to you “fuck me”, I don’t think you would be less awesome or submissive.
On the show they pushed it very close to the edge so it really did sound like “O vagina, O vagina” and only just enough like “over Chinatown” for plausible deniability. 
But do you pronounce it “VADJ-inner” where you come from or something?
Americans do pronounce the R in “over China”, we don’t. That, I think, is the problem.
This.
Still recovering from the slaying of the Bonnie Earl O’ Murray.
Genie say: Oh Wa Tah Nah Siam!
Colour me clueless, but I have no idea what that song’s about either.
I always thought it sounded like she was saying “Fuck her face” the second time she says “p p p poker face” in the. . chorus? I’m not a musical person. Anywho, it always sounded like she says “P p p poker face p p fuck her face”.
Finally, someone asked her about it and she was all smiles, saying she was happy only one radio station in the country decided to censor it (KIIS FM in LA bleeps it out).
Plus, I mean, “Poker face” sure sounds a lot like “poke her face”. And also, she has repeated sex references in the song “When it comes to love if it’s not rough it isn’t fun”. On and on. Oh, and I mean, there isn’t a single song on her album that isn’t full of sex references either, so it would just make sense.
No, I meant Smooth Criminal. I thought that’s what you were telling the kids off for.
I don’t know if I’d say Smooth Criminal makes sense, but it’s not gibberish. I was under the impression it was about some chick named Annie who had a prowler in her house.
I watch VH1’s Jump Start in the morning (they play videos) and they edit out the oddest bits from this song. The words “Russian” “gun” and “muffin” are bleeped out, but the part you mention are in there odd…
Not as bad as “Don’t Trust Me,” by…someone, where they bleep out part of the chorus, which plays like 5 times during the song.
Well, Russians bring Communism and if you love America, it should be bleeped, damnit!
Ok, but really, the muffin things makes sense: “I’m bluffin with my muffin”- she’s clearly talking about her cooch.
Right? Makes sense to me totally, actually.
So, a guy broke into her house. She tried to run from him, but he got her and hurt her.
Pretty much makes sense on its own.
They somehow got into the alley behind her house and it was very sad. Somebody’s dying (the mouth to mouth comment meaning people trying to be saved)- probably Annie. People are all amped up and somebody’s being intimidated, probably Annie.
I don’t get the confusion.
Well, if someone is recieving mouth-to-mouth, that oughtta be a pretty clear indication that they’re not okay… 
Right, but its a video, and they show her gyrating and doing crotch thrusts, so bleeping out that one word seems odd, since what they are showing on screen is pretty much worth 10,000 words.
I’ve always assumed Smooth Criminal was some sort of reference to those dolls you use in CPR class. A very odd thing to sing about to begin with, not to mention the whole morbid crime scene bit. Would one normally try mouth to mouth resuscitation on someone who had suffered blunt force trauma or been shot?
Oh dear, I’ll just shut up now. . .