Can’t believe these lyrics I heard on Radio 1

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I was listening to Radio 1 with children in the car and I had to turn it off.

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

Who is this H? I’m surprised the BBC let it through.

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

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.

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.

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!)

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 😂

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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Thanks 💐💐

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

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.

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

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

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?!

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!

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.

Not according to the ASA.

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?

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!

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

Popular songwriters don't tend to use proper anatomical terms for body parts, do they?

We don't hear Total Eclipse Of The Atrial & Ventricular Circulatory System.

We don't hear I Like Big Gluteus Maximi And I Do Not Lie.

We don't hear Lacrimal Secretions Of A Clown.

Likewise, we can be confident that, if Aitch were wanting to reference the anus, he would, beyond a shadow of a doubt, have instead employed a beautiful, romantic, poetic rendering, such as 'Rusty Sheriff's Badge', 'Crinkle Crimper' or 'Tea-towel Holder'.

Popular songwriters don't tend to use proper anatomical terms for body parts, do they?

Not even WAP uses any kind of proper terms, although it uses a lot of others 😂

I'm particularly fond of this which made it through to the radio edit (despite about 75% of the lyrics being blanked out)

I want you to park that big Mack truck right in this little garage

My favourite is "pull up to my bumper " by Grace Jones. No subtlety at all!

Pull up to my bumper baby
In your long black limousine
Pull up to my bumper baby
And drive it in between

This made me laugh! 😂 my partner recently found out that the lyrics were
murder on the dance floor, you better not kill the groove
and NOT

theres mud on the dance floor, you better not break the broom 😂

Hilarious.

My ex became a massive fan of David Bowie in childhood. He was a teenager when he realised Ziggy Stardust had been making love with his ego and not his eagle 😆😆😆

A friend thought Kenny Rogers subject of the song 'Lucille' had 4 hundred children, not 4 hungry children.

I thought these were the lyrics until I read your post!! 🤣

A friend thought Kenny Rogers subject of the song 'Lucille' had 4 hundred children, not 4 hungry children.

And as if it wasn't enough for her to leave him with 400 children, the crap in the field really was the very last straw!

The full (alternative) line -" You chose a fine time to leave me loose heel, with 4 hundred children and a crap in the field". I cannot hear this song without singing these words even when I know the right ones.