I saw that Britney released her third single from Circus yesterday and it's called "If U Seek Amy." I don't really care. I listened to a couple of the songs and some were ok and some were awful. So, when I heard this song was going to be released I was totally indifferent until I read about a women's group in Australia that is ticked off about the single. I thought maybe Amy referred to one of their friends or something and that Britney was telling everyone how to have sex with her. I don't now. Why else would they be upset?
Then, of course I read the story. Always good to read more than just the headline. All I'm saying. Anyway, the group is upset because those that bought the CD already and of course have heard the song now say all of their kids are running around the house and school singing "f**k me." Apparently if you say the title of the song fast enough, that is what it sounds like and so now there are a bunch of kids running around school saying f**k me. While I find it hilarious and also feel for the parents who were not warned, it has also been driving me mad.
I have been trying to say the title or sing it so I can hear it for myself. The problem is that it is tough to whisper it and get an accurate feeling for what you are saying and my attempts at being louder have just caused more embarrassment then when I got stuck in the toilet at the holiday party. I am basically at this point trying to yell "f**k me" at the top of my lungs in a crowded office just to see if it is really true. This does not really go over well. Apparently shouting this repeatedly every few minutes causes some nervousness around the office.
I think this is HILARIOUS. But I'm not a parent....
ReplyDeleteEnty, you have to pronounce "if" as "ef" and then it's F. U. C. K. me.
ReplyDeletexoxo. this is my jam!
ReplyDeleteI like the label: party tricks with words. This makes me feel like I'm in 5th grade trying to find a way to say something dirty. Say Hi to your knee. Hi knee. There was a flight attendant for TWA. Do you want TWA coffee? TWA milk? or TWA tea.
ReplyDeleteClever and hilarious!
ReplyDeletei love this shit.
ReplyDeletewhy are women up in arms about a song being a bad influence?
have they not seen the news since 2005 with this hot mess? she is not a role model you dumb slags.
Enty, it is IF-YOU-SEE-KAY-ME
ReplyDeleteCheryl! OMG, that's soooo baaaaad! You were the naughty girl if 5th grade weren't you! LOL.
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ReplyDeleteOh now I get it.
ReplyDeleteEf You See Kay Me = F.U.C.K. ME so you are not saying fuck me you are actually spelling F.U.C.K. Me.
Okay. Well yesterday someone wrote that Cindy Crawford doesn't allow her daughter to watch Hananna Montana because the character is a smart ass. Several parents agreed that the show was geared toward teens instead of eight year old's like Cindy's daughter.
Britney's music is definitely intended for adults so I'm sure parents have the right to be upset if their children repeat what Britney's singing.
lmao Ent.
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ReplyDeleteIt is not - thank GOD - Britney Spears' job to raise your kids. It is YOUR job. If your kids starts singing or saying something you find inappropriate, it is YOUR job to talk to them about it.
ReplyDeleteAnd as far as women in particular being upset about this...I really don't get why1 Because wanting to get f***ed is unfeministic? Bah!
Anyway, it's a good pop song. But who's that singing underneath Britney? In the chorus I thought I heard Madonna...but there's someone else too.
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ReplyDeletewhat was that old show from a hundred years ago that had the same story going around until snopes dispelled the urban legend?
ReplyDeleteaccording to the tale, some host of a show (wanna say the name was soupy sales) asked someone 'how come every time i see *f*, you see *k*?
lame.... are these the same people who hear islamic phrases said by dolls?
Hilarious. I might actually buy the cd for that reason alone.
ReplyDeleteI don't get where this is a good song? Good beat, but not catchy, and the digivoice is annoying.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, the first time I heard Womanizer I found myself singing along. Then I realized what it was and felt embarrassed.
I wrote a software program that will not allow my computer to play Britney Spears.
ReplyDeleteOr other similar shitty, non talented music.
Thank God
Ror, maybe you should sell that program to all?
ReplyDeleteThat said, I do adore "Born to make you happy".
Molly:
ReplyDeleteThe legend was that Soupy Sales pulled out a blackboard and said "Hey kids can you spell "Firetruck"? Fill in the blanks!" And then he proceeded to write on the board:
"F-----uck."
He was supposedly visibly drunk.
I think it's catchy as hell. But it's hardly subtle. Can you get this stuff on commercial radio these days?
ReplyDeleteCheryl, I pretty slow today. Could you please be kind to me and explain the TWA thing. I managed the first one, but am starting to feel really dumb sitting here repeating TWA milk et al.
ReplyDeleteI'm -not I grrr.
ReplyDeleteanibundel, thnx. i must have been snoping while you wrote this because when i looked on snopes to see if i had the guys name right i saw that there were actually many versions, not just the one i posted.
ReplyDeletethanks for providing another one. by the way - it wasn't true - but he was suspended once for a couple of weeks when he encouraged children to go into their parents wallets and take out the green paper, put it into an envelope and send it to his address, which he gave. he got thousands of dollars.
they don't make them like that anymore! ;)
Ms.: The last one sounds like "twatty." :)
ReplyDelete"I'm -not I grrr."
ReplyDeleteIt's going around - I can't type for shit today.
Ms. It spells out T.W.A.T.
ReplyDeleteOh, the milk and coffee were just the lead up... I was trying to do the TWAmilk and TWAcoffee over and over and over...[hangs head in shame]
ReplyDeleteI had a temp job at the Fairview University Medical Center and they officially asked all employees not to use the initials. The F-U Medical Center doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
ReplyDeleteOh, this brings back memories of songs like "Little Willy", "Squeeze Box", "Oh Ricky", "She Bop", I Want Candy" and "Big Ten Inch Record"...
ReplyDeleteKnowing Britney, that's probably how she says Good Morning, Please and Thank You.
"Here's your frappuccino, Ms. Spears."
"F.U.C.K. Me."
"Uhhhhh...do I have to?"
i thought it was pretty darn funny, too, and i have to say i agree with harriet on this one (once again, hh!)- parents have some kind of responsibility, dont they?
ReplyDeletealso, wouldnt you have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they figured this out?? "wait, wait, we can just add "amy" in there, and then...!"
i luvz this!!!
ReplyDeletethis is so like that sofa king sentence right....
"I am sofa king, we todd did?"
ReplyDeleteMy God, she is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteHarriet: YES! That's my favorite one!
ReplyDeleteI was a freshman in college, and a grad student friend wrote that phrase on a napkin in a bar and handed it to me. I seriously sat there for ten minutes saying it over and over and over again while he basically peed his pants giggling.
Mostly .. this is what this song reminds me of .. "Truth or Dare" .. Madonna movie from .. what?? 1990 or some where in that generational era? [I am to lazy to IMDB] Madonna is taking about Belinda Carlisle singing and that she sounded like a hamster on helium or something. Madonna doesn't know from hamsters on helium!
ReplyDeletei remember watching soupy sales, my parents loved him! i thought he actually got fired over that little incident, but that's how urban myths go!
ReplyDeleteyou know, back when the spice girls were popular, all the little girls (all the same age, about 3 years younger than mine, but they played together) had the music and the parents thought it so cute that they worked out the dance routines and sang to them... i said, uh, no, i don't think so.
after a couple of months one of the moms actually listened to the lyrics and payed attention to the dance moves these little 7? year olds were performing.
heh-heh.
people, monitor your own children... i was always getting fussed at for being so strict with my kids.
but at least i could take mine out in public without being embarrassed.
F'n A you need to monitor your own. And not have others publicly bitchslap you because you disagree with how they do it. (Sorry, I'm just having a little issue about that right now.)
ReplyDeleteErnestine, I'm so glad you posted because I don't think I would have figured it out! And I went into fits of laughter thinking Ent was sitting in an office yelling "FUCK ME". (Which is something I used to say whenever something went wrong. Until one day this guy shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay".)
The more I hear Britney now, the more I'm thinking she's the answer to the blind about the "singer" who wanted to ditch the real one. I think Ent just fudged the dates.
She's a plagiarist, or at the very least not original. April Wine did a song in 1982 called "If You See Kay".
ReplyDeleteI hope she gets her non-existent chonies sued off by them. Or something.
It's okay, Ent. I listened to her sing it for a few minutes and THEN I figured it out. Oy.
ReplyDeleteThat being said - love the song! heh.
Kudos to Britney she's topped the Sofa King joke, to music!
ReplyDeletethat cant be allowed on the radio, right? i mean if you listen to it it doesnt make any actual sense. "All of the girls and boys wanna if you seek amy". We know what it means and subltey has not even a little role here in disguising it. jeez. and nobody has wanted to ef-u-cee-kayed britney spears since the first creepy beaver photo first leaked.
ReplyDeleteI've heard way worse...rappers just come straight out and say it. She has gotten people talking about it, and I'm sure the song/album has been downloaded or bought more because of the controversy over this song. Her music isn't geared towards the audience it used to be. The parents need to be a little more active in their teenage childrens lives and take responsibility.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the rest of y'all, but my friends and I became semi-obsessed with the f-word around age 8. It's not like the song is going to motivate young people to have sex, it's just something for them to giggle about and feel like they're pulling a fast one on adults. A time-honored tradition. :)
ReplyDeleteI love it!!!
ReplyDeleteway to be creative britney :)