Line #56 AccidentalInnuendo/Music


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10	You may be suprised that [[AccidentalInnuendo many of the songs mentioned here aren't]] IntercourseWithYou. (See also the [[DarthWiki/IntercourseWithYou "dark side" of that trope]])
11	* Music/{{ACDC}} were allegedly named after a label on a sewing machine. Riiiiight.[[note]]For those who don't know, "AC/DC" is both "Alternating Current / Direct Current" and a slang term for "bisexual".[[/note]]
12	* ''Music/{{Area 11}}'': It didn't go unnoticed that the acronym for "GO!! Fighting Action Power" is, well... 'Go FAP'. The band, specifically Sparkles*, didn't even bother using its full name during one of their live performances, meaning it went from AccidentalInnuendo to deliberate. There's also the matter that "Fighting Action Power" appears [[NonAppearingTitle nowhere]] in the song itself.
13	* 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.
14	* Music/BritneySpears: The first line of the chorus of "I Wanna Go," "Shame on me, to need release." She's talking about having a little fun to blow off steam, but "need release" is also a way of saying you need to get laid.
15	* ''Music/BryanAdams'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "Summer of 69." The song title is, in fact, referring to the sexual act, ''not'' the year. (Or played straight - WordOfGod is divided. Bryan says it's deliberate, the co-writer says it was accidental).
16	* ''Music/{{BT}}'': This stanza from "The Last Moment of Clarity":
17	--> "Tune in the sky\
18	Ubiquitous and natural\
19	Carry the light\
20	'''And take it deeper and deeper inside."'''
21	* ''Music/CarlyRaeJepsen'': "Curiosity" delivers the line "don't call me up just so I can please you".
22	* ''Music/{{Chicago}}'': Before they even became the Chicago Transit Authority, they went by the name "the Big Thing", which apparently caused some controversy in the Chicago club circuit.
23	* "[[Music/TheChordettes Lollipop lollipop, oh lolly lollipop, lollipop lollipop, oh lolly lollipop, lollipop lollipop, oh lolly lollipop]]...[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything pop]]"
24	* This being Music/TheDecemberists, it's dubious whether the following innuendo really was accidental, but context (the song "Culling of the Fold") suggests it may have been:
25	-->"You take him by the teeth
26	-->Get him down on his knees
27	-->With your hands all shaking
28	-->That'll teach him how to take it"
29	* Music/DexysMidnightRunners once wrote and recorded "Come on Eileen." Smartasses everywhere noted the missing comma and asked if they shouldn't at least buy Eileen dinner first.
30	* 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 sounding a bit naughty, especially when you consider ''what'' gets hard under such circumstances. At least if you're male.
31	* Music/EdSheeran gives us the line "Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love" in "Thinking Out Loud".
32	* The song 'Girl With One Eye' lyrics make hints at lesbianism by the use of [[UnusualEuphemism slang]] and what could be thought of as [[LesYay lesbian sex acts]]. [[Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine Considering who the artist is]] this was definitely an accident.
33	* The 1961 song "Quarter to Three" by Gary U.S. Bonds had an exhortation to "blow, Daddy," which was widely snickered over by teenage boys back then.
34	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd12hR68sWM "Nuki Nuki (The Nuki Song)"]] by Music/{{Gummibar}} is about a pacifier nicknamed Nuki, but can be misheard to be referring to "nookie", slang for sexual intercourse.
35	* It's a common joke among Music/IronMaiden's fan base that "Tailgunner" is an ode to gay sex.
36	-->Nail that Fokker, kill that son
37	-->Gonna blow ya guts out with my gun
38	-->The weather forecasts good for war
39	-->Cologne and Frankfurt, have some more
40	** It doesn't help that Music/{{Bruce\|Dickinson}} got the name of the song from a porno film about anal sex.
41	* Music/JonathanCoulton realized after writing it that his song "Drinking with You"--a sweet song about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin going out drinking with someone]] you have {{U\|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST with--could be construed as being about date rape. He put a comment in the song's info on his website how he'd realized the undertones, but that was assuredly ''not'' his intent and the song's sweet tone was meant to be sincere.
42	* ''Music/JoyElectric'': From "Monosynth"'s chorus: "With a stroke of magic hands, I'll make your dreams come true..."
43	* Music/KateBush's song "Egypt" memorably refers to what may or may not be the [[Art/TheSphinx Great Sphynx of Giza]] as a "pussy queen".
44	* The Music/KidzBop rendition of Cascada's "Evacuate the Dancefloor" replaces "Can't stop 'cause it feels like an overdose" with "Can't stop 'cause it feels like it's getting close".
45	** Their version of "All About That Bass" has this through 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]]
46	* 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 a bit too much.
47	--> When I'm alone with my fancies, I'll be with you / Weaving romances, making believe they're true
48	* The Lumineers one hit “Ho Hey” contains the line “You’re my sweetheart” in the chorus. However, the last time it is sung, heart is cut off before leading into the hook making it sound like “you’re my sweet ho.”
49	* ''Music/TheMagneticFields'': ''69 Love Songs'' was apparently chosen because of its appeal as a cover design.
50	* The Mariah Carey classic “All I Want for Christmas is You” features the line “Santa Claus won’t make me happy with a toy on Christmas Day”. It’s fairly she wasn’t talking about that kind of toy
51	* The Marshall Tucker Band's "Long Hard Ride" is definitely about a horse.
52	* ''Music/TheMegas'': Probably unintentional, but Woodman is the master of machines... and of the birds and the bees?
53	** Well, seeing that he is ''Wood'' Man...
54	* ''Music/MomoiroCloverZ'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN9EIcTsN3I&t=2m48s The scene]] in the "Koko Natsu" music video where the girls get shot in the face with coconut water. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial We swear it's coconut water, officer.]]
55	* There's a little known band that was featured in some Mercury commercials as well as ''You're Cut Off''. The band's name... Morningwood.
56	* 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.
57	** 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 [=MCs=], but many interpret it as meaning something else...
58	*** The band seems to have realized how bad the line is, since they actually change it to ‘Guess you ain’t heard that we HOLLOW guys’ when playing the song at live shows.
59	* If you're so inclined, the [[Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock NKOTB]]/ Music/BackstreetBoys team-up called [[PortmanteauCoupleName NKOTBSB]] sounds like "[[HoYay New Kids on the Backstreet Boys]]."
60	* Music/NineInchNails in "Ruiner": "How did you get so big? How did you get so strong? How did it get so hard? How did it get so long?"
61	** Also, the song "Vessel" opens with "I let you put it in my mouth/I let it get under my skin".
62	* ''Music/{{NSYNC}}'': "Up Against the Wall" was written by Justin and JC and notably used the popular slang term "shorty". Some fans jokingly called the song Justin and JC's [[HoYay love ode to Chris]], as Shorty was the group's oft used nickname for him.
63	* ''Music/PaulWilliams'': There's this one suspect line in "Sunday".
64	-->"Snuggled up like spoons inside a drawer / closer now than you and I have ever been before"
65	* Music/PearlJam [[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/pearl_jam_the_second_coming/page/3 wasn't named after semen]]. The bassist came up with "Pearl", and then they saw a Neil Young show of endless jamming...
66	* Contrary to popular belief, Music/PinkFloyd is ''not'' a phallic reference. It was named for Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, two of Syd Barrett's favorite blues musicians.
67	* The fact that a [[CampGay flamboyantly bi singer]] named his band Music/{{Queen}} is purely coincidental.
68	* Music/RascalFlatts has a song called "Bob That Head". Not surprisingly, this song has been the subject of derision, mainly in the form of fellatio jokes.
69	* Music/{{REM}} once did a song inspired by the 'last call return' feature on phones. However, given that the song's title contained both an UnusualEuphemism they had used before ([[spoiler:'Star']], as featured in [[spoiler:"Star Me Kitten"]]), while the other was a euphemism for a particular sexual act [[spoiler:'69']], some people no doubt wondered why the title had nothing to do with the act...
70	* ''Music/{{Shivr}}'': From “Hollow Mask”: “Every day I lose myself/I wish I could believe/that I’m really somebody else/when I’m down on my knees”. Wait, ''what?''
71	* French song "Dominique" by ''The Singing Nun'' is infamous for its refrain "Dominique -nique -nique". "Niquer" is also a slang meaning having sex.
72	* The songs "See Me, Feel Me" and "Sensation" from ''Music/{{Tommy}}''.
73	* 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 Racey song]] "Kitty," and the lyric wasn't changed to correspond with the GenderFlip.
74	* Volume 5 of ''Music/TwinOfTwins'' gives us this:
75	--> '''Music/MichaelJackson:''' ''(on radio)'' Hello, Jamaica!
76	--> '''Ian Lyad:''' Yes, it's a pleasure to have you...!
77	--> '''Mr. Muta:''' Yu can stay deh have man.
78	** And this exchange between Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, in an argument about Beenie's gaining inspiration for his musical drive from Bounty:
79	--> '''Beenie Man:''' Bounty Killer, Bounty Killer! Mi love you, Bounty Killer!
80	--> '''Bounty Killer:''' You can't love me - I'm a male!
81	--> '''Beenie Man:''' Nuh dem way deh, Bounty Killer--
82	--> '''Bounty Killer:''' I'm a male! Go and e-mail some f---ing female!
83	* Music/TheMaine's "Inside Of You" is about how a man has trouble getting into a girls heart. A lot of people don't listen properly to the lyrics and think it's about sex.
84	* ''Music/TheWho'': Pete Townshend has said that "Squeeze Box" is about nothing more than a woman who plays accordion to the annoyance of her family. But John Entwistle said that when he first heard the song, he knew "it was about tits." According to [[http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/ByNumbers.htm this]], however, "[Squeeze Box was] Intended as a poorly aimed dirty joke."
85	* "Stay the Night" by Zedd and [[Music/{{Paramore}} Hayley Williams]] contains the line "come pour yourself all over me", which is supposed to be connected to the previous lyric "I am fire, you're gasoline", but it can come off as something ''much'' messier
86	* The song "Happy Sensations", popularized in the ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'' series of video games, can be interpreted as such. (Just look at the title!) Lyrics include "my heart is pounding", "I'm jumping in", "loving this feeling", and to make things worse, at times you can hear a cartoony "boing" sound effect in the background (remind you of anything?)
87	* The Christian hymns "He Touched Me" and "Let Me Touch Him".
88	* "Pack Up Your Troubles" has a couple of instances of accidental innuendo. One of the lyrics is, "While you've a lucifer to light your fag, smile boys, that's the style...". In modern-day America, "fag" has completely different connotations to what the song means ('fag' meaning 'cigarette'). Also, if your head is far enough in the gutter, "Private Perks", especially out of context, can have some connotations that could fit under this trope, or double entendre.
89	* The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" is often thought to be about 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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Context AccidentalInnuendo / Music