dr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Jul 30, 2023

Even if they didn't mean it this way, I don't get why more people aren't reading innuendo into "#Lollipop" by the #Chordettes

#music #lyrics

Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Jul 30, 2023

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?

Show threadFlous   Jul 30, 2023
@davidr Tsk tsk Dave. Lightning is obvious.
Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Jul 30, 2023
@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?
Show threadSharon Gibson MorganJul 30, 2023
@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.
Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Jul 30, 2023
@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?
Show threadSharon Gibson MorganJul 30, 2023

@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.

Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧
@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.
Jul 30, 2023 at 8:39pmWeb
Show threadFlous   Jul 30, 2023
@davidr @SharonGibson3 I'm one of those people.