A few excerpts from a particularly astute piece at the ever-amusing McSweeny’s called “Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed into Single Sentences”:

The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
I want to do it with you.
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Marvin Gaye, “Let’s Get It On”
I want to do it with you.
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Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love”
I want to do it with you.
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James Blunt, “You’re Beautiful”
I want to do it with you.

You get the idea. But just about the time you start thinking everything means the same thing, some nuance starts to creep in:

Elvis Presley, “Hound Dog”
You’re doing it with everyone.
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Frank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night”
I’m drunk and I want to do it with you.
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The White Stripes, “My Doorbell”
Using metaphor, I want to do it with you.
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Little Richard, “Good Golly Miss Molly”
I’m doing it with Miss Molly, and she’s totally into it.
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Duran Duran, “Rio”
I’d love to do that chick dancing on the sand.

And my personal favorite, because of the cynical, heartbroken, inescapable quality of it:

Carly Simon, “You’re So Vain”
We used to do it, but then you did it with someone else, and now I’m not going to do it with you, although I wish we were still doing it.