Friday's Feel Good Jam # 4

First off, let me just say that you are not REALLY reading this on a Tuesday, you DID in fact read this on Friday, making this the 4th installment of the Friday Feel Good Jam. This isn't a massively delayed article at all, if you actually believe that then you are wrong. Drink some warm milk, eat some cookies and have someone put you to bed. Moving on...

The Inner Circle was the name of the gang I headed up during my infamous Catholic Primary School Days, where we would beat up our enemies with sharpened rosary beads and boiled holy water.

Inner Circle also happened to be one of my favourite reggae/ragga/pop groups of the early 90's, with their hit song, A La La La La Long, which was also conveniently just known as the Sweat Song.


One of Shaun's Favourite Reggae/Ragga/Pop Groups Of The Early 90's

It was only later during my more formative years that I realised what a dirty little ditty this actually was. Play it, listen carefully to the lyrics and you will see why.



Crikey, what a sexually charged up little number that was!

Basically in layman's terms, they wanted to make the girl sweat, sweat till she couldn't sweat no more, and - if she cried out - they were going to push it. Push it, push it some more.

The 90's was a strange time where one could easily get away with releasing filthy tracks like this to mainstream radio. Other adult-themed pop songs from that era would of course include Boyz II Men's infamous "River Runs Dry", which highlighted men's infertility, as well as Shaggy's "Oh Carolina", about a drugged up prostitute who sleeps with incredibly old men, and then kills them with a set of rusty pliers.

Boyz II Men got away with their song because they had such lovely melodic voices and looked like black choir singers, whilst Shaggy avoided controversy because, well, no one could really understand what he was saying, it just sounded really nifty, and was fairly easy to dance to.

In fact, were you to....

.... I'm actually going to end this right here, my tummy just started doing flip flops, I have to go now. I'm really sorry.

Tot volgende keer.



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