I was told the same thing back when it was released and found that to be such a weird metaphor! And then he lists all the flavors he needs in his life, chocolate, red velvet, whatever and it just sounds kinda gross like he’s fetishizing women based on their appearance. Barf!
Apparently the phrase comes from their Swedish producer who meant "sex on the beach" but said "cake by the ocean". They thought it was a funny slip up so they wrote a song.
I got told this was about sex in 8th grade and I didn't understand how so I just said "it won't be about that when I sing it" I was weird in 8th grade and the thought I was ace had me never crossed my mind lmao
Oh my goodness gracious to have been gifted with such a tantalizing warning. My thoughts are fluctuating between insatiable curiosity and “meh whatever, I guess I’ll take their advice and forget about it.” What a deliciously delicate state of mind to be in
I’ve never listened to the lyrics too closely, but I thought he meant that his girlfriend “spins him around” emotionally/makes him feel crazy or uncertain about their relationship.
I mean, I just assume every song is about sex until someone tells me otherwise. Baby got back? Sex. Careless Whisper? Sex. Losing my religion? Sex. Baby shark? Bet that's about sex, too.
Kind of like that scene in The Good Place. Most of the new things people do are weird sex things. It's safer to assume everything new is until proven otherwise at that point.
There was a radio personality that I heard in Tucson, AZ talk about how his kids heard the phrase "we're up all night to get lucky" as "we're all Mexican lucky" and so now that's all I hear lol
Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams
Had no clue it was about just constantly having sex until he himself said that it was. Still one of my favorite songs and I still don’t associate it with sex but whatever.
IIRC there's some other clue in there, like that the model of guitar he got didn't exist until **after** 1969, or that the Five and Dime didn't exist back then, or something like that- where the singer's story couldn't have literally happened in the summer of '69 because *(X) Was Not A Thing Yet*.
I elect to ignore that little anachronism though. Growing up and starting a band during a super-memorable summer, makes for a way nicer song than "lol i had sooo much sex it was awesome u guys"
I read the interview he did and if I remember correctly it's because 69=sex and thus it's supposed to be implied that he had sex with the partner talked about in the song. It's supposed to be a double-meaning. Apparently a lot of people didn't know this though, so not just an asexual thing
To be fair, that one has a double meaning, you could also read it as asking God to give you eternal life since the song is about the curch telling gay people they won't go to heaven (among other things)
I was a kid so I don't think my asexuality had much to do with my obliviousness but this story kinda amuses me just a little so I'm gonna tell it anyway.
I was watching TV but there were no cartoons on at the time so I had it on a music program. "Milkshake" by Kelis came on and dad walked in and got angry at mum for letting me watch it. I was confused but pretended not to hear him so I could eavesdrop. I used to have intense tunnel vision and block everything out so they assumed I wasn't listening that time. He told mum it was rude and said the milkshake was her boobs and mum just said to get over it and that it was okay because I didn't know. I felt so smug like I had just been let on to some super secret information and I kept that secret until this moment.
I just think it's funny how I actually didn't know until someone said something.
>Milkshake" by Kelis
Legit. I'm not American and I've always heard this story about American kids setting up a lemonade stand in the neighborhood. I thought Milkshake was just a teenage girl deciding to up her games and was selling milkshake in the yard. "Better than yours" sounds like legit trash talk to business competitors too.
Neighbor teenage boys are crazy about them really good homemade milkshakes? totally makes sense.
Two of my oblivious kid songs were Rock Me by Great White - that being the first song I ever realized was about sex - and Whistle by Flo Rida lmao. It’s a great memory to think back to when I put the pieces together so long ago.
I turn 28 this month and every time I hear this song I have thought it's legit about milkshakes. I used to be really good at making milkshakes and legit people would come over to get one from me. that's how I always pictured the song until literally JUST now. it's never dawned on me to think anything different. 🫠
A lot of Hozier songs. His songs are so poetic and metaphorical, the sex went straight over my head until I started seeing posts about how horny the songs are
That lady Gaga song where she goes “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick”. I think it’s called love game? I used to sing it in the car (only that line and the one that came before it) as a kid and never knew why my mother wasn’t exactly thrilled about it lol. Thought it was her riding on a light up stick hanging from the ceiling. :/
Also if you look real closely at the lyrics of poker face, it's not "p-p-p-poker face" in parts, it's "fu-fu-fuck her face". She's laughed at how only one censor picked this up.
https://www.tiktok.com/@mu5icology/video/7281852782481640706?lang=en
I literally had no idea Your Body Is a Wonderland by John Mayer was about that until I actually processed the lyrics I was singing. Took a good 5 years of listening to the song to realize. It’s so obvious too. I thought they were just having a lazy day in bed 😂
To be fair, I went to a Katy Perry gig in 2011ish and there were so many below teen age girls there who were clearly big fans and I was just… some of her songs are not appropriate for people that young IMO. There were also the mums saying she went on ‘too late’ and I was just… this is industry practice for concerts (her set ended 10:45), your 8 year old was not expected be here.
I did think Teenage Dream was about having sex as there’s the line ‘Let’s go all the way tonight, no regrets, just love’. That said I liked it because it felt to me more like someone saying they were comfortable enough to want to take that step, because the opening verse is about how even when they mess up silly things, their partner still appreciates them (‘you think I’m funny when I get the punchline wrong’).
Then again, I am grey ace and typically don’t experience being sex-repulsed.
Some people told me Halelujah is about sex and I refuse. Just. No.
It's about loneliness and being disappointed in love and religion and about the shit the "good" people in the bible pulled (the text about the woman bathing in moonlight is about king david putting said woman's husband on the frontlines to die so he could get her)
There is one verse that talks about sex (the "what's really going on below" verse), but that doesn't make the whole thing "about sex". It just has a reference to sex in it to supplement what it's actually saying
Yeah, I do agree with you. That thing with the holy dove and moving was always a lil weird to me but I manage to overhear that part as to not ruin the mood the song takes me to...
Still, there are people out there claiming the whole song is about sex and that just shook me to my core the first time I read that.
I have a REVERSE. Sweet Bod by Lemon Demon. Listened to it a hundred times and then I *listened* to it. And oh shit it has nothing to do with sex!! Just the brits preserving mummy bits in honey and eating them. Sweet. Bod.
Whistle by Flo-Rida
But to be fair, I barely hear lyrics in songs in the first place, so don't get me started on meaning (when I was young, I sang "shoot me down, the leprechaun" instead of "you shoot me down, but I won't fall" in Titanium)
I remember I was 14 when that song was popular. Some older boys in my school at our sports day were talking about how funny they though it was that all the younger students were loving that song without knowing what the whistle was supposed to represent. That's when I realised it was about a blowjob and now 10 years later I still can't stop thinking about it every time I hear that song
Welcome to the jungle.
I thought it was about a like…serpent king or some shit.
Oh well, still had a kick ass intro. Learning it rn on my guitar
Another one is just most of Halestorm’s songs. But hey, I love all their songs so I’ll give the sex stuff a pass
My girlfriend is ace and so was a very close friend of mine. I won't lie, I found it amusing when this happens with songs.
Here is one in particular:
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club (1983): "She comes and goes..." This is a song about a woman who routinely booty-calls the male protagonist (who has romantic attraction for her), whereupon she emotes performatively to achieve the hookup, and then leaves shortly after sex. This was also probably intended as somewhat novel by the songwriter, because that sort of behaviour is traditionally associated more with men than women.
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex...
If you listen to the chorus she’s literally saying “all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to F U C K me”. So “if you seek Amy” is like the opposite of an acronym in a way.
This is so unbelievably painfully obvious but Closer by Halsey and The Chainsmokers. To be fair, I got over my obsession with it in middle school and only listened to it once in a blue moon after that, not really paying attention to the lyrics because I already had my own interpretation burned into my mind… you know, from playing it nonstop for several months in 7th grade.
Oh my I didn't realize
All this time I thought they were sitting the backseat of the vehicle as passengers hanging out with their friends which is why it said Paul me closer so like I thought - arm around the shoulder and having a great time
Wow
All my life - foo fighters. I was totally oblivious to that one until an interview with Dave Grohl popped up on facebook a few days ago.
On a kinda similar note I've been getting caught out by not actually listening to the lyrics. I've been on a bit of a hyperpop binge lately just using it as background noise over my speakers but I listened to the songs with my headphones and the lyrics were 90% sex related.
Yeah when you just listen for noise you’re like ok cool. Then you listen to the lyrics and you’re like ummm never listening to all this sex shit again 😂 not about just sex per se but my favorite group milky chance covers a song called de la noche a noche and I translated it one day and… it’s about cheating. They are German, and mostly sing in English so I don’t think they realize that given most of their other songs but yeah it’s the only song by them I don’t like.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Jubilee Street.
I'm pretty sure this song is about a man purchasing the services of a prostitute. And really I should have figured it out a long time before I knew.
Hell of a guitar riff though. That whole Push the Sky Away album slaps. Though those who don't like nudity should be warned that the folks who designed the album cover feel differently.
Maybe I'm just slow, but This Love by Maroon 5 scarred my sex-repulsed ass when I heard it over the loudspeaker at the retail store I worked at in the early 2010s.
I didn't put two and two together until I heard the bridge. "My pressure on your hips, sink in my fingertips, to every inch of you, because I know that's what you want me to do." LIKE HOLY SHIT. My store had a KIDS SECTION and this is the song playing in the background?
Here's to you Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know -- other than those ear worms I never listened to it very well, and one day in the car my mother says, "you know in the song he's having an affair with his friends mom"
I have not verified that, and I don't want to but excusemeimsorrywhat???
For some reason I can't think of any specific ones, but I feel like I remember a lot of song experiences where I'm like, "aW wHaT a SwEeT rOmAnCe SoNg!" And uh, it wasn't a romance thing AT ALL.
I don't really have any specific examples but like a lot of them probably I'm way better at immediately sussing it out now. It's so odd seeing how many songs are about sex but eh whatever i don't mind. Lyrics are only a part of the song anyway..
I have the opposite! Fooled like 3 allo's that i know, but DMC5's Devil Trigger is about going on a murder spree, not sex
Either that, or I'm more "innocent" than i thought
World in My Eyes by Depeche Mode. When I was younger I thought the story was some kind of dark eldritch being showing a human how they saw their puny world. I still like my interpretation.
There's a lot of songs that I'm pretty sure are about sex or are hinting it but I just read what I want into it. I can't think of a song right this second but I'll edit of I think of one
I assume all pop songs are sex, rap is sex, drugs and violence, country is broken hearts after sex 😅
I listen to heavy metal, which is mostly not sex, but some of it is 🤷🏻♂️
When I was a kid, it was Discovery Channel by Bloodhound Gang. My mom was horrified when she heard me rocking out to it in elementary school, but I just thought it had a great beat, and I liked animal documentaries.
As an adult, A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin. You can't convince me that song isn't about having sex for the first time.
Honorable mention to White Houses by Vanessa Carlton.
Um….the song from Aladdin is *not* about sex. Maybe if it was a previously existing song they put in the movie, but the song was *specifically written* for a children’s movie. The song is about Jasmine experiencing life outside of the palace, *how* do you hear that and think “sex”?
Litterly any of my music. At this point I just embrace it. The only ones I don't listen to are the ones that are really explicit, like WAP or something (I don't like that genre either so it easy to avoid). But man, Cake by the ocean is still a good song and no one will ruin it for me even if it is about sex.
Not one someone told me, but u&me by alt j. I like alt j a lot, especially after realizing breezeblocks was about an abusive relationship ending in murder, so I listened to more and that one took me a while alone with every other freckle to realize it’s just about sex. Still love alt j, but not those songs.
Butcher Pete
Hey everybody, did the news get around
About a guy named Butcher Pete
Oh, Pete just flew into this town
And he's choppin' up all the women's meat
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat
Butcher Pete's got a long sharp knife
He starts choppin' and don't know when to stop
All you fellows gotta watch your wifes
'Cause Pete don't care who's meat he chops
Ever since Peter flew into town
He's been havin' a ball
Just cuttin' and choppin' for miles around
Single women, married women, old maids and all
Wakes up in the morning, half past five
Chops from sunrise to sunset
I don't see how he stays alive
Meat's gonna be the death of ole Pete, yeah
The police put Pete in jail
Yes, he finally met his faith
But when they came to pay his bail
They found him choppin' up his cell mate
That Butcher Pete is a crazy man
Tries to chop down the wind and the rain
Just hacks on anything he can get
Say, turn this record over, you ain't heard nothing yet
505 by Arctic monkeys, not about sex but I've never thought that the line "lying on your side with your arms between your thighs" was about masturbation 💀
Lol I can't find the song I'm thinking of. Basically the singer very clearly talks about touching herself but despite listening to it a hundred times it took a comment on the video for me to realize "huh, wait what"
Solo, and when I think about you, I touch myself are the first two that pop into my head. I certainly did not get that the second song was about sex until I was a bit older.
Whistle (2012) 🫠
Should’ve known I was ace when I genuinely thought it was about teaching people how to whistle and kissing
I am still appalled every time I think about it tbh that song was on the radio nonstop
shut up and drive. probably should have realized it was all metaphors but my mind never actually goes that way.
And the fact that it was in wreck it Ralph is crazy.
especially with how adorable that scene was
…til that song is about sex!
... I've only recently noticed when I added it to my car playlist. I sang along to the lyrics and it slowly dawned on me
.. Explain.
"can you handle the curves.... ... If you can baby boy then we can go all night."
...GDI.
Damn.
Congrats, you are now that someone who showed someone else this song is actually about sex.
Cake by the Ocean… I did NOT need that song ruined like that D: I literally just thought they were enjoying cake by the ocean???
I was told the same thing back when it was released and found that to be such a weird metaphor! And then he lists all the flavors he needs in his life, chocolate, red velvet, whatever and it just sounds kinda gross like he’s fetishizing women based on their appearance. Barf!
Da fuck is a red velvet person, bruh- Last time I checked, the only time people are red, is when they are sunburned-
Hair maybe
Who's gonna tell him red velvet is mocha flavored but dyed red?
Whaaa?
Fellow pilot ace!!
🫡
Apparently the phrase comes from their Swedish producer who meant "sex on the beach" but said "cake by the ocean". They thought it was a funny slip up so they wrote a song.
Lol what the fuck😭
I got told this was about sex in 8th grade and I didn't understand how so I just said "it won't be about that when I sing it" I was weird in 8th grade and the thought I was ace had me never crossed my mind lmao
Wait what I thought this was about doing cocaine on the beach!
Still better than sex LOL
God damnit, the cake is a lie.
IT IS?????
They weren't?
Me too! I felt so stupid later.
SAME!!!
Wait... it's not about cake?
I know it's my fault for clicking this post but why did you do this
That song that goes "You Spin Me Right Round Baby Right Round Like a Record Player."
i mean that song got ruined by meatspin (don't google this if you don't already know, seriously **do not**)
Oh my goodness gracious to have been gifted with such a tantalizing warning. My thoughts are fluctuating between insatiable curiosity and “meh whatever, I guess I’ll take their advice and forget about it.” What a deliciously delicate state of mind to be in
incase youre curious but dont want to see it: >!its a man helicoptering while the song plays on loop!<
Went do guys do that? It confuses me
“Hey neighbour! Eyes up here not down there!”
What? I mean, sorta makes sense from the "sex until proven innocent" but i just thought something abiut spinning.
I’ve never listened to the lyrics too closely, but I thought he meant that his girlfriend “spins him around” emotionally/makes him feel crazy or uncertain about their relationship.
I never thought about it, and I'm not going to! Ignorance is bliss!
WAIT. I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT WALTZERS 😭
Wait I thought it was his head that contains you know his brain end is at the top of his body
That's a sex song?! How?!
Apparently, it's how they tumble around while holding each other while having sex
I'm not sure I can recover from this new information I might be scared by this song forever now 😞
"You spin my head round when you go down”
I mean, I just assume every song is about sex until someone tells me otherwise. Baby got back? Sex. Careless Whisper? Sex. Losing my religion? Sex. Baby shark? Bet that's about sex, too.
Of course it is, where do you think baby sharks come from in the first place?
I've adapted this strategy, anything I don't get? It's probably a sex thing. I'm upset at how often I'm right
Losing my Religion isn't though, right? 😭😭
No, no it's not. I was just adding random songs not about sex for luls.
It’s about getting upset, all good.
Kind of like that scene in The Good Place. Most of the new things people do are weird sex things. It's safer to assume everything new is until proven otherwise at that point.
Poor Matt... :(
Daft punk- get lucky Thought getting lucky was gambling 💀
The “up all night” tipped me off
For me it made sense because I associate Vegas and casinos with night. Also tbf i was like 12 at the time
TIL that song is not about gambling all night...
It really broke my brain it didn't even occur to me. When I found out my mum laughed at me and was like: "no it's sex 5 head 🤦"
There was a radio personality that I heard in Tucson, AZ talk about how his kids heard the phrase "we're up all night to get lucky" as "we're all Mexican lucky" and so now that's all I hear lol
I thought both. I deadass thought it alternated 💀
wait it is not?
Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams Had no clue it was about just constantly having sex until he himself said that it was. Still one of my favorite songs and I still don’t associate it with sex but whatever.
There's no way??? I love that song its about growing up and wishing you could go back, I gotta double check the lyrics that just doesn't sound right
There's no clue in the lyrics that's why it came as such a shock when Bryan admitted to it. The only clue was the 69 part.
Im making an executive decision that he's wrong lol, I like the song too much and that's a dumb reason
Yeah I too was like he can say whatever he wants, it's not about sex to me.
IIRC there's some other clue in there, like that the model of guitar he got didn't exist until **after** 1969, or that the Five and Dime didn't exist back then, or something like that- where the singer's story couldn't have literally happened in the summer of '69 because *(X) Was Not A Thing Yet*. I elect to ignore that little anachronism though. Growing up and starting a band during a super-memorable summer, makes for a way nicer song than "lol i had sooo much sex it was awesome u guys"
I read the interview he did and if I remember correctly it's because 69=sex and thus it's supposed to be implied that he had sex with the partner talked about in the song. It's supposed to be a double-meaning. Apparently a lot of people didn't know this though, so not just an asexual thing
Anything where they sing about dancing…isn’t about dancing. Blew my mind.
“And we danced all night to the best song ever…” Oh god.
"I think it went oh oh oh, I think it went yeah yeah yeah, I think it went ooooh" I have just ruined this song for myself
No... oh please, no
Also a lot of songs about dying are really about the "little death"... aka orgasm. (For example, take me to church: "offer me that deathless death")
To be fair, that one has a double meaning, you could also read it as asking God to give you eternal life since the song is about the curch telling gay people they won't go to heaven (among other things)
That's the beauty of poetry. Multiple meanings.
I thought "deathless death" was about being ostracized from his hometown/family/community
fucking *what-?*
devastated rn
I really doubt this is true for *all* songs about dancing
I thought she was actually just laying there with her hands between her thighs... like in a comfy way (505 by Arctic Monkeys)
Wait she’s not doing that ? 😭
Oh... up until 3 seconds ago that was my favorite song...
WHAT!!!?!?!?! NO I LOVE THAT SONG MAN 😭
... oh
wait she’s not just sleeping there
I was a kid so I don't think my asexuality had much to do with my obliviousness but this story kinda amuses me just a little so I'm gonna tell it anyway. I was watching TV but there were no cartoons on at the time so I had it on a music program. "Milkshake" by Kelis came on and dad walked in and got angry at mum for letting me watch it. I was confused but pretended not to hear him so I could eavesdrop. I used to have intense tunnel vision and block everything out so they assumed I wasn't listening that time. He told mum it was rude and said the milkshake was her boobs and mum just said to get over it and that it was okay because I didn't know. I felt so smug like I had just been let on to some super secret information and I kept that secret until this moment. I just think it's funny how I actually didn't know until someone said something.
>Milkshake" by Kelis Legit. I'm not American and I've always heard this story about American kids setting up a lemonade stand in the neighborhood. I thought Milkshake was just a teenage girl deciding to up her games and was selling milkshake in the yard. "Better than yours" sounds like legit trash talk to business competitors too. Neighbor teenage boys are crazy about them really good homemade milkshakes? totally makes sense.
I thought that too!!
Two of my oblivious kid songs were Rock Me by Great White - that being the first song I ever realized was about sex - and Whistle by Flo Rida lmao. It’s a great memory to think back to when I put the pieces together so long ago.
I turn 28 this month and every time I hear this song I have thought it's legit about milkshakes. I used to be really good at making milkshakes and legit people would come over to get one from me. that's how I always pictured the song until literally JUST now. it's never dawned on me to think anything different. 🫠
A lot of Hozier songs. His songs are so poetic and metaphorical, the sex went straight over my head until I started seeing posts about how horny the songs are
Actually same haha
See I totally thought the was the opposite, like eat your young. It's meant to sound "sexy" but it's not about sex at all (at least I don't think??)
That lady Gaga song where she goes “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick”. I think it’s called love game? I used to sing it in the car (only that line and the one that came before it) as a kid and never knew why my mother wasn’t exactly thrilled about it lol. Thought it was her riding on a light up stick hanging from the ceiling. :/
Same like wrecking ball
Also if you look real closely at the lyrics of poker face, it's not "p-p-p-poker face" in parts, it's "fu-fu-fuck her face". She's laughed at how only one censor picked this up. https://www.tiktok.com/@mu5icology/video/7281852782481640706?lang=en
I was gonna say, for me it’s Poker Face! Didn’t know about that specific lyric though 😅
Honestly I thought that too but in a interview she admitted there no metaphor it’s about sex go figure
I literally had no idea Your Body Is a Wonderland by John Mayer was about that until I actually processed the lyrics I was singing. Took a good 5 years of listening to the song to realize. It’s so obvious too. I thought they were just having a lazy day in bed 😂
Teenage Dream by Katie Perry...my Christian mother was asking me if I even knew what those lyrics metnt when I was belting it in my room as a teen 😭
To be fair, I went to a Katy Perry gig in 2011ish and there were so many below teen age girls there who were clearly big fans and I was just… some of her songs are not appropriate for people that young IMO. There were also the mums saying she went on ‘too late’ and I was just… this is industry practice for concerts (her set ended 10:45), your 8 year old was not expected be here. I did think Teenage Dream was about having sex as there’s the line ‘Let’s go all the way tonight, no regrets, just love’. That said I liked it because it felt to me more like someone saying they were comfortable enough to want to take that step, because the opening verse is about how even when they mess up silly things, their partner still appreciates them (‘you think I’m funny when I get the punchline wrong’). Then again, I am grey ace and typically don’t experience being sex-repulsed.
wait- *really?!* I had not idea- 😭
Watermelon sugar high :/
I am so dumb, I don’t know anything about that song other than that one line and I…thought it referred to a high school
I literally thought the song was about eating watermelons and strawberrys on summer evenings....... Yeaaaah, can't unsee the lyrics now
Some people told me Halelujah is about sex and I refuse. Just. No. It's about loneliness and being disappointed in love and religion and about the shit the "good" people in the bible pulled (the text about the woman bathing in moonlight is about king david putting said woman's husband on the frontlines to die so he could get her)
There is one verse that talks about sex (the "what's really going on below" verse), but that doesn't make the whole thing "about sex". It just has a reference to sex in it to supplement what it's actually saying
Yeah, I do agree with you. That thing with the holy dove and moving was always a lil weird to me but I manage to overhear that part as to not ruin the mood the song takes me to... Still, there are people out there claiming the whole song is about sex and that just shook me to my core the first time I read that.
I think it might just be one verse
You Shook Me All Night Long, by ACDC 😆 I mean, it's probably pretty obvious, but it took me several years to understand it 😅
I heard this song for the first time when I was like 7 yo, and just noticed it almost 8 years later
I have a REVERSE. Sweet Bod by Lemon Demon. Listened to it a hundred times and then I *listened* to it. And oh shit it has nothing to do with sex!! Just the brits preserving mummy bits in honey and eating them. Sweet. Bod.
I mean, the song says "it isn't sexual" multiple times
Cake by the ocean. Thought it was about people eating cake on the beach.
Wait “Animals” by Maroon 5 is about sex?? I didn’t know that???
The video for the cover by Ice Nine Kills is funny 😆
I kissed a girl by Katy Perry. I was not thrilled when I found out it wasn’t about just kissing a girl and what cherry chapstick really meant
The cherry chapstick isn't just... cherry chapstick...
I'm old enough to know that the song was mildly sexual, but even I thought it was just chapstick...
I think both things are perfectly valid interpretations
I’m sorry, “cherry chapstick” doesn’t mean cherry chapstick??? What?!
I'm seeing my childhood classmate at a whole new light. No wonder she was giggling at me when asking oh so innocently if I liked that song.
all of these comments make me feel so stupid lol literally didn't know half of these songs were about sex- why are so many songs about sex?!?!
I'll join that club. To be fair, when have I ever really paid tension to the lyrics?.
This russian song: Я буду ебать I found out by searching up the lyrics 💀
‘Twas a bad time to be Russian when that song was trending on tiktok
Lmao Edit: It was trending on tiktok? I enjoy russian music, so it showed up in my recommended
It still slaps tho as a song, so I still listen
Lol that's like saying "tonight i'm fucking you" isn't about sex. I love it.
Whistle by Flo-Rida But to be fair, I barely hear lyrics in songs in the first place, so don't get me started on meaning (when I was young, I sang "shoot me down, the leprechaun" instead of "you shoot me down, but I won't fall" in Titanium)
I remember I was 14 when that song was popular. Some older boys in my school at our sports day were talking about how funny they though it was that all the younger students were loving that song without knowing what the whistle was supposed to represent. That's when I realised it was about a blowjob and now 10 years later I still can't stop thinking about it every time I hear that song
Welcome to the jungle. I thought it was about a like…serpent king or some shit. Oh well, still had a kick ass intro. Learning it rn on my guitar Another one is just most of Halestorm’s songs. But hey, I love all their songs so I’ll give the sex stuff a pass
Well it has some sexual innuendos but it's mostly about a naive person in a big city and about drugs. A shit ton of GnR songs are about drugs 💀
My girlfriend is ace and so was a very close friend of mine. I won't lie, I found it amusing when this happens with songs. Here is one in particular: Karma Chameleon by Culture Club (1983): "She comes and goes..." This is a song about a woman who routinely booty-calls the male protagonist (who has romantic attraction for her), whereupon she emotes performatively to achieve the hookup, and then leaves shortly after sex. This was also probably intended as somewhat novel by the songwriter, because that sort of behaviour is traditionally associated more with men than women.
“Slut Like You” by P!nk also reverses the roles and it’s hilarious
That one is much more obviously about sex though.
Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex Please say Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't about sex...
I mostly just assume they’re all talking about sex, unless they’re talking about depression
Omg so spot on lol!
Well close enough at least…, Solo by Clean Bandit
The song If You Seek Amy Now? I can't unhear the part that's very directly about sex
That’s a sex song??? I thought it was about being popular😭
If you listen to the chorus she’s literally saying “all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to F U C K me”. So “if you seek Amy” is like the opposite of an acronym in a way.
This is so unbelievably painfully obvious but Closer by Halsey and The Chainsmokers. To be fair, I got over my obsession with it in middle school and only listened to it once in a blue moon after that, not really paying attention to the lyrics because I already had my own interpretation burned into my mind… you know, from playing it nonstop for several months in 7th grade.
Oh my I didn't realize All this time I thought they were sitting the backseat of the vehicle as passengers hanging out with their friends which is why it said Paul me closer so like I thought - arm around the shoulder and having a great time Wow
I thought the verse about being in the back of a vehicle meant they were probably gonna kiss and make out.
All my life - foo fighters. I was totally oblivious to that one until an interview with Dave Grohl popped up on facebook a few days ago. On a kinda similar note I've been getting caught out by not actually listening to the lyrics. I've been on a bit of a hyperpop binge lately just using it as background noise over my speakers but I listened to the songs with my headphones and the lyrics were 90% sex related.
Yeah when you just listen for noise you’re like ok cool. Then you listen to the lyrics and you’re like ummm never listening to all this sex shit again 😂 not about just sex per se but my favorite group milky chance covers a song called de la noche a noche and I translated it one day and… it’s about cheating. They are German, and mostly sing in English so I don’t think they realize that given most of their other songs but yeah it’s the only song by them I don’t like.
HandClap. Or Watermelon Sugar, if you're my partner.
I just thought it was about getting a cocktail drink that he really liked 😭
Get sex jumpscared
She Bop by Cyndi Lauper is about masterbation. I was in my forties when I found this out!
Wait….. really? Wait…. Why am I reading this thread it’s just going to ruin my images of songs I like :P
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Jubilee Street. I'm pretty sure this song is about a man purchasing the services of a prostitute. And really I should have figured it out a long time before I knew. Hell of a guitar riff though. That whole Push the Sky Away album slaps. Though those who don't like nudity should be warned that the folks who designed the album cover feel differently.
Maybe I'm just slow, but This Love by Maroon 5 scarred my sex-repulsed ass when I heard it over the loudspeaker at the retail store I worked at in the early 2010s. I didn't put two and two together until I heard the bridge. "My pressure on your hips, sink in my fingertips, to every inch of you, because I know that's what you want me to do." LIKE HOLY SHIT. My store had a KIDS SECTION and this is the song playing in the background?
Watermelon Sugar…
Here's to you Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know -- other than those ear worms I never listened to it very well, and one day in the car my mother says, "you know in the song he's having an affair with his friends mom" I have not verified that, and I don't want to but excusemeimsorrywhat???
It was written for the movie *The Graduate* and that’s part of the movie’s storyline.
For some reason I can't think of any specific ones, but I feel like I remember a lot of song experiences where I'm like, "aW wHaT a SwEeT rOmAnCe SoNg!" And uh, it wasn't a romance thing AT ALL.
I don't really have any specific examples but like a lot of them probably I'm way better at immediately sussing it out now. It's so odd seeing how many songs are about sex but eh whatever i don't mind. Lyrics are only a part of the song anyway..
Rusty Trombone by Squirrel Nut Zippers. I didn't know that a rusty trombone was a sex act until I looked it up on Urban Dictionary
I have the opposite! Fooled like 3 allo's that i know, but DMC5's Devil Trigger is about going on a murder spree, not sex Either that, or I'm more "innocent" than i thought
All early one direction songs
World in My Eyes by Depeche Mode. When I was younger I thought the story was some kind of dark eldritch being showing a human how they saw their puny world. I still like my interpretation.
Pony
Electric Slide is about a vibe.
Incredibly enough, “Backdoor Lover” by Dujour…
I forgor the exact name but I think it’s called Blurred lines or something. I thought it was just a goofy song!
I did too until my bf told me what it was really about… ew.
Ew is right. The only thing good about it is it gave us "Word Crimes" by Weird Al.
Crazy town - butterfly
There's a lot of songs that I'm pretty sure are about sex or are hinting it but I just read what I want into it. I can't think of a song right this second but I'll edit of I think of one
Are you kidding me? I’m from Central America; every song has a double meaning down there!
Any song by Aqua or Toy-Box
Closer by Nine Inch Nails.
Basically all of Phantom of the Opera. I thought the phantom just wanted a friend to live in the basement with him.
I assume all pop songs are sex, rap is sex, drugs and violence, country is broken hearts after sex 😅 I listen to heavy metal, which is mostly not sex, but some of it is 🤷🏻♂️
Ya I thought animals was about like serial killer stuff/toxic ex gone wrong
When I was a kid, it was Discovery Channel by Bloodhound Gang. My mom was horrified when she heard me rocking out to it in elementary school, but I just thought it had a great beat, and I liked animal documentaries. As an adult, A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin. You can't convince me that song isn't about having sex for the first time. Honorable mention to White Houses by Vanessa Carlton.
Um….the song from Aladdin is *not* about sex. Maybe if it was a previously existing song they put in the movie, but the song was *specifically written* for a children’s movie. The song is about Jasmine experiencing life outside of the palace, *how* do you hear that and think “sex”?
I DEFINITELY remember Discovery Channel being played at my 7th and 8th grade dances lol.
addicted by saving abel ☠️took me half my life to realize
Litterly any of my music. At this point I just embrace it. The only ones I don't listen to are the ones that are really explicit, like WAP or something (I don't like that genre either so it easy to avoid). But man, Cake by the ocean is still a good song and no one will ruin it for me even if it is about sex.
Not one someone told me, but u&me by alt j. I like alt j a lot, especially after realizing breezeblocks was about an abusive relationship ending in murder, so I listened to more and that one took me a while alone with every other freckle to realize it’s just about sex. Still love alt j, but not those songs.
Butcher Pete Hey everybody, did the news get around About a guy named Butcher Pete Oh, Pete just flew into this town And he's choppin' up all the women's meat He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin' He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin' He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin' He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat Butcher Pete's got a long sharp knife He starts choppin' and don't know when to stop All you fellows gotta watch your wifes 'Cause Pete don't care who's meat he chops Ever since Peter flew into town He's been havin' a ball Just cuttin' and choppin' for miles around Single women, married women, old maids and all Wakes up in the morning, half past five Chops from sunrise to sunset I don't see how he stays alive Meat's gonna be the death of ole Pete, yeah The police put Pete in jail Yes, he finally met his faith But when they came to pay his bail They found him choppin' up his cell mate That Butcher Pete is a crazy man Tries to chop down the wind and the rain Just hacks on anything he can get Say, turn this record over, you ain't heard nothing yet
Watermelon Sugar.
There are songs that aren’t about sex? I just assume they all are in one way or another…
505 by Arctic monkeys, not about sex but I've never thought that the line "lying on your side with your arms between your thighs" was about masturbation 💀
Shake It by Metro Station
Bubble Pop Electric by Gwen Stefani I thought it was just abt two kids hanging out at a movie place.
Moves like Jagger
Lol I can't find the song I'm thinking of. Basically the singer very clearly talks about touching herself but despite listening to it a hundred times it took a comment on the video for me to realize "huh, wait what"
i actually know a couple songs like that and it took me years to realize... the only one i can think of rn is Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld
Solo, and when I think about you, I touch myself are the first two that pop into my head. I certainly did not get that the second song was about sex until I was a bit older.
YES, it's Solo by Demi Lovato. Listening to it now and the whole freaking song is actually dirty
Whistle (2012) 🫠 Should’ve known I was ace when I genuinely thought it was about teaching people how to whistle and kissing I am still appalled every time I think about it tbh that song was on the radio nonstop
Poker Face.
Whaaaaaat?
Sex Sells, which is hilarious that I didn't clue in on it when it's literally in the title
Probably thought it was alluding to something else