I Wanna Have Boobies
July 11, 2008
My friend sent me an instant message just a few minutes ago telling me that he’d just watched The Pussycat Dolls new video and he realized right then that they epitomized all that was wrong with America.
I immediately made my way over to YouTube and found the video to watch it myself. Seriously. It is a sad sad day when the chorus of a hit song, sung by young impressionable girls all over the nation- hell, the world- goes like this:
When I grow up
I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars
I wanna have groupies
You don’t see the problem? Go listen to the song. It doesn’t sound like that’s what they’re singing. I swear up and down that the last line there is, “I wanna have boobies.” A quick search of the internet, including the message board on the Pussycat Dolls’ own website, shows that I’m not the only one hearing these lyrics wrong.
I don’t care what they say. They’re singing that they want to have boobies when they grow up and that’s just wrong. Hmph.
Gosh! I’m sure I never even thought about wanting to have boobies when I was a kid lol. In fact, by the age of 12, I was desperate to get rid of them!
I haven’t seen the new Pussycat Dolls new video yet though. I think maybe it’s about time I went for a Youtube Search.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:20 am2 realities that it takes people forever to realize while they’re growing up (and some never do): 1. Being your own person is possible; you don’t have to follow the herd. 2. There’s plenty of time in life to have boobies, periods, hair, and other physical aspects of adulthood; don’t rush it.
C’est la vie about the video — it’s just another in a long line of unrealities perpetuated by various mass medias. I hate it, but apparently it sells.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:08 pmDawn – Well, they don’t ACTUALLY say it (supposedly), but I swear they do. I really wanted breasts until I got them and then it was such hell that I wondered why I ever wanted them in the first place!
Nathan – Yup, it’s only after you’re an adult and realize how much you hate it, that you wonder why you were in such a rush to get there.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pmI thought that exact same thing when I first heard the song. And speaking as someone who did not have boobies until I was almost seventeen and then BAM! got way too much…boobies are highly overrated.
July 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pmHey, Lady!!! I haven’t been to your site in a long while! I agree, it sounds like boobies…in fact, I just blogged about it, so it is funny how this is the first post that I read when re-visiting your website!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:59 pmVegas – I made my husband listen to it and he heard the lyrics right so I was beginning to think it was just me that misheard it. Glad I wasn’t! And yes, they are highly overrated.
H – Hello! That’s too funny that you just blogged about it, too.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:13 amYou are all wrong. The importance of boobies can never be overrated. They are amazing.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:51 amTom – Hey, boobies are great… it’s all about time and place.
July 16th, 2008 at 9:51 pmThere’s nothing wrong with “boobies” in the song, after all, they’re just a part of life. Now, if they said “i wanna be a prostitute” that’d be different
August 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pmMarissa – Hey, if people want to have boobies, that’s fine by me. I just think that on the scale of things of import of things to encourage young listeners to want? Boobies shouldn’t make the chorus. Which, of course, it doesn’t- it just sounds like it.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:24 pmI always wanted to have boobies when I was little and thought about myself “growing up.” That misheard line was actually one of the reasons I liked the song so much…haha, just thought it was SO true! :p
August 14th, 2008 at 8:10 pmHilary – yeah, I remember wanting so badly to be able to wear a bra. Ah, to feel that kind of lust towards a bra again.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:19 pmI swore it too, and thats why I loved the song so much, then my sons like, nah its groupies, and I say Bull, so he starts bringing it up on the net to prove me wrong, so I have to go O K, but its definetely like other songs like Rock the Casbah, where it doesn’t sound like Rock’s being said. Anyway I still like it.
September 24th, 2008 at 8:32 amJack – ha, did you see them on Ellen the other day? Ellen even asked about the lyrics because she thought it was boobies, too!
September 24th, 2008 at 7:06 pmI did actually, even celebs interpret it that way.
September 27th, 2008 at 6:06 amjack – I think it’s funny.
September 27th, 2008 at 7:50 pmCourtney – I wonder if anyone’s told Ellen yet.
September 28th, 2008 at 6:46 am