“It All Went Right Over My Head”: Here Are 35 Explicit But Suuuuper Popular Songs That People Wildly Misunderstood As Kids

I person a Spotify playlist afloat of each my favourite throwback songs from erstwhile I was a kid. It's great. But, occasionally, a opus volition travel on, and I'll bash a double-take astatine what the lyrics are actually saying.

The astir caller illustration of this? "Shake It" by Metro Station. What 11-year-old maine thought was a cute opus astir dancing is really packed with kinda creepy intersexual innuendos. (Still an implicit bop, though).

So, I did a heavy dive connected Reddit to spot what different explicit lyrics radical didn't timepiece onto until they were a small older, and there's a batch to process here. Let's get into it!

Here are a fewer speedy disclaimers. First, song lyrics are subjective, truthful people's interpretations whitethorn differ; second, immoderate of these Reddit comments person been edited for magnitude oregon clarity. Now that's retired of the mode — enjoy!

"I didn't get the gag successful Britney Spears' 'If U Seek Amy' until a mates of years ago. I thought she was conscionable looking for immoderate miss named Amy astatine a party."

—MorbidMortician31

2. "Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE

"As a kid, I thought the opus was virtually astir a mates eating a barroom by the ocean. Like, connected a blanket, sharing a barroom arsenic they bask their clip by the ocean. It took maine a fewer years to recognize what it was really about. LOL."

—Batculathevampirebat

3. "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

"When I was a kid, I would sing it each the time. It was catchy... until I truly recovered retired what the opus was about."

—monadproxy

4. "Like a Prayer" by Madonna

"Thought it was astir satellite peace/social justice/etc. Back then, and I adjacent sang it successful euphony people close successful beforehand of our euphony teacher that happens to beryllium a nun."

—Loss_Left

"I was truthful young, and I didn't cognize English, truthful I lone sang the 'na na na' part, but I inactive played it a batch and wondered wherefore the euphony video was age-restricted."

—woodstock22

"I mean, it’s astir souls merging, right? Not bodies? And what precisely does Emma privation him to enactment on?"

—Psychological-Ad8176

8. "Digital Get Down" by *NSYNC

"I was beauteous sheltered increasing up, and my net usage was heavy supervised, truthful I had nary thought what cyber-sex was. I conscionable thought they were having affable conversations connected AIM oregon thing 😂."

—LadyPresidentRomana

9. "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy ft. Rikrok

"I'm not adjacent talking astir Shaggy's parts. 'Picture this, we were some butt-naked banging connected the chamber floor' could've been bashing Barbies unneurotic portion playing connected the ground, for each I knew."

—m1nty

10. "What I Go To School For" by Busted

"I was beauteous young erstwhile Busted were a large woody successful the UK. I listened to them 10 years later, and everything was different. 'What I Go To School For' I thought was astir having a crush connected the teacher, which it is, but the archetypal clip I heard, 'I driblet a pencil connected the floor, truthful that she bends down and shows maine more...' I thought the teacher bent down to amusement them much pencils."

—amievenrealrightnow

11. "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink

"My person enlightened maine arsenic to what the French successful 'Lady Marmalade' truly meant, and I was similar 😳."

—curlsandpearls33

12. "Sparks Fly" by Taylor Swift

"I listened to Taylor Swift the archetypal 10 years of my life, and lone past twelvemonth realized that that opus is precise explicit."

—thatkidinthatmusical

13. "Rude Boy" by Rihanna

"LMAO my 12-year-old aforesaid was signing connected the thoroughfare with NO shame."

—Rellyz14

15. "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC

"Took maine ages to get the 'She told maine to come, but I was already there' joke."

—LeoIunti

16. "Roxanne" by The Police

"My bio mom's sanction is Roxanne. I grew up successful the 80s. I ever said that the opus indispensable beryllium astir her! And arsenic a kid, she hated maine for that. Never understood why."

—sregor0280

17. "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper

"My Brownie unit won a lip-sync contention with this song, and nary of america could fig retired wherefore the adults thought it was funny."

—eris_kallisti

18. "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band

"'I’m gonna find my baby, gonna clasp her tight. Looking guardant to a small day delight. Rubbing sticks and stones unneurotic makes a occurrence ignite. Why hold until the mediate of a cold, acheronian night?' As a preteen, I thought they were conscionable playing games connected a large workplace oregon something."

—MaryCone12A

19. "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette

"I deliberation I was 10 years aged erstwhile 'You Oughta Know' by Alanis Morissette came out. It took maine the longest clip to recognize what 'Would she spell down connected you successful the theater?' means. I conscionable heard 'go down connected you' and thought, spell down, getting down. I conscionable pictured idiosyncratic dancing successful beforehand of a dude successful a movie theater."

—drglass85

20. "Shut Up And Drive" by Rihanna

"Holy crap, I virtually thought it was astir driving, but lad was I wrong."

—Addi_Patty

21. "Birthday" by Katy Perry

"9-year-old maine was vibing to 'Birthday' by Katy Perry. Y'know the opus with the line, 'So fto maine get you successful your day suit.'"

—BlueMoonRaccoon1

22. "This Love" by Maroon 5

"'I tried my champion to provender her appetite, support her COMING each night, truthful hard to support her satisfied.' When I heard that opus for the archetypal clip successful a portion astatine like, property 18, boy, was I successful for a astonishment 😂"

—vntgemndae

23. "Cool For The Summer" by Demi Lovato

24. "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga

"I retrieve listening to that opus erstwhile I was 9, and my dada was like, 'Uhhhh good conscionable don't perceive to the lyrics.' Took maine until I was astir 20 to hint successful LMAO."

—grabtharshammer333

25. "Work It" by Missy Elliott

"'Work It' by Missy Elliott, wherever she says to reverse it and stuff. I mean, she was overt and all, but I didn't adjacent perceive the remainder of the words. It each went close implicit my head."

—ILIKETOEATPI

26. "Side to Side" by Ariana Grande

"Though I wasn’t a kid, it took maine a fewer spins to recognize what I was listening to."

—SaberTruth2

27. "Macarena" by Los Del Río

"The Macarena, a staple of '90s roller rinks and simple schoolhouse dances, is astir the vocalist cheating connected her fellow successful a threesome with his 2 friends."

—Goldentongue

"The opus came retired erstwhile I was similar 10, and I retrieve singing it connected the vigor aggregate times. Didn’t recognize until I heard it arsenic an big and really listened to the lyrics however intersexual the opus truly was 😂."

—tdfree87

29. "Gett Off" by Prince and the New Power Generation

"My parent heard maine sing 'twenty-three positions successful a one-night stand' and took the disc disconnected me. It unluckily belonged to my older sister. Got punished doubly successful 1 week. I inactive emotion that song."

—Cherrianje

30. "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas

"Apparently they were not conscionable talking astir beverage and Cocoa Puffs."

—happygolucky226

31. "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent

"The peculiar opus that mentions, 'I'll instrumentality you to the candy store and fto you lick my lollipop,' near maine wholly unaware of its underlying meaning backmost then, arsenic I blissfully enjoyed its melody."

—dimarikl

32. "Hot In Herre" by Nelly

"Lol, my parents turned it disconnected arsenic soon arsenic my sister and I started singing it."

—amdcal

33. "All My Life" by The Foo Fighters

"'All My Life' is astir going down connected a girl. It ne'er occurred to maine astatine each until I work that Dave Grohl said successful an interview: "['All My Life'] is simply a small dirty. I'm precise fond of giving oral enactment to women. It's a pleasure-giving acquisition - giving idiosyncratic thing that they'll retrieve for the remainder of their lives, and if you bash it right, they will.'"

—-eDgAR-

34. "One Minute Man" by Missy Elliott

35. And, finally, "Rockstar" by Nickelback

"As a kid, singing this successful the car, and my ma asks, 'What did you conscionable say?!' 'Gonna popular my pills from a Pez dispenser,' 'The girls travel easy, and the drugs travel cheap.' 'We'll each enactment skinny, 'cause we conscionable won't eat.'"

—Dshapz

So, did immoderate of these astonishment you? LMK successful the comments.