03-03-2018, 01:31 AM
Dude I think Hanging On The Telephone is such a bitching song, it's probably my fave Blondie song, but I gotta be real...
I'm low key freaked out by the lyrics...
It's like a way less disturbing version of Father Figure, like I talked about on this thread:
http://www.sectual.com/thread-4483.html
Only in that song, George Michael specifies who he's talking about has a 'tiny hand'.
In Hanging On The Telephone, Debbie Harry just mentions somebody's mother leaving the building and then inquiring whether she went to work, or to the store, and then saying to 'ignore' what the mother has told [whoever Debbie is talking to] about her.
So that alone suggests the song is about a romance between Debbie Harry and a younger person...
Because Debbie Harry was 33 at the time of the release of that song.
And back in the 70s it was a lot more common for people to leave home pretty young, so one can only assume whoever she was 'talking to' in the song must have been a teenager. Logically that's the only explanation.
Now if the song had been written today, Debbie could have been singing about any 30 year old out there who still lives with their parents, LMAO, but because of the time period... when I hear this song, I'm thinking teenager.
I'm thinking 33 year old Debbie Harry perving out on a 17 or hopefully 18 year old across the hallway in an apartment building.
Call me over analytical but... y'know, I like to think about what I'm actually hearing when I hear it.
I'm low key freaked out by the lyrics...
It's like a way less disturbing version of Father Figure, like I talked about on this thread:
http://www.sectual.com/thread-4483.html
Only in that song, George Michael specifies who he's talking about has a 'tiny hand'.
In Hanging On The Telephone, Debbie Harry just mentions somebody's mother leaving the building and then inquiring whether she went to work, or to the store, and then saying to 'ignore' what the mother has told [whoever Debbie is talking to] about her.
So that alone suggests the song is about a romance between Debbie Harry and a younger person...
Because Debbie Harry was 33 at the time of the release of that song.
And back in the 70s it was a lot more common for people to leave home pretty young, so one can only assume whoever she was 'talking to' in the song must have been a teenager. Logically that's the only explanation.
Now if the song had been written today, Debbie could have been singing about any 30 year old out there who still lives with their parents, LMAO, but because of the time period... when I hear this song, I'm thinking teenager.
I'm thinking 33 year old Debbie Harry perving out on a 17 or hopefully 18 year old across the hallway in an apartment building.
Call me over analytical but... y'know, I like to think about what I'm actually hearing when I hear it.
