8 Musical Misconceptions and Unknowns Explained

posted by on October 30, 2012 in Features, Lists
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Musicians get away with a lot of shit by invoking artistic license. While misconceptions in music can elicit lively, interesting conversations and imaginative interpretations, all that wonderful conjecture is not entirely helpful when you still don’t know what the fuck Kelis is referring to when she talks about a “milkshake.” P&P decided to do a bit of investigating, looking into some mysteries in music that have plagued our pigeon brains. Here are 8 musical misconceptions and unknowns explained.

Got any musical mysteries you’d like us to investigate? Hit the comment section and let us know. 

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  • Kameron

    I’d like to add that ‘Smoke Two Joints’ wasn’t written or performed by Bob Marley.

  • James!

    In Glass Onion, at least, I’m pretty sure he was referring to the album art for Magical Mystery Tour where they put on costumes of different animals. One of which was a walrus.

  • http://RichardBenjaminMusic.com Richard Benjamin

    He could be talking about both ‘Human’ and ‘Dancer’ in the species sense. Same way you could address a group of turtles.
    “We found some turtle over on the beach where they were shooting that Drake video.”
    So, he would be saying “Are we human? (as in the species of human) / Or are we dancer (as in a species made up of dancers)”

    Disclaimer : I did not finish college.

  • PancakeMcKennz

    In before anyone asks what a Hollaback Girl is.

    (PS: It’s very simple if you think about the video.)

  • http://www.bdubbss.com Illyum

    @pancakemcke Hollaback Girl was actually a “diss” song about Cindy Lauper (i think) who said Gwen sounded like a cheerleader

  • PancakeMcKennz

    @Illyum I’m aware

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