Who Knew?! Songs With Surprising Meanings Part 2
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Kendra Koger
Chic – “Le Freak”
No one likes to be excluded, it’s like putting Baby in the corner, you just don’t do it! So when Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards were turned away from Studio 54 on New Years Eve (even though the iconic Grace Jones invited them), they penned this lyrical middle finger to Studio 54, the doormen, and the whole mother-effen-crew.
The original lyrics were “F*ck Off,” but they later decided to make it more public friendly.
Telltale lyrics: “Now we freak, oh what a joy/ Just come down to the 54 / Find a spot out on the floor.”
Being rejected from an institution that would later go on and blast your song that was originally a lyrical middle finger to them? Now THAT’S revenge!
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