Update: "The Electric Slide" is *not* about a vibrator, according to songwriter

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[UPDATE 7:20pm PT: Snopes reports that Electric Slide’s songwriter “Bunny Wailer” Livingston denies that the song was about a vibrator. “Although many shared this rumor as if it were a fact, this claim is based on little more than an interpretation of the song’s lyrics…As this rumor picked up steam, Aazios.com published an article reporting that the song’s writer, Neville “Bunny Wailer” Livingston, had confirmed the subtext of its lyrics…This is not a reliable story; the alleged “confirmation” comes from an anonymous third party, despite what the site said in the article’s title.”]

The line dance song that’s popular at celebrations like weddings and bat/bar mitzvahs is about a SEX TOY. LGBTQ news and entertainment site Aazios is reporting that Neville Livingston aka Bunny Wailer, the songwriter behind “Electric Boogie” (the song also known as “The Electric Slide”) has confirmed rumors that it’s about a vibrator:

Rumors of the songs meaning began circulating on social media a few weeks ago and everyone has been desperate for answers. According to a source close to Livingston, word of the question about the origins of the song reached him in Kingston, Jamaica where he currently resides and he put the rumors to rest. “I’m surprised it took people this long to figure out” the source tells us he said. Apparently Livingston wrote the song after a girlfriend told him she didn’t need him because she had a toy she nicknamed the “electric slide”

Here’s a taste of those naughty lyrics:

It’s Electric!

You can’t see it
It’s electric!
You gotta feel it
It’s electric!
Ooh, it’s shakin’
It’s electric!

Jiggle-a-mesa-cara
She’s a pumpin’ like a matic
She’s a movin’ like electric
She sure got the boogie

You gotta know it
It’s electric
Boogie woogie, woogie!
Now you can’t hold it
It’s electric
Boogie woogie, woogie!
But you know it’s there
Yeah here there everywhere

I’ve got to move
I’m going on a party ride
I’ve got to groove, groove, groove
And from this music I just can’t hide

Are you comin’ with me?
Come let me take you on a party ride
And I’ll teach you, teach you, teach you
I’ll teach you the electric slide

Thanks, Dixie!