We all have songs that we were really into as kids that we didn’t realise at the time are actually totally inappropriate for a child’s ears. It’s kind of like when you grow up and realise how adult all your favourite cartoons are.
Myf Warhurst recently got to thinking about this and reached out to the listeners on her Double J show to find out what songs they loved or grooved out to as children that were totally inappropriate as well as penning a new op-ed about the topic.
“If memory serves me right, it happened when I was around five years old. I was in the lounge room of a ‘60s cream brick veneer standard issue house in Donald, Central Victoria,” Myf writes of the first time she heard Fox’s ‘S-S-S-Single Bed’.
“Now, for all I knew, when Fox sang ‘Single Bed’, she was talking about one just like the one in my room. Yeah right,” Myf writes. If you’re not familiar with the tune, it includes lyrics like “Now ain’t it a shame you missed the last train / Coz all I got is a S-single bed“.
Other songs young Myf was into as a totally oblivious kid included ‘Private Dancer’ by Tina Turner and ‘Like a Virgin’ by Madonna. Myf also noted some of the responses she got from listeners, including one who danced to ‘Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back to My Room)‘ at a primary school disco.
You can read the whole op-ed via the Double J website now. Just don’t blame us when you venture down a Spotify or YouTube rabbit hole as you recall all of the songs you loved as a kid that were way too NSFW for your young ears.
It’s not the first time Myf has penned a thought-provoking piece of prose for Double J. We still like to go back and read her rant against a Spotify study which claimed a person’s music taste begins to stagnate as they reach middle age.
