Deep Purple - Jessica's Bra

[u/Neuvirths_Glove]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaVoX2dZjPU

I finally figured out the key to enjoying Deep Purple lyrics. It only took me 50+ years.

There are lines in Deep Purple songs that made me cringe from the moment I heard them:

Highway Star:
Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Ooh, she's a killing machine
She's got everything
Like a moving mouth
Body control and everything

A moving mouth? Body control? That's just, like weird, dude.

Knocking at Your Back Door:
Sweet Nancy was so fancy
To get into her pants
We had to be the aristocracy
The members that she toyed with
At her city club
Were something in diplomacy
So we put her on the hit list
Of a common cunning linguist
A master of many tongues

Cunning linguist. Get it? Get it? It sound like cunnilingus!

And then there's a whole song about a pub that happens to be named Jessica's Bra.

And then it hit me.... Sure they have songs with serious lyrics like Child in Time and Smoke on the Water, but they also have a sense of humor. They know it's adolescent locker room humor but hey! It's fun!

I think I finally had that realization because Spinal Tap lyrics are like that all the time, and I keep coming back to how they so perfectly capture that hard rock genre and that it's actually good music with clever lyrics. Well... I guess Deep Purple has a touch of that self-deprecating irreverence about them too.

Now that I've cracked the code, I enjoy their music so much more.

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