Okay this post is now going to get PG13. I may blush my way through it for I am fairly conservative and don't talk about sexual things in person with others or online, but...when I was studying literature while working toward my English degree, often discussions would be surrounding the many sexual inferences within the body of literature we would be studying. Many of the classics can be interpretted in such a way... and Shakespeare didn't hold back in this area of including sexual references, and let's not even start with Chaucer!!!
I had brought up before the song,
Serious Effect, and said I felt I had an interpretation for it but didn't go into it at the time. I really didn't want to say all I needed to in order to explain it because I would not be able to avoid speaking of some sexual-related things. :blush:
The whole song is about "animal magnetism," and, I believe, MJ's delight in discovering his LITD girl had THAT side to her.
Why he was delighted is that I am thinking that he had observed her for awhile and she presented herself as a rather straight-laced "goody goody," kinda like he did for several years at the beginning of his career. I think she might have not been boy crazy and was a type who stayed cool and reserved around guys, to the point that maybe his pals had even suggested to him that she was either frigid or a "dike." Strong assumption, huh? It was actually SoS who got me thinking about this for a long time ago she shared that she could hear (in the section where I have so much trouble hearing anything) in CLHGA something like "are you a dike?" I was like, "No way!" But now I'm back-peddling....I think it could make sense that he was hearing some of this from others and probably a bit of, "So stop being so hooked on her and move on."
Obviously, I think there was a season back before Dangerous and maybe somewhere around Bad that he was where she was and observing her. I don't think she knew it. And just like the public was being steered at times by the media to think that MJ was NOT a red-blooded American male, and his fans were made to wonder and were relieved when others stepped forward to assure all he was heterosexual and red-blooded...I think MJ was wondering a bit about this gal and hoping for some indication that his pals were wrong and his instincts about her were correct. If she walked anything like Tatiana did in the vid The Way You Make Me Feel...he must have thought there was something more to her than met the eyes...you know, how sometimes still water runs deep?
If you remember in a post of mine before about this song I had asked "What is he so d*** glad about? lol.
So...he's attracted to her but has been curious about her regarding all of this,
She's serious
Makin' me delirious
I'm curious
One day/night a guy comes into the picture. MJ is observing the interaction between her and this guy unnoticed. Most likely he is in some kind of disguise and is blending in with others and the scenery...not drawing attention as this "scene" unfolds before him,
Like a mini movie being filmed.
The guy starts hanging around her and interacting with her,
Next thing I know
Here he was
And this guy has some flirty, sexual charisma and it is causing a reaction from her, she's responding to the guy in like fashion and that to MJ is interesting to obser
ve
Enjoying
The animal magnetism
She's too hot to touch
Too cool for critizism
So MJ is thinking
"so she has a sensual side to her afterall," and he can see this womanizing guy's charm is having a serious effect on her and he's so d*** glad about it. I think he also was able to figure out that this type of guy, once he finds out she is a "good girl" won't be into her at all, that is why the lyrics,
I gotta get back heavenly rhyme
Gonna jump back
She won't get it
I got a feeling, but I’m givin’ ya that,
And i'm so damn
So damn glad about it
I got a feeling
That’s not gonna be right
Gon' get back
he wont get it
I gotta feeling like jumping about
And I'm so damn
So damn glad about it
This guy is only interested in woman who will come across not just want to hold hands with him. MJ reads the guy and knows the drill. She may be attracted to the guy, she may be interested in him, but it won't happen. And knowing how MJ has always been one to have faith and pray, I wouldn't be surprised if he asked God to even block it. This is a good example, if this took place, of how MJ could have "been there" for her through prayer at a time when she needed it...his prayers could have protected her from getting into a relationship with a guy that would have been harmful for her and left her very broken hearted. Anyone who has been in a relationship with a rounder would attest to this. It also would show how well MJ can size people up when observing them; he probably understood his LITD girl maybe better than she understood her own self. So he could be "glad" about all this because he was pretty sure she wouldn't end up with this guy. It makes ya kinda wanta go back in time and knock her over the head a few times and say, "Hellooooooo, WAKE UP! You're looking in the wrong direction! Mr. Perfect is over here! Duh!! :lol:
But...now...there is another part to this...her display of animal magnetism is having a serious effect on him also, simultaneously. She's really turning him on now. Makes me think of that lyric from
The Way You Make Me Feel, "I feel you fever from miles around." He's getting quite distracted by it. Can't even get back to his song writing. Let me work through the song a bit:
Serious Effect
I gotta get back heavenly rhyme
Gonna jump back he's backing off to watch this whole thing and see where it lands
She won't get it
I got a feeling, but I’m givin’ ya that, he's glad she is not one who sleeps around
And i'm so damn
So damn glad about it
I got a feeling
That’s not gonna be right This guy won't get anything off of her
Gon' get back
he wont get it
I gotta feeling like jumping about
And I'm so damn
So damn glad about it He's pleased as punch.
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious
And I'm so damn glad about it
I gotta feeling
Of giving it back, He'd like to be on the receiving end of her animal magnetism and show her how HE'D return it.
I Won't jump back Haha
She won't let it So far, he hadn't gotten anywhere with her.
I got a feeling
it’s not but the front Her purtan ways must be a front if there is this other side to her
And I'm so damn
So damn glad about it
She don't smoke Yeah, he believes she's a goddy goody in the ways listed, like she won't do drugs
She don't a breathe it
She don't hash it
She don't dope
But she's a liar But her being so pure and straight-laced that she has no passion...it's a front and he's not buying it.
I gotta feeling
Like hoppin’about
And I'm so damn
So damn glad about it
Serious effect on the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect on the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious
And I'm so damn glad about it
[Rap]
She's serious
Makin' me delirious
I'm curious
Next thing I know
Here he was
Enjoying
The animal magnetism
She's too hot to touch
Too cool for critizism
Each and every thing
Like a mini movie being filmed
Okay, I'm taking it PG13 now *yikes*
'Cause I'm the captain
AND HER BODY'S THE HELM
I'm shivering, quivering
I smile while i'm delivering Remember he's not in a relationship with her but her new side that is showing is driving him crazy. In, um, um...tryin' to find a way to delicately put this...she's giving him an itch that needs scratching...but since she is not there to scratch* ...he does the scratching himself....:blush: Are you ladies picking up what I am putting down...?
Get some love and passion
It's never been
so intense and spiritual like
Incense of above, against
*And all off in silence
Then i scream like a man
Out of his wits
'Cause that's how serious
A serious effect is
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect with the lady
Serious
And I'm so damn glad about it
Aouw!
Same as you knew I was These lyrics are hard to hear. I'm wondering if he had some kind of conversation with her or learned that she put her nose up to the way he changed from being "goody goody" to being the Bad boy
duirng the Bad era.
Same as you thought I was He is saying, look, now I know we are both the same here, so stop judging me. These lines sound a bit sarcastic to me.
(serious)
comin' around
I gotta feelin’
(serious)
She's won’t a get it
(serious)
I got a feelin’
Like toppin’ the ground
And I'm so glad
(serious)
And I'm so damn glad about it
Serious effect on the Lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect on the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect on the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious
And I'm so damn glad about it
Serious
Serious on me
Serious
Serious on
Serious
Serious on me
Serious
Serious on
serious
Serious effect on the lady
Serious effect on me
Serious effect on the lady
Serious effect me
Serious on me
Serious
Serious on me
This song is hard to hear as far as a lot of the lyrics. Lyrics for it found online are really inaccurate. I did the best I could, but with errors, I'm sure.
To me this song is very sexually charged, even the way his vocals are. His LITD girl may be a red-blooded American girl, but still back then wanted to wait around for the right guy and stay true to whatever her morals were.
MJ, may have been the same. He didn't have to sleep around to be a passionate heterosexual guy. He might have wanted to wait for the right girl and did um...um...what he could to um :blush: ...work around that, while waiting for her and marriage. Now I am referring to the time prior to his first marriage in 1994. After that, i don't know if his ideals and traditional thinking and all that changed, but I think maybe back then, when he first had his eye on "her' he wanted to wait, and not do "too" much sexually. That is just my view.
Serious Effect video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePKFHuxIEc