If you have ever taken some time to sit and listen to the lyrics of your favorite songs, you may have been shocked at what they actually mean! This week, on the Ear Biscuits podcast, Good Mythical Morning stars Rhett and Link go through a few songs they remember blasting in their rooms as kids with a fresh set of ears and realize that they're not as innocent as they once seemed.
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A lengthy discussion about school dances and performing during other extra-curricular activities led Rhett and Link into a talk about their performance of Naughty By Nature's "O.P.P." rewritten for Halloween. "Have you ever heard 'O.P.P.'" Rhett says he asked his 13-year-old son, Shepherd. "Of course, I know what it's about, I know what 'O.P.P' stands for because that's what the song is telling you about the whole time," says Rhett. "Well, it was 'Other People's Property,' but as you get into the lyrics it's more specific than that," Link adds.
"When he was processing what was being said," Rhett explains, "he was just like, 'I can't believe that this was a thing that was happening culturally,' I guess." Of course, Rhett then read the lyrics to the 1991 Hip Hop-crossover hit, released when they were both 13, as a poem rather than try to rap them -- and it seems the sexual references, innuendo, and coded language flew right past their younger selves.
Remembering back to their first experiences growing up with other explicit groups like N.W.A. and Miami's 2 Live Crew, Rhett believes "95% of the music that I listened to when I was a kid was just washing over me and I couldn't tell you what it was about, and I think that's relatively common." Alanis Morissette's 1995 single "You Oughta Know" is also a track that makes both Rhett and Link look back differently, given all of the explicitly sexual lyrical content that they both missed for different reasons regarding their tastes at the time. Family favorite Garth Brooks gets a mention too, for his eyebrow-raising single "That Summer," which Rhett, although he and his parents always sang along to Brooks together, believes this is why they never asked him to sing this song.
Also this week, Rhett pitches that Link becomes a sex education DJ, right before breaking his heart regarding Link’s upcoming MythiCon DJ set at Rhett’s house. Listen to the full episode and follow along with Rhett and Link, hosts of the popular daily YouTube show Good Mythical Morning and authors of the New York Times bestseller “Book of Mythicality” in a candid weekly conversation for your Internetainment on Ear Biscuits with Rhett and Link, now streaming on Audacy.
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