These artists released racy singles that were the anthems to our childhood Picture the scene – the year is 1999, you’ve grabbed your finest flame shirt and/or butterfly clips for the school disco, and you’ve perfected your dance moves to Sisqo’s Thong Song. Now, 25 years later, you realise why the teachers were absolutely mortified. Some – no, a lot – of the most iconic songs of the 90s and 00s have x-rated meanings that weren’t all that hidden, we were just maybe too naive to realise.
After being sexualised her entire career, the pop icon took matters into her own hands with If U Seek Amy, released in 2008. Fans lost their minds when they realised that the title was subtly spelt the phrase ‘F*** me’ in the song about Spears’ sex appeal in the public eye.