Just heard Games Without Frontiers on the wireless set and am reminded that when when it came out I thought he was singing "she's so confident" and not "Jeux sans frontières"
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I thought for ages it was 'she's so fucking hard' and wondered how on earth they got that into daytime play (same with 'all that bullshit conversation' in George Michael's Fastlove, which I'm sure has only been radio edited in the past ten years or so)
Meh...she's so confident works for me. Thought that's what it was. Now that I turn 61 in a few weeks I can be the cranky set in my ways guy. "I remember when Peter Gabriel dressed up weird...and I liked it...(insert old man grumpy sound here)."
When Peter Powell said 'I fancy her' after Sylvester's TOTP debut with Mighty Real I've never been able to work out if he was being clueless or bantzy ironic.
I heard it as ‘She’s so Frontier’. Which makes no sense, but hey, it’s pop music. I also did the classic Radiohead misinterpretation of hearing ‘that shirt makes you look pretty ugly’ instead of ‘Ambition makes you look pretty ugly’ but my lyrics made sense, damn it!
This song had to be edited for radio play in one version.
They had to change the line
"Whistling tunes we piss on the coons in the jungle".
Not exactly politically correct
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Well, until just now.
He's So Popular sounds like a Haircut 100 B side
Discuss.
Or the banger from Rozalla 'My boyfriend's got no money he's bought a trampoline'.
They had to change the line
"Whistling tunes we piss on the coons in the jungle".
Not exactly politically correct