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The pop song "Hit Me Baby One More Time" is in fact so named because the Swedish composer thought "hit me" was American slang for "call me".
by colanderman 7y ago
The pop song "Hit Me Baby One More Time" is in fact so named because the Swedish composer thought "hit me" was American slang for "call me".
- DoreenMichele 7y ago"Hit me up" is slang for "get in touch." One word difference, worlds of difference in meaning.
- wodenokoto 7y agoI’ve always interpreted it as the active verb of being love struck. I mean if she’s struck by love, somebody must have hit her with it. Kinda like Cupid’s arrow. I got this as a 14 year old non-native speaker, who of course expected the lyrics to be proper English. Did all you native speakers find it to be about masochism and domestic violence?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoNo. I figured it was an addiction reference, a la "give me a hit of your addictive attention, even though we've broken up yet again and just can't make this work." Hit is slang for a dose of illicit drugs. I think that framing -- or something akin to it -- was a fairly common interpretation. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a hit song.