Little Red Corvette. I know, I know.
My mom LOVED Prince, she went to his concert while pregnant with me ad would listen to his albums all the time.
At about 16 years old, I found myself listening to the song. “Moooooom!! How the HELL did you let me listen to this? YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PARENT!”
Her reply?
“Diosa, it took you SIXTEEN years to figure out the meaning behind the song. You’re fine.”
It’s not like you can whisper “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road.” Or hum it.
I can remember one time when I was younger hearing David Bowie singing “Suffragette City” & singing along while my dad was around. I chimed in on the “Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am” & got in BIG trouble…didn’t know what it meant at the time. 
I can also remember being mildly confused/curious listening to “Margaritaville”. I had NO idea why this guy kept looking for a shaker of salt. 
I will confess, however shamefully, that I didn’t figure out “She Bop” was about masturbation until I was a married woman in my late 20’s. I can only state that I was REALLY innocent until about 18 or so, and it wasn’t something I really put much thought into until I was reading an 80’s trivia website… :eek:
I’m imagining this coversation 20 years from now:
When Miss Elliot said:
I’d like to get to know ya, so I can show ya
Put the pussy on ya, like I told ya
thought she was talking about a real cat!
When I was 7 I thought “fuck” meant “pray”, so I thought they were talking about going to church when they sang I wanna fuck you like an animal, you bring me closer to God." in that song by Nine Inch Nails.
Damn am I old.
I always knew that “Driving my car” in the Beatles song was a metaphor for love, but it wasn’t till about a year ago that I realized how suggestive that metaphor can get (“but I’ve found a driver and that’s a start”,etc.) Then again maybe it’s just my sick mind.
You big silly! How could you not know something like that?
Honestly, I didn’t either. I still don’t. Help?
I literally almost came to blows with someone who loved the song “Like a Prayer” by Madonna and would not, under any circumstances, believe that it was about fellatio. I am a good friend.
I was in my twenties before I twigged to the double-entendre in that old novelty song about pooberty:
I’m old enough that as a kid I had roller-skates and bob-skates that required keys, too.
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock.
Number forty-seven said to number three:
“You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see.
I sure would be delighted with your company,
come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me.”
Say WHAT!!
Elton John’s Funeral For A Friend-
“Love lies bleeding in my hand” is the result of a formerly-male friends sex change operation.
That song is totally about a guy who drunkenly puts his tongue where the sun don’t shine, and becomes all obsessed about it. All of the action takes place “south of the border.” At the beginning he’s on the “front porch” smelling shrimp, and we all know what that means. In a margarita, the salt goes around the rim (like “rim-job”) and “shaker” refers to the money-maker, or ass. When he “blew out his flip-flop,” that’s a euphemism for the best orgasm he ever had. The pathos of the song comes from the fact that the girl was alarmed by the whole thing and dumped him, so no more rim-jobs for Mr. Buffett.
Okay, seriously, I think that Indyellen just used to think that “Margaritaville” was a real place.
OMG!!!
I never had ANY idea that’s what that song was about! I just thought it was about a guy who wanted to get drunk on margaritas but couldn’t find any salt for the glass!
This reminds me of a preacher I read about who used to find all sorts of horrible hidden meanings in songs. Talk about grasping at straws…
Did you hear that?
:eek:
I’m 22 and I’ve never thought of it that way. Same with “Drive my Car.”
There’s a great scene in Arrested Development in which the main character and his niece sing “Afternoon Delight” karokee style in front of his office only to be treated to weird looks from his staff. There’s also a great scene for the short-lived Freaks and Geeks in which two parents try to parse “Momma’s Gotta Squeezebox.”
I have an old tape recording of myself singing when I was about 6 or 7 years old. (My sister and I used to record stories and songs on tape for fun.) I labeled one of the songs “sennerfold.” I thought that word was so cool, but I had no idea what it meant.
Okay, Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do.
how is like a prayer about blowjobs?
I don’t get that, either. To me it always seemed as though she was just running with a few lines from West Side Story:
I never realized that! Nor did I ever realize that “Margaritaville” was about sex-I thought it was just about booze and hangovers.
When I was little, I LOVED Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and the Pointer Sisters, and I used to sing along to “I’m So Excited”, “She-Bop” and “Like a Virgin”, never even DREAMING the real meaning behind these tunes. Hell, until I was maybe, oh, nine or ten, the word “virgin” was linked to the Virgin Mary.
Okay, I let the first one slide with a vagueish “woosh,” but now I think it’s clear that I made the wrong call on the [size] tag for that last line. Let me have a do-over:
Okay, seriously, I think that Indyellen just used to think that “Margaritaville” was a real place.