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27 May 2025, 6:04 pm

Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!



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27 May 2025, 9:09 pm

An underrated musical masterpiece.



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28 May 2025, 4:25 am

Probably the owner. :lol:


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28 May 2025, 7:30 am

NewTime wrote:
Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!


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06 Jun 2025, 9:55 pm

And it quickly got annoying when they started playing the song every time they showed a movie preview with dogs.



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06 Jun 2025, 11:58 pm

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And it quickly got annoying when they started playing the song every time they showed a movie preview with dogs.

If my life gets screwed up and I manage to get into making movie previews, I'm going to use that song as much as possible.


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07 Jun 2025, 1:17 am

A feminist, no really.

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The song was originally released in 1998 as "Doggie" (or "Dogie") by Trinidadian calypso/soca/Junkanoo artist Anslem Douglas.Douglas himself has said that the song has nothing to do with dogs and actually has a feminist theme critical of men who catcall women. In an interview that was published on his website, he said:

“It's a man-bashing song. I'll tell you why. The lyric of the song says, "The party was nice, the party was pumpin'." When I said the word "party" I was being metaphorical. It really means things were going great. The "Yippie-Yi-Yo," that's everybody's happy, right? "And everybody was having a ball." Life was going great. "Until the men start the name-callin' / And then the girls respond to the call." So the men started calling the women "skank" and "skettel," every dirty word you can think of. The men started the name-calling and then the girls respond to the call. And then a woman shouts out, "Who let the dogs out?" And we start calling men dogs. It was really a man-bashing song.”

Douglas has stated that he did not come up with the song's namesake phrase himself. The origins of the phrase have been disputed. Variations of the "Who let the dogs out?” chant are evident in regional high school sports, the oldest surviving footage of which is 1986 footage from a game at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. In 1992, Brett Hammock and Joe Gonzalez also recorded a song called "Who Let the Dogs Out?” as rap duo Miami Boom Productions out of Jacksonville, Florida. In 1995, 20 Fingers and Gillette released "You're a Dog" in 1995 with a similar chorus.Following the success of the Baha Men version of the song, producers Patrick Stephenson and Leroy Williams said that they had previously written a radio promo for WBLK in Buffalo, NY containing the "Who Let The Dogs Out" phrase.


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07 Jun 2025, 1:38 am

That's the earliest song I have ever heard as a 2000's baby. My mom played it on her pirated CD along with other songs such as the Vengasboys Six Flags song and "2 Times" by Ann Lee. I honestly can't remember the other songs. My mom would also turn on the rotating disco ball and we would dance to these bops.



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07 Jun 2025, 4:12 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:
A feminist, no really.

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The song was originally released in 1998 as "Doggie" (or "Dogie") by Trinidadian calypso/soca/Junkanoo artist Anslem Douglas.Douglas himself has said that the song has nothing to do with dogs and actually has a feminist theme critical of men who catcall women. In an interview that was published on his website, he said:

“It's a man-bashing song. I'll tell you why. The lyric of the song says, "The party was nice, the party was pumpin'." When I said the word "party" I was being metaphorical. It really means things were going great. The "Yippie-Yi-Yo," that's everybody's happy, right? "And everybody was having a ball." Life was going great. "Until the men start the name-callin' / And then the girls respond to the call." So the men started calling the women "skank" and "skettel," every dirty word you can think of. The men started the name-calling and then the girls respond to the call. And then a woman shouts out, "Who let the dogs out?" And we start calling men dogs. It was really a man-bashing song.”

Douglas has stated that he did not come up with the song's namesake phrase himself. The origins of the phrase have been disputed. Variations of the "Who let the dogs out?” chant are evident in regional high school sports, the oldest surviving footage of which is 1986 footage from a game at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. In 1992, Brett Hammock and Joe Gonzalez also recorded a song called "Who Let the Dogs Out?” as rap duo Miami Boom Productions out of Jacksonville, Florida. In 1995, 20 Fingers and Gillette released "You're a Dog" in 1995 with a similar chorus.Following the success of the Baha Men version of the song, producers Patrick Stephenson and Leroy Williams said that they had previously written a radio promo for WBLK in Buffalo, NY containing the "Who Let The Dogs Out" phrase.

Well wow, I did not know that song had so much history to it.


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07 Jun 2025, 7:43 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
A feminist, no really.

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The song was originally released in 1998 as "Doggie" (or "Dogie") by Trinidadian calypso/soca/Junkanoo artist Anslem Douglas.Douglas himself has said that the song has nothing to do with dogs and actually has a feminist theme critical of men who catcall women. In an interview that was published on his website, he said:

“It's a man-bashing song. I'll tell you why. The lyric of the song says, "The party was nice, the party was pumpin'." When I said the word "party" I was being metaphorical. It really means things were going great. The "Yippie-Yi-Yo," that's everybody's happy, right? "And everybody was having a ball." Life was going great. "Until the men start the name-callin' / And then the girls respond to the call." So the men started calling the women "skank" and "skettel," every dirty word you can think of. The men started the name-calling and then the girls respond to the call. And then a woman shouts out, "Who let the dogs out?" And we start calling men dogs. It was really a man-bashing song.”

Douglas has stated that he did not come up with the song's namesake phrase himself. The origins of the phrase have been disputed. Variations of the "Who let the dogs out?” chant are evident in regional high school sports, the oldest surviving footage of which is 1986 footage from a game at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. In 1992, Brett Hammock and Joe Gonzalez also recorded a song called "Who Let the Dogs Out?” as rap duo Miami Boom Productions out of Jacksonville, Florida. In 1995, 20 Fingers and Gillette released "You're a Dog" in 1995 with a similar chorus.Following the success of the Baha Men version of the song, producers Patrick Stephenson and Leroy Williams said that they had previously written a radio promo for WBLK in Buffalo, NY containing the "Who Let The Dogs Out" phrase.

Well wow, I did not know that song had so much history to it.
Me neither. I think most listeners did not know it's real meaning & just assumed it was a goofy song about some actual dogs being let out of the house, that's what I thought :arrow:


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07 Jun 2025, 7:47 am

I did. They don't belong in the house. :x


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07 Jun 2025, 7:54 am

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I did. They don't belong in the house. :x
They also do not belong roaming the neighborhood causing problems for various others :wink:


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07 Jun 2025, 7:57 am

nick007 wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
I did. They don't belong in the house. :x
They also do not belong roaming the neighborhood causing problems for various others :wink:


Agreed. I guess that means off to Gehenna.


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07 Jun 2025, 8:06 am

I let them out, then in then out, its a thing



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07 Jun 2025, 11:20 am

I had no idea it was about catcalls or men being dogs but I did view the lyrics as a metaphor for a situation or people that it is too late to be contained.

I am fan of the New York Mets baseball team and remember in 2000 when it became the teams rallying cry


Despite the Baha Men preforming this song prior to a World Series game the New York Yankees rudely put the Mets back in their kennal.



Oh well, maybe this year :lol:


As we have discussed at other times once artists let their creations to the general public people will misinterpret the songs meanings based on their priors. Nowadays it is much easier to find out the original intent.


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