Comments on: Picking Apart The Concept Of Pouring Some Sugar On Me

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:46:48 +0000

You are a jack ass. Any true Def Leppard fan knows what that song is about. It wasn’t meant literally. And if you had any clue of how of how the drummer lost his arm, you wouldn’t make fun of him. His come back was a true miracle, I don’t know of any other person that could do it.

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:34:39 +0000

Dawn - Really? I mean, really?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:50:56 +0000

As long as it’s hot, sticky, sweet…and poured from my head to my feet.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:20:30 +0000

But what about the diabetics, huh? They need love too. Sugar-free love.

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:49:55 +0000

Okay. All nice points. Let’s examine it from a “love” point of view. Take, for instance, the recent rise of actual granular sugar in the beauty industry. It’s a major ingredient in body scrubs now. If a body scrub is a type of exfoliation, in which we literally remove layers of ourselves to become a cleaner, purer, more real version of ourselves, then it would make a great deal of sense to pour sugar on each other, for love’s sake, during sexual encounters. Sex is about love, people. Therefore, the more real we become during sex, the more love there is. Do you follow? Def Leppard was really just asking–nay, demanding!–for love–the very real, very pure, and very clean–love. It’s as clear as day.

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:26:50 +0000

Yeah, but you’ve got to hand it to the guy (no pun intended) for staying with his drums. Cry baby or not.
Question:
How do you get your witty blogs out there? I’ve got my own little blog spot thing going, and I’m not getting much feedback… now, I’m not looking for the lime light, I just like matching wits with my critic peers. Granted I’ve just started in January, and I’ve got a total of nine blogs posted, but a guy can dream can’t he?

Keep up the great blogging, it makes the day go by faster.

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:42:41 +0000

CJ - You’re right about the missing-arm drummer guy still having his arm at the time they brainstormed the lyrics to the song. I just didn’t remember his name, thus referring to him by his name that he would eventually adopt after the accident.

He still cried though when people didn’t like his ideas, armless or not.

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:32:51 +0000

I agree that sugar in any sexual type of situation would be most unpleasant.
But, looking at it from another angle. 80’s heavy metal, (which def lep, planted their roots) was defined by, power, sex, drugs and alcohol. Who’s to say that they’re not singing metephorically, I mean they DO say, “pour YOUR sugar on me.” So, it’s safe to say, that they’re not talking about actual sugar.
Additionally, the album Hysteria, which is the album this song is from, simply, wasn’t that good. Their album before, Pyromania was seemed to be directed to metal fans, which didn’t seem the case with the album Hysteria. It was more of one long power ballad album, so the “Hard Rock”, and, “Metal” culture of the 80’s rejected them.
Also, the song was released in the early part of 1984, Rick Allen didn’t lose his arm until new years eve of that year.

By: Loretta

Loretta — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:32:03 +0000

Drumming with one arm is difficult! Drumming isn’t easy two armed either, you know. I’d take sugar over mayo anyday, but chocolate might have been a better choice in retrospect. Either way 80s glam rock is still great!

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:11:30 +0000

Jerry - That’s a tough one.