It's 2018! Which means the hit musical Grease is turning 40 years old this month. Here at Wet Socks we LOVED Grease! We had big plans to roll out a line of socks inspired by the 1978 movie. We were excited to take you back to memories of summer lovin at Rydell High with Sandy Olsson and Danny Zucko. You would have been able to hum 'The One That I Want' while you slipped on your new stylin socks. You would have been looking better than any beauty school drop out. We had a dozen fun designs to correlate with what we thought was a fun wholesome family musical. We thought wrong. Grease is perverse and impure.
As we listened to the numerous hits from the Grease soundtrack we came up with some amazing designs you would have really enjoyed. The whole writers room was singing along then we made a disturbing discovery that goes by the name Greased Lightning .
If you're reading this blog post out loud to the kids now is the time to stop, reader discretion is advised past this point.
When we were young kids watching Greased we had no clue that John Travolta's falsetto was crooning such sinister lyrics. Maybe it was the innocence of youth or because the song is sung so fast we missed the words but Greased Lighting gets dirty.
Here are some actual lyrics from the song:
With a four speed on the floor they'll be waiting at the door.
You know that ain't no shit we'll be getting lots of tit in Grease Lightning!
We know, it's shocking! But there's more:
With new pistons, plugs, and shocks I can get off my rocks
You know that I ain't bragging she's a real pussy wagon, Grease lightning!
This movie received a PG rating folks. Here's another one
Go grease lightning you're coasting through the heat lap trial
Grease lightning go grease lightning
You are supreme the chicks'll cream for grease lightning.
We always knew Danny was a bad boy, but we thought it was an image he put on for his friends to fit in and look like the cool guy. These lyrics, however, indicate otherwise. I mean it's one thing to say those crude words, who hasn't said the wrong thing now and then, but to put them into a rhyme scheme, write music accompaniment and choreograph a dance to go with them? That is a lot of effort, Danny had plenty of time to think about what he wanted to say yet he stuck with this dirty song. Danny fully intended to use his car to objectify and take advantage of young women. Honestly we think Sandy could do a lot better, we really think she should find some other guy to fly a car into the sky with. She's got a big heart and Danny is nothing but trouble, you'll get nothing but heart ache from a boy like that.
Not to mention how big of a shock this is for the audience. I watched Grease with my mom when I was nine. I watched my daughter preform the stage version at her high school. Little did I know I was subtly being corrupted by Danny's sick fantasies, and honestly I feel betrayed. Even if Danny did change by the end he was still that creepy boy at one point.
So, no Wet Socks won't be celebrating the 40th anniversary of this hallmark of American cinema, because it just makes us feel icky and really ruins the nostalgic longing we got from the movie. Grease might be the word but we're not going to condone the bad words they used to try to corrupt American youth.
On the plus side Jaws 2 turns 40 this year so maybe we can design some cool Jaws 2 socks?