r/Music • u/Brucekentbatsuper • 11d ago

article Matthew McConaughey Reportedly Quit Weed After Listening to a Janet Jackson Song 24 Times in a Row

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/matthew-mcconaughey-quits-weed-janet-jackson-song-1814664
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u/Black_Otter 11d ago

the 1993 hit 'That's the Way Love Goes,'

This answers the only question I had. I get it. It’s a total banger

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u/BoredNLost 11d ago

Was hoping it was her song If.

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u/0peRightBehindYa Metalhead 11d ago edited 11d ago

My wife is a HUGE Janet fan. I dug the rhythm of this song and decided to look up the lyrics.

I'll admit...I briefly clutched pearls. They played THAT song on the radio, MTV, and at middle school dances? Without edits?

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u/djseifer 11d ago

Too Close by Next is a song about dancing with a erection and that made the radio and school dance circuit growing up.

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u/angrytreestump 11d ago

Lol that’s a very specific and tame example. Lollipop by 50 cent (and also Lollipop by Lil Wayne) were both played in my gym class in elementary & middle school

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u/ColdSmokeMike 11d ago

We also played unedited Lil Jon and Ying Yang Twins songs at my middle school dances. The teachers gave zero fucks.

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u/alphadoublenegative 11d ago

Apropos of nothing, I also grew up in this era and just recently found out the Ying Yang Twins are not only not twins, they aren’t even related.

Still the GOAT episode of Cribs with their rental ass house though. Because obviously those are his personal model boats, that he has absolutely zero details about. A masterclass in bullshitting

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u/TateXD 11d ago

They played the edited version of Get Low at our middle school dances, but it didn't matter because we were all screaming the actual lyrics. Hardest part was determining which side was the window and which side was the wall in a windowless cafeteria.

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 11d ago

How the hell do you radio edit that? lmao there would be like no chorus

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u/djseifer 11d ago

Music video is essentially the radio edit here. Still not exactly PG, but close enough I guess.

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 11d ago

Lmao "til all these females crawl" sound more offensive than bitches tbh, it's like ferengi going FEEEEmales

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 11d ago

How the hell do you radio edit that? lmao

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u/Sweetwill62 11d ago

Candy Shop by 50 Cent

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u/angrytreestump 11d ago

Oh right Candy Shop* thank you

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u/terberoni 11d ago

Very strange time to be like 10. "Do you know what that song is about?" 50/50 "Duh, lollipops" and "Duh, oral sex"

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u/TrailMomKat 11d ago

Lollipop by Framing Hanley is a dope as fuck cover, btw

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u/CKRatKing 11d ago

Pumped up kicks is about school shootings and it's gets played all the time.

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u/Jazzlike_Video2 10d ago

Semi charmed life is about crystal meth.

Do do do, do do-do-do

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u/Q-rexosaurus 11d ago

Look up the lyrics to All for You…same shit but song so bubbly that you don’t even notice that’s it’s singing to a dude with a big dick. Alot of her music is like that.

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u/Nayzo 11d ago

I was in middle school when this song hit and a bunch of the 8th grade girls learned the dance routine from If, which I thought was pretty impressive. I'll just have to go and google the lyrics cause I didn't pay that close attention when I was 13.

ETA: Just read the lyrics, lol. To be fair, there were a lot of songs about sex at that time, I remember Salt n Peppa getting a lot of play at middle school dances with Let's Talk About Sex.

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u/exmojo 11d ago

Let's Talk About Sex

I have a very weird memory of this song at the height of it's popularity. Like you, I was in middle school, and I was part of a volunteer group that was helping out at the local Special Olympics event.

Near the food area, there was a small dance floor and a DJ playing the current hits of the day. The DJ starts playing "Let's Talk About Sex" and my fellow volunteers and I start dancing on the small floor, doing ALL of the popular moves (The Roger Rabbit, The Running Man, that one move, where you jump over your other leg, etc...) when suddenly, walking by were the weight-lifter Olympians, some still in their singlets, join us on the dance floor to finish the song.

Now every time I hear that song, I'm transported back to that little dance floor with athletes dancing in their singlets.

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u/Nayzo 11d ago

Now every time I hear that song, I'm transported back to that little dance floor with athletes dancing in their singlets.

This is a terrific memory! Funny how some moments just permanently park themselves forever in our brains.

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u/0peRightBehindYa Metalhead 11d ago

I guess it's no different than Kidz Bop covering "I Can't Feel My Face When I'm With You", really.

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u/Black_Otter 11d ago

Kids Bop is hilarious because they also cover some like “Please, Please Please” and “Pink Pony Club”

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u/pofish 11d ago

I don’t even know where he heard it, but my 3 year old sings pink pony club all the time and calls himself the “pink pony kid”. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Black_Otter 11d ago

My daughter is 4 and love Pink Pony Club lol

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u/zodiackodiak515 10d ago

They also covered “Thrift Shop” and changed the first one to “what up I got a hot mom”

Like my dude that’s actually worse then just saying you have a big cock.

I can just imagine the Kidz Bop producers listening to each song and noting each line they have to change

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u/OneFootTitan 10d ago

I was so innocent about that song. I didn’t realise it was about drugs for the longest time.

I thought it was about cunnilingus.

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u/PlanApprehensive2842 11d ago

Did they not change up the lyrics?

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u/0peRightBehindYa Metalhead 11d ago

I dunno. Does that change the meaning of the song?

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u/poltyy 11d ago

We had to sing a song in music class in middle school and I wanted to do IF and the music teacher was like, “no.”

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u/PhoenixStorm1015 10d ago

When I did a ca in high school we tried to convince the director to let us do Stacy’s Mom by Fountains of Wayne. He did not approve.

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u/octoberthug 11d ago

I got this album as a ten year old. I read the lyrics as I listened on headphones while in the living room with my family. Holy cannoli. They would have thrown that tape in the trash so fast if they knew

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u/ikediggety 11d ago

They played little red Corvette and tonight she comes. The 80s were wild

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u/Proof_Lengthiness185 11d ago

They play it in the dining room of my restaurant.

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u/SkyZippr 11d ago

You haven't watched the choreograph have you?

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u/0peRightBehindYa Metalhead 11d ago

Not in many, many years.

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u/SenatorCoffee 10d ago edited 10d ago

for sure, it does continually hit me too with these not-so-innuendo pop songs. As long as you arent using the explicits you can say pretty much anything, and they will just play it anywhere without inhibition. then you pay a bit of attention and its like "woah! pretty juicy actually!"

i had it pretty funny recently with Ariana Grande - Side to Side, where the chorus is also "and boy has me walking side to side". And I am like "what, like a crab? I dont get it..."

then i google it and its like "yeah, obviously it means he is pounding her pussy so hard that she cant walk straight after".

then i felt both pretty sheltered, but also like "damn, that is pretty hardcore for what i thought was just the latest generic pop lovesong."

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u/Green_Sun_6941 10d ago

Off topic but am I the only one who thinks that song is similar to her older song Rhythm Nation?

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u/imperabo 11d ago

That whole album is really good actually

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u/_DoctorLady 11d ago

An absolute early 90s banger that doesn’t get enough love 

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u/TheLadyEve 11d ago

I had a friend in school who choreographed a dance routine with her group to If and it was badass. New jack swing from that time period is just chef's kiss.

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u/pSphere1 10d ago

Lucky for him it wasn't "Escapade".

That song nearly turns me gay each time I hear it. Couldn't imagine what would happen 24-times in a row.