Saturday, April 13, 2019

Hootie & the Blowfish "Only Wanna Be With You"

The assistant chef at the banquet hall where I worked in high school was wrong. While "Only Wanna Be With You" played on the grease-covered radio in the kitchen for what had to be the zillionth time that day, my fellow busboy Steve questioned the lyrics: "I'm such a baby cause the Dolphins make me cry."

Without hesitation, Patrick (the assistant chef) told Steve that dolphins are supposed to make people happy and that they didn't make Hootie happy. Therefore Hootie is a baby. In reality, Hootie (Darius Rucker) sings about the Miami Dolphins and their championship drought in their 1995 song.