Here's the singer's exact quote, ""Well, I was dating a girl and she was going to Bryn Mawr College and it's where my dad teaches. And I was probably 17 or something like that and she was like 18. I always liked the older girls. (laughs) But we were in her dorm room, and her roommate came in and she saw us there, and she was like, 'Oh, it smells like sex and candy in here.' And I always remembered that. And that was back in the late '80s"... "I was like, hey, let's just throw in that phrase that's been sticking in my head for the last 5 years or whatever."
Okay. I don't see any reason to doubt his explanation for the origin of the phrase. That said, songwriters have a long tradition of throwing people off the sent (pun intended) of their song meanings. And I find it far too coincidental that he just happened to throw the phrase sex and candy into a song where he just happened to mention double cherry pie. If this wasn't a conscious lolita reference, it seems very likely it was unconscious. And I'm not saying that makes him any kind of creep or anything. It's simply a literary device in...
Okay. I don't see any reason to doubt his explanation for the origin of the phrase. That said, songwriters have a long tradition of throwing people off the sent (pun intended) of their song meanings. And I find it far too coincidental that he just happened to throw the phrase sex and candy into a song where he just happened to mention double cherry pie. If this wasn't a conscious lolita reference, it seems very likely it was unconscious. And I'm not saying that makes him any kind of creep or anything. It's simply a literary device in a fictional song. It's fiction people!
Here's the singer's exact quote, ""Well, I was dating a girl and she was going to Bryn Mawr College and it's where my dad teaches. And I was probably 17 or something like that and she was like 18. I always liked the older girls. (laughs) But we were in her dorm room, and her roommate came in and she saw us there, and she was like, 'Oh, it smells like sex and candy in here.' And I always remembered that. And that was back in the late '80s"... "I was like, hey, let's just throw in that phrase that's been sticking in my head for the last 5 years or whatever."
Okay. I don't see any reason to doubt his explanation for the origin of the phrase. That said, songwriters have a long tradition of throwing people off the sent (pun intended) of their song meanings. And I find it far too coincidental that he just happened to throw the phrase sex and candy into a song where he just happened to mention double cherry pie. If this wasn't a conscious lolita reference, it seems very likely it was unconscious. And I'm not saying that makes him any kind of creep or anything. It's simply a literary device in...
Okay. I don't see any reason to doubt his explanation for the origin of the phrase. That said, songwriters have a long tradition of throwing people off the sent (pun intended) of their song meanings. And I find it far too coincidental that he just happened to throw the phrase sex and candy into a song where he just happened to mention double cherry pie. If this wasn't a conscious lolita reference, it seems very likely it was unconscious. And I'm not saying that makes him any kind of creep or anything. It's simply a literary device in a fictional song. It's fiction people!