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Old January 12, 2004, 09:27   #1
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George Micheal and yo-yos
Whilst busy reliving Wham!'s greatest hits, I was struck by that infamous line

"Dont keep me hanging on like a yoyo"

Despite much discussion, i have yet to find out what this particular lyric actually refers to, and a friend suggested i ask you learned lot.

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Old January 12, 2004, 09:29   #2
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dont let me hanging on like a yo yo

nice. though last christmass was airplayewd so many times i grew sick of it
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Old January 12, 2004, 09:32   #3
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You donīt know what a yoyo is?
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of course i know what a yoyo is! what im asking is why he is comparing himself to one....i assume its some kind of euphanism, but my innocent little mind cant think what it refers to
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yo yo up and down up and down from a string. you girls are pretty good at it
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Old January 12, 2004, 09:35   #6
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He is being used like a yoyo - let go and then pulled back in again, only to be thrown away yet again. Something in that line of thought...
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But G.Michael isnīt "into" girls I thought....?
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thanx skanky, that kind of makes sense i guess
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I thought a yo-yo occurs when two rappers meet on the street
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Yo-yo's were weaponry used by certain Amazonian tribes. They could kill a man at 20 feet.

Woman take you on emotional rollercoasters whose bipolar variations make you wish you had been hit in the face by a 5kg lump of wood hurled by a half naked cannibal.

More proof that, in fact, the most dangerous weaponry in the hands of mankind (so to speak) are females. I say we rise up against our breasted oppressors!! No longer will the scourge of guilt and emotional sewage plague the glory of the phallus!
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Ah, now I understand why you have chosen this avatar....
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Yo-yo's were weaponry used by certain Amazonian tribes. They could kill a man at 20 feet.

Woman take you on emotional rollercoasters whose bipolar variations make you wish you had been hit in the face by a 5kg lump of wood hurled by a half naked cannibal.

More proof that, in fact, the most dangerous weaponry in the hands of mankind (so to speak) are females. I say we rise up against our breasted oppressors!! No longer will the scourge of guilt and emotional sewage plague the glory of the phallus!
And I thought i was bitter and twisted

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Go-go + Yo-yo.

That's all the justification you need for a pop song.
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Don't leave me hanging like a yo yo means don't leave me waiting or hoping.

You guys don't use the expression don't leave me hanging?

Edit: And a yo yo hangs, so its just a silly little analogy, but it makes sense.
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Perhaps....I still prefer Skanky's interpretation
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Skanky's is better, but JCC's is closer to the truth. I saw a program on the most annoying pop songs, and it was singled out as a silly line. Some songwriter was explaining that it while people thought it was to do with being given conflicting signals, pushed away and pulled back again, they were looking for a far deeper meaning than was actually there. It was simply a way of saying "don't leave me hanging", as in waiting and not knowing, while getting it to rhyme with "go-go".

The idea being if she left without saying goodbye he wouldn't know how she felt, and wouldn't have 'closure'.
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