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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

The 1980s classic song “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell hits very differently in today’s internet vernacular.

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The 1980s classic song “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell hits very differently in today’s internet vernacular.

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It’s a Gloria Jones song, soft cell is a cover.

  • Mandarbmax@lemmy.world
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    I don’t really get it

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      I don’t either, though this post did get me to revisit the lyrics and I discovered a mondagreen I’ve been repeating for decades. The line “I love you though you hurt me so” I somehow heard as “I love you though you’re ugly soul”, which I always thought was a strange but kind of cool turn of phrase. “though you hurt me so” is a lot more vanilla.

      Still have no idea what OP is talking about. What a medium song to revisit. Not especially good, nor remarkably bad. Just… fine.

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    English is not my first language and I’m a C- at best at Internet vernacular… what part of the song do you mean?

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    How so?

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      I believe hes on about taint being a word for the spot between your genitals and your butt. Also known as the gooch

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    You mean the 1960s classic song “Tainted Love” by Ed Cobb?

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      Marilyn Manson did it first.

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    Tainted Love (with lyrics)

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      How does simply repeating the lyrics explain anything?

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