When I first heard this song back in the early 80s I thought they were saying "tassel girls" which is a decorative tail-like ornament female strippers put onto their nipples as they swirled them around in front of their audience. A good visual reference would be the awkward scene from "The Graduate" when Benjamin takes Elaine to a strip club and tries to humiliate her as she sits facing away from the stage as a stripper swirls her tassels behind Elaine's long horse mane hair.
Funny after all these years of not hearing the song I look it up to discover the correct title and accompanying lyrics. But as someone else mentioned, OMD used this song as an antecedent to what their record label demanded for the US music market so they must have been motivated to write a song utilizing word-play and sexual innuendo.
When I first heard this song back in the early 80s I thought they were saying "tassel girls" which is a decorative tail-like ornament female strippers put onto their nipples as they swirled them around in front of their audience. A good visual reference would be the awkward scene from "The Graduate" when Benjamin takes Elaine to a strip club and tries to humiliate her as she sits facing away from the stage as a stripper swirls her tassels behind Elaine's long horse mane hair.
Funny after all these years of not hearing the song I look it up to discover the correct title and accompanying lyrics. But as someone else mentioned, OMD used this song as an antecedent to what their record label demanded for the US music market so they must have been motivated to write a song utilizing word-play and sexual innuendo.