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TBH, it isn't even innuendo. It seems to just be a near-literal reading. (Like with "wand"->"penis" in #harrypotter)

According to the lyrics, the #lollipop is "Sweeter than candy on a stick". But a literal lollipop IS candy on a stick. So they must be talking about something else...

Crazy way he thrills me, tell you why
Just like a lightning from the sky
He loves to kiss me till I can't see straight

Thrill and kiss are obv code. "A" lightning makes no sense. But if code for a sex act?

@davidr Tsk tsk Dave. Lightning is obvious.

@lgeurts I agree, it is. What I'm marveling at is that there seems to be no discussion about it online. Or maybe it's SO obvious nobody bothers?

@davidr Most don't bother about that stuff, only a few really listen to lyrics bro.

@davidr @lgeurts Maybe it's because the song is 65 years old? (Released in 1958). Besides, there are far more risqué songs, e.g., 60-Minute Man, Rock Me Baby.

@SharonGibson3 @davidr Probably that's a reason too Sharon. PS. Don't know 60 minute man.

@lgeurts @davidr *60-Minute Man *is a 1951 song by Billy Ward and the Dominoes. (The late Ed Bradley, a correspondent for the CBS News magazine, 60 Minutes, frequently performed the song at various venues, incl. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and with Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band.)

The protagonist maintains he can last for an hour in bed and breaks down what happens and how long over the course of an hour.
https://youtu.be/cO-zHg3Q_Pc

Billy Ward and The Dominos - Sixty Minute Man

YouTube

@SharonGibson3 @davidr Damn, I never thought it was like that in the 50's.

@lgeurts @davidr If we're not careful, the pearl-clutchers who want to ban books will rediscover these songs and start in (again) on the evils of jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, and rap music.

@SharonGibson3 @lgeurts I should perhaps clarify that I'm hoping Lollipop is (and was understood by teens at the time) as code. It's already a great song and would only be better as subversion.

@davidr @SharonGibson3 No worries David.

@SharonGibson3 @davidr Modern times, modern ways. You just can't turn back to what once was by censorship. No matter how hard they try, it ultimately will fail.

@lgeurts @davidr Well, suggestive stories and songs are as old as mankind. Just take a look at Chaucer's *The Miller's Tale*. (It was hilarious when my high school English teacher read it aloud, in Middle English, yet.)

@SharonGibson3 @davidr Long time since I had the joy of reading that. I can only imagine how it was when he did that, the book itself is already satirical at its best, let alone him talking in old English.
You know your stuff Sharon, bit in awe.

@lgeurts @davidr Actually, it was Mrs. Guzzanato. She was a handsome woman who, for some reason, reminded me of Vincent Price. (Don't ask.) Her reciting the husband's surprise was hysterical. 😂

@SharonGibson3 Vincent Price, love that actor.

@lgeurts @davidr I went to a Catholic high school; many of our lay teachers were pretty cool. My art teacher allowed us to play songs on the record player during art class. So, we're drawing, painting and whatnot while listening to albums by Carole King and James Taylor. We even listened to the soundtrack from* Hair *with the warning, "If one of the nuns comes in here, you turn that record off!" 😀

@SharonGibson3 @davidr Have to go to bed, 5AM long drive ahead. Sure hope we will have this kind of chats more!

@lgeurts @davidr Me too. Have a safe trip. 🙂

@SharonGibson3 @lgeurts Yeah, we learned about this in HS English as well. Our English teacher was Mrs Estes--fiery redhead with an amazing Southern accent exactly like Julia Sugarbaker.

She also told us the real meaning of some other Chaucerian and Shakespearean things that I thought I remembered, but apparently don't since the references I'm finding don't line up right. :(

@SharonGibson3 @lgeurts Do you mean that the song was recorded before the invention of sex or that the song has faded from the public consciousness?

@davidr @lgeurts Oh, yes. Nobody had sex before 1958. JK.

The Chordette's song, last featured in the 1986 movie, *Stand by Me*, was a hit whose heyday has come and gone.

@SharonGibson3 @lgeurts Original recordings by the Chordettes have ~80 million views on YouTube. But you are right in spirit, as most of the comments reveal people pining for the days when a lollipop was just a lollipop.