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Original poster

Leisure centre should not play the let me lick you up and down song

41 replies

Pattiesc · 22/09/2015 15:38

Its just gross, I'm not anti Jordan or a prude but it makes me want to vom. Lots of young children around heard it.

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VinylScratch · 22/09/2015 15:42

They probably wouldn't have paid any notice to it unless you made a scene. I thought they were singing let me look you up and down when I was a kid.

JeffsanArsehole · 22/09/2015 15:43

They won't know what it is

In general though I hate public place music unless it's classical

Joolsy · 22/09/2015 15:44

What does Jordan have to do with the song? Apart from many moons ago she dated one of the singers

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 22/09/2015 15:49

Thats nothing. On the bumper cars at Butlins they were playing the Beautiful South, Dont Marry Her- the blue version.
My DS aged 4 ish at the time just said 'this is a stupid song'

Topaz25 · 22/09/2015 15:51

Sexual themes in songs tend to go over the heads of young children. My friends and I used to think that song that goes "Ooh ah, just a little bit
Ooh ah, a little bit more" was talking about having a second helping of dessert! I can see why you thought it was inappropriate but I don't think it will do any harm.

wankerchief · 22/09/2015 15:53

Another lever where the shit while I was at school.

Never got the lyrics until years later...

ilovesooty · 22/09/2015 15:53

Go and tell the leisure centre organisers then if it bothers you. I don't think I've ever heard it.

thecatsarecrazy · 22/09/2015 15:54

I remember I want to sex you up as a child. Used to snigger to myself and hope my parents didn't catch on that I had a vague idea what sex was. How times have changed

Topaz25 · 22/09/2015 15:55

Crossposted sharonthewaspandthewineywall that is bad! I don't think songs with swearing should be played on a children's ride because they might repeat it. I think songs where rudeness is more implied are alright because they might not pick up on it.

DontStopBelievin · 22/09/2015 16:00

Song lyrics like that completely go over the heads of small children. I used to constantly sing "like a virgin, touch for the very first time".
Did I have any notion of what I was singing about? Not. A. CLUE.
Were there loads of pearl clutching adults reaching for the smelling salts upon hearing me? Probably.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 22/09/2015 16:16

Plenty of songs in the 90's had a very sexual or drugs related theme - never registered to my pre-teen brain what any of it meant (Ebanezer Good, anyone ). Kids really don't relate song lyrics to their actual meaning - having said that I still have no idea what most Oasis lyrics are about 20 years later. I find language like "makes me want to vom" far more crude, to be honest.

pocketsaviour · 22/09/2015 16:17

Please tell me Katie Price hasn't released a cover of this

Otherwise I'm struggling for the Jordan connection.

I think this would go over most kids' heads.

Wouldn't be happy about sweary songs on the bumper cars though!

Fartinabucket · 22/09/2015 16:22

MrsGently Ebanezer Goode is an excellent song.
When I was about 8 I asked my dad, who was a bit of a pill head, who Ebanezer Goode was. He told me the truth about what the song meant. The next day I went to school and told my friend what the song was about, she told the teacher, I got lunchtime detention. I'm still bitter about it.

Shockers · 22/09/2015 16:30

At a Christmas party for DD's SN swimming club, the DJ played Ceelo (sp?) Greene's 'Fuck You'. I pointed out to him that he'd put the wrong version on and he shrugged.

Some of the older children did notice...

LookAtAllThesePhucksIGive · 22/09/2015 16:33

Can I just remind people that Another Level covered no lets get it right STOLE this song. Silk released it in 92/93. That is all. :o

ilooklikemrsploppy · 22/09/2015 16:38

I know I shouldn't be but I'm laughing at this thread.

SoupDragon · 22/09/2015 16:40

Ah... Ebeneezer Goode :) Fab song.

sproketmx · 22/09/2015 16:52

Haha. Remember the 'I wanna be a hippie and I wanna get stoned now ma ma marajuana'? My brother used to sing that all the time. He was like 7. He never knew what it meant but we all found it very funny

Woobeedoo · 22/09/2015 16:57

On holiday a few years back sat round the pool. Two records were being played on a never ending loop. One was the 'drink Bacardi like it's your birthday' song, the other had me say to my OH "can you hear those lyrics?!". Played for all to hear for the whole day was a song by who knows with the chorus "you like me and I like you, so let's just get drunk and screw". Quite.

ArendelleQueen · 22/09/2015 16:59

I find it funny how many places played "Timber" when it first came out.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 22/09/2015 17:00

Fartinabucket - similar thing happened to me, but with that 'I'm Horny, Horny, Horny' song. I miss the 90's, good, totally innocent, times. Then again, most of our parents were 60s/70s kids/teens, and I don't think they much cared about it all (they couldn't say much, I bet they sang songs such as Hotel California with little idea at the time!).

patterkiller · 22/09/2015 17:08

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2piqu3sMInA
We had to endure a boat trip some years ago in Turkey with this on a twenty minute loop. Dds were young enough to not understand but dear god they picked up the lyrics. We did ask ask for it to be turned off but majority ruled as it meant turning the music off completely.

ToTheGups · 22/09/2015 17:15

Can someone explain what hotel california is about? I just Google the lyrics but it's still a mystery.

MrsGentlyBenevolent · 22/09/2015 17:26

ToTheGups it's about drugs, heroin I was told, but I think it's about any addictive substances.

And she said, 'we are all just prisoners here, of our own device'

Quite dark once you really listen to it, despite a catchy, memorable tune.

SaucyJack · 22/09/2015 17:31

I remember going to pick DD2 up from a six year old's birthday party a couple of years ago to find them playing the rude version of that "I Miss That Pussy" song. My pearls were clutched.

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