That was actually a very deep song, talking about the existential dread that comes after you realize that your sole purpose in life is to shake that little tush on the catwalk
I’m quite sure “I’m Too Sexy” is intentionally silly and meant to be subversive of industries, including the music industry, that uses sex to sell stuff. The Macarena song is part of the dance genre, like the “Hokey-Pokey” song, in which the lyrics are just nonsense.
You are correct about it intentionally being silly, but not about who it was lampooning.
The idea for the song came about when the Fairbrass brothers were running a gym in London where, according to Richard, there was “lots of narcissism and posing”. One day, he took his shirt off and started singing “I’m too sexy for my shirt” in front of a mirror as a joke. The band originally recorded it as an indie rock song.
To be fair, the “plot” of that one insofar as it has one is that the girl who is known as Macarena is having a threesome with two of her boyfriend’s buds when he is out of town. The part of the chorus which is in Spanish is one or both of them propositioning her.
This seemed to escape the Moral Guardians of the time, who I guess were all to busy hyperventilating about Mortal Kombat and boobies on cable television.
Clearly, things have gotten worse since the halcyon days of the 1990’s, when we had such hits as “Rico Suave,” “Macarena,” and “I’m Too Sexy.”
Why, I remember singing along to that last one. Sing it with me! “I’m too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts…”
That was actually a very deep song, talking about the existential dread that comes after you realize that your sole purpose in life is to shake that little tush on the catwalk
I’m quite sure “I’m Too Sexy” is intentionally silly and meant to be subversive of industries, including the music industry, that uses sex to sell stuff. The Macarena song is part of the dance genre, like the “Hokey-Pokey” song, in which the lyrics are just nonsense.
You are correct about it intentionally being silly, but not about who it was lampooning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Too_Sexy
So basically it was just a comment on narcissism that got completely misunderstood.
Sort of like how Born in the U.S.A. is the opposite of a patriotic song.
To be fair, the “plot” of that one insofar as it has one is that the girl who is known as Macarena is having a threesome with two of her boyfriend’s buds when he is out of town. The part of the chorus which is in Spanish is one or both of them propositioning her.
This seemed to escape the Moral Guardians of the time, who I guess were all to busy hyperventilating about Mortal Kombat and boobies on cable television.