Dancing around and shouting ‘who let the dogs out?’ after drinking one too many Cokes was a common scene at early 2000s school discos.

The rubbish fun song by the Baha Men was, bizarrely, very popular – but it left us with a lot of unanswered questions.

Who are the dogs? Who let them out? Why is this tune so damn catchy?!

Finally, we have some context about what the party anthem’s lyrics mean – it’s anti-patriarchy.

Obviously.

‘It’s a man-bashing song, it is’, Anslem Douglas, the man who wrote the original song ‘Doggie’, told the Huffington Post.

He explained that his definition of ‘dogs’ is badly-behaved men, and in the song, women are bemoaning some gents who have called them rude names, describing them as ‘dogs’.

As for who let them out, the Baha Men’s lead singer Isaiah Taylor has finally let the cat (or should that be the dog?) out of the bag.

He told the Huffington Post: ‘I always say that that our drummer did that.

‘We say, ‘Hey, man, you let the dogs out!”

But he did add that accusing the drummer was the band’s inside joke, while Douglas hinted he would take the truth to his grave.

Douglas also added that the lyrics were not intended for extensive analysis, which is probably why it has taken us 16 years to get this far.

But the revelations are interesting because if you had ever stopped to ponder the lyrics, you probably wrongly assumed that the ‘dogs’ the Baha Men spoke of were women.

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Harley Tamplin

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