Right, so, there’s a lot I could ask you about at the moment. But today I want to know one thing and one thing only:
Is Fergie (not the Duchess) really singing “FLOPSY, FLOPSY” in the song “Glamorous”?
I already took my “broke-broke” home. In fact, I take my “broke-broke” home every single day, Fergie, and I managed to figure out what you were singing about there, but what is this Flopsy, Flopsy of which you speak?
Do I need it? Do I want the Flopsy, Flopsy? Wasn’t Flopsy the gloating sister of Peter Cottontail? What are you doing with her, Fergie?
Yes, when I am troubled, deciphering things like Flopsy, Flopsy become deeply important to me. Help. Help.
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Here you go! http://www.metrolyrics.com/glamorous-lyrics-fergie.html
she’s taking her broke self home (which I always thought was broke ass) and it’s flossy, flossy, apparently. so you can make up an explanation for that.
dear jenn,
i do believe it’s “flossy, flossy,” and what that means remains a mystery to me. some say it’s something to do with nice hair. others say something about “ballin’ it,” which, um. well, i dunno. still others say fergie has her own lingo that no one really understands.
xomox
I have no idea what song this is, but I am notoriously terrible with lyrics, so I am forever googling “song title lyrics”. I did it now and this is the chorus:
The glamorous
The glamorous glamorous ( The glamorous life)
For the glamorous
Ooh flossy, flossy (the flossy flossy)
The glamorous
The glamorous, glamorous ( The glamorous life)
For the glamorous
Ooh the flossy, flossy
What the hell is she talking about? Urban dictionary defines flossy as, “Extremely flashy or showy.” So, I’ll go with that.
I think I need a job.
I don’t know anything about Flopsy, but perhaps this will amuse you as much as it amused me: Fergie camel
Crazy lingo, these hippity hoppity bunny rabbits.
But thank God for the clever internet translators. And another thanks that the rest of us talk mostly normal.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/glamorous-lyrics-fergie.html
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flossy+flossy
Well, if it’s “flossy, flossy”, the poor woman is just reminding everyone to practice good dental hygiene. Ya think?
my OCD is just as bad, Jenn…I had to google it…Moxie is right about the word, but no clarity about what it actually means……
Jenn,
I got this from the Urban Dictionary. Most of them said it’s someone who is hot and you want to go to bed with just for their looks.
flossy:
Superficially stylish; Showy; Attracts attention with looks or nice things; similar to “bling”; someone or something that is considered cool, stylish, hot, expensive or attractive.
“Your new cell phone is so flossy”
“That girl got all kinds of floss goin’ on”
“We’re gonna show up all flossed out”
Hope this helps. Oh, and Jenn, you are SO flossy!
It won’t make things any clearer when you discover, thanks to your kind commenters, that she’s really saying Flossy Flossy. At first, I thought she was saying Flouncy Flouncy. My feeling is, just stick in whatever, and it will make about as much sense as her being a star.
That song has a great message, don’t ya think? Still, I like it.
Definitely flossy. LOL.
Doesn’t Fergie have a lot of songs where she spells stuff out? G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S. It is so annoying, but it gets stuck in my head and I run around all day sing/spelling. Damn Fergie and her stupid songs.
Whaddyaknow? I always assumed it was “glossy, glossy”…like a glossy magazine. There should be a whole blog on misheard lyrics (‘scuse me, while I kiss this guy’ instead of ‘kiss the sky’ or ‘bathroom on the right’ instead of ‘bad moon on the rise’). My personal favorite is my college roommate who, while washing dishes and getting down with her bad self, sang “like a disco masquerade” instead of “like the deserts miss the rain.” Ha!
I’m not sure hygiene is her #1 priority…
http://defamer.com/hollywood/fergie/if-only-there-were-a-pun-to-be-made-involving-the-name-of-the-band-115408.php
It’s “Flossy Flossy” Jen! Silly! You don’t know what “Flossin” is? Like flossin’ while riding around in your hot “whip”? Ha Ha. It’s Carolyn, Jackie’s sister. When I was little, I thought you guys were SO cool. Now look at you two. If only you guys still had your big hair, feather earrings and Duran Duran posters, I’d still think you were the shiz-nit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLp8y9K-MQ
I’m highly amused by this.
She also spells out tasty as T-A-S-T-E-Y, and maybe that’s just the cool way to spell it, or maybe the rap lyricist needs to get a dictionary, because my OCD can’t handle hearing that word misspelled every time!
Ah, this kind of discussion always takes me back to college, where one girl in my dorm insisted that Billy Ocean was singing about the wisdom of always having a lighter with you.
You know that song, right? “Carry Butane?”
(Or, as the rest of the world knows it, “Carribean Queen.”)
My husband once asked me what a “pollygag” was while listening to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
He didn’t believe me that the line was “living in a powder keg and giving off sparks,” even after I looked it up online just to prove it.
But the worst song to ever try and translate is Edwinn McCain’s “I’ll Be.” It’s indecipherable at best. I thought one of the lines was “I’ll be love’s suicide” (I’ll be love’s serious side apparently) which, to me, made it hard to justify it as a love song.
I know someone who heard the Coldplay lyric “And nothing else compares” as “Oo oo, feelin’ skunkey-ey-ey”. I still can’t get my head around it….
#12 Diana: There is a website that lists misheard lyrics. It’s so funny. I don’t remember how to get to it, but if you google “misheard lyrics”, I’m sure you could find it. Some of them are really funny!
My little sister insists that the Stones will never be your “big Suburban”… as opposed to your “best of burden”… and sadly, I sing it this way every time I hear it, so my friends think I am the ‘tard (although that may be b/c I laugh at myself (really her) every time i do it) {[ok, I officially abuse parentheses, brackets, and their kin]}– sorry : )
It was only a few months ago that my boyfriend informed me that the line from The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” was “He thinks it’s not kosher!” I’d always thought it was “He thinks he’s not Tolstoy!” Ah, and I thought they were being SO well read.
My sister both insist on singing “windshield wipers, turpentine” in Bobby McGee.
i think this is the website you’re looking for: http://www.kissthisguy.com/
Also, reginamomma, I always thought it was “love’s suicide,” too! in fact, your comment was the only thing that made me question that.
of course, I’m the one who thought Mariah Carey was saying “I want to shop a river with you” in Dreamlover.
I’m. so. old. When did that happen? And I thought it was “love’s suicide” too, until right now. I know someone who used it as their wedding song and I could never understand why.
um. I can help with part of this… There IS a place where you can see how others have misheard lyrics. The process is called a Mondegreen, and there is a Wikipedia page on it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misheard_lyrics
and my deep apologies for being late to the party.