LFO's masterwork "Summer Girls" may seem like harmless pop fluff filled with a catchy melody and ridiculous rhymes, but it is actually the ramblings of a psychopath to his captured victim.
Take a look at the lyrics and you'll find more than enough evidence.
Notice, as our song begins, the desperation and longing.
It was such an important time for our narrator. He recalls with clarity the first moment he laid eyes on his victim. It becomes clear that he scouts around the malls, watching women. He has an affinity for the girls at Abercrombie & Fitch, likely because it rhymes with his own name which amuses him. One might assume that if his name were Josh he would be forced to troll for strange at the OshKosh B'Gosh, making this song even more disturbing.
Now, maybe he only just looked before. Who's to say. What's clear is that, while he may have liked lookin' at the other girlies, there was something special about this one. He watched her day in and day out. But when one fateful day at the shopping center she failed to show...he snapped. No longer capable of rational thought, his brain is jumbled with thoughts of Larry Bird and ruby red slippers.
The rest of his year was probably spent in anguish, longing for the days of the summer girls, but especially this girl. He often laments that he'd "take her if I had one wish." And then, with the dawning of another summer - she returns!
And this time she's not getting away...
Having gone to amazing lengths to stalk this poor girl, even going so far as to steal her bicycle (likely for some sexual thrill), he takes her hostage with the intent to rape her. And he does so, screaming about Macauley Culkin and macaroni & cheese all the while.
It's amazing such a dark, brutal song got so much airplay back in '99, but such was the power of the Lyte Funky Ones. Seriously, that's what LFO stands for.
Take a look at the lyrics and you'll find more than enough evidence.
Notice, as our song begins, the desperation and longing.
Quote:
| Do you remember, Do you remember? ...when we met..That summer??" |
Quote:
| Call me Willy Whistle cause I can't speak baby Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy Now I can't forget you and it makes me mad, Left one day and never came back |
The rest of his year was probably spent in anguish, longing for the days of the summer girls, but especially this girl. He often laments that he'd "take her if I had one wish." And then, with the dawning of another summer - she returns!
And this time she's not getting away...
Quote:
| Summertime girls are the kind I like, I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike |
It's amazing such a dark, brutal song got so much airplay back in '99, but such was the power of the Lyte Funky Ones. Seriously, that's what LFO stands for.
