00:00Make you scream, make you scream, cause of my heart
00:03Welcome to Ms. Mojo
00:05And today we're counting down our picks for the radio hits that had us singing along to lyrics that were
00:11way too grown for us
00:12Have some fun, this beat is sick
00:15I wanna take a ride on a disco stick
00:18Number 10, Peacock, Katy Perry
00:21Wanna see your peacock, cock, cock, your peacock, cock
00:25This is one of those songs where the meaning is obvious
00:28But you also get the plausible deniability
00:30She wants to see your peacock
00:32What's wrong with that?
00:33Who are you to say that Katy Perry isn't really just interested in ornithology?
00:45Like much of her music during that time
00:48It's bubbly, buoyant, and almost naive sounding
00:51Even with that, there's no escaping the real meaning behind Peacock
01:01Dressing up such a suggestive idea in an innocent sounding cheer is kind of ingenious
01:06It broadens its appeal and makes it much easier for young ears to respond
01:10It is one of those songs that might have an obvious innuendo in it
01:17It's really a cute song
01:20Number 9, Get Low
01:22Lil Jon and the East Side Boys featuring Ying Yang Twins
01:31This really explicit early 2000s hit popularized the crunk genre in the mainstream
01:36The chorus starts with, to the window, to the wall
01:39We'll let you fill in the rest
01:41We know you remember it
01:45Get Low has some of the most memorable lines of any song of the era
01:53There's even a call and response structure that makes it impossible not to sing along
01:57Not that we had any business singing along to it
02:05Even in its less explicit radio edit
02:09Get Low includes at least one vulgar euphemism that got past the censors
02:18Number 8, Blame It
02:21Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain
02:28There are plenty of songs about excessive drinking and impulsive behavior
02:32But none quite as easy to sing along to
02:34Blame It is an ode to overflowing alcohol, backseat liaisons, and impaired judgment
02:48Jamie Foxx and T-Pain made it all sound so cool
02:51The repetitive chorus just lodges in your brain even more
03:02Bumping this track gave a lot of us a window into a world we were still a few years away
03:06from experiencing
03:07In our defense, there are adults who probably don't recognize how questionable some of the antics in this song are
03:13You see the video? It's like us, I'm just like trying to be hard and I'm just like rolling like
03:18this
03:18And it's just all of us going
03:23Number 7, Genie in a Bottle
03:25Christina Aguilera
03:32Like many of the pop girlies of the late 90s and early 2000s, Christina Aguilera's image was about merging youthful
03:39femininity and sexual confidence
03:41There's a streak of self-determination in Genie in a Bottle
03:52It's as much about tantalizing a potential lover as it is about advocating for her own pleasure
03:58Of course, that's a pretty intellectual view of a song that we just uncritically added to the playlist of our
04:03childhood
04:09The song's images of physical touch and repression are all tied to the central metaphor
04:13But even in isolation, they're pretty steamy stuff
04:22Number 6, It Wasn't Me
04:24Shaggy featuring Ricardo, Rick Rock, Ducent
04:35A catchy enough song can make you glaze right over the lyrics
04:38In It Wasn't Me, the narrator and his friend come up with myriad ways to throw a woman off the
04:44scent when you're being unfaithful to her
04:53Where other songs might take these themes seriously, this track finds humor and mischief in them
05:02When you grow up a little and learn a few things about relationships
05:09This is one of those songs you go back to and wonder what about it spoke to you when you
05:14were young
05:14Let's just hope its message didn't take
05:25Number 5, Candy Shop
05:2850 Cent featuring Olivia
05:36Like any great poem, sometimes a song finds fun and interesting ways to say something without saying it
05:43Candy Shop's metaphor works on multiple levels
05:5250 Cent actually devised the track as a challenge to himself
05:56Could he write an intensely sexual song without having to be vulgar or obscene?
06:01Mixing the sweet, innocent imagery of candy and sweets with an undercurrent of sensuality fits the bill
06:07Cause I ain't never put it down like
06:09As soon as I come through the door she'll get to pulling on my zipper
06:11It's like it's a race who could get undressed quicker
06:14Yeah, it's pretty obvious when you're an adult
06:16If you're young enough though, it might be easy to take the lyrics about lollipops at face value
06:21And maybe that's for the best
06:22You can have it your way
06:25How do you want it?
06:26Gonna back that thing up or should I push up on it?
06:29Number 4, Love Game
06:31Lady Gaga
06:39Once upon a time, there was a brand new artist with an interesting name and even more out there fashions
06:44One of Lady Gaga's earliest singles doesn't leave a lot to the imagination
06:56Love Game has some of the best hooks on her debut album
06:59But she also had a singing about disco sticks
07:02What could she possibly mean by that?
07:05Maybe it's our minds that are in the gutter
07:07Because the lyric in the song is
07:09Do you want love or do you want fame?
07:11So I have a torrid, torrid, torrid love triangle
07:14Between love, fame and myself
07:17Surely this is a song about having fun at the club with your friends
07:20We're gonna choose to live in ignorance just like our parents did in 2009
07:32Number 3, Work It, Missy Elliott
07:42Fewer Y2K era songs were so well written yet so full of filth
07:47Work It is a masterclass in R-rated poetry
07:50Missy Elliott doesn't get the credit for how layered, complex and hilarious her rhymes are
07:55Even if they are full of adult-oriented meaning
07:58And that goes for the words that aren't hidden behind that elephant sound
08:02Is it worth it? Let me work it
08:04I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
08:06It's kind of impressive what she gets away with in these words
08:09It's not all that explicit, but it is as suggestive as it gets
08:18This may not be for kids, but it didn't stop us from jamming out to it
08:22Who didn't see child performer Alison Stoner's dance in the music video
08:26And wonder if that could be us someday?
08:29It's worth it, let me work it
08:30I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
08:33Number 2, S&M, Rihanna
08:36Yeah, the clue here was in the title
08:42Rihanna's absolute bop from 2011 was originally envisioned for Britney Spears
08:47But by the time it was released, the Umbrella hitmaker had put her own spin on it
08:51Don't rip it back, but I'm perfectly good at it
08:56To me, yeah, I don't care, I love the smell of it
08:59Obviously, the whips, chains and other taboo sexual imagery
09:03Are what lands this squarely in the inappropriate column
09:06So much so that we can't even show you most of the music video
09:10Without YouTube flagging us for it
09:11Not that Rihanna has ever not been for adults
09:21Still, this one takes the cake
09:22If only it weren't so fun to sing
09:25Provocative, knowingly naughty, and well-produced
09:28It was like catnip when we were still learning about the birds and the bees
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10:14If you put a catchy enough beat behind a song, you can get away with a lot
10:18At first listen, My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas just sounds a lot like any other bouncy
10:23And repetitive pop song
10:32Sure, there's the overarching theme of materialism and money
10:36That's not exactly imparting a wonderful message
10:39Radio-friendly references to lovely lady lumps
10:42And all that junk inside your trunk
10:44Were not quite as innocent as we may have first thought
10:54It didn't stop us from bumping it on our iPods
10:57Or getting it played at the middle school dance
11:07What inappropriate songs were you bumping when you were too young to understand them?
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