However, as a fan, you accept that the music can be highly questionable in nature. As the saying goes, “Sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, baby!” Fans like me tend to put on blinders when it comes to the content of the lyrics and just listen to the music and bang our heads until any troubles we feel just melt away.

If you sit there and think about the lyrics, it can make you question not just your fandom, but yourself. It can also make you wonder how you missed something about the song that was otherwise so blatantly obvious.

For example, this morning, on my way back from driving Nate to school, a radio station started playing AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.”

Of course it’s a very literal song just from the title. That was never in question. But I started listening to the lyrics and they ramble off a series of numbers to which I’d never really paid attention previously.

“Three-six-two-four-three-six…”

WTF does that mean? Then my memories of teenaged thumbing through Playboy magazines came back to me and I realized they were singing about a Playmate’s ideal body measurements. It’s actually…

“Three-six, two-four, three-six…”

Or

36-24-36. Bust-waist-hips.

How did I not realize that until now? Nearly 50 years after the song came out in 1976.

Oh yeah… blinders.