My grandmother is visiting me today. She likes to make tapes for her friends with stuff about spirituality and they usually give her cassettes they don't want anymore so she could dub them. Usually if they give her "english" music, she usually gives them to me to see if I want it first. Today she had the Madonna Dress You Up Single, STrokin by Clarence Carter and Cream!!!! I was all excited and went OMG thank you, but I also grinned when I got to Cream and said "this is a VERY dirty song" and she laughed hehe and the whole time I'm wondering just which friend of hers this was from the community, I want to imagine THEM listening to Cream!

Little old ladies jamming out to Cream

It's not THAT dirty. A few double entendres, sure, but nothing explicit.

ElCapitan said:

Agreed.

ElCapitan said:

True, but still...it's not something you'd expect Grandma to be jamming out to.

cool granny.

Nikademus said:

Depends on the Grandma. My grandma saw Prince & the Revolution live in concert (Purple Rain tour). I was more nervous about it than she was.

It's not a dirty song at all! It's about being the best U can be! Only people with dirty minds would take it that way! (I did at first too!)

benjaminira said:

So true. After I heard him say he wrote the song while looking at himself in the mirror, the song took on a whole different meaning.

even though it's not dirty, there's still a parental advisory sticker on that single.

i remember trying to buy it and they wouldn't sell it to me because i didn't have my ID on me. this was back in the hardcore tipper gore days. ugh.

Anxiety said:

I know the maxi did. Did the regular single?

daPrettyman said:

oh, i dunno. it was the maxi i was trying to buy. the maxi CASSINGLE to be exact.

Anxiety said:

Cream had a maxi-cassingle? I only ever saw the CD maxi-single









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Nikademus said:

daPrettyman said:

Yep, that's what I had! I also had the UK cd single too, with Horny Pony on it

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When I get about 72 years old, I'm not gonna listen to this song anymore.

Glad you enjoyed it. It probably belonged to one of her friend's grown children or grandchildren and it was lying around, but if it wasn't, hey that makes it all the more interesting I still want to know which family it came from

Anxiety said:

How old are you?!

Had Grandma rocked up with the Let's Pretend We're Married/Irresistable Bitch 12" then I would be worried!

Old people still have genitals.

^ I know THAT, and some still talk like freaks!

It was still so random though

alphastreet said:

I understand.
It's different now and this is probably more common tho since music has changed (lost "innocence" a few generations ago).
There's nothing that would've seemed "dirty" that my grandmother would've been into. Everything would've been big-band, Lena Horne, Sintatra-ish.

johnart said:

Very common myth. They are actually all surgically modified on their 60th birthdays.

hummm... old people DO have genitals and hormones like us younger folks, so what R yall fussin about?

Back in the days, I was about 5 years old, I remember my uncle (who was a uni student) would play "Purple Rain" or "1999" everyday... Well, in PR U've got that kinky "Darling Nikki" song (but I was tooooo young to get it,lol)... Guess what? He's almost 50 now and he still plays it, and we both sing it all along!! He loox at me and jokes on how he perverted my mind when I was kid...

But it feels so good to share the same music taste, even though theres a 30year gap between uns... And I have the feeling he respects me even more since I've become a good Prince fan...

Is Prince the answer to our intergenerational issues?

Prince is old enough to be a granddad.

Interesting points. My grandma doesn't remember shit about pop music now except for Madonna and Michael Jackson, but she would play my parents tape full of music videos in the mid 80's cause I wouldn't eat my food unless I was watching the music. She would "sing" Like a Virgin to me to make me giggle and I would eat, and I didn't know what the word meant and wonder if she did. I thought for years virgin meant tiger or lion cause of the video

I remember seeing Cold Shot by Stevie Ray Vaughn and adults would laugh at the woman in her gear, and I laughed too cause I thought she was just being a silly cow and childish, didn't think of it as sexual at all though the adults might have. NOW I understand why it was so funny, she was getting kinky for the guy!

johnart said:

And people's parents still have sex

mine don't :p

Rorywan said:

Well how come they pee themselves so much??

johnart said:

they leave an over functional little pee hole...