on this steamy stuff .. somehow being an "old guy' now with a daughter in her young teens it all gets kinda confusing... suddenly I can't even enjoy watching the college cheerleaders shaking their hips and showing off their legs anymore without feelikng like a pervert (maybe they need to get some of the 45 year old alumni heerleaders ?
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But that sort of steamy stuff in "O My" is a big part of vocal music that relates to real life. (I try to listen to stuff about love and sex allegorilcally and relate it to any aspiration or hard to reach goal or any sort of excited interest in anything but.. thats another subject.)
Most people I know had a lot of fun and dated numerous people between 17 and 22.. 3 months was a long time back then let alone a year so, while it didn't seem we were jumping around from person to person at the time necessarily, a lot of experiences and falling in and out of "love" (infatiuation attraction) happened .
Lest we thing that today is so much dirtier than the past (it certainly is but not like it was a 100% clean past either) here are the lyrics to the 75 year old 1940s number Kelly Clarkson sung the first season
But a man came along
Made my life like a song
And tought me these words of ecstasy
Tenderly
I want some huggin'
And some squeezin'
And some muggin'
And some teasin'
And some stuff like that there
I want some pettin'
And some spoonin'
And some happy honeymoonin'
And some stuff like that there
I used to think that love was just a lotta rubbish
A mess o' cabbage
A mess o' cabbage
But now my attitude is only lovey dovish
And baby, you, you've done it
Ooh
I used to think romance was bunk
A double-mickey for the ickey
But all at once my heart was sunk
And baby, you, you've done it
I want some huggin' and some teasin'
And some muggin' and some squeezin'
And some stuff like that there
I want some weepin' and some chasin'
And some sweepin' and some pacin'
And some stuff like that there
And when I get a certain feelin' I confess it
I really only know one expression to express it I
want some huggin', squeezin', muggin', teasin'
And some stuff
I want some stuff like that there
Looking at the lyrics to that 1940's song, the Oh my ! doesn't sound too much different... maybe the terms they're using today will seem equally quaint in the future but even if not, I don't hink there was any doubt about what all that stuff like that there was.
Darn though.. its confusing thinking of someone you might have in your head with similar protective thoughts you'd have for a niece or something singing of alll that stuff like that there without a bit of ebarassment hearing about it from her.
