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August 02, 2005

Everything that goes around comes around again

JERRY: You know, this is like that Twilight Zone where the guy wakes up, and he's the same - but everyone else is different!

KRAMER: Which one?

JERRY: They were all like that!

Iffy song lyrics spark controversy at practice

"A song slated to be used at halftime shows by youth football cheerleaders here has been pulled after some parents objected to its lyrics.

Girls on the McDonald Midget Football League cheerleading squad spend every afternoon preparing for sideline cheers and halftime dance shows, but when Marie Burton, mother of one of the girls, heard the lyrics to "Holla Back Girl," one of the songs being used by the cheerleaders, she was outraged.

Now the issue has ballooned into a controversy involving angry parents, the mayor, league officials and possibly council."

Flashback! 1979. High school. Wanna get this pep rally really cranked up? Spin this 45:

Foxy - Get Off

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh -- Yeah!
Get OFF!

Music may ease and end all discretion
So we can get off
We keep under the sheets with two lovelys
So we can get off

Said I hope that we get the promise, ladies
And make me get off
Take it from girls with our imagination
So we can get off

Call me up at your place, I can love you crazy
In the heat you will understand
Danger and excitement, that's what makes a lady
Find out what she wants in a man

To get off, to get off, to get off, to get off
To get off, to get off, to get off, to get, get off!

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...

Never heard a peep complaining about that song. What do you suppose is the symbolism in the line "We keep under the sheets with two lovelys/So we can get off"?

Maybe our parents were just oblivious. They might miss the verses, but even the whitest-of-the-white-bread-and-mayonnaise parents should've wondered about "Get OFF!" repeated a couple hundred times.

Maybe they figured, what's the big deal? I shudder to think what music my little girl (almost 4) will be doing her cheerleader routines to in a few more years.

Posted by Jeff at August 2, 2005 10:17 AM