Lil Wayne - 'Lollipop'
Isn't innuendo brilliant? The art of using nice clean words and expressions to hint at total filth is much under-appreciated in this day and age, especially now there are more things that you can actually say without having to go around the houses. But somehow, all this has done is make people get REALLY creative with their slang terms and devious descriptions. There are now innuendos for certain acts which are so gross, you wouldn't like to believe that anyone ever does them ever, and yet they've been given a nickname, which suggests that they are not only performed quite regularly, but also by a variety of different people.
Of course, it's tempting to conclude from this that the people involved are kind of mad, if they can do the gross things without actually being able to describe what they are using the appropriate words, but then the human mind is a complicated thing. And there's also the fact that when it comes to acts of carnality or immorality, there's often more talking than doing.
Which brings us to the use of sexual innuendo in modern popular song. Basically, if you removed all of the songs with double-meanings from the rock 'n' roll archives (rock 'n' roll itself being a slang term for, y'know, rudies) there'd be barely anything left. It would be quicker to list the songs which DON'T rely on lyrical winks to the audience about sexuality, drugs or whatever. And some of those are sung as if they're ruder than they really are.
By contrast. there's only one innuendo in this song (and a very good pun deriving from it). The rest of it is a tiring list of massively sexual things this Wayne fella has been getting up to with a friendly young lady, and as such, is only fit to be heard in full by Wayne, his mates, Chubby Brown fans, and Satan. Everyone else is going to have to put up with a lot of vocal absence, as the rudery is deleted from your ears, and this one innuendo/pun combo.
The innuendo is that the young lady says that Lil Wayne looks like a lollipop, right, and this is not a reference to his massive bald head and pink, stripy face, because he does not have either of these things. She means SOMETHING ELSE. The pun is when he says she can lick the wrapper. Because he's a RAPPER, you see, and lollipops have WRAPPERS, so she's basically going to lick HIM.
I know! Isn't it amazing?
I could totally live without that bloody awful Sean Kingston vocoder/autotune robo-voice thing, mind...
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At 29th May 2008, rachthehammer wrote:I can't think about the word lollipop in the same way... Which saddens me.
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At 30th May 2008, igorah wrote:You need to sort out the video, I think you have the wrong one..
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