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D-Sean: Dammit, I just remebered that "Lets Talk About Sex" song the second I clicked send.
Ninjcrat: Pulled:
- "No exploitation, no ‘using' anyone, just two people enjoying each other's bodies for no other reason that the sheer pleasure of pure unadulterated sex. The worst and most dangerous kind of sex there is, the dirtiest stuff that the hardest hardcore porno films can't even touch, the stuff that frightens religious people to the core of their very being. Sex for no other reason than that the two people involved want to enjoy it, to have fun. That's all."- Supervisor 246 in Paul Robinson's Instrument Of God
Kilyle: And the ads are... "End Poverty" and something about downloading ringtones. The auto-ads can come up with Gay Cupid and Muslim Dating sites for plenty of other pages but nothing even love-related for this? I feel disappointed.
mvdwege: Bugger. Just added a snippet about Melissa Etheridge, but the Wiki de-indents my closing remark after the lyrics quotation. How do I fix that?
Ronfar: Fixed it for you.
Ronfar: Removed "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry, because the song isn't about sex, it's just an Incredibly Lazy Pun.
Kalle: Wasn't "Detective" by No Doubt supposed to be about someone catching their lover cheating?
Houdini: There's gotta be a way to organize this...
Insanity Prelude: Genre, maybe?
Shrikesnest: The Darth Wiki version of this page worries me. Half of those songs really are about sex.
BritBllt: Natter must die! Moving this here...
- Actually, dispite the implications of the title, "Sex on Fire" isn't actually about sex. Kings of Leon have stated that the original lyrics were "Sets us on fire", but since it sounded like "sex on fire" they just rolled with it. Even the "sets us on fire" was just lyrics that fit with the verbal flow (whatever that means). Pretty much, the song makes no sense.
Also, I'm not seeing it. The lyrics aren't all that nonsensical, they fit pretty well with talking about how great two people are together (as in "soft lips are open, knuckles are pale, feels like you're dying, you're dying" and "if it's not forever, if it's just tonight, oh it's still the greatest"). Maybe they changed the name of the song, but there's a lot more sexual innuendo in it than just the title.
Moved from the Rammstein bit:
- Isn't it more like "I want you"? Either way...
- Yes, it is, and the exact meaning of "puta" still escapes me. In one of my Spanish classes, we were shown a somewhat historical movie in Spanish with English subtitles. I swear, almost every major curse word came up on the the subtitles at least once for the Spanish word "puta". Fucker/motherfucker, bitch, etc. I'm thinking "fucker" is probably the most accurate, because it seems to have the same "all-purpose curse" status as "fuck" does in English. Seriously, there are very few places where you can't substitute "fuck" or one of its derivatives for another curse word and keep the overall meaning, except for when that curse word is referring to a body part.
- In Spanish and Portuguese, most swear words are interchangeable as generic expletives, but "puta" really means "whore".
- Two notes from a Spanish-speaking troper who has spent years perfecting his swearing: first, te quiero, in modern Spanish, is "I love you" far, far more often than "I want you," and considering the rest of the lyrics in that song, is probably what the band intended. Second, "puta" is definitely "whore" - whoever subtitled the movie the above troper saw failed to diversify the cursewords, as the only legitimate uses of "puta" are for "whore" as a noun and "fucking" as an adjective (este puto coche = "this fucking car").
- *This troper agrees with the above and thinks the title is meant to be ambiguous.
RHODESIA: Um the Hokey Pokey kid's song... should go to the Darth Wiki right? I mean... it's just a party song where kids can dance about.
