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peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really, the only way he doesn’t fit is that he doesn’t have the massive ego Mozart had. That, and I guess he’s not quite as dirty. Mozart once wrote of piece of music called “Lick My Ass.”

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  • WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *clears throat in Weird Al fan that’s long gone off the deep end*

    And for commercially released stuff, there’s also One More Minute with the line “Now I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps!” and the entirety of Wanna B Ur Lovr is just innuendo after innuendo

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair, but one is innuendo and the other one is just coming right out and saying “lick my ass.”

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      • WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah not all the way, but still a lot closer than many people think (also “Orgy on My Own”)

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He actually wrote 2 of those. For the sake of education, let’s provide the complete text of one (via deepl.com):

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    Lick my a… right already, lick it nice and clean, lick it clean, lick my a… That’s a greasy desire, only well lubricated with butter, the licking of the roast my daily do. Three lick more than two, go ahead, take the test and lick, lick, lick. Everyone licks his own a…

    The phrase, aka the Swabian Salute, had been popularized a few years earlier in Goethe’s quite successful play Götz von Berlichingen. It is the knight’s reply to a demand for surrender. Götz may be more famous for his “iron fist/iron hand”, a prosthetic hand. Two prosthetics that are thought to have belonged to him, may be seen in a museum.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Interesting! Thanks for the background!

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