Busted

[FrazzledMCPremenopausalWoman]

Just heard What I Go To School For on R2 and am a bit surprised that it's still allowed to be played on the radio? Surely if it was a female artist singing about a secondary school pupil bonking her male teacher, it'd be banished from the airwaves?

Even when the boy does get together at the end of the song it still plays out like a fantasy and something boys would daydream about during school.

I couldn't really get worked up about this one.

I wouldn't get bothered over it. There are plenty of songs that have 'bad' meanings in them and are played.

Jesus, aren’t we allowed to have anything remotely controversial anymore? Half the books I loved as a child have been sanitised beyond all recognition and now you want to take a bloody Busted song off the radio?! When shite like that fucking WAP song came out just a year or two back?

Leave it be, for Christ’s sake…

Also Sleeping With The Light On is an absolute belter.

I think the same about the song Year 3000. Weird lyrics 🤣

I really wouldn't worry about it . I bought this for my young sons Christmas and he thought it was funny ha ha .

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Aside from this specific song, I don't get the general thought process that, because there are worse examples of something, that makes the still possibly controversial original thing automatically OK.

We don't say that punching random strangers in the street is 'nothing to get worked up about', just because some people get murdered.

A lighthearted pop song is a bit different to punching a stranger in the face.

Christ on a bike it's a song!
Songs have been crammed with dodgy lyrics for a very long time. Some more subtle than others. I'm old enough to remember Je T'aime, the filthy French song banned by the BBC ( Always guaranteed a big hit if Auntie banned it!!)
Donna Summer's Love to love you baby was basically Donna pleasuring herself over a Giorgio Moroder sound track 😉
Lots of stuff over the years that would have Mary Whitehouses bloomers in a twist.
Did we love it? Course we did!! 😅

I think they should bring back this classic

Much tamer than these days! Super Freaky Girl by Nicki Minaj is way worse!

• I can lick it, I can ride it while you slippin' and slidin' I can do all them little tricks and keep the dick up inside it You can smack it, you can grip it, you can go down and kiss it And every time he leave me 'lone, he always tell me he miss it*

@MarriedMama23 Mary Whitehouse would be spinning in her grave!!😉

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I actually agree with the OP. The final verse is that they get together and drive off into the sunset together, other posters have said this is just his fantasy but it doesn't actually say that in the song, and it's not like this has never happened before (the teacher who ran off with a student to France!).

Obviously it didn't actually happen in real life, the song is just a story, but let's be clear, it's a story about statutory rape. Someone above has quoted a Nicki Minaj song and yes that's far far more graphic but it's a graphic song about consensual sex between two adults.

Always bothered me That in 1000 years it was only the great great great granddaughter

What about that Abba song about getting off with the teacher?

Yabu, and a lot of people take it out of context like pp have said its about school boys liking theor teacher. I hope you don't listen to air hostess. Iv just had their music playing in my house with my kids about and yes I will be going on their tour

I was just thinking about that one!! Although she only kissed him......didn't she? 😁😁
Then there was Abbas "Does your mother know", although he was trying to let her down gently 😉

Women have 3 boobs and humans live underwater...but 'not much has changed'.

🤔 That seems like a pretty fucking massive change to me mate.

Of all the songs to get knickers in a twist about you pick this one?? Stop clutching your pearls and unclench.

The end verse is clearly a fantasy. No it doesn't explicitly say it because it's a song. It's like art or poetry you interprete it. In my opinion it is a very harmless song. Honestly if we go down the route of banning old Busted songs there is just no hope for us! 🤣

I always thought the last bit was about a fantasy too, like pp says, it's about interpretation, or do people think because of a 15(?) Year old Busted song, teachers are going to start getting off with teen boys because they play a song about it?
There's a lot more wrong there than a Busted song if that happens!

I'm hoping I'll get tickets to the tour - loved Busted!

A lighthearted pop song is a bit different to punching a stranger in the face.

Of course, but my point was that, in any scenario - be it a song, assault, crime or whatever - it's not a reasonable excuse to dismiss a concern, purely because more serious concerns also exist along the same vein.

If Busted were MN regulars, the last verse would have included the words "and everybody on the bus clapped"