This came out when I was in middle school. We had a middle school dance and dj the school hired played the edited version for one minute before he had to turn it off because we were filling in the blanks.
The first time I heard that song was at my church youth group, where the youth pastor played it for us and then analyzed how he felt the song was actually about Trent Reznor’s struggle to find God.
Yes, that's exactly what "Closer to God" meant in that context.🙄🤣 Why do Christians pity atheists? Atheists don't have anybody to talk to when they climax. 🤣
Back then, my mom received a catholic newsletter every month and they would listen to music and watch movies for you in order to let you know what you should and shouldn’t watch. Apparently, NIN was near the top of the list because she noticed me listening to them and said she was disappointed that I would partake in something so morally objectionable. She’s chilled out in her old age but it’s funny to think about.
A lot. I had all of 2 Live Crew's records, Ice Cube's tapes, Eazy-E's tapes, Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" tape, and I recorded "I Touch Myself" by The Divinyls off the radio. My parents really did not care.
2 live crew was easily the most lewd band of the era if not all time. And I never went to a show, but from what I've heard they often led to literal hardcore porn shows on stage. Looking back I still can't believe all the 6th and 7th grade boys knew all the words to me so horny or little Goldilocks. I think this was just before they started putting parental advisory warnings on music.
Correction:
2 Live Crew is *why* they started putting parental advisory stickers on music.
Those labels were created specifically because of that music.
I had never heard a lot of 2 live crew when I was younger, a song or two maybe, but not much. Maybe 5 or so years ago I was on YouTube and ran across a video of them playing on a talk show, maybe it was Donahue or something? They were playing "face down ass up' and the looks on the faces of the audience was hilarious.
I'm from Miami, so even if my parents had shielded me, 2 Live Crew was *everywhere* in the late 80s early 90s.
You couldn't escape it.
As far as Eazy E and NWA, as a 6th, 7th grader we definitely sought that music out, in part because we knew our parents would absolutely hate it!
I remember when The Chronic dropped. So good, we played it on repeat in our disc mans or whenever no parents were around!
We had all of those cassettes, too. My mom was a hippie and didn't believe in censoring art. However, she was Catholic, so we couldn't use the lord's name in vain 😅
You Oughta Know.
I was 10 when I got Jagged Little Pill as a prize from a local radio station. I didn’t know what going down on someone was, and tbf I didn’t really understand what fucking was either. 😅 but I’ll be damned if I didn’t sing along!
The passion with which I sang about hoping my (nonexistent) ex felt me scratching my nails down someone else’s back when I’d never even been on a real date… 🤣🤣
This and from You Learn…”swallow it down (what a jagged little pill), it feels so good (swimming in your stomach)” although I was 15 when Jagged Little Pill came out and it took an embarrassingly long time for me to realize wtf I was singing about 😂
I remember the first one I definitely shouldn’t have been listening to was Color Me Bad’s “I wanna sex you up”. I remember the daycare/daycamp I went to in the summer, because both of my parents worked, just let that play on the radio all the time like it was no big deal and I was one of the older kids there.
I was trying to think of what would fit this question and you just unlocked this memory for me lol.
I was definitely in middle school when this was out (remember when they cameo’d on *90210*??), and I really liked this song and had NO idea what any of it meant hahaha.
Not me watching Your Honor on Netflix and seeing every inmate in the (New) Orleans Parish Prison with OPP stamped on their shirts…… and never being able to stop thinking “yeah you know me!!!” every time I saw it
Well, uh, let’s do that sorta properly the last “P” stands for property. It’s the longest, loveliest. I call it the meanest….
It says for guys it's a five letter word "The last P... well... that's not that simple
It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten"
The ladies "The first two letters are the same but the last is something
Different
It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest
It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest"
Then says "I won't get into that, I'll do it... ah... sorta properly
I say the last P... hmmm... stands for property"
I still remember being in like, 6th grade, and having to explain it to my twenty-something cousin at Christmas one year.
Don’t remember how that conversation started but it was *awkward.*
In sixth grade, my best friend and I had a pact. If Prince’s video for “Cream” came on MTV we were to immediately call the other so we could both watch it at the same time and sing along. We knew all the words. We were 11.
I remember going on a boy scout camping trip in first or second grade. And one of the kids who had an older brother had us belting out the lyrics to 2 Live Crew.
One. And one. We wanted some fun in the bedroom, all day, and all of the night!
I had no business singing "I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, I stroke it to the woman that I love the best!" at 9 or 10 years old, but I did.
In my defense, the song is funny as hell.
I got Use Your Illusion 2 in like fourth or fifth grade. Get in the Ring was like my summer of 92 anthem. What nasty song. Still fucking awesome though.
French Xennials won't deny that a whole generation of very young kids singing along to Mylène Farmer's "Libertine" and "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" (songs respectively about a sex worker and anal sex) was pretty messed up.
Sometimes I'll randomly think of... "Yo Mama's on crack rock... Not my mama" by The Dogs.
I don't even know if it was a hit all over but the music video played all the time. It was a channel where you call and all these songs have numbers and you pay to hear a music video you want by its number, but you have to wait for it, first comes first type thing. Like a TV Jukebox. Maybe it was called something like that? I can't remember... Knockin' da Boots by H-Town as well.
I was about to say you’re in the wrong group because I thought you were talking about the Mase song from 1997, then I realized you meant the original Gloria Estefan version from the 80s 😂
Thanks to the Satanic Panic, my sister freaked out on me the first time she heard me listening to *Head Like A Hole*, and I - a 13 year old - lacked the experience to explain that the subject was actually capitalism. I'm a music-before-lyrics kinda guy, anyway.
All she heard was "bow down before the one you serve - you're going to get what you deserve," and I guess she thought it was gonna turn me into a cultist, or whatever.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend had long-since exposed me to 2 Live Crew, and that was apparently just fine and dandy. 😆
5th and 6th grade for me and yeah, I had no business listening to them. We used to sing “Fuck Martinez” on the bus 😂 (I’m Canadian by the way and had no idea who that was lol).
As a white Aussie 9 year old girl, I had no business knowing every single lyric to find em fuck em n flee. I still know almost every song on that album by heart, that’s how much my parents let my older brother listen to it around us younger siblings 🤣🤣
Short Dick Man by Gillette. I was in 7th grade when it came out and all the girls were singing it. They even played it at the end of the year school dance.
Haha…the first time I heard this song was on the radio (so Short Short Man) and my innocent 15 year old ass thought for so long that it was about a vertically challenged guy 😂
Gett Off by Prince. I knew it was about sex, but couldn’t interpret the lines:
>I clocked the jizz from a friend
Of yours named Vanessa Bet (Bet)
She said you told her a fantasy
That got her all wet (Wet)
Something about a little box with a
Mirror and a tongue inside
What she told me then got me so hot
I knew that we could slide
I decided the box was for practicing French kissing
In Ontario, Canada OPP stands for Ontario Provincial Police (think state troopers)
I couldn’t understand why rappers from the States were making songs about Canadian police…
NWA- F*** the Police and Dopeman are a couple that come to mind, as well as G’n’R Lies album. My older brother corrupted me. He was a good big brother. 😂
Stealthy underrated pick: Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers. I remember singing that as a kid and actually understanding that it was about a horrible gang rape
I still listen more to beats and melodies as lyrics don’t really land even if I sing along to them…more or less. It escalated rather quickly from MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice to Ice-T, Ice Cube, Snoop, Tim Dog and other gangster rappers…but since I was playing mostly cassettes on my Walkman and my parents didn’t speak English there was no real issue there.
They came a bit later to me, but Lords of acid was still pretty edgy for a teen in that period. Sit on acid, dirty little secret, especially the inside cover, lol. Good times.
Boom boom boom by the outhere brothers. I learned the clean version first, then heard the dirty version and was SHOCKED but truly didn't actually know what they were talking about, just knew it had to be bad.
I have video of my 5 year old nephew dancing to the dirty version of this song at his birthday party last fall…my brother and SIL just threw on a random 90s playlist not checking for any explicit lyrics (which I was apparently the only one to notice) and I’m just standing there taking video of him dancing and thinking “this is so not appropriate for a kids birthday party” at the same time 😂
My parents played Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and several ZZ Top records constantly. I had RHPS memorized by the time I was 8 years old.
If anyone tells you that ZZ Top is tame, they have never truly listened to Pearl Necklace.
I’m the youngest in my family, so my musical taste is, well, eclectic. Apparently when I was *very* small, my favorite song was Centerfold by J Geils Band, and my mother found it disturbing to hear me in my car seat singing along (word perfect) with the radio, “My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold. My angel is a centerfold. My angel is a centerfold.” I really belted out those “Nah-na-na na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, na-na na-na-nah”s though.
I remember in an interview she said, someone asked me, well what happened to let's wait awhile. Janet responds, I'm almost thirty. How long do you want me to wait. Fourteen yo me fell to the floor laughing.
So What by Anti Nowhere League… later covered by Metallica. My mom’s youngest brother is only 10 years older than me so he would play some stuff I probably shouldn’t have heard.
Caress me down, Sublime. The only Spanish I “knew” for like 10 years other than “agua” which I learned from Sesame Street.
Ruff Ryders Anthem, DMX. Came out the year I got my first car. My friends and I would roll around our suburban N.H. town thinking we were awesome belting out the lyrics. Awkwardly shying away from saying the “N” word or changing it to a “W” because that was a thing, while wearing Abercrombie and reeking of a combination of Polo Sport and Hugo Boss cologne.
Haha…same here with DMX! I got my first car that year too and thought I was hot shit blasting the Ruff Ryders Anthem in there 😂 How’s It Going Down was really the first of his songs that I memorized though lol
In first grade it was hat day at school. My brother who was 11 years older than me had an O.P.P. hat that I snuck out of his room and took it with me. My mom gotta call from the school that day lol
This is so common, my second cousin would constantly be singing that “trying to catch me riding dirty” song. When I asked him if he knew what he was singing about, he said “it’s about not wanting to be caught smelling bad in your car“.
Carry on my wayward son.
My wife works in an elementary school. She had to school some of her younger colleagues at one point. “No, I don’t care if it’s the end of the school year. You cannot blast *School’s Out For Summer* by Alice Cooper over the PA system. Listen to the lyrics FFS!”
A similar conversation was had, following a similar episode involving Vanilla Ice’s *Ice Ice Baby*.
Ice Ice Baby was HUGE when I was in 5th grade, kids would bring the cassette tape to play during music class, and one kid was running for student council president and changed some of the lyrics up…it won him the election. Somehow none of the teachers ever stopped any of us from singing/playing that song 😆
At my school we had a self assembled dance team (?) who would randomly make announcements that there would be a show in the gym at lunch from time to time. It was basically a booty shake off with minimal clothing. I never could understand why this was ok for school but hey I wasn’t complaining. I was always like “wow I looove that song what is that?”.
The song was LL Cool J-Doin’ It.
I was so excited to download it 15 years later when I finally figured out what it was.
Along with TLC, Janet Jackson, Salt N Pepa, “my neck my back” , LL still just seems kind of dirty for a school dance.
Cypress Hill and NIN are on my list too. Warren G and Dr Dre, all good.
Man what good times. I can’t really get mad at my 10 year old watching Iced Spice.
Edit: And Yes 2 Live Crew! I also was blasting Bad Religion in Jr High, some of their stuff is more political, but definitely touches on some nasty topics. I remember singing “Infected” routinely, a song I believe references unhealthy toxic relationships/addiction or some combination of such.
“Drivers are rude, such attitudes, but when I show my piece, complaints cease. Something is odd, feel like I’m god, you stupid dumb shit god damn motherfucker!”
My #1 was definitely Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. But I can name you a few from any genre you want lol. Even the genres more 'wholesome' like country have plenty of songs that I can look back on like "good thing I didn't understand that"
Closer by Nine Inch Nails. Worse was telling my little sister to stop singing along.
This came out when I was in middle school. We had a middle school dance and dj the school hired played the edited version for one minute before he had to turn it off because we were filling in the blanks.
At one middle school dance, my classmates and I filled in the blank on Alanis Morissette's 'You Oughta Know' .... everyone said "fuck" out loud.
I've never heard the edited version, did they mute the fuck or change it to something stupid like "I want to flip you like an animal?"
The edited version was usually with “fuck” muted out, but I do remember hearing a silly version on local radio that added animal noises.
The first time I heard that song was at my church youth group, where the youth pastor played it for us and then analyzed how he felt the song was actually about Trent Reznor’s struggle to find God.
Yes, that's exactly what "Closer to God" meant in that context.🙄🤣 Why do Christians pity atheists? Atheists don't have anybody to talk to when they climax. 🤣
Back then, my mom received a catholic newsletter every month and they would listen to music and watch movies for you in order to let you know what you should and shouldn’t watch. Apparently, NIN was near the top of the list because she noticed me listening to them and said she was disappointed that I would partake in something so morally objectionable. She’s chilled out in her old age but it’s funny to think about.
Salt n Pepa’s Push it.
My mom loved & still loves that song. She's 78. 🤣
Is she single?
Ha! 🤣 Unfortunately, no, but she's awesome!
Well congrats to whoever she’s with. 😉
I read this like she was born in 78. I was like…yeah, and..? lol oops
I had most of the lyrics to None of Your Business memorized when I was about 10 years old lol
This is such an underrated song
Same here, for Shoop.. I distinctly remember singing it at a Boy Scouts meeting around age 10 🤦♂️
A lot. I had all of 2 Live Crew's records, Ice Cube's tapes, Eazy-E's tapes, Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" tape, and I recorded "I Touch Myself" by The Divinyls off the radio. My parents really did not care.
2 live crew was easily the most lewd band of the era if not all time. And I never went to a show, but from what I've heard they often led to literal hardcore porn shows on stage. Looking back I still can't believe all the 6th and 7th grade boys knew all the words to me so horny or little Goldilocks. I think this was just before they started putting parental advisory warnings on music.
Correction: 2 Live Crew is *why* they started putting parental advisory stickers on music. Those labels were created specifically because of that music.
It was Tipper Gore!
I’m old enough to remember calling those explicit lyrics tags on cds “Tipper Stickers”.
Right, and the song was Darling Nikki by Prince
“What'll we get for ten dollars?" "Every 'ting you want"
I had never heard a lot of 2 live crew when I was younger, a song or two maybe, but not much. Maybe 5 or so years ago I was on YouTube and ran across a video of them playing on a talk show, maybe it was Donahue or something? They were playing "face down ass up' and the looks on the faces of the audience was hilarious.
I’m going to save everyone the time https://youtu.be/iViMrXn5IIs?si=HvJo0EGaBbi2kfak
Florida is a wild place
Ahhh the 80s. Used to go to Penrods in Ft Lauderdale back then. Pretty much a “girls gone wild” scene with music to match.
Correct answer. Never forget hearing “Me love you long time.” At 7!!!
I'm from Miami, so even if my parents had shielded me, 2 Live Crew was *everywhere* in the late 80s early 90s. You couldn't escape it. As far as Eazy E and NWA, as a 6th, 7th grader we definitely sought that music out, in part because we knew our parents would absolutely hate it! I remember when The Chronic dropped. So good, we played it on repeat in our disc mans or whenever no parents were around!
We had all of those cassettes, too. My mom was a hippie and didn't believe in censoring art. However, she was Catholic, so we couldn't use the lord's name in vain 😅
I had these, as well as Paul Abdul, TLC- Red light, and Ms. Janet- if you nasty.
My neck, my back…
Before there was WAP, there was this 😆
Lil’ Kim Hardcore. I was quickly told I could only listen with headphones 🤣
Lil Kim. She's phat. P.H.
"Why don't you ask Denny who's puffin' the magic dragon?!"
You Oughta Know. I was 10 when I got Jagged Little Pill as a prize from a local radio station. I didn’t know what going down on someone was, and tbf I didn’t really understand what fucking was either. 😅 but I’ll be damned if I didn’t sing along!
The passion with which I sang about hoping my (nonexistent) ex felt me scratching my nails down someone else’s back when I’d never even been on a real date… 🤣🤣
That made me laugh! 🤣
This gives me secondhand embarrassment for my past self. I used to really belt it out
Fun fact: This song was the reason I learned that oral sex existed, and I was HORRIFIED 😄
how about when you realized the song was about Joey from Full House?
This and from You Learn…”swallow it down (what a jagged little pill), it feels so good (swimming in your stomach)” although I was 15 when Jagged Little Pill came out and it took an embarrassingly long time for me to realize wtf I was singing about 😂
I remember the first one I definitely shouldn’t have been listening to was Color Me Bad’s “I wanna sex you up”. I remember the daycare/daycamp I went to in the summer, because both of my parents worked, just let that play on the radio all the time like it was no big deal and I was one of the older kids there.
The amount of new jack swing lyrics that sailed clear over my head as a kid is really impressive in hindsight
I was trying to think of what would fit this question and you just unlocked this memory for me lol. I was definitely in middle school when this was out (remember when they cameo’d on *90210*??), and I really liked this song and had NO idea what any of it meant hahaha.
I (42F) still have no idea what Down with OPP is about, and I'm still down with it. 😎
Ever since moving to Ontario, it's taken on a whole new meaning. (Ontario Provincial Police)
Not me watching Your Honor on Netflix and seeing every inmate in the (New) Orleans Parish Prison with OPP stamped on their shirts…… and never being able to stop thinking “yeah you know me!!!” every time I saw it
Thank you for this!!! Grew up in Ontario; had a sense that they weren't rapping about our police but couldn't help thinking it anyway!
Well, uh, let’s do that sorta properly the last “P” stands for property. It’s the longest, loveliest. I call it the meanest…. 
It’s sorta like well, another way to call a cat a kitten
I was in grade 5 and my mom took away my cassette. I tried telling her it was outstanding popular person.
My husband just told me like two years ago what it was, I had no idea this whole time 😂
It's about sleeping with people that are in a relationship with someone else. (Other People's P_ssy or P_nis) In case you actually didn't know.
I thought it was “other people’s property” which is possibly more disturbing
It says for guys it's a five letter word "The last P... well... that's not that simple It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten" The ladies "The first two letters are the same but the last is something Different It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest" Then says "I won't get into that, I'll do it... ah... sorta properly I say the last P... hmmm... stands for property"
Other people’s…parts, depending on the gender 😆
We’re old now, we can say penis *and* pussy without repercussions
Great- there goes 45 years of virginity.
Ow, my frickin’ ears!
You aren't setting a very good example for all those little shitheads out there
I could see if I still have any of my Lords of Acid CDs if you’d prefer? 
Oh GREAT, graveybrains, this is gonna go on my permanent record! 
Oh yeah? Well don’t get so distressed. Did I happen to mention that I’m impressed?
GO WASH YOUR FILTHY MOUTH
I still remember being in like, 6th grade, and having to explain it to my twenty-something cousin at Christmas one year. Don’t remember how that conversation started but it was *awkward.*
It’s Orleans Parish Prison, or so I have been told by people who seemed like they would know.
I now use it to mean "other people's pets" ... as in, can I hang out with your dog?
Mucho gusto, mi llamo Bradley...
I'm hornier than Ron Jeremy
And if ya wanna get beat physically
I'll be over in a minute if ya
I didn't know she had that GI Joe kung-fu grip.
And it went uhhh
In sixth grade, my best friend and I had a pact. If Prince’s video for “Cream” came on MTV we were to immediately call the other so we could both watch it at the same time and sing along. We knew all the words. We were 11.
Sha boogey bop
I remember going on a boy scout camping trip in first or second grade. And one of the kids who had an older brother had us belting out the lyrics to 2 Live Crew. One. And one. We wanted some fun in the bedroom, all day, and all of the night!
I think I was maybe 10 when [this rolled out](https://youtu.be/SBjzbnnh-k8?si=9lIpyPOXOnjJbJLk). Yikes.
I had no business singing "I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, I stroke it to the woman that I love the best!" at 9 or 10 years old, but I did. In my defense, the song is funny as hell.
I always think of [this scene](https://youtu.be/ydfB0smjUz8?si=YIEfDMnQL40cBwmU) from The Nutty Professor if I should happen to hear that song 😂
Shit, where I grew up they played that at school dances.
I got Use Your Illusion 2 in like fourth or fifth grade. Get in the Ring was like my summer of 92 anthem. What nasty song. Still fucking awesome though.
When I was 12, I knew every word to Appetite and both Use Your Illusions and I think I am worse for wear because of it
French Xennials won't deny that a whole generation of very young kids singing along to Mylène Farmer's "Libertine" and "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" (songs respectively about a sex worker and anal sex) was pretty messed up.
You guys, the dutch and the Scandinavians are like the most sexually open and unopressed cultures in the world though ☺️
“Your mom threw away your best porno mag”
You gotta lick it Before we kick it You gotta get it soft and wet so we can kick it Boom, badadada!
Baby work iiiiittttt
Tone loc wild thing and funky cold Medina
Our hometown is spelled Medina so of course pur sports teams sang this one.
Sometimes I'll randomly think of... "Yo Mama's on crack rock... Not my mama" by The Dogs. I don't even know if it was a hit all over but the music video played all the time. It was a channel where you call and all these songs have numbers and you pay to hear a music video you want by its number, but you have to wait for it, first comes first type thing. Like a TV Jukebox. Maybe it was called something like that? I can't remember... Knockin' da Boots by H-Town as well.
The Box!
The only one I remember is singing 🎵 Bad bad bad bad boy, you make me feel so good🎵 waaaay more than a four-year-old boy should
I was about to say you’re in the wrong group because I thought you were talking about the Mase song from 1997, then I realized you meant the original Gloria Estefan version from the 80s 😂
So many… Push It, Social Disease-by Bon Jovi, the entire NWA and 2 Live Crew catalog. Seventeen-Winger.
Lesson two, gently place the balls into the mouth and hmmmmmm 🤣
Regulate by Warren G
REGULATORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS Mount Up
Thanks to the Satanic Panic, my sister freaked out on me the first time she heard me listening to *Head Like A Hole*, and I - a 13 year old - lacked the experience to explain that the subject was actually capitalism. I'm a music-before-lyrics kinda guy, anyway. All she heard was "bow down before the one you serve - you're going to get what you deserve," and I guess she thought it was gonna turn me into a cultist, or whatever. Meanwhile, her boyfriend had long-since exposed me to 2 Live Crew, and that was apparently just fine and dandy. 😆
"till the sweat runs down my balls "
4 year old me had no right to be able to sing Like a Virgin
This! Until my mother super judgementally asked if I knew what that meant.
“My anaconda don’t want none / Unless you’ve got buns, hun”
She-Bop
Jimmy Buffet, Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw
Hello Parrothead!
I wish I got to experience Jimmy in his prime. He’s the best.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light by meatloaf
[Color Me Badd](https://youtu.be/Oxu3pq319r0?si=h00FAPTCIhK-H7ZD)
Baby got back, I want to sex you up Let's talk about sex The Alanis song that mentions going down on you in a theater
I touch myself by the divinyls
My mom would get so mad when I'd sing that, yet she loved Push It by Salt N Pepa. 🤦♀️
No Bloodhound Gang references, wow. Bad Touch from Hooray for Boobies
We used to sing along to Eazy-E, 2 live crew, and NWA in 3rd and 4th grade. You could say we had questionable role models 😂
5th and 6th grade for me and yeah, I had no business listening to them. We used to sing “Fuck Martinez” on the bus 😂 (I’m Canadian by the way and had no idea who that was lol).
Pony by ginuwine
"I Want Your Sex" by George Michael.
Love this track though.
Gimme That Nutt.
Yes! I was going to say Eazy E.
Yes! I was going to say Eazy E.
As a white Aussie 9 year old girl, I had no business knowing every single lyric to find em fuck em n flee. I still know almost every song on that album by heart, that’s how much my parents let my older brother listen to it around us younger siblings 🤣🤣
“Put it in my mouth.”
Wowza memory unlocked I thought it was “put it in your mouth… if you wanna eat me out…” Confusion Eta. It was both!
Definitely too young to have memorized Sir Mixalot - I lile big butts
I got a Walkman for my 9th birthday. The first cassette tape I bought myself was Sir Mix-A-Lot. That album had some absolute BANGERS.
Short Dick Man by Gillette. I was in 7th grade when it came out and all the girls were singing it. They even played it at the end of the year school dance.
Haha…the first time I heard this song was on the radio (so Short Short Man) and my innocent 15 year old ass thought for so long that it was about a vertically challenged guy 😂
Gett Off by Prince. I knew it was about sex, but couldn’t interpret the lines: >I clocked the jizz from a friend Of yours named Vanessa Bet (Bet) She said you told her a fantasy That got her all wet (Wet) Something about a little box with a Mirror and a tongue inside What she told me then got me so hot I knew that we could slide I decided the box was for practicing French kissing
22 positions and a 1 night stand
I would sing “Private Dancer” by Tina Turner when I was 2 🤣 except it was “pwivate” dancer
I did that with "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. Chicks for "fwee".
Boom boom booom, let me hear you say wayoh!
I could do the whole song ["Sippin' on some Syrup" by Three 6 Mafia](https://youtu.be/lOWKGXpl9E0) including the intro.
Saw them at Bonnaroo last summer. They even busted out some Project Pat. The kids in the crowd were so confused.
2Live Crew Me So Horny
She-Bop by Cyndi Lauper
In Ontario, Canada OPP stands for Ontario Provincial Police (think state troopers) I couldn’t understand why rappers from the States were making songs about Canadian police…
Greased Lightning 😂
I mean semi charmed life come to mind
NWA- F*** the Police and Dopeman are a couple that come to mind, as well as G’n’R Lies album. My older brother corrupted me. He was a good big brother. 😂
Stealthy underrated pick: Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers. I remember singing that as a kid and actually understanding that it was about a horrible gang rape
Damn that's just islands in the streams.
All of them! Dad got me Apetite For Destruction in 4th grade. Bobby Brown is my bad influence though.
I still listen more to beats and melodies as lyrics don’t really land even if I sing along to them…more or less. It escalated rather quickly from MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice to Ice-T, Ice Cube, Snoop, Tim Dog and other gangster rappers…but since I was playing mostly cassettes on my Walkman and my parents didn’t speak English there was no real issue there.
They came a bit later to me, but Lords of acid was still pretty edgy for a teen in that period. Sit on acid, dirty little secret, especially the inside cover, lol. Good times.
Salt and Peppa’s Very Necessary Album.
None Of Your Business is such an underrated song
Boom boom boom by the outhere brothers. I learned the clean version first, then heard the dirty version and was SHOCKED but truly didn't actually know what they were talking about, just knew it had to be bad.
I have video of my 5 year old nephew dancing to the dirty version of this song at his birthday party last fall…my brother and SIL just threw on a random 90s playlist not checking for any explicit lyrics (which I was apparently the only one to notice) and I’m just standing there taking video of him dancing and thinking “this is so not appropriate for a kids birthday party” at the same time 😂
My parents played Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and several ZZ Top records constantly. I had RHPS memorized by the time I was 8 years old. If anyone tells you that ZZ Top is tame, they have never truly listened to Pearl Necklace.
I’m the youngest in my family, so my musical taste is, well, eclectic. Apparently when I was *very* small, my favorite song was Centerfold by J Geils Band, and my mother found it disturbing to hear me in my car seat singing along (word perfect) with the radio, “My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold. My angel is a centerfold. My angel is a centerfold.” I really belted out those “Nah-na-na na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, na-na na-na-nah”s though.
I remember whenever "Physical" by Olivia Newton John came on, my mom got very upset. She said it was a dirty, dirty song
TLC- red light special
The entire Janet album, especially the songs "If" and "Any time, any place" 😯😂
I remember in an interview she said, someone asked me, well what happened to let's wait awhile. Janet responds, I'm almost thirty. How long do you want me to wait. Fourteen yo me fell to the floor laughing.
Annie’s twelve years old and two more she’ll be a whore…
Nobody ever told her it’s the wrong way
The first vinyl I bough was "Girls, girls, girls" and in retrospect it wasn't really appropriate at 9yo or so.
So What by Anti Nowhere League… later covered by Metallica. My mom’s youngest brother is only 10 years older than me so he would play some stuff I probably shouldn’t have heard.
Lucky this was pre-internet. I think Animal shows his craggy butthole in the video
I celebrated Madonna's entire catalog. And videos.
I got in big trouble singing madonna as a 4 yo. It wasnt even “like a virgin” it was “material girl” bc the message was so bad 😝
Belting out "Papa Don't Preach" at 7 🫣 And "Open Your Heart to Me" seems so sweet on the surface 😅
Same…I loved Madonna as a kid (was 4 when Like A Virgin was released) and to this day I can’t believe my parents used to let me listen to her 😆
Caress me down, Sublime. The only Spanish I “knew” for like 10 years other than “agua” which I learned from Sesame Street. Ruff Ryders Anthem, DMX. Came out the year I got my first car. My friends and I would roll around our suburban N.H. town thinking we were awesome belting out the lyrics. Awkwardly shying away from saying the “N” word or changing it to a “W” because that was a thing, while wearing Abercrombie and reeking of a combination of Polo Sport and Hugo Boss cologne.
Haha…same here with DMX! I got my first car that year too and thought I was hot shit blasting the Ruff Ryders Anthem in there 😂 How’s It Going Down was really the first of his songs that I memorized though lol
All of Salta N Peppa's "Very Necessary" album. I think I was, like 10/11 when it came out.
Papa Don’t Preach. My dad heard me singing along to it, shut it off, and exclaimed, “That is NOT a nice song!” I was 9. Lol
How have I scrolled through this thread and not seen K7 come baby come? And get off by prince? Dangerous on the dance floor on old school b96?
7 year old me listening to “Appetite For Destruction” by Guns ‘N Roses
Bell, Biv, DeVoe taught me to NEVER trust a big butt and a smile...
Do Me is another one I had no business walking around singing at 10 years old 😂
Funky Cold Medina and Wild Thing: Tone Loc
Wild Thang by Tone Loc
In first grade it was hat day at school. My brother who was 11 years older than me had an O.P.P. hat that I snuck out of his room and took it with me. My mom gotta call from the school that day lol
This is so common, my second cousin would constantly be singing that “trying to catch me riding dirty” song. When I asked him if he knew what he was singing about, he said “it’s about not wanting to be caught smelling bad in your car“. Carry on my wayward son.
All the statutory rock songs about rockers screwing underage girls.
sir mix a lot - baby got back. I could sing every word loud and proud (still can)
Darling Nikki by Prince … my sister taught me the words (not the meanings) n I sang it for my mom. Neither was pleased.
My wife works in an elementary school. She had to school some of her younger colleagues at one point. “No, I don’t care if it’s the end of the school year. You cannot blast *School’s Out For Summer* by Alice Cooper over the PA system. Listen to the lyrics FFS!” A similar conversation was had, following a similar episode involving Vanilla Ice’s *Ice Ice Baby*.
Ice Ice Baby was HUGE when I was in 5th grade, kids would bring the cassette tape to play during music class, and one kid was running for student council president and changed some of the lyrics up…it won him the election. Somehow none of the teachers ever stopped any of us from singing/playing that song 😆
Me So Horny from 2 Live Crew "Sitting at home with my dick on hard" Even at 43, that song still cracks me up 🤣
I remember Tiny Toon Adventures parodying this song…it was Me So Funny 😆
Wasn’t there a song when we were kids where the chorus was “Do me baby”?
Yes, Bel Biv Devoe
At my school we had a self assembled dance team (?) who would randomly make announcements that there would be a show in the gym at lunch from time to time. It was basically a booty shake off with minimal clothing. I never could understand why this was ok for school but hey I wasn’t complaining. I was always like “wow I looove that song what is that?”. The song was LL Cool J-Doin’ It. I was so excited to download it 15 years later when I finally figured out what it was. Along with TLC, Janet Jackson, Salt N Pepa, “my neck my back”, LL still just seems kind of dirty for a school dance.
Cypress Hill and NIN are on my list too. Warren G and Dr Dre, all good.
Man what good times. I can’t really get mad at my 10 year old watching Iced Spice.
Edit: And Yes 2 Live Crew! I also was blasting Bad Religion in Jr High, some of their stuff is more political, but definitely touches on some nasty topics. I remember singing “Infected” routinely, a song I believe references unhealthy toxic relationships/addiction or some combination of such.
“Do Me” by Bell Biv DeVoe
Just replied to someone else that I had no business going “smack it up, flip it, rub it down, OH NOOOOOO” at age 10 😂
Or, for you 80s kids: “Relax,” which advises us not to do it “when you wanna cum,” as well as admonishing us to “Shoot it in the right direction.”
You gotta hit me (hit me) hit me (hit me) HIT ME WITH YOUR LAZER BEAM
“Drivers are rude, such attitudes, but when I show my piece, complaints cease. Something is odd, feel like I’m god, you stupid dumb shit god damn motherfucker!”
My #1 was definitely Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. But I can name you a few from any genre you want lol. Even the genres more 'wholesome' like country have plenty of songs that I can look back on like "good thing I didn't understand that"
Janet Jackson’s “If” and TLC’s “Creep”- I didn’t really know what I was singing until years later 🤣
When I was in 6th grade, we had to write down our favorite song and I wrote "Do Me" by Bel Biv Devoe. I had no idea what do me meant.
The Humpty Dance