Jordin Sparks Is Not Singing About Giving Head On Her New Record (Because She’s Only 19)

noah | July 23, 2009 2:00 pm
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Jordin Sparks’ new record
Battlefield contains a cover of the Canadian singer Fefe Dobson’s “Don’t Let It Go To Your Head,” a song that Sparks fell for while toiling in the mall-store salt-mines. But what are these lyrics? “Just cause I think of you in bed / Don’t let it go to your head”? “So what if I want to kiss / From your toes up to your lips”? In bed? Full-body kissing? Could the youngest American Idol winner be singing about—gasp!—sex? No way, she says! Thanks to the miracles of lyrical interpretation, her purity ring is still intact (and so, presumably, is that other thing)!

But Jordin assures her fans that the song isn’t as risqué as it seems. “There are some things that could be taken the wrong way,” Sparks told MTV News, “but the way I sing them, it doesn’t mean that!”

In other words, Jordin’s growing up, but not too fast. As she sheepishly put it while raising her purity-ring-wearing hand, “I’m 19! Hi!”

Oh, it’s like she never left the Idol stage! Although that schtick is going to get a lot less cute when she gets out of her teens. Anyway, here’s Dobson’s video for the song:

Could you imagine the controversy that would have happened if Sparks had picked another song by her heroine—you know, the one called “Get You Off”? OK, so the lyrics are about getting a lover off one’s back, but the fact that its glammy stomp goes so well with footage from the fake-edgy British soap Skins is telling.

Jordin Sparks Downplays Racy Lyrics In Fefe Dobson Cover [MTV] Fefe Dobson – Don’t Let It Go To Your Head [Dailymotion]

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