In my case I’ll say either Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad touch or Aqua’s Barbie Girl.
I mean… what the hell is “hanky panky”.
But for bonus points, I did also sing “take a walk on the wild side~” with no flying clue what “giving head” was supposed to be.
Barbie Girl is cool though
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
I was 5 when it came out.
Sweet Transvestite from RHPS lol. My mom played magenta for many years
My sister loved that movie as a kid.
Wild Thing by Tone Loc
“Tone, let me tell you one thing I need fifty dollars to make you holler, I get paid to do the wild thing”
My dad was very irresponsible and taught me “Blind Man’s Penis” when I was a kid. Cue the looks of horror on everyone’s faces when I sang it out loud… not that I was totally unaware of why!
I’m sorry for violating your criteria, but…
6th grade, gym class, we are all doing this new thing called “aerobics” and that hot new song on the radio is playing. The song with the chorus “My angel is a centerfold”.
Then again, that’s the year we had sex-ed, so we kids knew that adults sexually lusted after each other, so … 🤷
When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, the gym teacher would play Mambo # 5 all the time… a song about boinking a different woman every day of the week.
Oh god, unrelated but more cringe school song memories: Assembly before high school prom introduced the football team for some reason.
To… let the bodies hit the floor, followed by I Stand Alone, which does not make any fucking sense as football is a team sport.
Ugh.
That would be ‘Centrefold’ by J. Geils Band
My Dingaling by Chuck Berry
All the Linkin Park songs.
After he hung himself, it all makes sense.
Yeah that one was weird. Like the dude was always singing about being horrifically depressed, and then when he hung himself it was like surprised Pikachu face
In The End, Numb, Crawling, One Step Closer, Runaway, Place for My Head… motherfucker I hadn’t really thought to much about it before
When I was a kid I had a few albums of french singer Renaud who was a bit of an anarchist. So naturally the first CD I got next Christmas was a live album of his, which starts with a song called “where did I put my gun”. It’s uh… Maybe his most savage ever, with gems such as :
- “navy blue makes me want to puke, I hate work, justice and army”
- “military marches screw me up, and I’ll fuck your republic”
Good times…
Dance Ten, Looks Three from A Chorus Line.
I’ll let you look it up. My relatives thought it was hilarious.
It’s pretty straightforward but I had to look it up: https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-dance-ten-looks-three-by-audrey-landers/
It’s amusing to me that overview never mentions the rather catchy hook (which was cause to clutch pearls in the era).
The version I grew up with on Youtube. Later versions softened the delivery a bit, but… yeah.
Cum on Feel the Noize
When I was a kid, Strokin’ by Clarence Carter was a super popular wedding song (at least where I grew up) and it had a fun line dance so we all knew every word and had no idea what it was about.
Mezmerize was one of the first albums I ever owned around age 9. I knew almost every song by heart and would constantly sing along to them in the car. I have a vivid memory of singing this song in particular in the parking lot of the local mall when my dad finally decided to tell me what “cock” meant.
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I recall my friends and I singing some of these lyrics when we were 11-12 with zero idea that it’s blatantly about a hard dick. The radio channel that played it didn’t come in too well where I lived, so we didn’t know 99% of the song, only the melody.
For some reason I Don’t Like Mondays was popular with my parents when I was a kid and I remember singing it sometimes. Turns out it’s about an actual school shooting and not just disliking Mondays.
It did have a pretty catchy chorus.
Turns out it’s about an actual school shooting and not just disliking Mondays.
Back when a school shooting was actually something to write a song about.
Like “pump up kicks” though that’s more obvious.
I think “I want to shoot the whole school down” isn’t terribly subtle, but Pumped Up Kicks definitely spells it out for you.
