Followers apparently have been misunderstanding the that means behind the hit tune It Wasn’t Me for a very long time now!
For years, many individuals believed the long-lasting 2000 monitor was all about dishonest. Nonetheless, that seems to not be the case – no less than, in accordance with Shaggy! In an interview with Individuals on Friday, the 54-year-old singer swears he isn’t encouraging listeners to not maintain themselves accountable for being untrue to their companions. As an alternative, he defined that it’s an “anti-cheating tune”:
“It was a giant false impression with that tune as a result of that tune will not be a dishonest tune. It’s an anti-cheating tune. It’s simply that no person listened to the file to the top. There’s an element within the file the place it’s a dialog between two folks and you’ve got one man, which is me at that time, giving that unhealthy recommendation, like, “Yo, bro, how may you get caught? Simply inform her, ‘It wasn’t me.’”
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Hmmm. Shaggy went on to notice that there’s a twist “on the finish” that everybody appears to overlook as a result of they’re “caught up” within the hook of the tune:
“The man says, ‘I’m going to inform her that I’m sorry for the ache that I’ve precipitated. I’ve been listening to your reasoning, it is not sensible in any respect. Going to inform her that I’m sorry for the ache that I’ve precipitated. You would possibly assume that you simply’re a participant, however you’re fully misplaced.’ No person hears that half! That’s what the tune says. However all people’s simply caught up on that, ‘It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me.’ It’s an anti-cheating tune. Nobody ever actually buys into that, and I preserve explaining it to folks. Then, they go hearken to it again and be like, “Oh dude, I completely missed that.”
Regardless of the confusion over the tune, Shaggy admitted that it has “helped within the lifetime of the tune,” noting:
“What’s so good about that tune is that it was relatable all through the years. Individuals do have this entire state of affairs with dishonest, and the factor about that’s that you might be younger, outdated, Black, white, straight, homosexual, no matter it’s, it’s nonetheless relatable.”
It’s positively relatable. You may hearken to the throwback piece (under):
Did you catch the twist on the finish, Perezcious readers? Do you agree with Shaggy that it’s an “anti-cheating tune?” Tell us within the feedback under!
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