• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Oh Sweden. It’s like an entire country learned English from google translate. “Hit Me Baby One More Time” was written by a Swede, and the overtones of domestic violence are innocently enough supposed to be a reference to calling somebody on the phone, not literally “hitting” them.

      • Buffaloaf@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Yeah, the band’s producers/co-writers were at a bar trying to order Sex on the Beach but called it Cake by the Ocean