Example 1: My sister and I loved the song "Material Girl", Madonna. The funny thing is that we took the term "Material" literally. Exactly as it sounds--material, like what you sew with.
My dad thought it was horrible that we loved this song for the implications of "material"
Example 2: "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna (the chorus was "I'm keeping my baby, I'm gonna keep my baby). Surprisingly I did NOT take this song literally. I thought she was talking about her boyfriend, i.e. her "baby".
Now, you don't have to guess why my dad would hate this one.
Example 3: "Leroy Brown". I would sing this chorus over and over again. "Bad, bad, Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole DOWN town."
So the real song is "baddest man in the whole DAMN town." My dad thought we liked to sing this over and over again so we would have an excuse to curse.
Hilarious
3 comments:
too funny - so many things that just go over our heads as kids. I know I had a couple of these but they escape me at the moment.
How cute that your dad was horrified, and you guys were just thinking, "what, doesn't everyone wax poetic about fabric?" I used to love going to the fabric store with my mom, still a dangerous place even though it's been about four years since I have sewn anything. (coincidence? I think not)
I remember not getting "Papa Don't Preach" too, but in a different way, I didn't get the whole out of wedlock thing at all. Just thought, some jerk is trying to take her baby away!
That's the same thing I thought about "Papa Don't Preach," Kelly!
I thought "Money for Nothing" from Dire Straits included the line "...and checks for free." Y'know, free checking! I heard it advertised on the radio all the time, along with the movies, refrigerators, and the color teveees.
Jim thought the song "Secret Agent Man" actually was "Secret Asian Man," though he wasn't sure why the Asian man was a secret.
ah, the english (american?) language. what a great source of fun over the years... In the wake of attending a late night wake, it was difficult in the morning to wake up.
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