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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | Visiting a club, [[Megan]] is exhorted by a | + | Visiting a club, [[Megan]] is exhorted by a cliche line used in several songs, to "shake what your mama gave you", a reference to body parts, often the posterior region. Taking this exhortation to heart, and extremely literally, she proceeds to locate a cliched item gifted by her mother labeled ''World's greatest daughter mug'' and shake this. The title text refers to another lyrical cliche, "work it", saying "it's already working". |
| − | + | "Shake what your mama gave ya" is a line common to quite a number of rap songs. In fitting with the general thematic composition of such a song, a large part of which revolves around either goading a woman to, or describing one who is dancing seductively (usually in a nightclub) - this line asks a girl to dance, thereby swaying her hips & buttocks, or breasts (the most common male 'fetishes')- making them more conspicuous (because of the phase lag with the rest of the body, which may be attributed to non-rigidity of the elastic structures) in the usually dim ambience, for purposes of her male audience's gratification (whether it be solicited or voyeuristic). "Work it" also serves a similar purpose, appealing to the person to get them to dance and move around (which can be considered work either from the point of mechanical work, or be a reference to a professional dancer). | |
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| − | [ | + | "What your mama gave ya" is a crude euphemism referring to any of the sexually appealing anatomical parts of the dancer. [While the line is used in a male-watching-female context, there is nothing to preclude the reverse, or indeed any alternative sexual orientation and fetishes.] It is, however, an applicable one if he/she considers his/her body as something given to her by her mother. This is not entirely spurious a consideration either. Aside from the fact that each human child starts off as an egg in the mother's body, with only a small percentage (at an atomic mass accounting level) of mass inherited from the father, almost all the anabolic material responsible for conferring the birth mass of a baby is obtained through the mother - and from the nutrients she processes. |
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| + | In the comic, Megan interprets the objects referred to by the line as something literally presented to her by her mother - viz. the coffee mug proclaiming her as "The world's greatest daughter". She also thinks of "Work it" in the context of enabling the function of a relatively complicated technological device. This naturally leads to confusion (as indicated by the title text), because the object she's holding is a novelty mug, which doesn't require any special actions to use for its intended purpose of holding a drink (or even just serving as a memory). | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | + | [Lyrics playing in the club]: Shake what your Mama gave you | |
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| − | + | [Megan exits the club] | |
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| − | + | [close-up view of a mug that says "World's Greatest Daughter"] | |
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| + | [Megan shakes the mug] | ||
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