Member-only story
Ten 80s song lyrics that just don’t make sense
We shouldn’t rely on 80s songwriters for geography, science or love life advice
I was happily making a roast dinner the other day and Alexa was blasting out 80s tunes in order to keep me entertained, when for some reason my ear picked out a lyric from Jermaine Stewart’s “We don’t have to take our clothes off”.
What sort of a woman would fall for this:
We could dance and party all night — all night, we could dance all night
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
We don’t have to take our clothes off
He’s offering her a good time by telling her that he doesn’t want to get naked and amorous and would rather drink cherry wine. Cherry wine!
Is cherry wine such an enticing prospect? To me it sounds like a warning sign!
Rio by Duran Duran
The next song on, went:
Oh, Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande
Is this Rio the second coming and can walk across water? The Rio Grande is a river. How’s she supposed to dance across it?
I know it’s not deep in places, but even then, call me pedantic, but she’d be dancing through it, not across it.
