Saturday, October 6, 2012

'Blow My Whistle Baby'--Really?

Hey, for a fifty-four year old white guy, I'm pretty 'hip'. I can get 'jiggy with it'. I know the 'down low' or the 'up top'. I know the name of groups like 'Two-Chains' and Two Pac--Three Pac's brother. My weakness is I really don't listen to the lyrics of songs on the radio-until recently. It has caused me to ask and then research today's topic. There are lyrics, song lyrics, I think are hinting at some sexual-well, stuff! Yeah, I know, shocking!! Let me give you a couple of examples I am sure you were not aware of and then tell you what else I found.

'Will you blow my whistle baby, whistle baby....'
Or-
'I want to drive you like a car....'
 and my favorite-
'I want to take a ride on your pogo stick.'

In these cases, I do not think, I am kinda going out on a limb here and say, I don't think the first one has anything to do with sharing a person's referee whistle or the second dealing with automotive correctness. The third could actually be some eighth grader at PS-134 asking to share, jury is still out on that one.

Funny about lyrics. Here are a few from around the world and parts of Detroit you might not have heard and their secret meaning:

  • 'Chunk me like a rabbit...' Tanzania- is a song lyric indicating how to actually cook another human for those remaining cannibal tribes. The follow up line has something to do with season salt and a little paprika. 
  • '...Frito me loving you like a catwalk.' Portugal- Is indicative of a trend in that country in response to the financial hardship of its neighbor, Spain, and their financial problems. It is a Portuguese metaphor for "Holy Crap!!!!"
  • 'Make me arch my back and fly me to the stars.' Jamaica-Bob Marley hold outs that still believe, with just the right amount of Ganja, they actually can fly to the the 'outer banks' of our solar system. 
  • 'Mow me like you own me.' South Detroit- this simply means 'more of me for you to file liens against.' If you slow it down and play it backwards, however, you get the lyrics to an old Tony Bennett song. 
Well, there ya go. You never know--you know? Being vigilant in the song world is important. We definitely don't want these songs corrupting our youth. Yuz diggin' wat me hips sayin', dawg?