7. Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4xwmZ6zi4 Lead singer Joe Elliott generously describes Def Leppard's iconic party song as "mash-up" of influences. Who or what those influences are, exactly, remain a mystery. (Though Joe says the first record he bought was The Archies' "Sugar Sugar," which contains the lines "Pour your sweetness over me" and "Pour a little sugar on it, baby." So it was at least a subconscious inspiration.) Because Elliott started the songwriting process by coming up with phonetic sounds to fit the music he'd already written, the lyrics to the track were pieced together as one might assemble a bookshelf. Screw 1 goes into Slot A, and "Livin' like a lover" goes into "with a radar phone." Does it make logical or grammatical sense? Not a bit. But it didn't matter, because "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was about a riff and a chorus, so there was never any need to get all wrapped up in something as trivial as "what words mean." Hence, we're gifted nifty little couplets like this:
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little lightTelevision lover, baby, go all night
And this:
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of loveSweet dream, saccharine, loosen up
You can go through this entire song without understanding a single lyric that
doesn't have something to do with sugar. And unlike the obvious chorus, they're not even flagrantly sexual! They're just...confusing.