There was some song on the Top 40 station last year, maybe Button? I can’t remember now, but some song talking about sexy stuff. I told LilZ, “You know, the mother in me wants to kinda not let you listen to that kind of music because it has such strong sexual themes. But then I remember the music I listened to/danced to when I was your age. And it wasn’t any better.”
Here is a list of some of the offending music I could recall:
X, and O. As in yes, and no.
X, and O. As in sex, maybe so.
X is for yes and O is for no.
X is for sex or maybe so.
You might get some if you play this game.
All girls love it but smooth is their game.
We used to turn that one up really loudly and dance. Possibly the Running Man. Or the Roger Rabbit.
Shoppin’ at the mall looking for some gear to buy
I saw this girl she cool rocked my world and I had to adjust my fly
She looked at me and smiled and said “You have plans for the night”
I said “Hopefully if things go well I’ll be with you tonight”
So we journeyed to her house one thing led to an other
I keyed the door we cold hit the floor looked up and it was her mother
I didn’t know what to say I was hanging by a string
She said “Hey you two I was once like you and I liked to do the wild thing”
Yep. That one too. I think we even played that one at school dances? Possibly? Surely not at a Catholic School…but I really think we did. Or how about Baby Got Back, or any and ever Two Live Crew song imaginable. I think we actually would kinda lose interest in a song if it wasn’t scandalous enough. I remember in High School, my girlfriends and I had this Mix Tape (I’m so old) that had all of the scandalous songs we liked to sing and dance to. We’d get my friend’s sister to drive us around the strip at the University of Tennessee and we’d be singing and car-dancing to that shit, looking for cute boys. Or probably any boys, really. We weren’t picky.
OH MY GOD. Thinking about my kids doing things like I did is causing me to feel a little sick to my stomach. I think I may puke. And is that a chest pain? My left arm (or is it my right?) is feeling numb. I’m also getting dizzy and everything is kinda fading to black…
My step daughter is in 7th grade. My husband is in total denial that she is not a little girl anymore. (Um, hello, he truly belives that she still belives in Santa.) Anyway, I’m with you….the thought of it kinda makes me nervous.
“Wild Thing” at a Catholic school dance. Heh, reminds me of the time, some kid managed to turn on the TVs in the cafeteria and everybody was jamming to “Rumpshaker.”
Oddly enough, I know someone who dated the singer of the X and O song — Kyper. That’s the end of my story. I just felt compelled to share.
I had that Tic Tac Toe song on tape and played it over and over and over and over. I’m surprised that no one killed me.
There’s a song I’m hearing on the radio a lot right now that goes something like, “Loosen up my buttons, baby….” and the singers don’t sound older than fifteen years old. Sure is a catchy tune, though.
Songs of 7th grade and beginnig of 8th - (1977-78): Hot Child in the City, Hot-Blooded, check it and see, Thunder Island (making love on Thunder Island), Undercover Angel Midnight Fantasy –
Oh yes, and we all played them, loud.
NOW my daughter’s in 7th - yikes!
dori
Ha! What I always hate is I’ll get a song stuck in my head, and be singing it, before I suddenly stop and realize what I just said, and then I’m just a little embarassed!
i still think my favorite song ever was ll cool j’s “brenda got a big ol’ butt.” i mean honestly? that’s better than any thong song.
I can remember my mom not letting me get ‘Prince - 1999′. It’s not like I wanted to go out and have sex after Doves Cry and all that stuff… geeesh. 20 some years later.. I hear those same words from my kid!
I never knew the words to “OPP” until last year when, for some reason, I googled the lyrics.
OH. MY. GOD. I was sitting in my civil procedure class, IMing everyone to ask “Did you know about this???” Scandalous stuff.