After clowning my 17 year old cousin for askin me, "why did 112 like Peaches and Cream so much? Nobody even likes that flavor"...I realized that there were a lot of songs that I didn't catch when I was growing up. With some, I just didn't get the symbolism...and with some, I didn't understand what the slang or main topic was about until I got older.

So without worrying about somebody teasing you for your age (or lack of it)...waht songs do you admit to not understanding back in the day?

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I just thought he was singing bout the body-part!

I didn't know anything about the song until I bought his greatest hits (pt 2) in 99...and I was like "wow.......I would assume he's not talkin about it...but shit, it is Prince!"

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Ha! Same here. Had no clue when I was a kid. Used to sing along merrily to it, which now that I look back at that it's rather creepy as I was around 12 lol


>I just thought he was singing bout the body-part!


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the fuck was that shit?

>the fuck was that shit?


that song reminds me of Dr. Demento.


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saw fish head video on Turkey Television..

shit was dope!

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I've gotten into too many arguments with drunk fratboys about that song.

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"masturbating with a magazine"

so it's 1985, i'm 9 years old.. i had a general idea of what masturbating was, but was still naive to the process.

so i thought nikki actually rolled up the magazine into cylindrical shape and, well, you know..

It does sound kinda funny tho

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...I too was 9 in 1985. I was in spelling class one day and we were going over the words for that day in our spelling books. When we got to the word 'grind', my teacher asked the class if anyone knew what the word meant. Well, since I had heard the word being used in Darling Nikki, I quickly raised my hand because I just KNEW I had this one in the bag. I was about to tell my teacher it was the word Prince used on the song about Nikki on the Purple Rain tape.


Thank God my teacher actually called on another kid with a raised hand because when that kid answered it correctly, I quickly realized my error and damn near slumped at my desk, thinking about the embarassment I was saved from. Man, I don't know what would've happened if I would've been the one to give the answer. Thanks Prince.





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i didn't get it at all.

fuck you.

I just didn't know it was about him hittin...I just figured she was claimin it was his, but he knew he never slept with her period. Or maybe he never did...shiiit

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'the kid is not my son' should have said it all.
and wtf was that video about tho? i mean really?
lol. shit didn't really go together imo.

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The Doc struggled with "dance on the floor, in the round". That's the most hilarious roundabout way to say that...

so for years, The Doc used to use "dancing on the floor...in the round" as his preferred euphemism.

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that cracks me up...I can hear it now that you pointed it out...

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And yes, it was my favorite album...but I was 8. I didn't know what Doggystyle was at all...I just figured his name was Snoop Doggy Dogg....so it was just a play on his name.

When I learned what doggystyle was, I was still kinda slow, because I only thought of it as a name for what humans do, and didn't put it together until I saw two dogs gettin it, and I was like "OHH SHIT, THEY REALLY DO HAVE SEX DOGGYSTYLE!!!!" and my homeboy was like "you idiot....that's where they get the name from."

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obviously it's a play on the term too though.



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I definitely didn't get that...I heard what he was sayin on there, but didn't really understand any of that back then. I just figured he was saying he travels a lot.

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I DEFINITELY didn't know what it meant...then I remember at church, my cousin was like "it stands for Other People's Property" so I figured it was about stealing from people. I honestly don't even think I realized it stood for "pussy" until a few years ago, even though I got what the song meant.

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this one kinda made me laugh...I remember when that song came out, I think we were 5th grade, kids were talking about it in music class ---
teacher asks: what does OPP stand for?

kids: Other People's Property

other kids: but for the ladies, it means something different!

teacher: what does it mean for them?

kids: something different, you know

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they couldn't answer beyond what the lyrics literally said, not that I knew any better

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Hahahahaa....those kind of moments were classic..when the teacher would just wonder what the hype was about with the songs we loved.

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had no idea.. thought it was about stealing.. smh.. but peaches and cream was like that for me as well.. so was darling nicky.. and smfh.. brown sugar..

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But everybody at the time was saying it was about weed...so it wasn't a shocker.

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I was 12-13, and I donno...I definitely didn't think anything of it the first time I heard it, but then everybody at school was sayin "he's talkin about gettin hard when you dance" and I had never even danced with a girl on that tip like that...so I didn't really get what he meant until a few months later when we started going to parties...n it was like "ohh damn!!" because I was still embarrassed about it.

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Man, your stories are hilarious. You sound like you would've been awesome to chill with. I have a bunch of times when I didn't know what a song meant until later down the road...but the list is too numerous so yeah, maybe later

Yea I have way too many stories on that tip, LOL.

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b/c i never really listened to the lyrics

Don't remember when it hit my that buddy was havin dick problems...but when I DID figure it out, I laffed

Sounds funny though

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I just knew her name sounded familiar...but didn't realize anything else about her.

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Sting was a sick pervert LOL

Dont stand so close to me-about a teacherscrewin a student
Roxxane-about a man trying to convinve his gf whos a prostitute not to whore
Every breath u take-thats some strait pscho stalker ish

these are all freindly sing a long songs

I didnt get it till last week listening to their greatest hits like WTF? especially dont stand

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the systematic rape of African culture has begun
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I literally had to take 2-3 seconds to answer the phone at work and hold my laugh in after reading what you said about "Every breath you take" being stalker ish.....LMAO wooow it really is though.

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"Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right"

Those are hella obvious lyrics that I just never paid attention to, damn.

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til just now

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I think in the Police box set they talk about that, and you also have to consider the band's punk rock roots. It's funny to think that here was a band heavy into punk and new wave, with all of the sarcasm included, and they ended up being known for "Every Breath You Take".




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apparently it's about cocaine
or heroin
that if you want to be rich you got to be a bitch line always threw me though

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i used to love the song and knew all the lyrics

but i didn't really know what it meant til the dj on a radio station was like, "ladies, this song isn't about grindin in the club, it's about something else"

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and i try to explain to her all the time "you know they're talking about slanging yay, right?"

she gets mad.

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I saw it on some website like 3 months before it came on BET...some website was like "this seriously is the wackest song the Neptunes have EVER done..I don't know what the hell they are thinking" and through my shitty speakers, I thought it was kinda wack too, until I started hearing it more...yup, brainwashed as most consumers.

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I had no idea that Lady Marmalade was sayin "you want this twat?" back then...it didn't really go with the whole "Hey sista go sista" part to me.

And She works hard for the money...I just thought it was about a hard working woman, nothing special. I think the video or somethin made me realize what it was

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I had NOOOOOOOO idea he was talkin about goin raw...well....I assume he was now...I could still be wrong though.

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In fact, there was controversy when the song first dropped as a single, with some NY stations refusing to play it because they thought ODB was advocating unsafe sex (this was during the height of the '90s AIDS awareness push). ODB went as far as to record a PSA explicitly saying that the line was about liking raw hip-hop, not unprotected sex.

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She's not the biggest hip hop head, and when the song came on in the club we were at, I was telling her how big the song was when it came out. She thought the song was a bit perverse, so I had to explain to her that they made a PSA in NY of him talking about "the only thing I like raw is my music" before the song played.

>In fact, there was controversy when the song first dropped as
>a single, with some NY stations refusing to play it because
>they thought ODB was advocating unsafe sex (this was during
>the height of the '90s AIDS awareness push). ODB went as far
>as to record a PSA explicitly saying that the line was about
>liking raw hip-hop, not unprotected sex.


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But what's the deal with "Reasons?" Let me check the lyrics...

*Reads lyrics*

Hmm....so is he just saying "I wanna hit it....and I might act like I love you, but I don't"?? I donno...it was still hard for me to decipher.

I have played this song a griip of times, and never listened to...ok, never understood what they were sayin most of the time, LOL.

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about idealized love, or something like that.

But I agree with your interpretation more or less in that the song appears to be about a one night stand.

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i thought "my baby" was her boyfriend.

actually, i still don't have no idea what it's about.

i been sayin for a minute that this song is about bein in love with an underage girl.

now i've never found ANY verification ANYWHERE on this (though admittedly i've also never looked), and i also haven't really had anyone agree with me. usually i get a, "that makes sense, but..."

idk. to me shit's like, dude's chillin with his homey julio down by the playground at recess or after school watchin this underage girl he likes. and the whole songs about runnin away with her and the trouble he can get in and shit.


am i crazy?

>actually, i still don't have no idea what it's about.

LOL! Seriously...

I get the impression he & his friend Julio used to get into mad trouble together and they got caught mid sex act with Rosie (the Queen of Corona) at the park or something like that...

No clue why it would end up on the cover of Newsweek though.



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I would imagine its still like this for 85's that are into hip hop.





>After clowning my 17 year old cousin for askin me, "why did
>112 like Peaches and Cream so much? Nobody even likes that
>flavor"...I realized that there were a lot of songs that I
>didn't catch when I was growing up. With some, I just didn't
>get the symbolism...and with some, I didn't understand what
>the slang or main topic was about until I got older.
>
>So without worrying about somebody teasing you for your age
>(or lack of it)...waht songs do you admit to not understanding
>back in the day?

I liked Donna Summer's version, but does anyone really know the true meaning of the song even now?

There's been a number of different interpretations put on it over the years ranging from it being about a sexual encounter in the park, or about drugs, or a lost love. It's so steeped in symbolism and metaphor with what appears to be silly lyrics with references to cakes and baking etc.

I've always felt the interpretation about losing the love of one's life to be the most likely meaning, the cake being the metaphor for the relationship which took time and effort to build up (took so long to bake it) and never finding a person like that again (never have that recipe again). The cake being left out in the rain symbolizing the neglect and loss of the relationship, and so forth.

But in general there still appears to be a lot of ambiguity surrounding the song.

I read the lyrics a bit...I couldn't tell what cuzz was talkin about. I just saw somebody voted it for the worst lyrics in a song LOL

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It clocked in at 7:20. The Beatles had "Hey Jude", which was 7:11, but Richard Harris (who recorded "MacArthur Park" first) decided no, let's go another 9 seconds.

As the song climbed the charts, it was apparently a song no one could escape, especially since it changed style and tempo throughout the song. This is unlike the Donna Summer version, which begins as a ballad before it goes into disco mode. Because of its popularity, people began to figure out what the song meant and no one could.



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...he is known for being very abstract. This is a guy who also wrote a lot of classics:
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Up, Up And Away
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
When It Was Done
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I had to be in the second grade but somehow I felt ALL her songs were nasty or had to do with sex even though I didn't really "get them"...

I just always equated Donna Summer with sex....

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I was 9