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Of course, it's tempting to conclude from this that the people involved are kind of mad, if they can do the gross things without actually being able to describe what they are using the appropriate words, but then the human mind is a complicated thing. And there's also the fact that when it comes to acts of carnality or immorality, there's often more talking than doing.

Which brings us to the use of sexual innuendo in modern popular song. Basically, if you removed all of the songs with double-meanings from the rock 'n' roll archives (rock 'n' roll itself being a slang term for, y'know, rudies) there'd be barely anything left. It would be quicker to list the songs which DON'T rely on lyrical winks to the audience about sexuality, drugs or whatever. And some of those are sung as if they're ruder than they really are.

By contrast. there's only one innuendo in this song (and a very good pun deriving from it). The rest of it is a tiring list of massively sexual things this Wayne fella has been getting up to with a friendly young lady, and as such, is only fit to be heard in full by Wayne, his mates, Chubby Brown fans, and Satan. Everyone else is going to have to put up with a lot of vocal absence, as the rudery is deleted from your ears, and this one innuendo/pun combo.

The innuendo is that the young lady says that Lil Wayne looks like a lollipop, right, and this is not a reference to his massive bald head and pink, stripy face, because he does not have either of these things. She means SOMETHING ELSE. The pun is when he says she can lick the wrapper. Because he's a RAPPER, you see, and lollipops have WRAPPERS, so she's basically going to lick HIM.

I know! Isn't it amazing?

I could totally live without that bloody awful Sean Kingston vocoder/autotune robo-voice thing, mind...

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(Fraser McAlpine)