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Just your everyday matches (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh Sweden. It's like an entire country learned English from google translate. "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede, and the overtones of domestic violence are innocently enough supposed to be a reference to calling somebody on the phone, not literally "hitting" them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think I remember hearing "Cake by the Ocean" was too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, the band's producers/co-writers were at a bar trying to order Sex on the Beach but called it Cake by the Ocean