# Songs that make you say, "WTF?"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 29, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-say-wtf/398005 "2007-03-29T17:32:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-say-wtf/398005/101 "2007-04-05T04:00:21Z")

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[QUOTE=Zsofia]  
More recently, WTF?

_Somebody told me  
You had a boyfriend  
Who looked like a girlfriend  
I had in February of last year_

Is somebody transsexual? Is somebody related? The rest of the song doesn’t clarify in any way.  
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I always interpreted it as this: Boy likes girl. Girl is less than impressed with Boy. Somebody tells Boy that Girl is seeing someone else, but said boytoy is a loser who looks rather femme. Simple.

Personally, I find a huge number of Beatles songs to be WTF inducing. Some of them are just completely senseless (Octopus’ Garden? Lucy in the Sky? Yellow Submarine?), but one that completely threw me off when I first heard it was Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Boy calls girl and asks her out, boy comes by to pick her up…boy bludgeons her brains out with a silver hammer. _What_?

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-say-wtf/398005/102 "2007-04-05T04:02:09Z")

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