Not since the days of Tommy Tutone’s “Jenny (867-5309)” has a song wreaked such havoc. The BBC reports that since the UK release of Soulja Boy’s “Kiss Me Thru The Phone”, Gerry Matley and his wife Catriona Howard Smith of Oldham, UK, who unfortunately have the phone number mentioned in the chorus of the song, have been getting about 60 calls a day from fans hoping to talk to the star. Matley commented:
Some of them really want to believe that they have got through to their heart-throb…. Some of them are devastated when we have to tell them that he doesn’t live in Oldham but over the other side of the Atlantic.
Soulja Boy isn’t totally at fault, however. As Ms. Howard Smith noted, “If they called the number with the American dialling code in front of it they will get through to a recorded message from him.”
[An aside: A friend has a 10-year-old who is a big fan of this song. His mother heard him singing it one afternoon, and thought he was saying “Kiss me through the thong.” Much hilarity ensued.]
H/t Melanie
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