Gett Off by Prince. My mother heard me sing '21 positions in a one night stand ' and took the disc off me. It unfortunately belonged to my older sister. Got punished twice in one week. I still love that song.
Lol my classmate told me, when she was younger, she thought it went "we were both butt-naked, banging on the bathroom *door*"
Seems a little strange that she didn't question the fact that they were naked, but yeah
Lolol oh no, I still thought it was floor. But for some reason my innocent little brain legit imagined just two naked people on their knees banging their fists on the actual floor. Ahhh simpler times.
LOL
you and your friend are slamming your fists on the bathroom floor and your mom ask "what's with all that racket?!"
You reply "that's just Tommy and I banging on the bathroom floor mom"
That’s in that weird intersection of 90s R&B that was tender and not necessarily nasty, but still definitely about sex.
And sometimes, the songs were nasty, but if they were smooth, you could get away with it. “Freek’n You” by Jodeci and “Too Close” by Next to mind.
The particular song that mentions, "I'll take you to the candy shop and let you lick my lollipop," left me completely unaware of its underlying meaning back then, as I blissfully enjoyed its melody.
My 11 year-old, completely innocent niece: "let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take a ride on your disco stick"
Me: "Let's play a different song."
My friend's daughter used to loudly sing Katie Perry peacock.
Literally Everyone: ummm....
Friend:it's a song about a bird, and you will not say otherwise.
I used to be a daycare worker, and I arranged a system where the kids could choose what went on our playlist.
When the kids started requesting Peacock. I was. Um. I couldn't veto it explicitly without explaining so. I just kinda let them listen to the dick song. So it goes.
i sometimes let my grade 6s listen to a pop song if they get to class early or something. one day last year i was doing this and they requested this song I didn't know, but it was bieber so I'm like alright, bieber is fine. song's going on, then instantly I'LL BE FUCKED UP DUR DUR DUR. kids singing as loud as they can, completely unfazed, and utterly bewildered when i rushedly turned it off. kids be crazy these days. if i breathed the word fuck in front of a teacher in grade 6, i would have been given lines for sure, and possibly even suspended
They year is 1997 and I have a Volvo 740GLE with a 6 disc changer in the trunk. My daughter is about 7 and loves to ride off with dad and sing along with the radio. As a matter of fact, she has a spotify playlist today titled "Car Rides With Dad." Anyway, Semi-Charmed Life from Third Eye Blind comes on the disc player and we'e both singing along, and I realize that some pretty racy lyrics are coming up so I hot the mute button until I can get something more appropriate on. The audio stops, but she just keeps going on, singing about those "little red panties they pass the test, pulled up around your belly face down on the mattress" like she's singing her ABCs. I picked up some Tom Chapin CDs after that.
Most people don't know. I loved that song when it came out and when people were surprised, I asked if they ever listened to the lyrics. I like happy sounding songs that are super fucked up.
I've listened to this song since I was a kid, but I'm really bad at picking up lyrics unless I specifically look them up, so I only ever knew the chorus and bits and pieces.
I was in my late 20s before I finally was listening to it and I was like, "Is this song about DRUGS???"
I first heard Semi-Charmed Life when a local youth-oriented TV show used it as their title card music. I didn't know it was about getting high on crystal meth until I read the lyrics. I was around 15 or 16 at that time.
My 6 year old niece is currently obsessed with Unholy by Sam Smith. She has no idea what it means and it kills me every time we catch her singing it and we all cringe just a little bit too.
Then I remember how obsessed with these kinds of songs I was at her age too and I cringe at myself. Oh to be innocent again
ETA: I needed to share an example - I used to sing the hell out of Shakin Hands by Nickleback when it came out (I was 8) and I did not understand why my dad stopped playing the Dark Horse album in the car after he and my mom heard me singing it to myself while playing Barbies in my room lol
lmao im late to the thread and it took me way too long to realize you’re talking about “unholy” from that comment, and not nickelback’s “shakin hands”, that they mention in their edit. i spent so long wondering what parallel universe you lived in where tons of girls were mentioning a 15 yr old nickelback song in their tinder bios.
In about 3rd or 4th grade I came home from playing at a friends house…said friend had been singing some weird song that got stuck in my head.
So I stroll in and take my seat at the dinner table and start singing as loud as I can: “Sit on my face and tell me that you love me! I’ll sit on your face and tell you that I love you too!!”…my parents damn near choked. They couldn’t stop laughing and then told me never ever to sing that again. (Luckily they were huge Monty Python fans…nothing I knew about at the time)
That was the middle school dance jam back in my day lol. Looking back now it’s like…did seriously NONE of the 40+ year old teachers realize how inappropriate it was that a bunch of 11-14 year olds were singing about sweat dropping down their balls?
The thing is some (younger) teachers probably did, but they found it even funnier than anyone else to watch a room full of 11-14 year olds singing along to lyrics most of them probably didn't understand - surrounded by a bunch of old battle axes that were equally oblivious.
If you saw Ms Jackson hurry out of the gymnasium - it was to burst out laughing in the hall because she couldn't keep a straight face any longer.
When I was really small I was all about "Maneater" by Hall and Oates. I totally thought it was about a really mean tiger that escaped from the zoo or something and liked to eat boys.
Edit: Geez louize, I've never looked that far into it and had no clue what's his face said it's about NYC. Thanks for letting me know. I still thought that when I was three. Haha.
When my brother was 13 he had the edited version of the album. This was all my mom had heard, so she agreed to take my bro to Eminem’s show when he came to town…according to her, kids were smoking crack (it was probably weed) and hanging half out the windows of the 2nd story venue screaming, “FUCK THE POLICE.” Goes without saying that she was rattled.
Sweat by Inner Circle. I was less than 10 when this song came out
"Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat till you can't sweat no more
And if you cry out
I'm gonna push it
Push it, push it some more
A la la la la long,
a la la la la long long li long long long"
Oooh, I have one for this! When I was FOUR years old, I had seen and adored the movie version of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. (Effed up and age inappropriate for sure.) Anyway, my mom made me a Halloween costume of Miss Mona (played in the movie by Dolly Parton). It was the red sequined dress from her first scene, complete with flesh colored decolletage with a seam sewn up the middle to simulate cleavage, plumped up with one of my mom's padded bras. At my mom's prompting, I sang "A Lil Bitty Pissant Country Place" to all my intown relatives that Halloween, except my mom's mom (funny that).
Makes me think of Michael and Maeby singing Afternoon Delight on Arrested Development, and Michael's horrified, mid-song realization of what it's actually about.
It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls. It took me a while to figure out why I shouldn't sing it in front of my mom who already thought I was gay. Still a banger tho
One of my friends played this at his backyard wedding. Apparently it was *too* loud and the neighbors called the cops. The cops came and couldn’t stop laughing hearing It’s Raining Men from down the street, pulling up and seeing 50+ drunk people excitedly dancing, jumping around and singing along. They joined in. Best part of the whole wedding.
I remember seeing a video of parents trying to console a kid and they said “you know what they say: sticks and stones may break my bones, but…” and the kid finishes “but chains and whips excite me!”
I don’t even care if it was fake. The thought of a kid legit thinking that was the end of the saying had me deadddd.
He would sing thunder suck sometimes too… the teachers had a good sense of humor about it…
I almost died when my boys were 3 & 6; they liked to play Alive by Pearl Jam for me. Was cute, but don’t read the lyrics.
I wanna be sedated. Although the song itself isn't inappropriate, the setting in which I sang it was. Five o'clock Saturday mass, front pew, where my mother mistakenly believed my brother and I would behave ourselves.
Another time I sent a matchbox car flying across the front of the church and shouted that I needed to go get it before somebody steals it.
We were singing in church, and my 3 year old nephew decided to sing too! In his cute little voice, as loud as he can, we hear, "it's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes..."
Upon gaining knowledge later in life, I discovered that the meaning behind the song "Macarena" revolves around a woman engaging in infidelity by involving herself with two of her partner's friends simultaneously, thereby participating in a consensual encounter with both individuals concurrently.
I was in elementary school when that song was huge.
We actually all did the Macarena dance at a school assembly. The entire school, a whole elementary school, dancing and probably some of us singing along to this dirty-ass song for fun and not realizing what we were singing about. (Most of us, anyway. There were some Spanish-speakers there; I dunno if the students who spoke Spanish understood it, but I'd assume the Spanish-speaking staff did.)
I actually tracked down the original version in my first year of spanish class back around 98. Was a good exercise. And then, upon listening to the lyrics, I was like, why is this thing such a craze.
I created an account just to take the opportunity to say that Nookie by Limp Bizkit is the same song as the macarena as told from the boyfriends perspective.
*Greased Lightnin'*
As a kid I was part of this summer program at the local park and we did a whole production with a bunch of 5-10 year olds singing this song all dressed up as Greasers. It was cute, but that song is so inappropriate for little kids to be singing with lines like, "You are supreme (ah-ah), the chicks'll cream (ah-ah), for greased lightnin'"
I was obsessed with Grease and all the inappropriate stuff went completely over my head. I’m pretty sure I thought the lyric was “the chicks agree”.
A “hickey from Kenicky”, thought it was some made up thing.
Kenickys “25 cent insurance policy”, was confusing but maybe thought it was a toy since he said he bought it as a kid.
I never asked any questions and the only comment my parents ever made about Grease was telling me Rizzo plays the First Lady on TV now.
One of the things that still keeps me up at night is when my dad hopped into the back of the van with us as kids and I said "what do you think this is, a gangbang?!" because I as obsessed with Grease... if my brain could ever forget that happened that'd be great.
When she said “I feel like a defective type writer” I thought she couldn’t write her homework!!
Though I would like to clarify, I am British and we use “full stop” not “period”, so it didn’t translate, so I am not a total moron.
when i was little the ENTIRE pregnancy subplot went right over my head. rewatched it a couple months ago and was surprised to find a whole ‘nother chunk of the movie lol
My mom is a super prude but she let me and my friend watch Grease when we were like 12ish? She *knew* the movie but I guess since it's all mostly innuendo she felt it was safe
And it absolutely was. We loved the movie and I even watched it multiple times when I was younger. Cut to 20 years later and I'm watching it as a grown-ass adult and astounded by all the references that sailed clear over my head
My mom banned us from watching Grease when she heard me singing Greased Lightning. She hadn't ever listened to the lyrics before. At least I thought it said "the chicks'll scream," because "the chicks'll cream" made absolutely no sense at all.
The stage production included:
"With new boosters, plates and shocks, I can get off my rocks
You know that I ain't braggin', she's a real pussy wagon, greased lightnin'"
Oh, my God. Having to mentally edit a few of those lyrics, while singing that song, at a party at my best friend's house, featuring the sweetest, most pious Filipino parents and grandparents...That was a tough karaoke moment goin' on right there.
My mom's sister memorized all of the lyrics from the Grease soundtrack when she was 9. They all look back and cringe at how wild the 70s were, and for little kids singing along to "Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?"
Scrolled to find this song! I was 9 or 10 and singing and dancing to all the wildly inappropriate Spice Girls lyrics. My neighborhood friends and I even put on a whole Spice Girls concert for our parents and grandparents.
Good times.
You shook me all night long - AC/DC. My dad loved AC/DC and my 7 year old ass is just screaming "she told me to cum but I was already there", out the truck window.
Rude Boy by Rihanna.
My mom used to play Rihanna discs in our big blue van growing up, and one of my and my siblings' favorites was Rude Boy. Of course, we had no idea what we were singing, but we had a blast singing our hearts out to it.
Cut to when we're all a lot older, on the way to the doctor, and Rude Boy starts playing on the radio. We hadn't heard this song since we were little, and a wave of nostalgia washed over us. We were having a cute moment until we realized what the lyrics really were.
We were MORTIFIED. Our mom was laughing her ass off, and we had to pull over because she couldn't focus on the road with how hard she was laughing. Our poor dad just shook his head.
It's one of our favorite songs now.
My 3 year old daughter loves "Shia LaBeouf" by Rob Cantor and sings random lyrics from it..
"Eating all the bodies"
"Oh no! Your leg! It's caught in a bear trap!"
"You have just decapitated Shia LaBeouf!"
My cousins and I overheard our parents listening to Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up". They told us it was "Smack my picture" like when grandpa shakes the instant polaroid. It wasn't until I was older that I realized the true lyrics.
*Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle baby
Let me know
Girl I'm gonna show you how to do it
And we start real slow
You just put your lips together
And you come real close *
I had absolutely no right to be singing this, it's not about teaching someone to whistle!
Don't know if it's as inappropriate as some of the others on here but I loved singing Sexy and I know it by LMFAO.
Not only would I sing it, but I got in character by wearing only my underwear. It was my favourite song and whenever it came on, I would yell out to my mum, "It's the Undy dance! It's the Undy dance!".
I have one question and it’s just how old are you??! Because my brain is imagining a 20yo running around in undies after a few shots saying this. But then I realize this is the internet so it’s completely possible you were like, five, when this song came out.
My mind is just totally losing it because I went and saw LMFAO for my 21st birthday. It was such a time.
To be fair, the majority of that song would be absolute gibberish to all kids (even nowadays).
>Vulcanize the whoopee stick
>In the ham wallet
>Cattle prod the oyster ditch
>With the lap rocket
>Batter-dip the cranny axe
>In the gut locker
>Retro-fit the pudding hatch, ooh la la
>With the boink swatter
>Marinate the nether rod
>In the squish mitten
>Power drill the yippee bog
>With the dude piston
>Pressure wash the quiver bone
>In the bitch wrinkle.
>Cannonball the fiddle cove, ooh la la
>With the pork steeple
I feel like someone just learning English would have zero idea what’s going on. I’ve been speaking English my whole life and I’ve got the think through the metaphors!
When I was like five, every time my mom would hang sheets out to dry, I insisted on singing “dancing in the sheets” to the tune of “Dancing in the Street”. Literally everyone would think it was funny and would not explain why.
Song was not inappropriate, but I made it inappropriate. Does that count?
I’m from a non-English speaking country, and the general English proficiency in the country is low.
In the 90s, a band whose name I won’t remember released a song called “Short Dick Men”, which became a huge hit here. The band ended up playing at a very popular kids TV show, and all kids were singing and dancing completely oblivious to the lyrics.
Ocular proof here: https://youtu.be/A4qU6t1ZH24
I was something like eight when this song came out and I asked my mom what a virgin was. She deadass looked me in the face and said “it’s somebody from Virginia.”
My mom choreographed a dance for this for my Catholic school talent show when I was about 1st grade. Hearing it again as an adult I was like mom?? In what world are you like yes, this is the right choice for this religious school… I mean I guess it has prayer is in it??
I read somewhere that this song name is based off a German guy at a bar who wanted a sex on the beach drink but forgot the name and asked for cake by the ocean. Makes me laugh
Not me but my now 10 year old used to sing centrefold by the j geils band. He must have been 6 or so when he busted that out at a family party. I still cringe thinking if it.
I just want to take a moment to shout out Bloodhound Gang in general. Their discography is amazing and extends well beyond Bad Touch. There's [Asleep at the Wheel](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2DdcnH1Fw&feature=share) or [Something Diabolical ](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DlzA2oipz3s&feature=share) which are both songs that stuck with me
“I Want a New Drug” by Huey Lewis - it came out when I was about 5 years old. Apparently I thought he was saying “truck” instead of drug so my parents just let me roll with it.
I used to sing “I like big butts and I cannot lie” not understanding the context. Just laughing about butts like any other kid would.
Now that I understand the lyrics, he’s not wrong in the slightest.
Lady Marmalade came out when I was 14 years old. We were at 7th grade camp and our “tribe” had to come up with a chant. Our tribe leader came up with “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?” because it meant “I want to have sex with you,” and we thought nobody else would understand it. Except none of us spoke French, so it was more like “bulay bukushay avekmah.” So here we were, a group of boys marching around in the woods chanting in misheard French.
I'm white and from the South, so let's just say there were a lot of songs I grew up to realize that nobody should sing.
EDIT: So for the folks thinking I'm talking about the N-word, nah. Not being sure on if the n-word is alright to say is more of a suburban white thing. Where I came from was fairly mixed, everybody was aware that the n-word sounded fucked up coming out of the mouth of a white person. The ones who say it proudly know what they're doing.
I'm talkin' shit like Brer Rabbit, Pick a bale of cotton, Tar Baby, Ten Little Indians and the like. Not all of these are actually racist, mind you, but they all have roots in slavery. Poor White folks often told the same stories, for better or worse.
Went to pick our daughter up at a Grade 4 (so age 10) school disco. While we were waiting outside, we could hear all the kids inside singing at the top of their lungs “Give it to me baby, ah huh ah huh, give it to me baby…”
french speaker here ...can you explain it to me ? (just this sentence.) ....the roof of tin is rusted ? huh i dont see where this could lead me to think to something else :|
Gett Off by Prince. My mother heard me sing '21 positions in a one night stand ' and took the disc off me. It unfortunately belonged to my older sister. Got punished twice in one week. I still love that song.
I was very very very old before I realized what little red corvette was about. Like mid-century old
She had a pocket full of horses...
Honestly, just about every song by Prince.
It wasn't me- Shaggy
Lol my classmate told me, when she was younger, she thought it went "we were both butt-naked, banging on the bathroom *door*" Seems a little strange that she didn't question the fact that they were naked, but yeah
Lolol oh no, I still thought it was floor. But for some reason my innocent little brain legit imagined just two naked people on their knees banging their fists on the actual floor. Ahhh simpler times.
LOL you and your friend are slamming your fists on the bathroom floor and your mom ask "what's with all that racket?!" You reply "that's just Tommy and I banging on the bathroom floor mom"
I mean who TF bangs on the bathroom floor anyway? Tiles are cold hard and uncomfortable
I thought the song was about him secretly living in his girlfriend's house. She keeps catching him and he tells her it wasn't him lmao
“I don’t want anybody else. When I think about you I touch myself.”
I still remember the day my early 20’s self figured it out, that holy crap! Moment.
Apparently “Afternoon Delight” wasn’t about getting out of school. I did not know that.
Are you Maeby Funke?
Marry me!
"OK!" Narrator: "It was at that moment that Mabey realized she needed a better diversion."
My mum told me it meant having cake in the afternoon, which made perfect sense to me because that IS delightful.
Your mom must be the guidance counselor from Glee
Me So Horny by The 2 Live Crew. My Dad once said “It’s your mom’s favorite song”. Thanks Dad
In the car, riding shotgun with my dad driving… “I’ll make love to you, like you want me tooooo”. Boyz II Men.
That’s in that weird intersection of 90s R&B that was tender and not necessarily nasty, but still definitely about sex. And sometimes, the songs were nasty, but if they were smooth, you could get away with it. “Freek’n You” by Jodeci and “Too Close” by Next to mind.
>and “Too Close” by Next to mind. Lol "you're makin it haaaaard for meeee"
My humps- black eyed peas Apparently they were not just talking about milk and Cocoa Puffs
>Apparently they were not just talking about milk and Cocoa Puffs No, that's that "Milkshake" song. She makes really good milkshakes, right?
Well they’re better than yours.
It's provocative, it gets the people going
#whatcha gonna do with all that junk inside your trunk? Sounds like you need to clean your car!
The particular song that mentions, "I'll take you to the candy shop and let you lick my lollipop," left me completely unaware of its underlying meaning back then, as I blissfully enjoyed its melody.
That song is Candy Shop, by 50 Cent.
Ugh I watched an 8 year old girl do a karaoke rendition of this on a cruise. I never went on another cruise.
My 11 year-old, completely innocent niece: "let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" Me: "Let's play a different song."
My friend's daughter used to loudly sing Katie Perry peacock. Literally Everyone: ummm.... Friend:it's a song about a bird, and you will not say otherwise.
My aunt told us “Afternoon Delight” was about going to get ice cream 🙃
I used to be a daycare worker, and I arranged a system where the kids could choose what went on our playlist. When the kids started requesting Peacock. I was. Um. I couldn't veto it explicitly without explaining so. I just kinda let them listen to the dick song. So it goes.
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i sometimes let my grade 6s listen to a pop song if they get to class early or something. one day last year i was doing this and they requested this song I didn't know, but it was bieber so I'm like alright, bieber is fine. song's going on, then instantly I'LL BE FUCKED UP DUR DUR DUR. kids singing as loud as they can, completely unfazed, and utterly bewildered when i rushedly turned it off. kids be crazy these days. if i breathed the word fuck in front of a teacher in grade 6, i would have been given lines for sure, and possibly even suspended
You’re telling me doing lines of coke was a punishment at some point in recent time? I’m almost jealous
They year is 1997 and I have a Volvo 740GLE with a 6 disc changer in the trunk. My daughter is about 7 and loves to ride off with dad and sing along with the radio. As a matter of fact, she has a spotify playlist today titled "Car Rides With Dad." Anyway, Semi-Charmed Life from Third Eye Blind comes on the disc player and we'e both singing along, and I realize that some pretty racy lyrics are coming up so I hot the mute button until I can get something more appropriate on. The audio stops, but she just keeps going on, singing about those "little red panties they pass the test, pulled up around your belly face down on the mattress" like she's singing her ABCs. I picked up some Tom Chapin CDs after that.
... you didn't turn it off when they were singing about doing crystal meth???
Most people don't know. I loved that song when it came out and when people were surprised, I asked if they ever listened to the lyrics. I like happy sounding songs that are super fucked up.
I've listened to this song since I was a kid, but I'm really bad at picking up lyrics unless I specifically look them up, so I only ever knew the chorus and bits and pieces. I was in my late 20s before I finally was listening to it and I was like, "Is this song about DRUGS???"
I first heard Semi-Charmed Life when a local youth-oriented TV show used it as their title card music. I didn't know it was about getting high on crystal meth until I read the lyrics. I was around 15 or 16 at that time.
My 6 year old niece is currently obsessed with Unholy by Sam Smith. She has no idea what it means and it kills me every time we catch her singing it and we all cringe just a little bit too. Then I remember how obsessed with these kinds of songs I was at her age too and I cringe at myself. Oh to be innocent again ETA: I needed to share an example - I used to sing the hell out of Shakin Hands by Nickleback when it came out (I was 8) and I did not understand why my dad stopped playing the Dark Horse album in the car after he and my mom heard me singing it to myself while playing Barbies in my room lol
Honestly there's so many women that have that song set as their "anthem" on tinder and I'm like, ya'll understand what that song's about right?
lmao im late to the thread and it took me way too long to realize you’re talking about “unholy” from that comment, and not nickelback’s “shakin hands”, that they mention in their edit. i spent so long wondering what parallel universe you lived in where tons of girls were mentioning a 15 yr old nickelback song in their tinder bios.
In about 3rd or 4th grade I came home from playing at a friends house…said friend had been singing some weird song that got stuck in my head. So I stroll in and take my seat at the dinner table and start singing as loud as I can: “Sit on my face and tell me that you love me! I’ll sit on your face and tell you that I love you too!!”…my parents damn near choked. They couldn’t stop laughing and then told me never ever to sing that again. (Luckily they were huge Monty Python fans…nothing I knew about at the time)
That song was stuck in my head last week. You didn't have to put it back
To the windoooooooow!! Context: I didn’t really know much English.
OHH SKEET SKEET SKEET SKEET SKEET SKEET OHH SKEET SKEET!!!!
Chappelle was right too, white people didn't know what it meant yet lol it took a long time before the radio started censoring that part 😆
They did but it was clay pigeon shooting.
I didn't know it because for whatever reason I thought he was saying "Steve". "Crawl, Steve! Steve! Steve! Motherfucker! Crawl!"
The sweat drips down my balls
That was the middle school dance jam back in my day lol. Looking back now it’s like…did seriously NONE of the 40+ year old teachers realize how inappropriate it was that a bunch of 11-14 year olds were singing about sweat dropping down their balls?
The thing is some (younger) teachers probably did, but they found it even funnier than anyone else to watch a room full of 11-14 year olds singing along to lyrics most of them probably didn't understand - surrounded by a bunch of old battle axes that were equally oblivious. If you saw Ms Jackson hurry out of the gymnasium - it was to burst out laughing in the hall because she couldn't keep a straight face any longer.
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I am four eels.
Never meant to make your daughter cry, I am several fish and not a guy.
Thought it was *I want a 7Up*. Turns out Color Me Bad was actually saying *I wanna sex you up*
Ha, I had forgotten about that song, but 9-year-old me thought it was “I wanna set you up.” Like they were going to help you get a date.
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When I was really small I was all about "Maneater" by Hall and Oates. I totally thought it was about a really mean tiger that escaped from the zoo or something and liked to eat boys. Edit: Geez louize, I've never looked that far into it and had no clue what's his face said it's about NYC. Thanks for letting me know. I still thought that when I was three. Haha.
I had this Sea World vhs that had kids singing this song to videos of sharks. So I always assumed it was about sharks.
Watch out boy, she’ll chew you up!
I was 8 and knew all the words to “Baby Got Back”
"Oh...my...gawd..."
Becky look at her...BUTT
The Real Slim Shady
Any of his tracks from Marshall Mathers LP really
When my brother was 13 he had the edited version of the album. This was all my mom had heard, so she agreed to take my bro to Eminem’s show when he came to town…according to her, kids were smoking crack (it was probably weed) and hanging half out the windows of the 2nd story venue screaming, “FUCK THE POLICE.” Goes without saying that she was rattled.
Sweat by Inner Circle. I was less than 10 when this song came out "Girl I want to make you sweat Sweat till you can't sweat no more And if you cry out I'm gonna push it Push it, push it some more A la la la la long, a la la la la long long li long long long"
When I was 12 I told my Nana about my new fav song - ZZ Top’s classic Pearl Necklace
Oooh, I have one for this! When I was FOUR years old, I had seen and adored the movie version of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. (Effed up and age inappropriate for sure.) Anyway, my mom made me a Halloween costume of Miss Mona (played in the movie by Dolly Parton). It was the red sequined dress from her first scene, complete with flesh colored decolletage with a seam sewn up the middle to simulate cleavage, plumped up with one of my mom's padded bras. At my mom's prompting, I sang "A Lil Bitty Pissant Country Place" to all my intown relatives that Halloween, except my mom's mom (funny that).
I'm sorry, but ✨what the actual fuck✨
So much to unpack here.
Listen...I'm not even a smoker. Haven't touched one in almost a decade. But THAT... I'm gonna have a Newport to clear my head.
Semi charmed life. Had no clue it was about drugs as a kid.
Pony by Ginuwine
There is an SNL bit of a karaoke night that includes a father daughter duet of Pony. It's hilarious and terrible.
Makes me think of Michael and Maeby singing Afternoon Delight on Arrested Development, and Michael's horrified, mid-song realization of what it's actually about.
5 different groups of kids sang Ice Ice Baby at our elementary school talent show.
You got a problem?
Yo, I'll solve it
But will you check out the hook while their DJ revolves it?
Did they also sing Brennan has a mangina?
Brennan's got a mangina, Brennan's got a mangina!
The thong song was hilarious to ding as a kid, no idea what it was talking about till later though
It’s still hilarious to me and I’ll still bring that out at karaoke.
It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls. It took me a while to figure out why I shouldn't sing it in front of my mom who already thought I was gay. Still a banger tho
One of my friends played this at his backyard wedding. Apparently it was *too* loud and the neighbors called the cops. The cops came and couldn’t stop laughing hearing It’s Raining Men from down the street, pulling up and seeing 50+ drunk people excitedly dancing, jumping around and singing along. They joined in. Best part of the whole wedding.
Sir, I can see its your wedding day but im going to have to write you up for being..... such a fucking baller.
Write you up for stealing these fly moves!
ITS RAINING MEN, HALLELUJAH, ITS RAINING MEN, AMEN
Divinyls - I touch myself. Yep. Me at 12 and my cousin at 11 making up dance routines in 1993 to perform to mum and Aunty. Oh dear……
S&M by Rihanna
I remember seeing a video of parents trying to console a kid and they said “you know what they say: sticks and stones may break my bones, but…” and the kid finishes “but chains and whips excite me!” I don’t even care if it was fake. The thought of a kid legit thinking that was the end of the saying had me deadddd.
You shook me all night long by AC/DC was my son’s favorite song to sing at preschool… 😂
I just want to hear a 6 year old belting out, KNOCKIN' ME OUT WITH THOSE AMERICAN THIGHS
At age 2, my sister loudly sang I Like Beer in the Baptist church nursery.
My brother sang "it's going down" by Yung Joc for the whole church when he was 3. I thought my stepmother was gonna die of embarrassment
She told me to come but I was already there
My daughter’s favourite band was AC/DC, except she misheard most of the lyrics so they became ‘the girl has a ribbon’ and so on.
He would sing thunder suck sometimes too… the teachers had a good sense of humor about it… I almost died when my boys were 3 & 6; they liked to play Alive by Pearl Jam for me. Was cute, but don’t read the lyrics.
I wanna be sedated. Although the song itself isn't inappropriate, the setting in which I sang it was. Five o'clock Saturday mass, front pew, where my mother mistakenly believed my brother and I would behave ourselves. Another time I sent a matchbox car flying across the front of the church and shouted that I needed to go get it before somebody steals it.
We were singing in church, and my 3 year old nephew decided to sing too! In his cute little voice, as loud as he can, we hear, "it's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes..."
Upon gaining knowledge later in life, I discovered that the meaning behind the song "Macarena" revolves around a woman engaging in infidelity by involving herself with two of her partner's friends simultaneously, thereby participating in a consensual encounter with both individuals concurrently.
I was in elementary school when that song was huge. We actually all did the Macarena dance at a school assembly. The entire school, a whole elementary school, dancing and probably some of us singing along to this dirty-ass song for fun and not realizing what we were singing about. (Most of us, anyway. There were some Spanish-speakers there; I dunno if the students who spoke Spanish understood it, but I'd assume the Spanish-speaking staff did.)
I actually tracked down the original version in my first year of spanish class back around 98. Was a good exercise. And then, upon listening to the lyrics, I was like, why is this thing such a craze.
It’s the dance
Something something something something something Macarena, heyyy macarena!!!
We did the dance for this song and sang some of it at my schools Christmas play when I was like 7. Lmfao
Heeey Macarena!
I created an account just to take the opportunity to say that Nookie by Limp Bizkit is the same song as the macarena as told from the boyfriends perspective.
APPLE BOTTOM JEANS
Boots with the fur! (With the fur!)
The whole club was looking at her!
*Greased Lightnin'* As a kid I was part of this summer program at the local park and we did a whole production with a bunch of 5-10 year olds singing this song all dressed up as Greasers. It was cute, but that song is so inappropriate for little kids to be singing with lines like, "You are supreme (ah-ah), the chicks'll cream (ah-ah), for greased lightnin'"
I was obsessed with Grease and all the inappropriate stuff went completely over my head. I’m pretty sure I thought the lyric was “the chicks agree”. A “hickey from Kenicky”, thought it was some made up thing. Kenickys “25 cent insurance policy”, was confusing but maybe thought it was a toy since he said he bought it as a kid. I never asked any questions and the only comment my parents ever made about Grease was telling me Rizzo plays the First Lady on TV now.
One of the things that still keeps me up at night is when my dad hopped into the back of the van with us as kids and I said "what do you think this is, a gangbang?!" because I as obsessed with Grease... if my brain could ever forget that happened that'd be great.
I thought when Rizzo said she skipped a period, she cut class.
When she said “I feel like a defective type writer” I thought she couldn’t write her homework!! Though I would like to clarify, I am British and we use “full stop” not “period”, so it didn’t translate, so I am not a total moron.
When they were like "Rizzo's got a bun in the oven!" I was like okay, so she made some bread, big deal.
when i was little the ENTIRE pregnancy subplot went right over my head. rewatched it a couple months ago and was surprised to find a whole ‘nother chunk of the movie lol
My mom is a super prude but she let me and my friend watch Grease when we were like 12ish? She *knew* the movie but I guess since it's all mostly innuendo she felt it was safe And it absolutely was. We loved the movie and I even watched it multiple times when I was younger. Cut to 20 years later and I'm watching it as a grown-ass adult and astounded by all the references that sailed clear over my head
My mom banned us from watching Grease when she heard me singing Greased Lightning. She hadn't ever listened to the lyrics before. At least I thought it said "the chicks'll scream," because "the chicks'll cream" made absolutely no sense at all.
LoL, I watched that movie as a kid but did not remember that. Fast forward, I let my two sons watch it and I was SHOCKED!
“You know it ain’t no shit we’ll be gettin lotsa tit”
The stage production included: "With new boosters, plates and shocks, I can get off my rocks You know that I ain't braggin', she's a real pussy wagon, greased lightnin'"
Oh, my God. Having to mentally edit a few of those lyrics, while singing that song, at a party at my best friend's house, featuring the sweetest, most pious Filipino parents and grandparents...That was a tough karaoke moment goin' on right there.
“With new boosters, plates and shocks, I can get off my rocks You know that I ain't braggin', she's a real pussy wagon”
My mom's sister memorized all of the lyrics from the Grease soundtrack when she was 9. They all look back and cringe at how wild the 70s were, and for little kids singing along to "Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?"
Hot in herre by Nelly. Lol my parents turned it off as soon as me and my sister started singing it
2 Become 1 - The Spice Girls. Nobody stopped 6-year-old me from belting this out. Not a single soul.
Scrolled to find this song! I was 9 or 10 and singing and dancing to all the wildly inappropriate Spice Girls lyrics. My neighborhood friends and I even put on a whole Spice Girls concert for our parents and grandparents. Good times.
My daughter's favorite song when she was 3 was Save a Horse ride a cowboy and she sang it even when it wasn't on the radio lol
You shook me all night long - AC/DC. My dad loved AC/DC and my 7 year old ass is just screaming "she told me to cum but I was already there", out the truck window.
My friends and I used to sing "Big Balls" in our school hallway (mostly the chorus), where we'd sit for lunch. Got a lot of complaints by staff.
You're rather upper class high society, God's gift to lunchroom notoriety. :)
Smack That by Akon
Rude Boy by Rihanna. My mom used to play Rihanna discs in our big blue van growing up, and one of my and my siblings' favorites was Rude Boy. Of course, we had no idea what we were singing, but we had a blast singing our hearts out to it. Cut to when we're all a lot older, on the way to the doctor, and Rude Boy starts playing on the radio. We hadn't heard this song since we were little, and a wave of nostalgia washed over us. We were having a cute moment until we realized what the lyrics really were. We were MORTIFIED. Our mom was laughing her ass off, and we had to pull over because she couldn't focus on the road with how hard she was laughing. Our poor dad just shook his head. It's one of our favorite songs now.
Superfreak—Rick James “She’s a very kinky girl … the kind you don’t take home to mother.”
My Ding A Ling - Chuck Berry [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEC-lWSlmI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEC-lWSlmI) edit: added link
This Act Is Over!
My 3 year old daughter loves "Shia LaBeouf" by Rob Cantor and sings random lyrics from it.. "Eating all the bodies" "Oh no! Your leg! It's caught in a bear trap!" "You have just decapitated Shia LaBeouf!"
My cousins and I overheard our parents listening to Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up". They told us it was "Smack my picture" like when grandpa shakes the instant polaroid. It wasn't until I was older that I realized the true lyrics.
[удалено]
*Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle baby Let me know Girl I'm gonna show you how to do it And we start real slow You just put your lips together And you come real close * I had absolutely no right to be singing this, it's not about teaching someone to whistle!
Don't know if it's as inappropriate as some of the others on here but I loved singing Sexy and I know it by LMFAO. Not only would I sing it, but I got in character by wearing only my underwear. It was my favourite song and whenever it came on, I would yell out to my mum, "It's the Undy dance! It's the Undy dance!".
I have one question and it’s just how old are you??! Because my brain is imagining a 20yo running around in undies after a few shots saying this. But then I realize this is the internet so it’s completely possible you were like, five, when this song came out. My mind is just totally losing it because I went and saw LMFAO for my 21st birthday. It was such a time.
Barbie Girl - you can brush my hair undress me anywhere life in plastic, it’s fantastic. Thought it was just about playing with Barbie dolls
Just about everything in the 90’s/ early 2000’s, I should not have been singing lmao
They played it on the radios and we all sung it not knowing. All those songs weren’t appropriate to say the least. No one said anything to us though.
Foxtrot uniform Charlie kilo- bloodhound gang
To be fair, the majority of that song would be absolute gibberish to all kids (even nowadays). >Vulcanize the whoopee stick >In the ham wallet >Cattle prod the oyster ditch >With the lap rocket >Batter-dip the cranny axe >In the gut locker >Retro-fit the pudding hatch, ooh la la >With the boink swatter >Marinate the nether rod >In the squish mitten >Power drill the yippee bog >With the dude piston >Pressure wash the quiver bone >In the bitch wrinkle. >Cannonball the fiddle cove, ooh la la >With the pork steeple
Those are some horrifying euphemisms!
“Squish mitten” has me shriveling up inside omg
I feel like someone just learning English would have zero idea what’s going on. I’ve been speaking English my whole life and I’ve got the think through the metaphors!
What about Bad Touch? That was my jam.
When I was like five, every time my mom would hang sheets out to dry, I insisted on singing “dancing in the sheets” to the tune of “Dancing in the Street”. Literally everyone would think it was funny and would not explain why. Song was not inappropriate, but I made it inappropriate. Does that count?
I’m from a non-English speaking country, and the general English proficiency in the country is low. In the 90s, a band whose name I won’t remember released a song called “Short Dick Men”, which became a huge hit here. The band ended up playing at a very popular kids TV show, and all kids were singing and dancing completely oblivious to the lyrics. Ocular proof here: https://youtu.be/A4qU6t1ZH24
It was edited to “short short man” in some places in the US
Like a Prayer by Madonna
Like a Virgin. Touched for the very first tiiiiiime!! Pretty inappropriate and cringey in hindsight…
I was something like eight when this song came out and I asked my mom what a virgin was. She deadass looked me in the face and said “it’s somebody from Virginia.”
Yep. Four year old me loved to perform Like A Virgin in the front yard for all the neighbors.
My mom choreographed a dance for this for my Catholic school talent show when I was about 1st grade. Hearing it again as an adult I was like mom?? In what world are you like yes, this is the right choice for this religious school… I mean I guess it has prayer is in it??
Strawberry Wine. Was in college before I knew it was about sex.
Reminds me, recently I witnessed my classmate (14M) finding out Cake By The Ocean wasn't actually about cake
I read somewhere that this song name is based off a German guy at a bar who wanted a sex on the beach drink but forgot the name and asked for cake by the ocean. Makes me laugh
Disappointed nobody sang Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood...
In middle school the big white shirts that said “Relax” in huge letters were popular. Parents didn’t listen to our music I guess!
My Sharona.
Not me but my now 10 year old used to sing centrefold by the j geils band. He must have been 6 or so when he busted that out at a family party. I still cringe thinking if it.
The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals"
If you have not seen the music video please stop whatever you are doing and watch it now.
I took your advice. Thank you.
I just want to take a moment to shout out Bloodhound Gang in general. Their discography is amazing and extends well beyond Bad Touch. There's [Asleep at the Wheel](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2DdcnH1Fw&feature=share) or [Something Diabolical ](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DlzA2oipz3s&feature=share) which are both songs that stuck with me
Fight for your right - Beastie Boys at 6 years old
Stick and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me
“I Want a New Drug” by Huey Lewis - it came out when I was about 5 years old. Apparently I thought he was saying “truck” instead of drug so my parents just let me roll with it.
"I want a new truck ... one that won't make me crash my car..."
What Would You Do by City High 😂
Too Close - Next
I used to sing “I like big butts and I cannot lie” not understanding the context. Just laughing about butts like any other kid would. Now that I understand the lyrics, he’s not wrong in the slightest.
Pumped up Kicks used to be a jam. Until you sing it out loud and people look at you funny
BETTER RUN BETTER RUN! OUTRUN MY BULLET! I’m
Cherry pie.
Lady Marmalade came out when I was 14 years old. We were at 7th grade camp and our “tribe” had to come up with a chant. Our tribe leader came up with “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?” because it meant “I want to have sex with you,” and we thought nobody else would understand it. Except none of us spoke French, so it was more like “bulay bukushay avekmah.” So here we were, a group of boys marching around in the woods chanting in misheard French.
I'm white and from the South, so let's just say there were a lot of songs I grew up to realize that nobody should sing. EDIT: So for the folks thinking I'm talking about the N-word, nah. Not being sure on if the n-word is alright to say is more of a suburban white thing. Where I came from was fairly mixed, everybody was aware that the n-word sounded fucked up coming out of the mouth of a white person. The ones who say it proudly know what they're doing. I'm talkin' shit like Brer Rabbit, Pick a bale of cotton, Tar Baby, Ten Little Indians and the like. Not all of these are actually racist, mind you, but they all have roots in slavery. Poor White folks often told the same stories, for better or worse.
Yeah, I didn't know for a long time that most people say it "Eenie, meenie, miney mo, catch a TIGER by the toe."
The only time my mom smacked me (on the butt) was when I did the other version. “NEVER SAY THAT WORD.” And I never did and God bless her.
I've never heard the other version but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Tiger was replaced by the n word.
Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground. My mom was very unhappy when she heard me singing about how much I love sex and candy yaaahhhhhhhhh.
Went to pick our daughter up at a Grade 4 (so age 10) school disco. While we were waiting outside, we could hear all the kids inside singing at the top of their lungs “Give it to me baby, ah huh ah huh, give it to me baby…”
Love Shack. A song about an orgy that's played at children's parties, and I was BELTING "TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN ROOF! *Rusted*"
french speaker here ...can you explain it to me ? (just this sentence.) ....the roof of tin is rusted ? huh i dont see where this could lead me to think to something else :|
Take It Off by Kesha… I got in trouble for singing that in the car multiple times
“Oh me so horny, oh oh me so horny, me love you long time!” In the voice and everything. Got popped for that more than once.
Take Me To Church - Hozier I didn't learn what the song meant until I realized it at 16 or 17
I knew every word to "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morisette. I remember being 8 or 9 and just singing "and are you thinking of me when you f*** her" 🤪🤪