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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:20 PM
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just wtf is a hollaback girl?
and why does that stupid song keep going through my head?
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:20 PM
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1. That's the female aspect of the Funk Soul Brother.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:23 PM
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2. great....
now I have something else I don't know about!
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:34 PM
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3. Search it on youtube.
Edited on Fri Mar-12-10 06:35 PM by Fire Walk With Me
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:38 PM
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4. As I understand it...
it's a girl that is amenable to booty calls.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:43 PM
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5. Oh, well then I guess it makes sense that I ain't no hollaback girl
is the refrain
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:44 PM
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6. Hang on...
There actually are girls who are amenable to booty calls?

Hmmm...
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:48 PM
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7. No. Too easy.
:hide:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:49 PM
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8. Well of course.
Not everyone of either sex is interested in dealing with relationships. Some just want a bit of fun now and then.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:57 PM
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15. You know one of them.
She goes by the moniker 'Beach Baby'.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 08:51 PM
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23. Whoo boy.
I'd stay out of Jersey for awhile if I were you..
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 09:05 AM
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29. Ohhhhh you're gonna get it
:spank:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:58 PM
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17. Your mother's booty calls me all the time, Trebek.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 09:03 PM
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24. Dude!!!!!
I just texted you. Things go well?
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EvolveOrConvolve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:25 PM
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12. Bingo
I think there's also probably a function that shows that the more "hollaback girl" (x) a woman has, the smaller her brain (y). You could probably graph it with one of those cool calculators that the kids use now in school.

I know that I'm supposed to be all PC about women's issues, but if I had a daughter, the hollaback mentality is NOT something I'd want her to have.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 11:09 PM
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25. Nothing PC at all... just more Virgin/Whore bullshit.
Nothing new about that... not at all.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:52 PM
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9. Oh, FFS. Even *I* know what it is.
A few times I've been around that track
So it's not just gonna happen like that
'Cause I ain't no Hollaback Girl
I ain't no Hollaback Girl



Doofus.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:55 PM
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13. DID YOU CALL ME A DOOFUS!
Franzia withdrawal or something, sweetie? :eyes:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:57 PM
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14. This shit is bananas. B A N A N A S.
:rofl:
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LeftOfSelf-Centered Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 08:23 AM
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28. Gwen must have some digestive distress...
:hide:
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 10:48 AM
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30. You mean to tell me you've listened to a song that came out after 1983?
:wow:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 10:53 AM
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31. Use to be my cell phone ringer, hater.
:rofl:
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 11:35 AM
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32. Makes my head spin to try to interpret the meaning of that
:rofl:
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keroro gunsou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 05:01 PM
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42. wow
midlo-san is cool.

i'm a dork. my ring tone is beethoven's 9th. the loud singing part. scares the shit out of people...
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:58 PM
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16. If the doof fits...
:P
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:55 PM
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10. Hollaback Girl = Plan B, C, or even D girl
when you've ben rejected by the other girls you've met this evening, this is the girl you can come back to late in the evening "hollaback" and she will still say "yes" even if YOU rejected HER earlier.

Either way, it's derogatory.

:silly:
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 06:56 PM
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11. B-A-N-A-N-A-S
:eyes:
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 04:42 PM
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41. OMG! Thanks!
I've had this melody stuck in my head for weeks! I never could get the words to appear.. just the backup singers without words. I couldn't even answer "current earworm" threads!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU

I lurve you!

:hi:
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 08:18 PM
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18. If it makes you feel any better
She threw a beer in my face when I was 15 - well before she was famous (but I was already awesome, obviously).
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 08:24 PM
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19. well if she could see you now...
she would be all "OMG, I am so sorry I did that, your hotness" ;)
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 08:49 PM
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22. Wow. You were already
An asshole at 15! You are a natural born Schmuck! :rofl:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:50 PM
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35. She was just trying to cool you off, Mr. Hotness.
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 09:58 AM
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37. She knew I needed to...
Get my Midlo on!!
(cue 'the bunko girls' dancing to techno music)
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 10:08 AM
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38. .
You know, I would never ever get close to Richmond if I were you! Love that photoshop...:rofl:
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 08:39 PM
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20. It's hard to tell since she uses a double negative...
... but if Ms. Stefani is denying that she is one, it must mean talented musician.
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LeftOfSelf-Centered Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 08:21 AM
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27. Now *this* makes sense!
:applause:
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davsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 08:46 PM
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21. According to the Urban Dictionary there are multiple meanings
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holla%20back%20girl

Some folks see it as a "booty call" amenable female, others see it as, "a follower. Originally, a holla back girl was a member of a cheerleading squad who repeats – hollers back - words that the squad leader shouts out to them. Now, it means a girl doesn't stand up for herself, allowing guys to do whatever they want with her and she follows them, 'holla back' at them..."

either way, if you are stuck with a Gwen Stefani ear worm you have my deepest sympathies.



Laura
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southlandshari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 05:22 AM
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26. don't mind me...
...I'm just passing through. I'll be good. I promise.

:popcorn:

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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:26 PM
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33. It's a fucking awesome feminist song that scares little male egos, that's what it is.
Forget the Booty Call stuff, that's wrong. That popped up after the song.

A hollaback girl is a cheerleader who screams back to the leader. The leader yells "Give me an A!" and she yells "A!"

The brilliant and defiant Gwen Steffani (Not to be confused with the brilliant and defiant Stefani Germanotta :) ) was saying she's not going to be pushed around, that she isn't on this earth to do what other people tell her to do, that's she's got her own mind and she's not just going to holla back to whatever people tell her to do.

That's why the song has a cheerleader theme.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:31 PM
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34. I like that explanation MUCH better!
I hate the song now (heard it far too often), but I was hoping that she hadn't strayed too far from her No Doubt days :)
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 03:43 PM
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39. thats what i always thought
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-10 01:55 PM
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36. It's what Gwen Stefani ain't, which I can only interpret as then meaning...
....a singer whose songs are pleasing to the ear.
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-10 04:34 PM
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40. Why can't you get a No Doubt earworm like a normal person?!
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