''I want to tell you that I love you/Kiss or hug you/Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin/I'm not lying I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunnin'.''
The 2008 song put Lady Gaga on the musical map! If you stop to think about the 'Suspect Lyrics' and think carefully, ''muffin'' is almost certainly a euphemism for the private female organ! The queen of pop admitted that the word is a coy nod to the female vulva and the lyric as a whole is a metaphor for annilingus in 2009 Rolling Stones article.
9. Blister In The Sun By Violent Femmes
''Body and beats, I stain my sheets, I don't even know why''
The 1982 alternative rock lyrics aren't that opaque once read carefully. Wet dreams can be frequently alluded and this might be a clever way of doing it.
8. Glow By Alien Ant Farm
''I'll be the switch she turns on/She'll be mine too, I get on/I'll be the fuse that she blows/And even the lights out we'll glo-o-o-o-o-ow''
Well he 2003 song suggests that this band can be almost romantic! The idea, two people. together can create light and magic seems to be behind the chorus of the song. Although that maybe because your eyes speed by the rather suggestive lyrics that the singer is getting his 'fuse blown'. Couple that with the lyrics about someone getting turned on and the naughtiness is clear!
7. Honey By Mariah Carey
''Now I'm strung out on you darlin'/Don't you see every night and day/I can't hardly wait for another taste of honey.''
Mariah released the song in 1997 to re-define her career. Some say this song is in reference to her failed marriage. The lyrics get a bit raunchy during the chorus when she asks for more 'honey' and compares it to a drug. Couple this with 'it's like honey really washes over me/You know sugar never ever was so sweet/And I'm dying for ya, cryin' for ya, I adore ya,' and you've got your love making song.
6. Sugar We're Going Down By Fall Out Boy
''Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet/Wishing to be the friction in your jeans/Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him.''
This was the fist song from the rock band that broke into the top 10 of Billboard top 100. This was/is a catchy song that easily gets stuck in your head. If you take a closer look at the songs lyrics, the singer is a voyeur, spying on an intimate moment between the object of his desire and her beau. Not only is he witness to be he girls willing partner! A song about a peeping Tom?
5. Get Down By Backstreet Boys
''Get down, get down/And move it all around/Get down, get down/And move it all around.''
Also from rapper Smooth T in the song:
''All the girls/Get on your knees/Tryin' to scream/Or touch me please''
Listening to the chorus the first time seems less suggestive of a sexual encounter and more asking the listener to dance and lose themselves to the music. If you take the innocent chorus and couple it with 'bang, bang, bang, here we come, here we slam/It's the Fun Factory with BSB's/Y'all you guys, get on your knees tryin' to scream or touch me please/Backstreet Boys, are you with it? AJ, hit it/Come on, girl, and get down/Smack it up, flip it and move it all around.' and suddenly the overt fellatio reference is crystal clear, though perhaps with a title like 'Get Down', we should have been prepared for something not-so-innocent. Quite raunchy for the quintet to which millions of pre-teen and teenage girls flocked.
4. I Want You By Savage Garden
''Any time I need to see your face/I just close my eyes and I am taken to a place/Where your crystal mind and magenta feelings take up shelter/In the base of my spine, sweet like chica cherry cola.''
This song was fast and catchy, even if you weren't sure what cherry-cola had to do with anything. The singer seems to be romantically remembering crush and how just the memory of her takes him to a happy place. Look at the lyrics again. The memory of someone the singer sexually loved causes closed eyes and ends with cola - a sticky sweaty substance. The song is laced with sexual overtones - specifically wet dreams and masturbation that you probably didn't catch as a kid. Almost makes you cringe thinking about how you probably sang along to the song out in the car or next to your parents!
3. Wannabe By Spice Girls
''If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends/Make it last forever/Friendship never ends.'
Often teen girls would flock to the girl band and would pick out which Spice Girl they would be if they had the choice. I know I did. The song was almost annoyingly catchy, even with it's ludicrous made up words like 'zigazig-ha'. The main chorus seems to advocate not just sex but cheating with your lover's friends in order to make them feel good because 'friendship lasts forever'.
2. Longview By Green Day
''So, bite my lip and close my eyes/Take me away to paradise/I'm so damn bored, I'm going blind/And loneliness has to suffice/Bite my lip and close my eyes/I'm slipping away to paradise/Some say, quit or I'll go blind/But it's just a myth!''
The hidden meaning for this song might be more openly shown in this song. When asked Billie Joe Armstrong said the song helped put his band on the map, the song was about bordem and smoking dope, which is true until you begin to unpack the actual chorus. A popular cultural myth is that masturbation causes blindness, here we have our singer with his eyes closed, rejecting the myth in order to relieve... Bordem.
1. Genie In A Bottle By Christina Aguilera
''My body is saying let's go/But my heart is saying no/If you wanna be with me, baby there's a price to pay/I'm a genie in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way/If you wanna be with me, I can make your wish come true/You gotta make a big impression, I gotta like what you do.''
As soon as this song was released it was gobbled up by teenage girls, selling around 7 million copies worldwide.
The metaphor of a genie in a bottle and being rubbed is almost cute upon your first listen. However, with her body apparently ready and willing and her desire to be rubbed and well... yeah... you get the point!
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