In my case I’ll say either Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad touch or Aqua’s Barbie Girl.

I mean… what the hell is “hanky panky”.

But for bonus points, I did also sing “take a walk on the wild side~” with no flying clue what “giving head” was supposed to be.

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My stepson was always singing I Will Survive. Mentioned that was sorta the gay anthem. He was horrified. So he started singing YMCA instead.

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That punchline got me real good.

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Call me crazy, but him being horrified by that sounds like bad parenting…

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Back when I took singing lessons my teacher (who mostly taught kids but I was an adult learner) shared that she often had to veto the songs kids wanted to sing. One in particular that stuck with me was a less than 10 year old who wanted to sing Lady Gaga’s Love Game. Which has the lyric “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick” among other very adult lyrics.

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Those lyrics are more spoken than sung, so for music lessons, that makes sense.

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For some reason I Don’t Like Mondays was popular with my parents when I was a kid and I remember singing it sometimes. Turns out it’s about an actual school shooting and not just disliking Mondays.

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Like “pump up kicks” though that’s more obvious.

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I think “I want to shoot the whole school down” isn’t terribly subtle, but Pumped Up Kicks definitely spells it out for you.

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It did have a pretty catchy chorus.

Turns out it’s about an actual school shooting and not just disliking Mondays.

Back when a school shooting was actually something to write a song about.

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All the Linkin Park songs.

After he hung himself, it all makes sense.

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Yeah that one was weird. Like the dude was always singing about being horrifically depressed, and then when he hung himself it was like surprised Pikachu face

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In The End, Numb, Crawling, One Step Closer, Runaway, Place for My Head… motherfucker I hadn’t really thought to much about it before

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Ring Around the Rosie

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