Talk about naivete: I never could figure how innocent Victorian ladies could hear: “and some day for my sake she may let me take the bloom from My Wild Irish Rose”! And its from 1899
Yesterday I was listening to the 70s tv music station. (Galaxie or whatever). When they say the 70s they mean all over it. Havin’my Baby, by Paul Anka. I knew it was bad, but I thought hokey…not… ugh!
I pro choice but listening to Paul Anka sing that abortion was
an option!!! :eek:
The video is chock full of humorous smutty jokes, like “Uncle Siggy’s Master Bingo”.
I thought the song was about eating candy in the middle of the day. Also, if anyone remembers The Jackson 5’s Got To Be There but I remember thinking how much Michael must love his girlfriend to wake up so early in the morning and rush over to her house just so he could be there when she woke up.
Seeing as how Michael was about 11 or 12 when he sang the song, I don’t know what else he could have been saying.
No, I was.
And that the Village People were gay and what YMCA and In The Navy were about.
I thought Candy was a guy.
Julie Newmar!
Anyway, in Seven Brides, you’re not supposed to be okay with kidnapping women. The best non-musical bit in that film is Millie going off on Adam, after the kidnapping. “You think a wife is just to cook and clean. You got no understandin’, you got no feelin’s! When I think of these poor girls sick with fright…and their families crazed with worry…oh, I can’t abide to LOOK atcha!”
They were awful to hear then too. I was 17 when that song came out in '68, we knew what he was really saying, and thought he was a creep.
Of course, just four years earlier I was (already) into the Stones, and as much as I loved “Little Red Rooster” I did kind of wonder why they would sing a song about a chicken.
Ahhh…thank you. 
I didn’t find out until a few years ago that Semi-Charmed Life was about doing crystal meth.
That’s because no one can understand what Stephan Jenkins is saying. Which is not necessarily a bad thing in light of T E B’s spectacularly inane lyrics.
One of our other favorite Irish songs was “Seven Drunken Nights,” which was popularized by th e Dubliners.
The kids in my family sang it without realizing what was really going on in the song. Every night, the narrator comes home too drunk to pick up on blatant clues that his wife is screwing another man while he’s at the pub.
I was going to say All She Wants Is.
Relevant to the time of year: Greg Lake’s “I Believe in Father Christmas” is NOT a pro-Christmas song.
:smack:
This land is your land confused me as a child. My aunt would play it on guitar. When I read the Grapes of Wrath as an adult I was like Now I get it.
Never understood Duran Duran’s “Union of the Snake”. Sill don’t.
Um, “union”? With a “snake” involved? That’s “on the climb”?
…It’s about the 20th Century growth and corruption of the Teamsters, right?
Welcome to the House of Fun has a chearfull boppy sound, and it’s been used for kids add’s (Fanta) and advertising to young women. (can’t find any examples)
I myself would have had no idea what it was about if I hadn’t had it explained to me.
Midnight At The Oasis is actually about sex! Who knew?
I just looked up the lyrics. I’m assuming they didn’t sing the final 2 or 3 verses?