In my case I’ll say either Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad touch or Aqua’s Barbie Girl.
I mean… what the hell is “hanky panky”.
But for bonus points, I did also sing “take a walk on the wild side~” with no flying clue what “giving head” was supposed to be.
My stepson was always singing I Will Survive. Mentioned that was sorta the gay anthem. He was horrified. So he started singing YMCA instead.
That punchline got me real good.
Call me crazy, but him being horrified by that sounds like bad parenting…
Back when I took singing lessons my teacher (who mostly taught kids but I was an adult learner) shared that she often had to veto the songs kids wanted to sing. One in particular that stuck with me was a less than 10 year old who wanted to sing Lady Gaga’s Love Game. Which has the lyric “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick” among other very adult lyrics.
Those lyrics are more spoken than sung, so for music lessons, that makes sense.
For some reason I Don’t Like Mondays was popular with my parents when I was a kid and I remember singing it sometimes. Turns out it’s about an actual school shooting and not just disliking Mondays.
Like “pump up kicks” though that’s more obvious.
I think “I want to shoot the whole school down” isn’t terribly subtle, but Pumped Up Kicks definitely spells it out for you.
All the Linkin Park songs.
After he hung himself, it all makes sense.
Yeah that one was weird. Like the dude was always singing about being horrifically depressed, and then when he hung himself it was like surprised Pikachu face
In The End, Numb, Crawling, One Step Closer, Runaway, Place for My Head… motherfucker I hadn’t really thought to much about it before
Mezmerize was one of the first albums I ever owned around age 9. I knew almost every song by heart and would constantly sing along to them in the car. I have a vivid memory of singing this song in particular in the parking lot of the local mall when my dad finally decided to tell me what “cock” meant.
Edit meant to reply to the thread not your comment.
Ring Around the Rosie
OPP. - Naughty By Nature
Yeah you know me!
Sweet Transvestite from RHPS lol. My mom played magenta for many years
My sister loved that movie as a kid.
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Independence Day by Martina McBride is about murdering an abusive husband by setting the house on fire.
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is about murder
Two.
*And his cheating wife had never left town
And that’s one body that’ll never be found*
Cum on Feel the Noize
Bobby Brown - Humpin Around
My Dingaling by Chuck Berry
Clarence Carter - Strokin
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
I was 5 when it came out.