‘Ain’t No Other Man’ has a negative meaning, whereas ‘she is not unintelligent’ has a (guardedly) positive meaning. So when does negative + negative = positive?
A statement with a double negative in formal contemporary English usually has an affirmative (= positive) meaning.
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