It occurred to me today
How fast the days and weeks are passing
How quickly time flies these days
Even when life is not much fun
Soon my children will be as old as I used to be
What feels like just a few months ago
I forget looking at my adorable children
That one day they will grow
Tweens then teens
As we used to be
I don’t know what made me think back to the early 90s
When I first became a teen
But as I did I realised with absolute horror
How inappropriate the music of the day now sounds to me
Music I listened to at home
At youth club
In our family car!
Music I owned on vinyl, video and cassette
That I played on my walkman on the bus to school!!
I would be mortified if my children were singing along
I Wanna Sex You Up!
1991
I was 14 / 15
What was I doing listening and singing along to
I Wanna Sex You Up!?!
There were other songs
Better songs by proper bands
But also this …
It has never dawned on me before
The erotic nature of some of the songs
Filling the charts in my youth!
Let’s Talk About Sex
With just 5 of the inappropriate songs I loved in the 90s
Ahhh I forgot about all of those songs! Eek! I cringe now thinking I used to love them! lol x
Loved all these too x
This is so true Jennie and so funny! In the first year of secondary school (1991), I was chosen to sing at the inter-form singing competition. The song we chose (a bunch of 11-year olds), was ‘Like a Virgin’. I stood up there on the stage in a conical bra made of tin foil and sung in front of the whole school. Can you even imagine?! The teachers mustve been horrified.
(please delete my first comment, my phone wasn’t being kind to me!)
Oh my goodness, I had forgotten about Like a Virgin!!
So many songs are sexual in nature or refer to drugs without many people realising (especially younger people), at least these ones tell you what they are about in the title 🙂 One that always gets me is Chain reaction by Diana Ross if you actually listen to the lyrics it is pure filth!
I am now going to have to go and listen too Chain Reeaction!
In 1998, when my 12-year-old son was first taking an interest in pop music, we liked B*Witched singing C’est la vie. It was only recently when I went to replay it on YouTube that I read someone’s comments on it not being so innocent after all… and then I really listened to the words and wondered why I’d been so deaf back in the day. It’ll never be the same now.
Oh my godness a blast from the blast, i remember all of these songs from my childhood too and i even know all the words to the songs too, x