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In June 2018, a shocking revelation appeared on social media about a well-known and well-worn song called Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide) — the popular dance song was apparently written about a sex toy: Although many shared this rumor as if it were a fact, this claim is based on little more than an interpretation of the song's lyrics: As this rumor picked up steam, Aazios.com published an article reporting that the song's writer, Neville Bunny Wailer Livingston, had confirmed the subtext of its lyrics: This was not a reliable story, as the alleged confirmation came from an anonymous third party and not from Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingston), the song's writer, despite the wording of the article's title. The article also did not provide any information about how the source was contacted, nor any explanation for why the source would remain anonymous. In other words, we are highly skeptical that this quote truly came from a source close to Wailer, and we strongly suspect that this story was invented to take advantage of a viral rumor. In fact, Wailer specifically denied this rumor in a statement to EDM: Marcia Griffiths, who performed on the song, also denied the rumor. The singer told The Blast that the Electric Boogie was about positive vibrations, not vibrators: Unsurprisingly, our search of news articles, musical histories, magazines and album reviews for any indication whatsoever that this song was written about a sex toy yielded no results. Wailer spoke a little about the creation of the song in an August 2009 interview with the Jamaica Gleaner. And no, he didn't mention vibrators. He wrote the song in the 1970s for childhood friend Marcia Griffiths, but it didn't become a hit until several years later: Wailer went back to work on Electric Boogie in the 1980s in an attempt to capture the popularity of songs such as Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue. In his interview with the Gleaner, Wailer said that Grant never fully explained what listeners were supposed to do (other than take it higher) after they rocked down to Electric Avenue, and suggested that it would be the perfect place to do the Electric Boogie: You can watch the Electric Boogie, which was certainly not about vibrators, in the video below:
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