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Thread started 02/19/09 9:55am

bleutuna

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Circle of Amour - thoughts?

I'm a huge fan of Circle of Amour, as I am of most of the material from The Truth. However, I've let a number of ladyfriends hear the song, and all of them chastised me for the unrealistic portrayal of female sexuality it portrays.

Curious what the boards thoughts are.

Mary, Claire, Denise and Belle
Best friends as far as I could tell
Cheerleaders except 4 Denise
She was the wild one, she was the beast
She was the one who named the group
The original gang of 4
Mary, Claire, Denise and Belle
Circle Of Amour

10th grade Central in September
That was a year I remember
On this chilly cold afternoon
I overheard the gang in the locker room
Rendezvous - Mary's house
Dirty words and wine
Needless 2 say, they all spent the day
Just counting time, counting time

Halfway through her history class
Denise, she kindly raised her hand and asked
If she could be excused ("Can I be excused?")
Then she ran from school in a hurry (Ran from school)
The other girls - ooh, they knew
This is what friends are really 4
Mary, Claire, Denise and Belle
Circle Of Amour

Circle Of Amour

Imagination should window (Imagination)
On a cold September day (Ooh)
Leaves are brown (brown), passion sounds (Ooh)
A memory self-astray
4 hands in the place where the feet connect
Gang of 4 - circle of sex

In a vicious race 2 maturity
They almost faint from ecstasy
Sweat upon the necks of dames
Loser in the circle game
Cuz some memories are worth so much more (So much more)
Mary, Claire, Denise and Belle
Circle Of Amour
I wanna be loved to the 9s, so let me cover your ass with this sheet, and baby, you better stay on the beat! Cause you know the Karma Sutra? I can rewrite it. But, with half as many words.
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Reply #1 posted 02/19/09 10:04am

Dave1992

It's about a bunch of little girlfriends fucking all day and night just for fun, there's not much to talk about shrug


lol
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Reply #2 posted 02/19/09 10:07am

Genesia

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Poor Prince thought teenage girls did circle jerks, too. disbelief
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Reply #3 posted 02/19/09 10:22am

glazegirl

it's a fantastic song. very cinematic.
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Reply #4 posted 02/19/09 10:22am

bleutuna

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Genesia said:

Poor Prince thought teenage girls did circle jerks, too. disbelief


When I first got together with my current girlfriend, she assumed that guys got together for circle jerks. Apparently she had friends in college whose boyfriends did such things - who would have a bunch of guys sitting around, watching porn, seeing who could last the longest. Or end first. I don't know.

She also mentioned something about guys wrestling naked.

I explained to her that, "No...none of my friends and I have done this, and none of them have ever done anything like this as far as I know. Sitting around a room with a bunch of naked men is cool if that's your bag, but it doesn't tend to be something strictly heterosexual men do together."
I wanna be loved to the 9s, so let me cover your ass with this sheet, and baby, you better stay on the beat! Cause you know the Karma Sutra? I can rewrite it. But, with half as many words.
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Reply #5 posted 02/19/09 10:28am

NouveauDance

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bleutuna said:

However, I've let a number of ladyfriends hear the song, and all of them chastised me for the unrealistic portrayal of female sexuality it portrays.

It's a male sexual fantasy, 'course it's unrealistic.

I'm sure it's happened, but doubt it's an every day occurance.


bleutuna said:

When I first got together with my current girlfriend, she assumed that guys got together for circle jerks. Apparently she had friends in college whose boyfriends did such things - who would have a bunch of guys sitting around, watching porn, seeing who could last the longest. Or end first. I don't know.

She also mentioned something about guys wrestling naked.

I explained to her that, "No...none of my friends and I have done this, and none of them have ever done anything like this as far as I know. Sitting around a room with a bunch of naked men is cool if that's your bag, but it doesn't tend to be something strictly heterosexual men do together."

Uhmmm, that's exactly who's at it. Circle jerks are a typical (often just apocryphal?) adolescent heterosexual male thing. I remember hearing tales of them at school.

That's probably why a female circle jerk would be a male fantasy much like lesbianism is, they'd rather be in on a female circle jerk than a male one. lol
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Reply #6 posted 02/19/09 10:32am

Dave1992

NouveauDance said:[quote]

bleutuna said:

However, I've let a number of ladyfriends hear the song, and all of them chastised me for the unrealistic portrayal of female sexuality it portrays.

It's a male sexual fantasy, 'course it's unrealistic.


And how do you know? lol
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Reply #7 posted 02/19/09 10:35am

NouveauDance

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Dave1992 said:

And how do you know? lol

falloff

It's way too much of a wafer-thin cheap porno storyline!

"Oh Melissa, your panties are so wet!"
"I just can't help it I'm so horny all the time"
"Oh Becky, what are you doing?... Mmmmm... Mmmmm"
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Reply #8 posted 02/19/09 10:37am

Dave1992

NouveauDance said:

Dave1992 said:

And how do you know? lol

falloff

It's way too much of a wafer-thin cheap porno storyline!

"Oh Melissa, your panties are so wet!"
"I just can't help it I'm so horny all the time"
"Oh Becky, what are you doing?... Mmmmm... Mmmmm"


falloff falloff

Shit, I think I have a boner boxed
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Reply #9 posted 02/19/09 10:52am

myloveis4ever

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Dave1992 said:

NouveauDance said:


falloff

It's way too much of a wafer-thin cheap porno storyline!

"Oh Melissa, your panties are so wet!"
"I just can't help it I'm so horny all the time"
"Oh Becky, what are you doing?... Mmmmm... Mmmmm"


falloff falloff

Shit, I think I have a boner boxed


m2, and i like it eek
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Reply #10 posted 02/19/09 11:02am

L4OATheOrigina
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Genesia said:

Poor Prince thought teenage girls did circle jerks, too. disbelief



i thought they all did the dutch rudder boxed
man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81
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Reply #11 posted 02/19/09 11:02am

Dave1992

myloveis4ever said:

Dave1992 said:



falloff falloff

Shit, I think I have a boner boxed


m2, and i like it eek


NoveauDance should start writing porn scripts, definitely! What I want next is a poor young dude in a hospital, because he's got a non-stop erection and finally wants it to go away. None of the doctors could help and his boner remained the way he was.. until the young, unexperienced nurse came in.


falloff
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Reply #12 posted 02/19/09 11:07am

bleutuna

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NouveauDance said:


Uhmmm, that's exactly who's at it. Circle jerks are a typical (often just apocryphal?) adolescent heterosexual male thing. I remember hearing tales of them at school.

That's probably why a female circle jerk would be a male fantasy much like lesbianism is, they'd rather be in on a female circle jerk than a male one. lol
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Honestly - guys aren't circle jerking. It's just not something we do. I don't know any guys who've ever been in a circle jerk, except those who are bi-sexual or homosexual. More power to them.

You may have heard of some guys at your school back in the day doing it, but I promise you, it's not something that most guys do. It's pretty isolated.
I wanna be loved to the 9s, so let me cover your ass with this sheet, and baby, you better stay on the beat! Cause you know the Karma Sutra? I can rewrite it. But, with half as many words.
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Reply #13 posted 02/19/09 11:25am

NouveauDance

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bleutuna said:

NouveauDance said:


Uhmmm, that's exactly who's at it. Circle jerks are a typical (often just apocryphal?) adolescent heterosexual male thing. I remember hearing tales of them at school.

That's probably why a female circle jerk would be a male fantasy much like lesbianism is, they'd rather be in on a female circle jerk than a male one. lol
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Honestly - guys aren't circle jerking. It's just not something we do. I don't know any guys who've ever been in a circle jerk, except those who are bi-sexual or homosexual. More power to them.

You may have heard of some guys at your school back in the day doing it, but I promise you, it's not something that most guys do. It's pretty isolated.

Well, I did say they were probably apocryphal stories. For sure these things are more urban legend than not. razz


Oh bluetuna, what are you doing?... I've never, I've never done this before, but it feels so nice! Mmmmm, we have to stop, what if one of the moderators walks in and catches us oral
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Reply #14 posted 02/19/09 11:54am

Dave1992

NouveauDance said:[quote]

bleutuna said:



Oh bluetuna, what are you doing?... I've never, I've never done this before, but it feels so nice! Mmmmm, we have to stop, what if one of the moderators walks in and catches us oral


*Walks in*

What are you doing?! omfg But.. I have to admit.. it looks so nice. Can I join?
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Reply #15 posted 02/19/09 12:32pm

emesem

The key word is "Imagination" ("should window" doesnt sound right)..its happening in his head.

Weird song.
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Reply #16 posted 02/19/09 2:21pm

LadyInWhite

I love this thread, very funny

Considering how many accurate portrayals of sexuality of many types he has come up with, it's OK to "fail" with a portrayal which is fictional and unrealistic.

Unless it's meant to be a fantasy he had in 10th grade (Oh, Denise is leaving class! I wonder where she's going? Mary, Belle and Claire are whispering something...), then I suppose it's very realistic indeed. think about it that way, it's a better song actually
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Reply #17 posted 02/19/09 2:23pm

Genesia

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As horny high school fantasies go...Schoolyard is the crème de la crème. drool
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Reply #18 posted 02/19/09 3:45pm

viewaskew

Remember when Prince wrote silly little songs about lesbians & didn't spend his time condemning their lifestyle?

Ahh, the good old days.
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Reply #19 posted 02/19/09 10:36pm

xpertluva

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Hmm...I'll bet male adolescent circle jerks aren't all that uncommon. I remember friends of mine talking about that stuff when we were no more than 11 or 12. And to this day, they're completely heterosexual to my knowledge. I'm sure none of them would own up to all those silly things they used to talk about and do when the curiosity about sex was there, but the possibility of being with a real girl seemed nonexistent.

Anyway, I see there was one or two lyrics that I've been singing wrong. For one, I thought he was saying "4 hands in the place where the V connects...That makes more sense to me somehow.
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Reply #20 posted 02/20/09 6:20am

Tame

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Beautiful song.
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight...
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Reply #21 posted 02/20/09 11:06am

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I really like this song, although I do not get to hear it very often because I don't have "The Truth" (I have a poorly dubbed version of it on a 10 year old cassette).

My feeling of this song is that it conveys how a teenage male may fantasize a group of girls that he sees in his school.
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