The Satire Wing · we flipped the earworm
Do Trust Me.
3OH!3’s “Don’t Trust Me” (2008) is a banger and everybody knows it — the hook lives rent-free for life. One line just doesn’t age well, and the whole chorus is “don’t trust me,” which is the exact opposite of the one rule this house runs on. So we kept the beat and sang it back.
The line
“Shush, girl, shut your lips, do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips.”
— 3OH!3, “Don’t Trust Me” (the part that got the heat)
Great song; that bit makes a punchline out of a deaf-blind woman who out-read most of us. Easy fix — same melody, opposite values:
The flip
Speak up, girl — run your lips,
read like Helen Keller, she out-wrote your hips.
Do trust me, do trust me —
the one rule’s no lying, so the hips don’t lie and neither do we.
read like Helen Keller, she out-wrote your hips.
Do trust me, do trust me —
the one rule’s no lying, so the hips don’t lie and neither do we.
Where the house stands. A labeled flip, sung with love for the original. Helen Keller wasn’t a punchline — she graduated Radcliffe and wrote around a dozen books, so here she’s the flex, not the joke. “Don’t trust me” becomes “do trust me,” because the whole site runs on one rule: no lying. (And as Shakira settled long ago: the hips don’t lie either.) Sister rooms: the Satire Wing · The Aristocrats.
Song: “Don’t Trust Me” — 3OH!3 (Wikipedia) · Helen Keller: author & activist, Radcliffe 1904 (Wikipedia)