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4 Times a Song Was Basically About Sex—but Hid Behind Something Ridiculous

You may or may not be surprised to learn that some of your favorite tunes are secret sex songs hiding behind ridiculous concepts, like food.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Did you know that some of your favorite tunes are secret sex songs? I mean, yeah, some of them are obvious, but others like to hide the metaphor behind something ridiculous.

Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” is a pretty good example. The idea of food as a metaphor for sex. But that’s also not super unusual, and that song has plenty of other innuendos that’re not so casual. If we’re talking ridiculous food analogies for sex, there’s one that takes the cake.

“Cake by the Ocean” by DNCE

Starting with a more recent example, it doesn’t get much more ridiculous than the idea of eating “cake by the ocean.” The track was originally released in 2015 by pop band DNCE, a musical side-project of Joe Jonas.

The beach-day-outing concept of the song is a clever guise for it being all about........

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