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Post by kneazle on Jul 21, 2020 20:02:25 GMT -5
So I have a show tunes play list on spotify and One Night in Bangkok came on. Now there's A LOT in that song that I didn't get when I was a kid and it came out but I only just realised why the line 'with a show with every thing but Yul Brynner' is in there - I've only just clicked to the King and I connection.
So what song lyrics did you not understand or miss obvious connections?
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Post by kneazle on Jul 21, 2020 20:04:03 GMT -5
A couple aside from this:
I thought Like a Virgin was about the Christmas story because I was 5 when the song came out and the only connection I had to the word virgin was from Sunday school.
I Touch Myself really confused me. I was like 'what you think of someone and touch your arm or something?'
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Post by sophie on Jul 21, 2020 23:23:22 GMT -5
Ha, kneazle.. interesting how perception changes. Mine: An oldie, album and song by Iron Butterfly, Inagaddavida.. it wasn’t until I heard it completely out of context, blasting in a car driving between Istanbul and Athens, that I heard ‘In a garden of Eden’.
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 22, 2020 5:02:41 GMT -5
That "Like a Virgin" story made me laugh out loud. Like the Virgin, in a manger for the very first time....
And yes sophie, of course. The other classic one of these from the old days is that Creedence song that everyone thought went "There's a bathroom on the right," and I absolutely thought that too.
My mind is blanking on anything else right now
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jul 22, 2020 6:53:26 GMT -5
When I first learned Advance Australia Fair (now our national anthem) as a child, I thought the line “in joyful strains then let us sing” had something to do with kitchen strainers.
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