![]() ![]() only now a different world, a world so sleazy that Nikki sounds comparatively quaint, in retrospect. Same Nikki, same lobby, same magazine, same tawdry notions. Meant as a B-side to the Foo Fighters’ single “Have It All,” the new version of “Darling Nikki” has instead become a breakout radio hit: Locally, WHFS counts it among its most played and most requested songs this month, and on Los Angeles’ KROQ, the tastemaking station of mallternative-skateboarding teen chic, the song has been played several times a day since early October. Two slutty decades later, “Darling Nikki” is back, having been faithfully remade by the multi-platinum modern rock band the Foo Fighters. It was, at the time, the dirtiest song we knew.Īnd the world might have been a slightly different place if an 11-year-old Karenna Gore could have prevented her mother from listening to her “Purple Rain” cassette: “Darling Nikki” has the near-mythological honor in pop trivia of being the song that compelled Tipper Gore to co-found the Parents Music Resource Center with other congressional wives, who in 1985 successfully pressured big record companies to create a warning-label system for pop records. The song was a soulful limerick from the “Purple Rain” days of Prince, whose voraciously fey Jheri-Curl Lothario act worked its spell even on the most suburban set. ![]() “I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine.” “I GUESS U could say she was a sex fiend,” the song goes. The song never appeared on any hit chart, and you never heard it on the radio or at a school dance, but almost any adolescent of the 1980s can still sing about a mysterious and lascivious woman named Nikki: In another epoch, kids listened to “Darling Nikki” because they knew they weren’t supposed to, because it was too naughty. Not many songs can grab my attention that way.Updated: 5:49 a.m. I just heard this on the radio and it rocks! I like the Fighters of Foo ok, but this song utterly rocked! I actually sat in the car after I had parked to listen to it. I looked all over, all I found was a phone number on the stairs I woke up the next morning, Nikki wasn't there Her lovin' will kick your behind, oh, she'll show U no mercyīut she'll sho'nuff, sho'nuff show U how 2 grind I can't tell U what she did 2 me, but me body will never be the same ![]() The castle started spinning or maybe it was my brain The lights went out and Nikki started 2 grind She said, �Sign your name on the dotted line� She had so many devices, everything that money could buy She took me 2 her castle and I just couldn't believe my eyes She said, �How'd U like 2 waste some time�Īnd I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine I knew a girl named Nikki, I guess U could say she was a sex fiend ![]()
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