Can’t believe these lyrics I heard on Radio 1

I'm now imagining this Aitch fellow pursing his lips and loudly whispering "Your anus!" in an attempt to warn whoever's anus it is of something terrible that has/is about to befall said anus - in a similar "Your minge!!" vibe

I am literally still crying with laughter that PP thought “baby you’re A-list” was a song about being attracted to someone’s anus!!!!!

The icing on the cake is how instead of laughing about it they then continued to insist it was perfectly reasonable to have thought this given his back catalogue (that wasn’t meant as a pun, but hey….!)

The thought of someone trying to sing some sexy lyrics and coming up with some words about being attracted to their “anus” is the highlight of my week!

But what can they say, if Paddy and the company insist that he is saying 'booking' in his own accent? It's done very carefully indeed so that, if you were to slow it right down and analyse the voice elements, I'm sure it would be identifiable as 'booking'; however, to the casual viewer's ear...

They can hardly order them to replace him with somebody without 'the wrong' accent, can they?

Just like if, say, a charity's TV fundraising appeal wanted to focus on some case studies and spotlighted an Indian person whom they'd helped, by the (far from uncommon Indian) name of Dikshit. Just as with an accent, the ASA can hardly order that person to change their name, or the advertiser to dump them in favour of somebody else with an 'acceptable' name, can they?

Not according to the ASA.

Of course it is. They wanted the marketing power of the shock value of a very rude word, whilst technically being able to insist that he's saying a perfectly normal everyday word.

He definitely doesn't pronounce the word 'booking' in a way that you'd expect somebody with his accent to pronounce it.

They did it on purpose Lynn.

It always sounds to me like 'shower de horse in dung' - which sounds dreadfully cruel to faithful, hardworking animals.

Same as that advert where they sing "Spray, wipe, done" to the tune of the Flash Gordon music - I can never hear it as anything other than 'spray white dung', as though bird lime has somehow been discovered to be a powerful cleaning agent!

Would those be scrunch-bum tracksuits?! Even so, people would be complaining that they wore so much 'excessive' clothing, going on all the near-nudity this year!

Armenia entered a song about apricots in 2010 - so blatantly a reference to bums, surely?!

Wouldn't it be great if the singer saw this thread and started using Op's line instead?

I can’t believe that’s not deliberately ambiguous given his accent.

I did a double take when I first heard the holiday advert with Paddy McGuinness referring to a family as "booking" geniuses as it really sounds like fucking geniuses. I'm not the only one as it has been reported to the ASA over 100 times. I live "up north" and even I find his accent a bit broad.

Thanks 💐💐

This thread is making my day in more ways than one 😂

Attracted to your status, maybe your a(sounds like a planet)*

I will admit I burst out laughing after reading that
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I love the song, have just actively not listened to what he’s singing.

I always thought Robin Williams sang
»…and make the fuckers disappear!» in the Genie song in Aladdin. Thought it a bit rude in a Disney film 😂

If only someone would invent a way so people could check the actual words on the internet…🤣 (takes a lot of the fun out of it though!)

There's several songs I will turn off, whether kids are in the car or not. Blurred lines, obviously. That one about how he'll choke her but he isn't a killer. The one with a woman talking about him biting her tongue and making her scream. The ones calling his ex a Ho (the word is missing but it's clear what he's saying).
It's not songs about sex, it's songs about bad coercive or dangerous sex, or that drip with misogyny.

You sound really naive.

The lyric is "A-List", as everyone has pointed out.

Stop looking for drama like some virginal Bridgerton girl just venturing out into the world. Your children were not conceived by immaculate conception.

Jesus.

Many years ago my friend thought the lyrics were "pee down your door", so you're not alone.

I still prefer my oldest daughter's version of Whitney Houston's 'I wanna dance with somebody'
Ooh, my nan's at the party
I wanna see her shake her botty.

I can never make out the lyrics of some of these singers,they could be saying all sorts!
There a TV advert that gets me every time...actor is talking about the British Art Foundation,I look up from my knitting as I'm interested in art. Realised he meant British HEART foundation, thought he might have remembered his aitch!

Lyrics I heard but knew couldn’t be right sounded like “Shower de horse, I’m done”. Wondered if it was some odd expression I’d never heard of. Eventually found out it was “Ciao, adios I’m done”………..made a lot more sense!

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If that were the case, the missing word would be ankles rather than anus

Ha ha just reading this when Bananarama is on top of the pops from 1984 singing Robert Deneiro Waiting. It's started a whole convo in this house.

Have I just teleported back to Victorian England?

Yes and if you ever want to do the deed you need to say to your OH "shall we have (mouths the word) sex?" a la Miranda's mum!