There is a website, here (and see the title above), where people can record--forever, and everyone--song lyrics they have always understood WRONG. For example, Jimi Hendrix never recorded a song called "Kiss This Guy" . His song was called "Kiss the Sky". This is the basis for the title of the site.
Anyhoo. Genius Golfer and I ran away from home this morning to the "early bird" special at the movies to see "Rock of Ages". It was a completely guilty pleasure--both being children of the 80s, and loving the now classic big-hair-band rock anthems of the age.
We we joined in the theater by one other guy, who left half way through and then came back in for the ending. This is not a movie you will hear about when the Academy award nominations come out, but it was good for an embarrassed laugh and a few cringes and rolled eyes. But Tom Crusie, if he is really doing the singing, did pretty well. For a guy that is 50 next week.
Again, anyhoo.
On the way home we were laughing together about how when I was a kid and these songs were current radio fodder, I never heard the lyrics as that overtly sexual or racy or pro-illicit-drugs or anything other than just a 'good song with a beat you can dance to'. But seeing them as a mom (and a YW leader) I sure hear the differences now.
Yikes.
But that beats GG's take. He understood the lyrics to say something totally wrong, so they were never naughty songs for him. He was surprised by the lyrics too as we watched this dumb movie today. He heard these songs for the first time with their actual lyrics--sex, drugs and rock and roll!
You can't take us anywhere.
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