At the risk of turning this blog into a poor excuse for Rolling Stone, I'm writing about music again.
I was in the car last night, listening to some Best of the '70's show, when a classic from 1979 came on the radio. It was Donna Summer's "Bad Girls." A very, very dancable tune and of course, I know every word. ("Toot, toot, hey....Beep! Beep!")
I can remember dancing to this song at my cousins' Sweet 16's. Rose and Anna are a couple of years older than me, so I was 11 or 12. And we all sang along.
See them out on the street at night. (Walkin')
Pickin' up all kinds of strangers, if the price is right
And my parents got up and danced too.
Hey mister, have you got a dime?
Hey mister, do you wanna spend some time?
I'm pretty sure we all knew what she was singing about. I would change that song today if my daughter was in the car with me for fear she would ask me what it all meant.
I remember hearing a song in the car with my parents called "Afternoon Delight" and I asked them what the people were singing about. I was 9.
Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite, looking forward to a little afternoon delight...
My father looked at my mother and said, "Maybe they're talking about a matinee." And then they both busted out laughing.
Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon Delight!
I'm not sure how old I was when I figured out by "matinee" he didn't mean the 3 o'clock show at the theater. He meant sex. In the afternoon. With my mother.
I have to drink some wine now.
1 comments:
I didn't know that's what "Bad Girls" is about. I guess I never listened that closely though. I have had the same realization thing with the songs "Greased Lightning" and "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from Grease. Love love loved that movie when I was younger. Won't let my kids watch it now. All those years that I thought ON-J couldn't SLEEP because she wasn't married ... ah, the innocence of youth.
- H
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