Photo: Shaggy | By Barnaby Lane, Insider | Shaggy has said that people misunderstood the meaning of his classic song “It Wasn’t Me.” Released in 2000, the song tells the story of singer RikRok, who was caught cheating on his partner and asks Shaggy for advice as to what to do.
Shaggy tells RikRok to simply deny the allegations.
“But she caught me on the counter (It wasn’t me) / Saw me bangin’ on the sofa (It wasn’t me),” goes the song.
While on the face of it, it seems as if the song is suggesting men should lie about their cheating ways if caught, Shaggy has now revealed otherwise.
“It was a big misconception with that song because that song is not a cheating song,” the 54-year-old singer told People in an interview published last week.
“It’s an anti-cheating song. It’s just that nobody listened to the record to the end,” he said.
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Read the rest of the explanation here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/shaggy-says-people-misunderstood-the-meaning-of-his-classic-song-it-wasnt-me-its-an-anti-cheating-song/
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