*Sigh* Kids.

[elfs]

Cranky Old Man Alert!

Sigh. Sometimes, kids are so clueless. I bet my parents didn't have to explain to me, like I did to Yamaraashi-chan, that her current favorite song, "Low" by the rapper FLO Rida, isn't about looking good on a dance floor, but is an open admiration about how good a certain slutty woman is at oral sex.

Geez.

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[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen the musical Bye, Bye Birdie? I've always enjoyed the song "Kids" from it, especially the line "What's the matter with kids these days?" It's so very true to life. I sang it in elementary school, which is a bit odd for that particular song.

Lyrics here: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/byebyebirdie/kids.htm

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

So, I'm guessing you weren't listening to ZZ Top when you were around her age?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. When I was her age I went to a private school that didn't allow the students to discuss music. My parents listened to an awful lot of jazz. I hated most rock back then.

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* See, that's the problem. If you'd been listening to ZZ Top, you'd have done your job and properly mortified your parents by asking what on earth they meant by _______.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Or Cyndi Lauper and 'She-bop'. :-)

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Because if he'd been listening to Aerosmith there would have been no question. ;-)

[shunra.livejournal.com]

My daughter considers me totally clueless because I insist on seeing those extra meanings in songs, plays, titles... ...she thinks I have a filthy mind.

Come to think of it, my son feels the same way about me. Maybe the problem is in us oldies?

[kingfox.livejournal.com]

It is?!?

I'm pretty sure Low is about a stripper, not about oral sex at all. And despite Right Round sounding like it's about oral sex (I was convinced, with all of the pole mentions), that too is really just about a stripper and how good she is at dancing.

*shrug*

I've heard some frank interviews with him in some relaxed settings, and he made it clear it was a love of strippers that fueled his art, not a love of them doing anything illegal like providing sexual favors to patrons.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Reading the lyrics to Low just now, I think it is about sex with a stripper in general, but definitely PIV sex. "That's what I told her, her legs on my shoulder..." and the bit following. Of course, it could just be my dirty mind. The narrative seems to be the singer dropping three grand in bills on a stripper to get her to come home with him and have sex.

[kingfox.livejournal.com]

The other song I referred to, there's a lot of lines about poles and going downtown and so forth, yet he insists it's really about a dance. Really.

[marketeer]

I have to agree, having just read the lyrics, but it's still not something I'd want my children listening to (assuming that I had any).

[kingfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, agreed. Even it not being about sex, one of the producers on one of the shows he was on explained how uncomfortable he was with his daughters singing a song glorifying strippers.

[(Anonymous)]

Reminds me of the time I heard a young girl next door singing along to Gwen Stefani drat it.

"Take a chance you stupid ho"

Disclaimer:
"Ho" isn't in the general British vocabulary, so there is every chance she had no clue what it meant.

[halloranelder.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine was complaining last night about the 9 year old daughter of one of her clients singing along to the Lilli Allen song "It's Not Fair". "You're so mean 'cause you don't make me scream".

Oh dear...

[urox.livejournal.com]

Heh, this reminds me of when I had to explain to my parents that I didn't listen to gangsta' rap, only dance rap.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

Noticing sex must be one of the later Piaget stages of development.

The daughter of a friend of mine was enamored of the book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde when she was nine years old, and read and reread the book over and over again. It was her favorite book.

A few years later, when she was fourteen or so, she reread the book once more. "Who is it," she demanded to know, "who put all that sex into the book while I wasn't looking?"