What?! - THIS Is What "Hit Me Baby One More Time" Actually Means
Baby One More Time has been uncovered, and it's not what we thought at all. Seventeen years after its release, John Seabrook has solved the mystery in his new pop music history book The Song Machine, according to The Huffington Post. The track was penned by Swedish songwriter Max Martin and Swedish/Moroccan songwriter Rami Yacoub, about a girl who has just split up with her boyfriend. The two Swedes thought that "hit" was slang for "call" in the states and so penned the lyrics as a way of saying "call me baby one more time". Of course, "hit me up" is regularly used in this context, but wi...
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