While the movie itself was kind of lame, I can't help but giggle every time I think about the "Puff the Magic Dragon" scene in Meet the Parents. If you haven't seen it, the basic idea is that Robert De Niro's character enjoys the song but doesn't acknowledge the possibility that it might be about something other than a dragon that lived by the sea. Ben Stiller's character mentions the "other meaning" and is promptly interrogated by De Niro, the father-in-law to be.
Taking inspiration from that scene, we've compiled a list of other songs that may or may not mean exactly what they say.
10. Olivia Newton-John, Let's Get Physical - Maybe she's singing about exercising. Or maybe not.
9. Bloodhound Gang; Foxtrot, Uniform, Charlie, Kilo - With lines like "Put the you know what in the you know where" and "Vulcanize the whoopee stick in the ham wallet", there's really no way to argue that this one is anything but dirty.
8. Cyndi Lauper, She Bop - Another 80s classic, this song could be about dancing, but most people agree that it's about a different "hobby".
7. Chuck Berry, My Ding-a-Ling - A classic from way back, it's hard not to love a song with a chorus like, "My Ding-A-Ling My Ding-A-Ling won't you play with My Ding-A-Ling?"
6. Merrill Bainbridge, Mouth - This one's not as veiled as some, but somehow it got major airplay during the late 1990s.
5. Next, Too Close - It's so mellow that you almost miss it. But it's there. Right there in front of you.
4. Aerosmith, Love in an Elevator - It was a toss-up between this and their slightly more recent hit, "Pink".
3. Warrant, Cherry Pie - "Swingin' to the left and swingin' to the right, I think about baseball, I'll swing all night, yeah" You didn't really think that one was about baseball and baked goods, did you?
2. Starland Vocal Band, Afternoon Delight - This song is the musical equivalent of catching your grandmother in a kinky lingerie shop. It's not terribly subtle, but somehow it just doesn't seem like it should be so dirty.
1. Ohio Express, Yummy Yummy - Is it dirty? It's hard to say, but it's certainly easy enough to see how someone could think that it is. The fact that this song is generally considered to 100% harmless and innocent earns this one the top spot.
The point was not to find the most illicit songs ever, but to find songs that were, on the surface, much less deviant than they actually are. If we were looking for the most illicit songs EVER, not a single one of these songs would make the list.
If you have better titles to suggest, though, we'd be eager to hear them.
this is stupid. i can think of ten songs easily more illicit than the ones listed here.
ps what's a you know what