Example #1: If You Want It To Be Good Girl by Backstreet Boys
"If you want it to be wild
Gotta know just who to dial baby
(And that's me)
If you really like it hot
Get someone who hits the spot Honey
(oh yes)"
Example #2: Wannabe by Spice Girls
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever friendship never ends,
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give,
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is.
gotta,
you gotta, you gotta, slam, slam, slam, slam
Slam your body down and wind it all around.
Slam your body down and wind it all around.
Slam your body down and wind it all around.
Slam your body down zigazig ah
If you wanna be my lover. "
Example #3: When the Lights Go Out by Five
"Baby when the lights go out, Every single word cannot express,
The love and tenderness, I'll show you what it's all about,
Babe I swear you will succumb to me, So baby come to me,
When the lights go out!
I know you think it may be just a lie,
Ain't no use in putting up a fight,
Cos my heart is set on you,
I see the truth its in your eyes,
I ain't fooled by your thin disguise,
I can see I'm getting through babe!"
Example #4: Digital Get Down by 'N Sync
"Baby baby we can do all that we want
We're gettin nasty nasty, we're getting freaky deaky
Baby baby we can do more than just talk
Cause I can hear ya hear ya, and I can see ya see ya
Baby baby we can do all that we want
We're getting nasty nasty, we're getting freaky deaky.."
Example #5: Liquid Dreams by O-Town
I probably don't actually need to list the lyrics here since the title is what it is but I will anyway, just for fun.
"Looks ain't everything she's got the sweetest personality
Like Halle B
My mama thinks I'm lazy, my friend all think I'm crazy
But in my mind, I leave the world behind every night I dream
Oh.
Liquid Dreams, my Liquid Dreams
Waterfall and streams, these liquid dreams
I dream about a girl who's a mix of Destiny's Child
Just little touch of Madonna's wild style
With Janet Jackson's smile
Throw in a body like Jennifer's
You've got the star of my liquid dreams
My liquid dreams "
Example #6: When You Put Your Hands On Me by Christina Aguilera
"I just know
When you put your hands on me
I feel sexy
And my body turns to gold
I just know
When you put your hands on me
I feel ready
And I lose my self-control"
At the end of the day, most of us were pretty innocent and had no idea what these songs meant when we heard them but our parents had to have realized when we were singing them loudly with our walkmen on in the car, right? There are plenty of others out there that we didn't think there was anything wrong with until we listened to them years later and said, "WHAT DID THEY JUST SAY?" You know it happened. It is part of the awesomeness of childhood, especially for the 90s child immersed in bubbly Pop music.
-Brianna