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    I'm listening to the radio & two songs in quick succession have had me pondering the lyrics. It's not just me, is it?

    Shania Twain - Man! I feel like a Woman: I've always thought this line could have a double meaning...

    Dina Carroll - Ain't No Man: this whole song could be taken two ways! I'm not sure I'd noticed it before, but so soon after the earlier song the idea was still in my mind.

    Anyone got any other examples where the lyrics could mean something different - I don't mean misheard ones, but ones written with a possible double meaning.
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    Does it say something about me that after reading this question I immediately jumped up - went to my CD rack and plucked out my Rauncy Business: Hot Nuts and Lollypops CD? I very nearly had it playing until I realized that I have a houseful of contractors.
    However, there is nothing "possible" about the double meanings - everyone knew what the songs were really about - but since somehow they got past the radio censors (you couldn't have songs about sex at the time) they became popular.
    It has been a few years since I was really into the Blues, but I do remember thinking "they couldn't possibly have gotten away with this on the radio in the 30's!"
    ETA linky if you want to hear the songs (If It Don't Fit - Don't Force It is my fave):
    http://www.allmusic.com/album/raunch...s-mw0000262747
    Last edited by auntiem; 09-06-2012, 08:32 PM.

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      Quoth RealUnimportant View Post
      I'm listening to the radio & two songs in quick succession have had me pondering the lyrics. It's not just me, is it?

      Shania Twain - Man! I feel like a Woman: I've always thought this line could have a double meaning...

      Dina Carroll - Ain't No Man: this whole song could be taken two ways! I'm not sure I'd noticed it before, but so soon after the earlier song the idea was still in my mind.

      Anyone got any other examples where the lyrics could mean something different - I don't mean misheard ones, but ones written with a possible double meaning.
      Heck, 3/4 of the songs from the 60's were that way, because the radio stations wouldn't play anything that actually said anything "controversial" straight out. There was even a Peter, Paul & Mary song that talked about having to put the meaning "between the lines"

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        *points to half the stuff written by Bob Dylan, the Eagles' "Hotel California", REM's "It's The End Of The World As We Know It"....*
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          Silver Beaver - Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women

          ...it ain't about the Boy Scout award...

          Re: airplay of risque old blues songs: Any airplay would have been on "race" stations, not stations "civilized" people listened to and would have been considered "proof" of their "degeneracy".
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