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* French song "Dominique" by ''The Singing Nun'' is infamous for its refrain "Dominique -nique -nique". "Niquer" is also a slang meanig having sex.

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* French song "Dominique" by ''The Singing Nun'' is infamous for its refrain "Dominique -nique -nique". "Niquer" is also a slang meanig meaning having sex.
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* The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" is often thought to be about [[ThisIndexTouchesItself masturbation]], due to lines like "I've got your picture, I've got your picture / I'd like a million of ya over myself". But according to songwriter David Fenton, "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about [[GrowingUpSucks angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to]]."

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* The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" is often thought to be about [[ThisIndexTouchesItself masturbation]], masturbation, due to lines like "I've got your picture, I've got your picture / I'd like a million of ya over myself". But according to songwriter David Fenton, "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about [[GrowingUpSucks angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to]]."
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* The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" is often thought to be about [[ThisIndexTouchesItself masturbation]], due to lines like "I've got your picture, I've got your picture / I'd like a million of ya over myself". But according to songwriter David Fenton, "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about [[GrowingUpSucks angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to]]."
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* Music/LouisArmstrong's "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" is a sweet song about the singer remembering his lover while they're separated. Perhaps remembering her [[ADateWithRosiePalms a bit too much]].

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* Music/LouisArmstrong's "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" is a sweet song about the singer remembering his lover while they're separated. Perhaps remembering her [[ADateWithRosiePalms a bit too much]].much.
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* Music/KateBush's song "Egypt" memorably refers to what may or may not be the Great Sphynx of Giza as a "pussy queen".

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* Music/KateBush's song "Egypt" memorably refers to what may or may not be the [[Art/TheSphinx Great Sphynx of Giza Giza]] as a "pussy queen".
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* Music/EdSheeran gives us the line "Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love" in "Thinking Out Loud".
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*** According to a comment on Youtube, the band realized how bad the line is and actually changes it to ‘Guess you ain’t heard that we HOLLOW guys’ when playing the song at live shows.

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*** According to a comment on Youtube, the The band seems to have realized how bad the line is and is, since they actually changes change it to ‘Guess you ain’t heard that we HOLLOW guys’ when playing the song at live shows.
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* The use of the phrases "it's hard" and "it gets so hard" in the Dr Hook song ''When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman'' comes across as this, especially when you consider ''what'' gets hard under such circumstances. At least if you're male.

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* The use of the phrases "it's hard" and "it gets so hard" in the Dr Hook song ''When "When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman'' Woman" comes across as this, sounding a bit naughty, especially when you consider ''what'' gets hard under such circumstances. At least if you're male.
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* Music/BilliePiper's final top-ten hit in the UK was called "Something Deep Inside." Piper herself has admitted in hindsight that this might not have been a particularly appropriate title to give a song, considering her music had previously been marketed at a very young demographic.
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** Let’s not forget the band’s other hit from that album, ‘Rockstar’, whose course contains the line ‘Guess you ain't heard that we swallow guys’. It’s meant as a (very badly executed) metaphor for eating MC s , but many interpret it as meaning something else...

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** Let’s not forget the band’s other hit from that album, ‘Rockstar’, whose course contains the line ‘Guess you ain't heard that we swallow guys’. It’s meant as a (very badly executed) metaphor for eating MC s , [=MCs=], but many interpret it as meaning something else...
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* Music/LouisArmstrong's "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" is a sweet song about the singer remembering his lover while they're separated. Perhaps remembering her [[ADateWithRosiePalms a bit too much]].
--> When I'm alone with my fancies, I'll be with you / Weaving romances, making believe they're true
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** Let’s not forget the band’s other hit from that album, ‘Rockstar’, whose course contains the line ‘Guess you ain't heard that we swallow guys’. It’s meant as a (very badly executed) metaphor for eating MC s , but many interpret it as meaning something else...
*** According to a comment on Youtube, the band realized how bad the line is and actually changes it to ‘Guess you ain’t heard that we HOLLOW guys’ when playing the song at live shows.
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** Their version of "All About That Bass" has this through a {{Mondegreen}} that results in an UnusualDysphemism: [[http://www.eonline.com/news/619533/kidz-bop-might-be-bringing-anal-back-listen-to-the-accidentally-r-rated-tune "I'M BRINGING ANAL BACK!"]][[note]]They're actually singing "bringing ''it all'' back." Blame AccentUponTheWrongSyllable here.[[/note]]

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** Their version of "All About That Bass" has this through a {{Mondegreen}} IndecipherableLyrics that results in an UnusualDysphemism: [[http://www.eonline.com/news/619533/kidz-bop-might-be-bringing-anal-back-listen-to-the-accidentally-r-rated-tune "I'M BRINGING ANAL BACK!"]][[note]]They're actually singing "bringing ''it all'' back." Blame AccentUponTheWrongSyllable here.[[/note]]
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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain an innuendo more explicit than your standard IntercourseWithYou in the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed to correspond with the GenderFlip.

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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain an innuendo more explicit than your standard IntercourseWithYou in the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the [[{{Pun}} only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song Racey song]] "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed to correspond with the GenderFlip.
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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain an explicit innuendo with the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed to correspond with the GenderFlip.

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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain an innuendo more explicit innuendo with than your standard IntercourseWithYou in the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed to correspond with the GenderFlip.
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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain an explicit innuendo with the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed with the PerspectiveFlip.

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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain an explicit innuendo with the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed to correspond with the PerspectiveFlip. GenderFlip.
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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain a sexual innuendo with the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed with the PerspectiveFlip.

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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain a sexual an explicit innuendo with the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed with the PerspectiveFlip.
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* Toni Basil was adamant that her OneHitWonder "Mickey" did ''not'' contain a sexual innuendo with the line "So come on and give it to me / Any way you can / Any way you want to do it / ''I'll take it like a man."'' Quite simply, the song was a TheCoverChangesTheGender version of the only moderately-racy [[{{Pun}} Racey]] song "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed with the PerspectiveFlip.
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* N.E.R.D.'s song 'Lapdance' has the repeated line 'And I dare a motherfucker to come in my face'. They mean it in the sense of daring someone to confront them, but it's not hard to interpret it literally.

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