"I Want Candy" is best known as recorded in the early days of MTV. But in reality it's originally a 60's surf-abilly song by the Strangeloves. Also apparently it's one of those songs that seems innocent at first, but then you find out it is about sex.
Which is kinda scary because the most popular cover of the song was done by Bow Wow Wow, who at the time had a 15 year old lead singer.
So less scary is the version done by Aaron Carter when he was 13 ...
Wait ... that's even more scary. This version is not scary though. It's Sporty (Spice).
Scary covers ... about wanting candy. Because it's Halloween. You saw where I was going with that right?
It is the opinion of this humble blogger that Prince is one of the most underrated rock musicians ever. He's a wicked fiend on the guitar, but he also practices the art of self restraint, so he's never all in your face about it, so when he decides to really less loose, you're all like "Whoa! Where the hell did that come from.
Not to mention in his heyday, he was so far ahead of his time, both musically and socially. He thought about the whole y2k problem in the 80's ... wait, that's not what 1999 was about. Okay well he invented text messaging short hand years before txting was popular used in such song titles as "I Would Die 4 U", "Nothing Compares 2 U" and the ditty here covered by Gary Numan, " U Got the Look."
You don't remember Gary Numan? Here try this "Here in my car; I feel safest of all; something something; in Carz; bloop blebleep bloop." Yeah, he's that guy.
