Joe Jonas Recalled The Origin Of His Band DNCE’s Hit Song “Cake By The Ocean,” And It Turns Out That Thousands Of People Didn’t Know It Was Actually A Euphemism For Sex

For context, aft the trio temporarily parted ways successful 2013, Joe and Nick embarked connected their ain journeys successful the euphony industry, portion Kevin focused much connected business endeavors. While Nick’s solo vocation took off, Joe famously formed the funk-pop radical DNCE, which released a clump of deed songs including “Toothbrush,” “Body Moves,” and, of course, “Cake By The Ocean.”

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Reflecting connected however the second came to be, Joe shared connected the Behind the Wall podcast that the song’s rubric was coined aft his collaborators mistakenly referred to “Sex connected the Beach” cocktails arsenic “Cake by the Oceans.”

Funnily enough, this revelation from Joe has led to thousands of net users discovering that contempt what the music video mightiness person suggested, “Cake By The Ocean” isn’t really astir cake.

As you mightiness recall, the song's chorus goes, “Talk to me, babe / I’m going unsighted from this sweet, saccharine cravin', woah-oh / Let's suffer our minds and spell fuckin' brainsick / I-I-I-I-I, I support connected hopin' we'll devour barroom by the ocean.”

“THAT'S WHAT CAKE BY THE OCEAN MEANS????” work 1 popular comment with implicit 14,000 likes, portion a abstracted TikTok video, which has been viewed astir 4 cardinal times, saw a instrumentality admitting that they took the song’s rubric precise literally.

“Well I learned thing caller today,” idiosyncratic commented. “We were truthful young and guiltless backmost successful the day,” different idiosyncratic said.

“and our teachers conscionable fto america creation to this,” 1 baffled idiosyncratic wrote, portion different remark with implicit 13,000 likes read, “This is however I recovered retired that it doesn’t mean that.”

In fact, Joe’s revelation led radical to statesman sharing different fashionable songs that they didn’t recognize seemingly had NSFW meanings.

"Wait until you find retired what ‘Watermelon Sugar’ is about,” idiosyncratic said, referring to the hit Harry Styles song. In it, helium sings, “Tastes similar strawberries connected a summertime evenin' / And it sounds conscionable similar a opus / I privation more berries and that summer feelin' / It's truthful fantastic and lukewarm / Breathe me in, respire maine retired / I don't cognize if I could ever spell without…Watermelon sweetener high.”

“me reasoning katy perry conscionable REALLY liked celebrating birthdays,” different idiosyncratic said. In her 2013 hit, Katy sings, “So screen your eyes, I person a astonishment / I anticipation you got a steadfast appetite / If you wanna dance, if you privation it each / You cognize that I'm the miss that you should call,” and then, “Boy, erstwhile you're with maine / I’ll springiness you a sensation / Make it similar your day mundane / I cognize you similar it saccharine / So you tin person your barroom / Give you thing bully to celebrate.”

Can you deliberation of different songs that you didn’t recognize had NSFW meanings until you were older? Feel escaped to stock them successful the comments, oregon by utilizing this anonymous form. Meanwhile, you tin find the afloat Behind the Wall podcast occurrence here.