
"Cotton Candy, Sweet and Low, Let me See that Tootsie Roll!"
-69 Boyz, TOOTSEE ROLL
-69 Boyz, TOOTSEE ROLL
PROOF of Awesomeness:
Step 1:
Cotton Candy and Sweet and Low are sugary objects, as are tootsie rolls. These three items belong with each other in a list. This is logical.
Step 2:
"Tootsie Roll" has another meaning: it is a dance move, as evidenced by 1) "see" that Tootsie Roll, as in "see" you pull off that dance move, and 2) subsequent rythmic commands in the song that makes one move to the left, left, right, right, front, front, back, back, tilt baby tilt.
Step 3:
Thus, we are left to infer that if the sentence is to remain logical in its double meaning listing, then "Cotton Candy" and "Sweet and Low" are - hold on to your britches - also to be considered dance moves.
Societal Implications:
That these dance moves are only inferred and not described at any length in the song makes listener/dancer pause and think of all the possibilities of dance out there! Thinking of this larger context, all the while moving to the front, back, and sides, one is not only "in the moment" of the dance (as only the best dance provide for us), but one is also placed in the existential context of being but a mere ant of a dance participant - a drone in a form of recreation celebrated for its expression of individuality! Just as a soldier, upon looking into grimy and exhausted face of an enemy soldier, understands that "we are all participants in a larger game of War..." dancers are similarly asking themselves as they dance "I am a participant in a larger human condition, a condition that will dance a perhaps even funner dance when I am dead and gone..."
Dare I analyze further: that perhaps the 69 Boys already have dance moves for the Cotton Candy and the Sweet and Low, and are holding out on us until the time is right, when we are ready for it...
UPDATE: So...the lyrics aren't "sweet and low", they are "sweetie go." My proof lies in ruins. 69 Boyz Suck.
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