I have slept with all the girls in Berlin - subtext?

[EvilBastard]

Sorry if this was already covered...

Is this song a kiss-and-tell about Ms. Nunn?

[Pista]

[paint it black]

not much of a boast though.

i'd have written i have slept in a girlschool or similar

[EvilBastard]

Well, it's not entirely unknown for an artist to write a song that referenced a former partner. And given The Short One's penchant for wordplay would you put it past him to write a song that appeared to be about one thing but was actually about something else? We know that he's had a bit of a crush on some former collaborators (Ms Haza, Ms Amos), and Ms Nunn is easy on the eyes - perhaps he was rebuffed and decided that he'd have some fun at her expense?

Put it this way - if I were short and bald, and the front man for a popular beat combo, and a journalist asked me, "So, you've collaborated with some very attractive women in the past - if it's not too personal, can I ask if your relationships with them have only been in the studio?" I'd be tempted to answer, "Well, Klaus - you know a gentleman doesn't kiss and tell. But let's put it this way - I've slept with all the girls in Berlin..." and leave it hanging, conclusions to be drawn without substance.

[Bartek]

if a may interrupt and ask: when he collaborated with Tori A.?

and you forgot that this "short and bald" is a quite smart, with cheek in tongue, well-read guy, who, at least when he's talking to press, can be see as self-confident, and that can be a bit attractive to females. at least that's what Cosmo says what females like in men.

[EvilBastard]

if a may interrupt and ask: when he collaborated with Tori A.?

Ok, full disclosure: I don't know if he actively collaborated with Ms. Amos. perhaps they were just in the same place. But they were friendly enough to pose for the paps:


Legend has it that she was going to ask him to produce her 2nd album but that didn't come to pass.

and you forgot that this "short and bald" is a quite smart, with cheek in tongue, well-read guy, who, at least when he's talking to press, can be see as self-confident, and that can be a bit attractive to females. at least that's what Cosmo says what females like in men.

It's exactly his intelligence that would lead him to use the linguistic two-step to do/say something like this. Although I'm not sure that we should be taking Cosmo's pronouncements as gospel.

[robm]

It's clearly about hospital bedsheets.

Honestly.

[EvilBastard]

An alternative thought occurs - a Berliner is another name for a jam doughnut.

So this could be a song about Patricia...

[markfiend]

...but that didn't come to pass.

The story of The Sisters in 6 words.

[Quiff Boy]

Dammit.



Why don't I get a Tori?

[Joy]

Dammit.



Why don't I get a Tori?

[Quiff Boy]

Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

I hadn't even seen that photo with Tori before.

Although I admit I had seen Von wearing a harrington.

[Bartek]

Every~man have a right to Tori! We want Tori!

[sam1]

We want Tori!

I'm sure Ed Miliband doesn't....

[Bartek]

but Nigel would try?

[Silver_Owl]

You wouldn't want to share a bench with a woman who has hands almost as long as your arm Boss.

[Quiff Boy]

yikes, hadn't spotted that.

is her hand freakishly large, or is von just far away?

[Silver_Owl]

yikes, hadn't spotted that.

is her hand freakishly large, or is von just far away?

Or has he just got verry small arms?

[markfiend]

These cows are small, the ones out there are far away.

[Quiff Boy]

These cows are small, the ones out there are far away.

[aims]

Not to be taken as endorsement, of course.

[EvilBastard]

Matter of time only, it was...

[Bartek]

i believe that you meant this:

[BillyBadBreaks]

...but that didn't come to pass.

The story of The Sisters in 6 words.

Hit the nail on the head there!

[EvilBastard]

Well perhaps, but there aren't too many trains called Tori...