36D

About 36D

"36D" is a song written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray and performed by The Beautiful South. The song was originally found on the album 0898 Beautiful South and later appeared on two greatest hits compilations - 1994's Carry on up the Charts and 2007's Soup. As a single it reached no. 46 in the UK Singles Chart, spending two weeks in the Top 75 in 1992. The album version ran for 5 minutes 15 seconds. The song starts as a ballad "Close your legs, open your mind " and it appears singer Dave Hemingway is singing fondly to a woman, telling her she doesn't have to make an effort with her looks for him to appreciate her. However, as the more upbeat chorus, sung by Hemingway and Heaton, comes in it becomes clear that the woman is the object of Heaton's scorn. The main cause of their disgust is that she uses her 36D breasts to have lots of meaningless sex and turns herself into a media sex object, and maybe even a prostitute. Heaton is clearly unimpressed by her ("36D, so what?") and "You cheapen and you nasty every woman in this land" along with "Your picture's hanging pretty on the squaddies' walls, your Stevens, Andys, your Ians, your Pauls" shows his feelings perfectly. more »

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2002

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Close your legs, open your mind 
Leave those compliments well behind 
Dig a little deeper into yourself 
And you may find 

Come over here just sit right down 
Needn't comb your hair, needn't pout or frown 
I hear you've turned our young men 
Into dribbling clowns 

36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 
36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 

Make their day and go ahead 
Remove your clothes lie on their bed 
Just a last gasp chance or an outside bet 
To the easily led 

And before you do just what you do 
Here' one thought for you to chew 
The men who run the business that you sell 
They screw you too 

36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 
36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 

You're just another 365 night stand 
But you're so handy, you're so handy 
You cheapen and you nasty every woman in this land 
But you're so handy, you're so handy 

Your picture's hanging pretty on the squaddies' walls 
You're Steven's, Andy's, you're Ian's, you're Paul's 
Your body's through of fondly in the rugby mauls 
But you want more 

36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 

36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 

36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 

36D so what (D) so what 
Is that all that you've got? 
He was trying to save his job 
He was, he was trying to save his job.

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The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South was an English pop group formed at the end of the 1980s by two former members of Hull group The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. Other members were Sean Welch (bass), Dave Stead (drums) and Dave Rotheray (guitar) and a succession of female vocalists - Briana Corrigan, Jacqui Abbott and Alison Wheeler. more »

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