What song you can't believe you were singing as a kid and nobody stopped you?

massive_bereavement@fedia.io to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 56 points –

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.

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My stepson was always singing I Will Survive. Mentioned that was sorta the gay anthem. He was horrified. So he started singing YMCA instead.

Call me crazy, but him being horrified by that sounds like bad parenting...

Back when I took singing lessons my teacher (who mostly taught kids but I was an adult learner) shared that she often had to veto the songs kids wanted to sing. One in particular that stuck with me was a less than 10 year old who wanted to sing Lady Gaga’s Love Game. Which has the lyric “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick” among other very adult lyrics.

Those lyrics are more spoken than sung, so for music lessons, that makes sense.

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.

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.

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.

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

OPP. - Naughty By Nature

I had no idea what 'OPP' stood for as a kid, which is funny, because it's right in the lyrics, but I was too young to understand what that meant. So I, too, would just belt that song out whenever it came on. Nobody stopped me, either.

Oh wow, I'm today years old when I found out what that means.

I'm pretty sure there's never been an official definition for what it meant. I believe they claimed it stood for "other people's problems" back in the day while other people said "other people's pussy."

The lyrics aren't too ambiguous, I don't think...

O is for Other, P is for People scratchin' temple

The last P... well... that's not that simple

It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten

It's five little letters that are missin' here"

[...]

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted

The first two letters are the same but the last is something different

It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest

It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest

Cigaro - System of a Down

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.

Edit meant to reply to the thread not your comment.

Independence Day by Martina McBride is about murdering an abusive husband by setting the house on fire.

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is about murder

Two.

*And his cheating wife had never left town

And that's one body that'll never be found*

Next - Too Close

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.

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!

Dance Ten, Looks Three from A Chorus Line.

I'll let you look it up. My relatives thought it was hilarious.

The only artist I can think of where I did this is Dr. Bombay.

A Swede/Dane pretending to be Indian doing a lot of crazy stuff.

What is probably his most well known song is Taxi, taxi, taxi! Where he sings about being a blind taxi driver in Calcutta, the music video was recorded in Malaysia:

https://youtu.be/dBwrW9-QgPM

Then there is this song about him taking over a relative's restaurant, notice the frogs os in the soundtrack....

https://youtu.be/fKtNawQ3cxM

Then he made this sexist song about how he want a wife who cleans, cooks and washes laundry for him, it is made with humor, so how serious it is I can't say:

https://youtu.be/_BRVbZUe0WA

There are more songs by this character, but the guy behind him then invented the same character to Dr. Mcadoo a crazy scotsman...

This time the songs where more focused on partying:

https://youtu.be/glCK7W0hmhg

So a bit more generic...

https://youtu.be/xeJgdUWZzKg

Then he reinvented himself again into a carzy Mexican called Carlito.

I have not found any live action music videos by that character.

Here is his most well known song as far as I can tell:

https://youtu.be/pSIkcDwxwbw

I was wrong, there is one live action music video by Carlito:

https://youtu.be/4gY1AHjq1y8

Then he went away, only to resurrect Dr. Bombay a few years ago...

https://youtu.be/2lsojtENpQ0

Dr. Bombay would never have got off the ground these days, the idea that a Swede/Dane could pretend to be Indian would just not be acceptable.

He still performes live and does ok from what I can tell, I am happy for him, but starting this kind of act these days would not work.