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Marcia Griffiths, is clarifying the rumor that has spread around social media that her staple song, that is played at every wedding reception and cook out,  “Electric Boogie” refers to a vibrator sex toy.

 

Griffith said that she was shocked and offended to hear that her “clean, pure and happy” song had been turned into “something so wicked.” She added,”I don’t sing about vibrators … I sing to teach, educate and uplift.” The rumor started this week when the song’s original singer/songwriter, reggae legend Bunny Wailer, confirmed that “the Electric Slide is about a vibrator.”Wailer first released the song in 1983 before Griffiths remixed it to the famous dance version.

 

Griffiths, who once sang backup vocals for Bob Marley, said  she purchased a music box with a meager amount of money she made while performing and then brought the trinket home to Jamaica to show Wailer. He wrote the song in less than 24 hours, and that “I bought that little box and out of it came a beautiful hit song that inspired Jamaicans,” and that “If it was about a vibrator, that would’ve never happened.”  Plus, she says “We didn’t even know what a vibrator was.”