*”Electric Boogie” singer Marcia Griffiths, whose dance floor staple at every black wedding and cookout spawned the Electric Slide, is vehemently denying recent claims that the song’s title secretly refers to a vibrator sex toy.
“I don’t sing about vibrators … I sing to teach, educate and uplift,” Griffiths told The Blast, who reported that she was shocked and offended to hear that her “clean, pure and happy” song had been turned into “something so wicked.”
Earlier this week, a report claimed that 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.
The 68-year-old Griffiths, who once sang backup vocals for Bob Marley, told The Blast that she purchased a music box with a meager amount of money she made while performing in Toronto, and then brought the trinket home to Jamaica to show Wailer. Griffiths says 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.”
She claims that Wailer had no clue about the vibrator rumor he supposedly sparked in an interiew when she called him this week to verify. Plus, she says “We didn’t even know what a vibrator was.”
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