"a cheerleader, was a real young bleeder" "you're down on a muffin" "See-saw swingin' with the boys in the school With your feet flyin' up in the air Singin' hey diddle-diddle with the kitty in the middle" Yes, this is played several times per day, loudly too, somewhere in Disney World. (For the record I'm fine with this as it is amusing but I'm sort of in disbelief that *Disney* not just allows but actively offers this to the guest)
Spoiler: I cheated on this one Given that it's apparently from Aerosmith's "Walk This Way," I'd guess RnR, at Studios. Rather profoundly not my taste in music. Then again, I've also read the lyrics of "Greased Lightning," from Grease, and they're as vulgar as they sound, and yet I've seen youth figure skating drill teams and production numbers set to it. I miss the first soundtrack added to the DL Space Mountain, with Dick Dale playing a surf guitar arrangement of a movement from Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals.
"Greased Lightning" from the movie Grease. Wow I heard that song 200 times over the years but I never paid attention to the lyrics. So l just looked them up now and something struck me: Did Quentin Tarantino get the idea for a certain car featured in his Kill Bill Vol 1movie from that song's lyrics ("pu_ _ y wagon" )? 1) we know Quentin loved John Travolta's works 2) we know Quentin watches countless movies and pays homage to them.
Yep, Greased Lightning is one of the best/worst secretly-dirty songs out there. I was informed of the actual lyrics at summer camp as a kid, and have never been able to listen to it the same way since Especially in WDW where there are so many different themes catering to so many different subsets of guests, there are all sorts of things that may not be what people traditionally identify as "Disney" in the most stereotypical sense. Heck, half the 'classic' Magic Kingdom attractions feature things that people today would be horrified by, but are somehow okay with because they're a quintessential Disney experience
Back in fourth grade, our teacher was also the drama teacher. One kid memoried the dance moves to Grease Lightening and preformed it with the song playing in class. Everybody glossed over the lyrics of the song. I think the only word we as kids caught was s$!t. We had no idea what the lyrics meant.
Music has occasionally had strong effects on me in DL. Perhaps the strongest effect was when I was about halfway through Space Mountain, the first time I'd heard the Dick Dale soundtrack, and suddenly realized why it sounded so familiar ("Aquarium," from Carnival of the Animals). Then there was the time I recognized "Blazing Saddles" in the Frontierland background loop. Of course, Blazing Saddles, for all its coarse humor, was a movie that skewered bigotry, and so the overall theme is certainly appropriate for Disney, even if the language (and the campfire scene) wasn't. To steer this back to WDW, did the WDW Space Mountain ever use the Dick Dale/Saint-Saens soundtrack? Did the WDW Frontierland background loop ever include "Blazing Saddles"?
Not in any way disparaging you, since I know oodles of people who get all flabbergasted when they discover the lyrics to that song, but ... How do you NOT discover the lyrics to that song? I understood every syllable when I first heard the thing at age 12, and I'm not even much of a lyrics guy. Besides, IMHO, the song sucks. Actually, other than "Summer Nights", ALL the songs that were in the original musical (and not written for the movie) suck. The guys who wrote that show either were not 1950s rock and roll fans, or didn't absorb anything. Perhaps the main reason people miss the dirty lyrics to "Greased Lightning" is that their attention wanders before it gets to them?
In all fairness, I was probably 8 or 9 at the time, so I wasn't exactly slowing down to listen to what exactly they were saying, nor did I really know what some of those words meant in that context. But I agree that it's pretty obvious when you really stop and think about it I'll take your observation a step further and say that both the show and movie themselves suck. Other than it being a "classic" that everybody likes because they're so familiar with it, there's remarkably little plot, most of the songs are lackluster, and the characters aren't likeable at all. The biggest thing it has going for it is the 1950's nostalgia, and it doesn't even do that especially well
Grease is just too damn corny, embarrassing to watch. The best character in it is the bad boy "crater face" and his flame spitting car.
