Originally Posted by
soulster
It was a huge jam around here too!
I never heard of any controversy, as it was 1982, and Toni Basil had her #1 hit "Mickey" with it's highly sexually suggestive lyrics "Any way you wanna do it, i'll take it like a man". Read whatever you want into that.:) But, the other new song on that greatest hits album was "The People Next Door", where he sings about hearing the two lesbian lovers next door making him horny: "makin' strange noises, sounds like a choo-choo train."
I have my theories. But, it also makes me wonder why the Marvin Gaye estate doesn't go after Ed Sheeran. His hit "Thinking Out Loud" is a direct rip off of Gaye's "Let's Get It On". But, I digress...