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When I hear Fergie’s new single, London Bridge, I noticed it contained the line “Love you long time:”

VIP ’cause I know I gotta shine–
I’m Fergie Ferg, and me love you long time!

At first, I assumed this was a coincedence, but then I heart Nelly Furtado’s hit single Maneater:

You doing anything to keep her by your side
because, she said she love you, love you long time!

The lyrics have shown up in other, older songs, like Jay-Z’s I Just Wanna Love You and Nitty’s Nasty Girl, but they originally were introduced by 2-Live-Crew in their outrageous song Me So Horny:

Ahh! Me so horny!
Me love you long time!

This was in turn sampled from the Stanley Kubrick movie Full Metal Jacket, where a hooker in Vietnam asks two US soldiers, “Hey, you got girlfriend Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time.” The phrase has since been used in countless other productions, and seems to be reviving in usage in modern pop music as a cliche of sexuality.

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 5th, 2006 at 1:42 pm and is tagged with stanley kubrick, etymology of love, coincedence, london bridge, ferg, fergie, full metal jacket, nasty girl, 2 live crew, nelly furtado, nitty, kubrick movie, jay z, cliche, pop music, hooker, love you long time, sexuality, girlfriend, vietnam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

3 Responses to 'Etymology of “Love you long time”'

1. 
   Brian said:

   on August 13th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

   Heh, when I heard fergies song I had just seen full metal jacket afew weeks before and when she said that, i was like thats exactly what that chick said in the movie…

   Anyway, I love the line..

   Love you long time…

2. 
   sax said:

   on August 19th, 2006 at 8:37 pm

   its not cool fergies and nelly fortado,terribles singles

3. 
   the magic man said:

   on August 31st, 2006 at 4:39 am

   yeh lol same thing here amazing i love that line

   me love you long time

   everywere i go people are using it

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