If you’ve ever attended a wedding, cookout, or really any family function, you’ve probably “boogied” to Marcia Griffith and Bunny Wailer’s “The Electric Slide.” But have you ever stopped to listen to the lyrics?
In news you may can use (lol), the writer of Marcia Griffith’s infectious song “Electric Boogie” has dropped a bombshell on fans of the song that will make it a little awkward to play at your family cookout from now on. The writer of the track, the great Bunny Wailer, allegedly told an unnamed source that the song is about a vibrator and the Internet is going hamburger, sausage, and baloney meat over the revelation.
According to the folks over at Aazios, the 71-year-old songwriter revealed the song is indeed about a sex toy. “I’m surprised it took people this long to figure out,” Wailer told an unidentified source. Apparently, Wailer wrote the song after a girlfriend told him she no longer needed his…services…because had a new gadget she dubbed the “electric slide.”
Hopefully we didn’t just ruin your childhood. Of course, this cannot be confirmed but that hasn’t stopped the Internet from making “Electric Slide” trend on Twitter and offer their own hilarious observations. We’ve collected some of them best reactions below. Check them out along with the song below:
Can someone please check on the Cha Cha Silde? Is anything safe anymore? #ElectricSlide pic.twitter.com/Ehd70VCA5d
— Kimberly Fludd (@Kimplaints_NYC) June 27, 2018
I was exactly today years old when I found out what the #ElectricSlide was really about #ChildhoodRuined pic.twitter.com/3KmY0cAdbk
— CJ Hurt (@Conradicalness) June 27, 2018
It's electric!
You can't see it
You gotta feel it
Ooh, it's shakin'
She's a pumpin' like a matic
She's a movin' like electric
She sure got the boogie
……..yep, sounds like the reference of a vibrator to me 😄 #ElectricSlide— ❤️Mrs. Alisha🖤 (@x_xxii_x) June 27, 2018
so the #ElectricSlide is about a vibrator…
interesting… pic.twitter.com/aZg7KNrdBe
— kardi killmonger (@strugglations) June 28, 2018
So this whole entire time!!!!!!! WTH?!???? The Electric Slide is about a vibrator!! Wow!!! I’m calling my tanty!!!
— FluffyEmpress💜💜 (@Andersenwifey93) June 26, 2018
I just found out your Auntie favorite song, the Electric Slide, is about a vibrator pic.twitter.com/ytYRyPoJdp
— Despicable P, J.D. (@_silly_me) June 26, 2018