Song Lyrics Explained: LFO's "Summer Girls"

Today, we will make our second attempt at explaining the lyrics to a great song. Last time it was Buckcherry's "Crazy Bitch." Today, dtro will tackle LFO's classic song "Summer Girls" (because it was on Peanut's XM 90s station just now). Without further ado (all pictures come from a google images search of "summer girls"):

INTRO
Yeah...I like it when the girls stop by.. In the summer Do you remember, Do you remember? ...when we met..That summer?? I like when girls stop by during the summer months. I am now going to devote this song to one particular girl who did that. So to that girl I ask: do you remember when we met that one summer? You know that summer when you stopped by?

CHORUS
New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits
Remember those guys. They had a lot of popular songs. You can look it up.
Chinese food makes me sick.
I am allergic to MSG. I therefore get quite ill when I order Chinese food, unless I request no MSG. Even then, I still get sick though.
And I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer, for the summer.
I like it when girls stop by for the summer, as I mentioned in the intro. In fact, I like it so much that I often refer to it using African American slang from the early 90s.
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch.
This may seem to come out of nowhere, but I really like girls who wear that particular designer. It's totally FLY!!
I'd take her if I had one wish.
Were some sort of frugal genie to grant me only a single wish, I would wish for a particular girl who wore Abercrombie and Fitch.
But she's been gone sine that summer...
I haven't seen that girl since that summer...
Since that summer
Since that summer when she stopped by wearing A&F

VERSE 1
Hip Hop marmalade spic and span
HAHA...I like starting songs with complete and utter nonsense ;)
Met you one summer and it all began
I met you one summer and then some stuff happened
You're the best girl that I ever did see
You are simply put the best girl I've ever seen. Just the best in general. But there could be a better girl out there; I just haven't seen her.
The great Larry Bird jersey 33
Larry Bird was good at basketball and his number was 33. I know it's kind of a non sequitur, but I like non sequiturs.
When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet
Whenever you drink anything you emit a buzzing sound. It's very disconcerting.
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
I am on very personal terms with Elizabethan age bard William Shakespeare, who wrote a number of sonnets.
Call me Willy Whistle cause I can't speak baby
I am mute like Willy Whistle: this is a reference to a 1960s Boston area public broadcasting kids TV show host. I bet that totally fucked with your head. And actually I can speak, as evidenced by this song.
Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy
Your eyes contained some sort of insanity-inducing agents. The mental issues they caused me play a large part in why I speak in totally unrelated, yet rhyming couplets.
Now I can't forget you and it makes me mad
I cannot forget you, and it's making me really fucking angry. So not fly
Left one day and you never came back
You left me forever. I can't really blame you, though. I am crazy.
Stayed all summer then went back home
You stayed all summer and then returned home, probably due to work or school commitments.
Macauly Culkin wasn't home alone
Common misconception, but Macauly Culkin was NOT home alone. He was only an actor. His character, Kevin McAllister was the one who was home alone.
Fell deep in love, but now we ain't speaking
I thought we were deeply in love, but now we're not even on speaking terms. I was joking about that Willy Whistle thing: I swear I can speak. Speak to me, please. Please!!!
Michael J. Fox played Alex P. Keaton
On Family Ties. Remember that show. Yea, me neither
When I met you I said my name was Rich
I don't know why, but I gave you a false name when we met. My name is really Percival.
You looked like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch
You looked like an A&F model, aka superduper hot!


CHORUS

VERSE 2
Cherry pez, cold crush, rock star boogie
hahaha...silly words are fun
Used to hate school so I had to play hookie
I used to skip school a lot, because school is stupid and reading is hard
Always been hip to the B-boy style
I like to pretend I'm black. It makes my white friends think I'm cool.
Known to act wild and make girls smile
Sometimes I do crazy stuff and it makes girls smile and laugh at me.
Love New Edition and the Candy Girl
Man the 80s were so fucking awesome. Remember that song Candy Girl. That shizz was the FLYEST!
Remind me of you cause you rock my world
You are my candy girl. You are the best thing that ever happened to me...please come back.
You come from Georgia where the peaches grow
You are from the US state of Georgia, which produces peaches as a major cash crop
They drink lemonade and speak real slow
Georgia is also known for its mentally slow inhabitants, who are fond of lemonade
You love hip hop and rock n roll
You like 2 extremely popular genres of music
Dad took of when you were 4 years old
You're dad left when you were only 4. You probably have abandonment issues because of this.
There was a good man named Paul Revere
Non sequitur time! Paul Revere, you know the guy who beat the French in World War I or whatever. I didn't go to school very often.
I feel much better baby when you're near
I like it when you are near. Feel free to stop by...preferably in the summer.
You love fun dip and cherry Coke
But really who doesn't?
I like the way you laugh when I tell a joke
Usually people don't laugh when I make jokes. But you, you're a big fan of the knock-knock format and that's really all I got.

CHORUS x2

BRIDGE 1
In the summertime girls got it going on
Girls are much hotter looking in the summer, because they are not wearing stupid winter coats
Shake and wiggle to a hip hp song
Perform spastic movements to a hip hop song. I command you.
Summertime girls are the kind I like
Just though I'd go over that one more time.
I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike.
Remember that time I stole your bike? Yea, well if you don't watch it I'll take your fucking honey too. I'm like Winnie the Pooh motherfucker.



VERSE 3

Bugaloo shrimp and pogo sticks
First line of a verse= total bullshit
My mind take me back there oh so quick
I am quick to remember that summer we spent together. It was basically the highlight of my life
Let you off the hook like my man Mr. Limpet
You know that movie about the man who became a fish? No? It's from the 60s or something...man I gotta update my references
Think about that summer and I bug, cause I miss it
Really miss that summer a lot. For real
Like the color purple, macaroni and cheese
I like the color purple. The color, though, not the Alice Walker novel. And mac and cheese is fly too.
Ruby red slippers and a bunch of trees
I like ruby red slippers. I have a pair but I don't wear them outside cause my friends make fun of me and call me things like "Dorothy" and "homo" and stuff. I also like trees...but only in groups, not individually.
Call you up but what's the use
I would call you, but really what's the point? You wouldn't even understand half of my pop-culture references.
I like Kevin Bacon, but I hate Footloose
I like Kevin Bacon, but dislike his signature movie. That's pretty silly, huh?
Came in the door I said it before
When you walked in the door, I reiterated a prior sentiment...
I think I'm over you, but I;m really not sure
I think I'm over you, but I'm probably not--you know, considering I just wrote a song about you

CHORUS

BRIDGE/OUTRO

In the summer girls come and summer girls go
Summer girls are always coming and going. I guess those are the only two options.
Some are worthwhile and some are so-so
Some summer girls are cool, and some are not. Again it's a matter of only two options.

How cool are these guys?

Vindication

I have been saying for a number of years that Roger Clemens was doing steroids. In fact, my friend Butter called me to congratulate me on being right. Actually, I took the idea from dtro sr. and kinda ran with it. Anyway, the Mitchell Report has been released in all its 400 pages of glory and it turns out that Clemens did indeed do steroids and HGH (and his little Christian butt buddy Andy Pettitte used HGH at the least).



According to his trainer, Brian McNamee, Clemens first used steroids in 1998 with the Blue Jays and probably obtained them from teammates Jose Canseco (that guy really got around). After he was traded to the Yankees in 1999, Clemens convinced the Yank$ to hire McNamee as an assistant strength coach beginning in 2000. Clemens then used various anabolic steroids and HGH during the latter parts of the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Pettitte was given HGH injections while rehabbing from injury during the 2002 season. Little Chucky Knoblauch (perhaps the 2nd most detestable human on those Yanks teams, besides Clemens) also was getting in on the HGH game. David Justice was also on board with this shit, along with some other former Yankees.

All of this means that the Yankees fucking CHEATED and the New York Mets should be crowned as the true 2000 WORLD CHAMPIONS!


However, the Mets are not free from guilt. For one thing, the primary source of information for the Mitchell investigation was Kirk Radomski, a Mets clubhouse employee during the mid 90s, who apparently supplied steroids to half the known universe during the late 90s and early 00s. Also, it turns out (not to anyone's great surprise) the Mets all-time single season HR record is tainted:

Radomski has known Hundley since 1988, when Radomski worked for the Mets
and Hundley played in the Mets’ minor league system.380 Radomski stated that, beginning in
1996, he sold Deca-Durabolin and testosterone to Hundley on three or four occasions. At the
beginning of that year, Radomski told Hundley that if he used steroids, he would hit 40 home
runs. Hundley hit 41 home runs in 1996, having never hit more than 16 in any prior year. After
the season, Radomski said, Hundley took him out to dinner.

Thank God Beltran at least tied that record in 06. Please break it next year, Carlos.


ROID RAGE! Yea, our old pal Paulie Dukes was on the juice during his time with the Dodgers. If only Omar had known, Paulie. You could've had a 2-year contract.


ROID RAGE!!! Woo!! Back to my original point that Clemens is a cheating, psycopathic scumbag. It appears that Clemens was using steroids in the latter half of seasons in order to avoid wearing down, because, you know, he is way too old to be pitching as well as he had been through 2006. Isn't it interesting that he decided to take a couple of months to "decide" about whether to keep pitching the last couple years after MLB has finally instituted comprehensive drug testing for anabolic steroids?

Alright, here's my question. Is the BBWAA going to keep Clemens out of the Hall? Or at least not put him in on the first ballot? McGwire's not getting in. Bonds probably ain't going in first ballot, even if he might make it eventually. Palmeiro's not going in. Clemens has to be punished too, right?

How great is baseball? The most dominant hitter and pitcher of my lifetime both are fucking cheaters.

Hey Omar! fuck your mom

Sorry I haven't been posting much loyal reader. I have been busy not doing my schoolwork on time.


Anyway, I'm not going to go into too much detail about the Lastings Milledge trade, because I spent most of my venom making comments on MetsGeek, and because my readership only marginally cares about the Mets.

Basically, Omar traded a talented outfielder, who is turning 23 next year for a catcher who hasn't been able to hit for 5 years (and whose defense is overrated and declining) and an ok outfielder who is 29 and has probably already hit his ceiling. Baseball-wise this is a terrible, indefensible trade that does not improve the Mets next year and will probably come back to haunt them in the years to come, especially considering we sent Blastings to a team in the NL east. Not to mention, this is only a superficial change asthe Mets have still not addressed their PITCHING!!! problem. If the Mets trade Jose Reyes for anything, even if it's like entire Marlins franchise, I am denouncing the Mets and becoming a Nationals fan.

I think the thing that really bothers me is that this feels like a non-baseball move, where the Wilpons told Omar to get rid of Blastings because of his supposed character issues. Except that I don't even really believe that Milledge had character issues, but was just a kind of cocky young guy who was unnecessarily excoriated by the terrible NY media because he was black. And even if that is the reason, why did they get Ryan Church, a guy who once said he felt sorry for those poor Jews, because they haven't accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior and are therefore condemned to hell. Only half of the Mets' fanbase is Jewish, though, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Anyhoo, I thought I would try to convey how terrible a trade this was by giving similar trade scenarios outside of baseball:


Dtro trades his iPod to his sister for a sony walkman and the Jagged Little Pill cassette.



Peanut trades a case of Sundrop for a bottle of Poland Spring, and a half-eaten sandwich to be named later.


Pankey has announced a trade sending LCT a QP of the chron-don in exchange for two jars of butthash and a Phish poster.


Dtro sells his soul to Lucifer for the ability to do sweet yo-yo tricks.