Old songs that wouldn't be recorded today for fear of being offensive

It's A Man's World

A lot of 1940s/1950s ethnic novelty songs might be deemed un-PC today, like this one:

Dude Looks Like A Lady

Gypsy

Walk On The Wild Side

Money for Nothing - some radio stations still slip in the original version with the homophobic lyrics.

Indian giver

[quote] Indian giver

I tried to find a less racially loaded term that means the same thing, but I failed.

R4 According to Mark Knopfler, the lyrics misogynistic and homophobic words from Money For Nothing are almost word for word comments he overheard from appliance delivery men who were installing appliances in his home.

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves

Dark Lady

I heard that too, r7. He wasn't endorsing the behavior, just chronicalizing it.

Lyrics should never be censored, except by parents. There is room for every slur and stereotype and prejudice. Banning the language does not change what people think or feel. A confident artist does not let the audience dictate their repertoire. We are there to illuminate our gifts and guide you through an experience.

From National Lampoon's "Radio Dinner" LP:

"Pull The Tregroes," a parody of Joan Baez.

(It's on YouTube, and I'd post it here if I knew how but, sadly, I'm an . . . )

Mexican Radio

The word is "chronicling," R10.

Young girl, get out of my mind

My love for you is way out of line

Better run, girl

You're much too young, girl

Yes, there are many old songs that would be deemed offensive. However, rap songs advocating violence against women and against gays are not offensive by today's standards. In fact, they are encouraged and desired by market forces, and their composers are idolized.

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) Hot Child in a the City Every Breath You Take

That's what I get for depending on iPad, r14

Devo's Mongoloid

Holy smokes! HOW could we forget Julie Brown's immortal "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun"???

Everything about Cher's "Half Breed" would be considered offensive today.

[quote]Yes, there are many old songs that would be deemed offensive. However, rap songs advocating violence against women and against gays are not offensive by today's standards. In fact, they are encouraged and desired by market forces, and their composers are idolized.

I'm convinced all that shit is part of MKULTRA.

[quote] Everything about Cher's "Half Breed" would be considered offensive today.

especially "ask her for a scalping she's a Cherokee"

R22, it was "Give her a feather, she's a Cherokee."

Getting Better is such a prototypal upbeat McCartney song, and then you hear this: "I used to be cruel to my women I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loves."

All the weirder because like I said these lyrics are in what's supposed to be a happy go lucky song. Would people in 1967 just have thought nothing of them?

Oops, make that R23.

Material Girl

"Hang On Sloopy," popular in the late 1950s when I was in high school. Surprisingly, no one but me seemed to be aware of the decidedly sexual lyrics ("Sloopy's comin," etc.) I listen to that song today and can appreciate how genuinely filthy it was.

Come On Elieen by Dexys Midnight Runners--it is basically a pedo song about a girl who is about to be molested.

Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones

Sixteen Candles

I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley

Sponji Reggae -Black Uhuru

If Loving You Is Wrong I don't Want To be Right--Luther Ingram

Woman is the nigger of the world - John Lennon

OP, "Running Bear" was THE first Pop song I remember hearing on the radio! Love it to this day!

Rick James "17"

Am I blue?

Many would still be recorded. Played on the radio is a different story.

The Lady is a Tramp

A lot of songs recorded today are even more offensive (this means you, Eminem).

Old Folks at Home (original lyrics).

My Pretty Quadroon

"Johnny Get Angry"

"Darktown Strutters' Ball"

"Indian Love Call"

Under My Thumb - Rolling Stones

R40, repackage it as rap and it would play.

It was one of my firsts too, r31. But I heard it recently and it hasn't held up well.

Anyone remember PATCHES?

Clarence somethingorother. I heard it in kindergarten from our cool hippie teacher. I almost cried.

Only the good die young

Gypsies, thieves and tramps - cher

Fat bottomed girls

Yes, r42! It was part of the "teen--age death" genre, as with "Tell Laura I Love Her" and "Teen Angel."

Leader of the Pack!

Los Angeles by X and For the Love of Ivy by The Gun Club. Both use the N-word.

[quote] Woman is the nigger of the world - John Lennon

There was a march, I think it was a Slutwalk, a few years back and a white woman held a sign with that written on it. It did not go over well.

Faggot is the real nigger of the world these days.

Rock'n'Roll Nigger - Patti Smith Group

Fuck Me in the Ass, One More Time - Captain and Tenille

Torn between two lovers

easter - patti smith group

The Classical by The Fall. There's a line "Where are the obligatory niggers?" Apparently Motown Records wanted to start a UK division and expressed interest in the band. They asked for some back material and that album was supposedly the only one the singer, Mark E. Smith, had to hand. Long story short, they were not signed.

Short Dick Man

You're The Reason Our Kids are Ugly A Hymn to Him volt ikh gehat koyekh (at least on most college campuses.)

Pow-Wow by Cory Daye

Injun Gal Heap Hep

Me and Mrs. Jones

Guns are cool by the dead milkmen

Rock and Roll Nigger by Patti Smith

Dona Dona, an old Yiddish folk song about a cow getting slaughtered ( no offence to the homophobic cows infesting this site)

Half-Breed by Cher

A lot of songs by the Velvet Underground.

China Girl by David Bowie. Great song and video, but I always wondered how he got away with that opening instrumental part.

Every Breath You Take isn't offensive, it's just bland. Sting tried to make his lyrics seem edgier than they actually were by pretending in interviews to be shocked that people found it romantic, and that it was about stalking. It's been played out weddings as a soppy love song since it came out and it will continue to be.

Every Breath You Take is played at weddings??

Would "If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right" and "Me & Mrs. Jones" really not be recorded/played today? They're just about extra-marital affairs, I don't see what's offensive about them.

In 1973 Ringo Starr chose to record 'You're Sixteen':

'You're all ribbons and curls, ooh what a girl,

Eyes that sparkle and shine.

You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine.'

Further choice lyrics, among many other gems:

'You walked out of my dreams, into my car,

Now you're my angel divine.

You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine.'

Ringo recorded his rapture at age 33. Different times indeed.

Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting

They're Coming to Take Me Away

Dancing Queen

--Abba

Should be about a 40 yo plus, obese ultra-cis; not a 17 yo girl at the school dane or prom.

Take that back; maybe MtF trans.

Lola by the Kinks? I assume that it is offensive to the Trans who find absolutely everything offensive and triggering.

"Fairytale of New York" by The Pogue (with Kirsty MacColl). Actually, already banned on some UK radio because of words/phrases "an old slut on junk", "faggot" and "arse".

Definitely "China Girl" by David Bowie; I was surprised it got released it in the 1980's. "Into the Night" by Benny Mardones "Illegal Alien" by Phil Collins (this is particularly offensive) "Seventeen" by Winger

Under my Thimb

He Hit me (and it felt like a kiss)

I doubt that "Dreams of the Every Day Housewife" fits with today's world.

Sparks - I Predict

"You're gonna eat a bowl of chow mein And be hungry real soon (I predict)"

Many of the songs from this era wouldn't make it, including this one.

I love it When you call me names by Joan armatrading.

Island Girl ~ "black boy wants you in his Island World!"

Into the Night - Benny Mardones "she's just 16 years old. leave her alone. they said."

"Go Away Little Girl" before I tell you to stay.

LOVE CHILD! -Ms. Ross

One Night in Bankok

Ahab the Arab

After 9/11 Ray Stevens did a song called Osama Yo Momma sung to the tune of Ahab the Arab. He also did one about Katrina sung to the tune of the Battle of New Orleans.

"He Hit Me (And It Felt LIke A Kiss) by The Crystals

"You're) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka and Odia Coates

"Woman To Woman" by Shirley Brown

"Cheaper To Keep Her" by Johnnie Taylor

Black man, black man by Bernice Cliffton

Wigwam Bam

"Into The Night" by Benny Mardones is a great song. So many people think it's a song about an adult male pining for a teenage girl, which makes it creepy and offensive. But I never thought of it like that. I interpreted it as a song from the perspective of a teenage boy, maybe eighteen years old, who is told to stay away from the girl he loves because "she's only sixteen; leave her alone they say." Judging from the lyrics, it sounds to me like the words are coming from a teenager, not a pervy adult.

Kate Smith "Pickaninny Heaven".

R82, watch the video I included. Nonetheless, I like the song. It was a very popular song at high school dances.

Another by great American Kate. That's why darkies were born.

[r64],"You're Sixteen" was a remake of a top ten 1960 song by Johnny Burnette. Ringo's version was also a big hit, and I don't remember anyone being offended by it at the time. Nowadays it would cause a shit storm!

This was a big hit in the alternative clubs. Now?

Not a song, but there is a band who took the name Viet Cong. People started protesting their gigs, Oberlin booked them and then cancelled, they got hate mail and threats and now they are called Preoccupations. I think there was/is also a band called Slaves who got a lot of shit for their name. It brought up that there were bands called Joy Division and Gang of Four in the past and people didn't freak out, but apparently if they were around now they would have been shut down as well.

Rick Derringer - Teenage Queen

Rick Derringer - Teenage Love Affair

Short People (got no reason to...)

"Delilah" by Tom Jones - "Where the wild roses grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue - "Hong Kong Garden" by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Black man black man by Bernice Cliffton.

"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence

(.....little sister don't miss when she aims her gun.....)

"Nigger Loves A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" by Harry C Browne

I'll bet $ony purged this one from their back catalogue.

This...

Kiss - "Christine Sixteen."

Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher" (maybe).

The Cure - "Killing an Arab" (surprised no one cited this). I don't think it was about actually killing Arabs, but nonetheless, I don't think it could be released today.

Standing on the beach With a gun in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring down the barrel At the arab on the ground I can see his open mouth But I hear no sound

I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an arab

I can turn And walk away Or I can fire the gun Staring at the sky Staring at the sun Whichever I chose It amounts to the same Absolutely nothing

I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an arab

I feel the steel butt jump Smooth in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring at myself Reflected in the eyes Of the dead man on the beach The dead man on the beach

I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an arab

Sorry about the formatting

When I cut and pasted the lyrics, they weren't bunched together like that.

"Tonight's the Night" by Rod Stewart.

Strut by Sheena Easton

I remember my carpool in suburban Michigan of 8 neighborhood kids in a station wagon on the way home from school listening to Prince's "Erotic City" on the radio, and singing along "We can fuck until the dawn, makin love til cherry's gone."

We can funk until the dawn...

Pretty girls by Melissa Manchester

With a rope of spaghetti and a big-a stiletto he knock-a whole Germany dead a-you bet-a!

Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" (although Julie would probably still record it today just to piss off everyone)

r92 Milo still sings it but he has been banned by a quarter of the campuses in the u.s.

"Brown Sugar" was originally "Black Pussy", but was changed to get on the radio.

R96, "Killing an Arab" is a song about Camus's book "The Stranger", written in 1942. It's even in the damn Wikipedia article. It's still being performed.

R61 I heard that Every breath you take is about the cold war/spying.

R96 the cure's killing an Arab is about Camus' the stranger.

Prince's Darling Nikki

{R108] According to sting the song is about an obsessive stalker.

Cocaine!

The night they took old Dixie down - Joan Baez

Indiana Wants Me

Stand By Your Man

-Tammy Wynette

Speedy Gonzalez

Wives and Lovers, by Jack Jones. "Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers, you may not see him again."

"[R96], "Killing an Arab" is a song about Camus's book "The Stranger", written in 1942. It's even in the damn Wikipedia article. It's still being performed. "

Yeah, I knew it wasn't a literal song. But, the point is if it would be released today, not if it's still being performed.

"watch the video I included. Nonetheless, I like the song. It was a very popular song at high school dances.'

I've already seen it. It's considered hilarious. It features Benny Mardones, who looks at least 40 years old, playing a teenager! His clothes scream "rebel teenage boy." Benny Mardones was a strange case; he had that great voice and that big hit song, but his career went nowhere, probably because he was a dick and incredibly ugly. He's still popular in his home turf, Syracuse, NY, though.

Is "Sixteen Candles" considered a pervy song? Seems like any song about a sixteen year old girl is considered offensive.

"Young Girl " get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line...... So hurry home to your mama, I bet she wonders where you are.... Get out of here before I have time to change my mind, that "come-on" look is in your eyes..... That's sounds pretty pedophilious, doesn't it?

A song about pleasing a man as your only goal (especially from a soul-voiced lesbian).

R95 Thanks!! That was the first song I heard on the radio in the first car I ever owned, a -- ha ha -- Cougar.

A whole lot of songs by Frank Zappa, and David Allen Coe.

Joe Tex ~ Ain't Gonna Bump No More

Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl

Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)

Southern Man

Alabama

Rum and Coca-Cola, Stand By Your Man

Turning Japanese- The Vapors

Johnny are you queer- Josie Cotton

Janie's got a gun- Aerosmith

Hey Joe- Jimi Hendrix ( I'm going down to shoot my old lady)..

The entire Ethel Merman Disco Album

To Excess

I Could Use A Drink

Ghetto Child - The Spinners

Dude Looks Like a Lady - Aerosmith

19th Nervous Breakdown -The Rolling Stones

"I Love You So Much, I Could Shit" a real old standard.

Don't Fence Me In

Good Times by Chic is the symbolic cultural rejection of the Black"movement"in favor of the party materialistic lifestyle still prevalent today. "Lets put an end to this stress and srife,I want to live the sporting life"In other words,no more confronting white society,now we want what white society has and to hell with the Negroes at the bottom!" Riverman94610on June 17, 2006

He's a man and a man has to try! Let him run, let him fall, let him cry!

Can somebody be a lamb and burn all these songs onto a K-Tell "Exclusive TV Offer" CD? Thanks!

Son of a preacher man- Dusty S.

Telephone Man

Anything by Blowfly

Father Figure. How did George Michael get away with this song in the 80s?

R113 I was thinking about 'Wives and Lovers' also. Even as a little kid in the '60s it seemed odd to me.

Day after day

There are girls at the office

And men will always be men

Another one that can be creepy is 'Go Away Little Girl' by Frankie Avalon (especially just having seen BLACKBIRD with Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels)

When you're near me like this

You're much too hard to resist

So, go away little girl

Let's call it a day little girl

Please, go away little girl

Before I beg you to stay

Revivals of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN routinely omit "I'm An Indian Too"

Ray Stevens - The Streak

Tori Amos - Me and the Gun

Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Shotgun

Leon Haywood - I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You

[quote]Father Figure. How did George Michael get away with this song in the 80s?

It was perfect for the movie "keanu"

r137 the same way She Bop did

albeit shebop did twist Tipper Gore's panties in a knot

Sugar Walls

Donna Summer Love to Love You Baby . I doubt they would allow all that moaning and groaning on the radio .

Also her ode to hookers Bad Girls.

Diana Ross - I Ain't Been Licked

He Touched Me - Barbra

The Way of Love - Cher

Erotic City - Prince

Nasty Girl - Vanity 6

I Eat Cannibals

Sex Shooter - Apollonia 6

Keep on Jumpin' - Musique

French Kiss - Lil Louis and the World

I've Never Been To Me

"I am Woman" would need a trigger warning.

Someone mentioned Cory Day's pow wow.

In the bush-Musique

R145 was Musique's keep on jumpin' about using PCP?

"I'll Plant My Own Tree" by Helen Lawson

Big girls don't cry

"Pull Up to the Bumper" by Grace Jones

I don't know why anything would be off limits these days - you can't understand the lyrics anyway

"Young Girl " get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line...... So hurry home to your mama, I bet she wonders where you are.... Get out of here before I have time to change my mind, that "come-on" look is in your eyes..... That's sounds pretty pedophilious, doesn't it?"

I didn't think so. I thought it was a guy who was fending off the advances of a hot to trot teenage girl. I think a lot of guys would feel ambivalent in a situation like that, but any decent guy would do the right thing and tell her to "hurry home to your mama." Which, it would seem, was what this guy was trying to do.

Does your mother know? by Abba

Little Dudes

C.S.F.

Leviticus: Faggot

"I'm Gonna Squat Right Down and Shit Myself a Rainbow"---Bobby Darin

R42 Strokin by Clarence Carter who also sang Patches.

this song was ORIGINALLY called, "Nigger Spade"

Get an ugly girl to marry you

You Light Up My Life --Debbie Boone

Wonderful song, but she was not talking about a man, but God.

The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun--Julie (not downtown) Brown

Fat Friends-Hank Williams Jr.

Almost everything by David Allen Coe

Fat Bottom Girls (Making the Rockin' World Go Round)--ACDC

Romanovsky and Phillips - Once Upon a Time

Heroin, Sister Ray, and some other songs by the Velvet underground.

Jewish Princess, Uncle Remus, Catholic girls, Bobby Brown goes down, He's so gay, and other songs by Frank Zappa.

" The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home. It's summer, the darkies are gay...."

Young Girl - Union Gap.

R168 I used to love Romanovsky and Phillips.

Nice to see that they're still around, if you know what I mean

Master and Servant - Depeche Mode

I Touch Myself - Divinyls

Loose joints- is it all over my face?

[quote]I'll bet $ony purged this one from their back catalogue.

In place of actually black rappers shouting about beating up women and gay people. So they traded one set of stereotypes for another.

Not all, but a lot of these songs could still be recorded and released, but there would be inevitable SJW and social media backlash, which would lead to backlash to the backlash and all sorts of petty squabbling and name calling.

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Golden Showers - the Mentors

I won't sleep on the wet spot no more by Genya Raven

r175 Kind of ironic for all of those rap artists on Sony that 100 years ago their label (Columbia) was recording "coon songs" that were big hits at the time.

"I Used to Love Her" by Guns & Roses.

Angie Baby by Helen Reddy, it's a a fucked up song but I'm too tired to post lyrics .

Remember Bertha Butt Boogie ?

Do ya Think I'm Sexy ? Rod Stewart

George Clinton - Atomic Dog

One Boy from Bye Bye Birdie. One boy to laugh with/to joke with/have coke with.

Coffy is the color

Nina Simone-Four women.

Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man.

Chris Rea's 'Tennis'.

It's a finely-crafted, moody driving anthem with a deft late 80s political slant that Dire Straits and The Police sometimes took...and you will never hear it on radio again as it makes explicit lyrical reference to Semite refugees dying in vast swathes (and some of them victims of rape), barrage with 'grenades', communism, and also to the iconic and racy 'Tennis Girl' poster of 80s popcult.

And... the uber-creepy:

Speedy González, recorded by of all people PAT BOONE, owns this thread!

And in case you want to sing along, here are the lyrics:

It was a moonlit night in old Mexico

I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas

Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl

You better come home, Speedy Gonzalez Away from tannery row

Stop all a your a-drinkin' With that floozy named Flo

Come on home to your adobe And slap some mud on the wall

The roof is leakin' like a strainer There's loads a roaches in the hall

Speedy Gonzales, why don't cha come home?

Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

"Hey, Rosita, I hafta go shopping downtown for my mother She needs some tortillas and chili peppers."

Your doggy's gonna have a puppy And we're runnin' outta Coke

No enchiladas in the icebox And the television's broke

I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt I smelled some perfume in your ear

Well if you're gonna keep on messin' Don't bring your business back a-here

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales, why don't cha come home?

Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

"Hey, Rosita come quick Down at the cantina they giving green stamps with tequila!!"

Read more: Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzales Lyrics | MetroLyrics

I Shot the Sheriff.

"Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." The title alone, sung in an uber-creepy baritone (Neil Young and then Urge Overkill) is enough to make my ass cheeks clench.

"Walk Like A Man," The Four Seasons. Trannies and SJWs would start riots today.

"Cookie Puss," The Beastie Boys ("I did her like this / I did her like that / I did her with a whiffle ball bat")

White Lines - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 (later remade by Duran Duran)

Runaway - Bon Jovi

2 Live Crew - anything by them. But especially Dick Almighty.

Do You Wanna Touch - Joan Jett

Every where is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies; Tell me where is sanity? Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more. I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do, So I'll leave it up to you.

One little two little three little indians

"jesus wants me for a sunbeam"

Make You Sweat by Keith Sweat.

"You say 'no'/ I say 'yes' ..."

"'No' Is Just Another Way to Say 'I Love You.'" - from some children's album I had called Honey on Toast, by Karen Tobias Oppenheimer. The album sleeve itself was shaped like a piece of toast and looked like it was slathered in honey.

Foreigner's 'Dirty White Boy' isn't outrageous, exactly, but it's gross if you imagine the lyrics are addressing a teen girl as was the likely intention.

Anything by Mojo Nixon.

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by The Crystals, written and produced by Phil Spector as retaliation disguised as contract fulfilment.

This ought to become a DL anthem:

[quote]Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones

Also "Some Girls", especially the line about "Black girls just wanna get fucked all night".

I can't figure out how Bloodhound Gang got away with their lyrics, and how into the Jackass/lewd/gross humor MTV were just 15 years ago.

In the 00s teen music got animalistic, explicit, crass - by comparison the content in mainstream rock/pop today is prim & refined. I have no idea how I'm gonna explain the music I grew up with to my nephews & nieces/kids. Maybe, "it was fun, it was insanity, you had to be there"? Nu-metal and pop-metal of the 00s still has no cred on account of offensive lyrical ideas, and this is bullshit because the musicianship wasn't bad and frankly the industry needed a shake-up, anyways. There was artistic merit to some of those songs, even if people didn't get it.

An example - 'The Ballad of Chasey Lain' is considered disgusting garbage by the majority of under-40s but it felt like a dangerous thrill in 2000. Imagine being 12 and having a choice between Backstreet Boys “but my Love is all I have to give...”, or "Chasey, this is my Mom & Dad/now show 'em them titties...." and "you've had a lot of dick, Chasey, but you ain't had mine..."....on cable TV and after-school, no less.

Btw, Eminem stole the 'Chasey Lain' conceit for 'Stan', only he sucked out the clever humor and replaced it with boring earnest melodrama.

*by the majority of OVER-40s

Hey Joe

A Boy Named Sue would be considered transphobic and triggering.

Day-O (Banana Boat Song)

Oh, God, like 2/3 of the Destiny's Child back catalogue. Excepting 'Bootylicious' their songs are misogynistic plus fairly slut-shaming. So funny.

'Nasty Girl' is at the top of that list. Beyoncé is withering in her criticism and it's hilarious considering how scanty-clad she appeared in their vids. It's a little sad this has been buried though, because embarrassing & hypocritical as it is there's no denying it is a nice thick slice of R&B.

[quote] BEYONCE: Sleazy, put some clothes on, I told'ja, don't walk out cha heezy without clothes on, I told'ja....you make it hard for girls like myself who respect themselves and have dignity...

Stacy Lattisaw - Attack of the Name Game

[quote]'The Ballad of Chasey Lain' is considered disgusting garbage by the majority of under-40s

That's not even their worst. This one may be.

I love Bloodhound Gang, they just called it like they saw it and pointed out some real human absurdities.

Right now pop-culture could use audacity like theirs again.

Girls - Moments and Whatnauts

Bobby Brown - Frank Zappa

R137 Well shit, you weren't kidding, that sounds like a pedo's anthem.

"Kitty from Kansas City" by Rudy Vallee

Her name was Kitty from Kansas City

Sure was a pity she wasn't pretty

She's not so hard to see

She weighs 243

I hope she doesn't get much fatter

But if she does that doesn't matter

Kitty from Kansas City

Now there's a girl that I adore

She's so dumb, she doesn't know a thing

Why, she thinks that July the Fourth is an English King

I love her, I love her, that's easy to see

It's Kansas City Kitty for me! etc.

Mrs. Jones

"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul

A pretty woman makes her husband look small

And very often causes his downfall

As soon as he marries her and then she starts

To do the things that will break his heart

But if you make an ugly woman your wife

You'll be happy for the rest of your life

An ugly woman cooks meals on time

She'll always give you peace of mind

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life

Never make a pretty woman your wife

So for my personal point of view

Get an ugly girl to marry you! etc.

Mungo Jerry, 'In The Summertime'.

And what a shame, 'cuz it's a cracking tune.

Todd Rundgren, We Gotta Get You a Woman

Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do

There ain't nothing I can do

Or nothing I can say

That folks don't criticize me

But I'm going to do

Just as I want to anyway

And don't care just what people say

If I should take a notion

To jump into the ocean

Ain't nobody's business if I do

If I go to church on Sunday

Then cabaret all day Monday

Ain't nobody's business if I do

If my man ain't got no money

And I say "Take all of mine, honey"

Ain't nobody's business if I do

If I give him my last nickel

And it leaves me in a pickle

Ain't nobody's business if I do

Well, I'd rather my man would hit me

Than follow him to jump up and quit me

Ain't nobody's business if I do

I swear, I won't call no copper

If I'm beat up by my papa

Ain't nobody's business if I do

Backstreet Girl - Rolling Stones

Yesterday's Papers - " " " "

Starfucker - " " " "

Cocksucker Blues - "" ""

She Bop.

It unfairly stigmatizes girls and womyn for seeking their own sexual pleasure by jilling off. Plus the heroine of the song masturbates to Blue Boy magazine, which seems sex shamey to the male (?) models.

Short People - Randy Newman

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Fuck Anita Bryant

There Are Fairies At the Bottom of Our Garden

Shortnin' Bread

Ooh, R85 was prophetic!

HWA (Hoes With Attitude) - "Funk Me"

I Enjoy Being a Girl

She's Sixteen (She's Beautiful, and She's Mine)

Short People

[quote] Shortnin' Bread

But that's your favorite and mine!

[quote]He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by The Crystals, written and produced by Phil Spector as retaliation disguised as contract fulfilment.

The first time I heard this song it was covered by Grizzly Bear & it came off as a sad song about abuse. The context in which it was used, on an episode of "Sex Education" when a school bully decides to sleep with the person he's bullying, made sense.

Hole's cover of the song was similar.

However, I was shocked when I went back and listened to the original version and I wondered why they seemed so "chipper" about it having (up until recently) knew the meaning of the song.

House of the Risin' Sun

Ooga Chaka

Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy

Pet the Magic Dragon

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

[quote]We are there to illuminate our gifts and guide you through an experience.

It's been three years since I first read this and it still makes me cringe harder than almost anything else I've read on DL.

10 songs at link, DL will be most familiar with #2.

[quote]In the 00s teen music got animalistic, explicit, crass

I think it started in the 1990s, because I remember my dad being absolutely livid over the Humpty Hump, as well as Pearl Jam's name. I was young enough I hadn't heard the term before so I asked what it meant and my parents went bonkers.

There were 2 versions of this Beatles song, Christian and Hare Krishna. It was very controversial back in the day.

This should not have been recorded in 1970, let alone now.

Story was it destroyed his career, it is not easily forgotten once heard, the 'rape, rape, rape, rape rape'...repeated endlessly with real vitriol is a great singalong part

R236, Neither my mother nor my 4 older sisters would have understood what any of the above lyrics really meant, let alone the song titles. All of the drug references like in the Beatles songs would have flown over their head. Oops. I just learned what "Pearl Jam" refers to in reality.

Percy Mayfield - You Wear Your Hair Too Long

"You've got long eyelashes, but you're shaving everyday. I don't know what you represent is all that I can say."

Original pot references were changed to make it more acceptable.

Stop Don't Do It When You Want To Come.

R137, That's all I wanted Something special, something sacred In your eyes For just one moment To be bold and naked At your side Sometimes I think that you'll never Understand me Maybe this time is forever Say it can be

That's all you wanted Something special, someone sacret In your life Just for one moment To be warm and naked At my side

Sometimes I think that you'll never Understand me But something tells me together We'd be happy

(Baby) I will be your father figure (Oh baby) Put your tiny hand in mine (I'd love to) I will be your preacher teacher (Be your daddy) Anything you have in mind (It would make me) I will be your father figure (Very happy) I have had enough of crime (Please let me) I will be the one who loves you Until the end of time

That's all I wanted But sometimes love can be mistaken For a crime That's all I wanted Just to see my baby's Blue eyed shine This time I think that my lover Understands me If we have faith in each other Then we can be Strong

I will be your father figure Put your tiny hand in mine I will be your preacher teacher Anything you have in mind I will be your father figure I have had enough of crime I will be the one who loves you Until the end of time

If you are the desert I'll be the sea If you ever hunger Hunger for me Whatever you ask for That's what I'll be

So when you remember the ones who have lied Who said that they cared But then laughed as you cried Beautiful Darling Don't think of me

Because all I ever wanted It's in your eyes baby, baby And love can't lie, no... (Greet me with the eyes of a child) My love is always tell me to... (Heaven is a kiss and a smile) Just hold on, hold on I won't let you go, my baby

I will be your father figure Put your tiny hand in mine I will be your preacher teacher Anything you have in mind I will be your father figure I have had enough of crime (So I am gonna love you) Until the end of time I will be your father I will be your preacher I will be your daddy I will be the one who loves you until the end of time

Turning Japanese - no sex, no drugs, no wine, no woman, no fun, no you no wonder it's dark.

one in a million by guns n roses.

Lyrics One, two, one, two, three, four Yes I needed some time to get away I needed some peace of mind Some peace of mind that'll stay So I thumbed it, now it's six in L.A. Maybe a Greyhound could be my way Police and niggers, that's right Get outta my way Don't need to buy none of your Gold chains today Now don't need no bracelets Clamped in front of my back Just need my ticket 'till then Won't you cut me some slack You're one in a million Yeah that's what you are You're one in a million babe You're a shooting star Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much to high Much too high Much too high Much too high Immigrants and fagots They make no sense to me They come to our country And think they'll do as they please Like start some mini-Iran Or spread some fucking disease And they talk so many God damn ways It's all Greek to me Well some say I'm lazy And others say that's just me Some say I'm crazy I guess I'll always be But it's been such a long time Since I knew right from wrong It's all the means to and end I'm I keep it moving along Hey, hey, hey, yeah You're one in a million You're a shooting star You're one in a million babe You know that you are Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much to high Much too high Much too high Much too high Radicals and racists Don't point your finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet Don't need your religion Don't watch that much TV Just makin' my livin' baby Well that's enough for me You're one in a million Yeah that's what you are You're one in a million babe You're a shooting star Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much too high Much too high yeah, yeah, yeah Much too high Much too high Much too high yeah, yeah, yeah Much too high Much too high Much too high Much too high Much too high Much too high

Lyrics One, two, one, two, three, four Yes I needed some time to get away I needed some peace of mind Some peace of mind that'll stay So I thumbed it, now it's six in L.A. Maybe a Greyhound could be my way

Police and niggers, that's right Get outta my way Don't need to buy none of your Gold chains today Now don't need no bracelets Clamped in front of my back Just need my ticket 'till then Won't you cut me some slack You're one in a million Yeah that's what you are You're one in a million babe You're a shooting star Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much to high Much too high Much too high Much too high

Immigrants and fagots They make no sense to me They come to our country And think they'll do as they please Like start some mini-Iran Or spread some fucking disease And they talk so many God damn ways It's all Greek to me Well some say I'm lazy And others say that's just me Some say I'm crazy I guess I'll always be But it's been such a long time Since I knew right from wrong It's all the means to and end I'm I keep it moving along Hey, hey, hey, yeah You're one in a million You're a shooting star You're one in a million babe You know that you are Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much to high Much too high Much too high Much too high

Radicals and racists Don't point your finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet Don't need your religion Don't watch that much TV Just makin' my livin' baby Well that's enough for me You're one in a million Yeah that's what you are You're one in a million babe You're a shooting star Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much too high Much too high yeah, yeah, yeah Much too high Much too high Much too high yeah, yeah, yeah Much too high Much too high Much too high Much too high Much too high Much too high

This is so ridiculous when you consider how racist, sexist, misogynistic, violent and hateful are the majority of rap and hip-hop lyrics.

"She Bop.

It unfairly stigmatizes girls and womyn for seeking their own sexual pleasure by jilling off. Plus the heroine of the song masturbates to Blue Boy magazine, which seems sex shamey to the male (?) models."

What? I hope this was a parody post.

Doin' the Bang!

Sweet Caroline.

We don't talk about Presidential children, let alone write creepy pedo songs about them.

Speedy González

Wishin’ and Hopin’

Las Mariposas

We Are Siamese

Only Women Bleed

Run Joey Run

Cocaine

Fat Bottom Girls

Under My Thumb (Stones, 1968-69)

"Beat That Bitch (with a Bat)" by Johnny Dangerous

Funky Cold Medina, especially this part:

[quote]So I took her to my crib, and everything went well as planned/But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man./So I threw him out, I don't fool around with no Oscar Meyer wiener./You must be sure that the girl is pure for the Funky Cold Medina./You know, ain't no plans with a man./This is the 80's, and I'm down with the ladies, ya know?

"Is You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry?"

“Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one When you gonna give me some time, Sharona Ooh, you make my motor run, my motor run Got it coming off o' the line, Sharona Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa! M-m-m-my Sharona”

Fancy by Reba McEntire. Wasn’t she basically whoring out her own daughter?

r258 I have always hated that song

r246 Axl Rose surprisingly, not a fan of Trump.

R258 It’s even more gross if you know the backstory: Sharona was a real person and 16 when the (much older) singer wrote it for her.

R256, strangely enough, he was booked and performed at a local gay bar near me a few years back. I didn't go though.

r264 meet r251

R265 Oh, shit! How did I miss that? And it wasn't that far back.

My apologies.

It's worth posting twice r266! No worries

Joe Tex

This!!

I was shocked to come across it a few months ago. (And I like Eddie Cleanhead Vinson's music)

Ray Charles, What'd I say. The whole song is about sex, especially part 2

Sophie Tucker should be a DL icon!

"Something Wonderful" from The King & I is always applauded in the theater, but once you actually read the lyrics and think about them, even a little bit, there is really no going back. What a Doormat song this is. Ugh.

This is a man who thinks with his heart

His heart is not always wise

This is a man who stumbles and falls

But this is a man who tries

This is a man you'll forgive and forgive

And help and protect, as long as you live

He will not always say

What you would have him say

But now and then he'll say

Something wonderful

The thoughtless things he'll do

Will hurt and worry you

Then all at once he'll do

Something wonderful

He has a thousand dreams

That won't come true

You know that he believes in them

And that's enough for you

You'll always go along

Defend him where he's wrong

And tell him, when he's strong

He is wonderful

He'll always need your love

And so he'll get your love

A man who needs your love

Can be wonderful

Don't even get me started on CAROUSEL and "What's the Use of Wond'rin?"

Beat On The Brat by the Ramones

Frauen nationwide would be traumatized

R255 Johnny’s hilarious, totally funny and gay as a goose. Pretty sexy in person, too.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Rodgers and Hart: "A Twinkle in Your Eye" from I Married an Angel, 1938

[italic]My sister Sue once took a swim without a stitch on.

The cop who caught her took her to the jail nearby.

The judge who tried her held her for examination.

Of course, it may have been the twinkle in her eye.

My uncle's wife once met a man who smiled so sweetly,

And Auntie didn't even seem to like the guy.

But, then, my little cousin Bess is nearly three now,

And she has quite a little twinkle in her eye.[/italic]

and so on.

Something Wonderful's lyrics are pretty great. Some of the best in a Broadway show. She's talking about a person who can be terribly unreasonable but whom you love. They work really well for a man or a woman. If you think they are problematic you are pretty fucked up.

“Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen”

The song's message is clear, R277. Being a doormat for someone's shit is enough for you.

And maybe it is enough for you, R277. But aim higher.

Songs about sex (r270) and/or being treated like shit or inconsiderately by a lover (r272/r279) are hardly offensive or obsolete. They still are the subject of countless songs to this day:

R280 I think what R282/R280 was getting at was that it would be considered a demeaning song for a female to sing, post #metoo.

And therefore taboo.

Pull Up To the Bumper

R283: Not many people know that's about anal sex.

We should look very carefully at songs written by men to be sung by women which aim to explain how women feel about men. We should look really, really hard at those songs and not accept them without a thought.

"Something Wonderful" falls into that category. As does "What's the Use of Wond'rin." Stepping away from Broadway, "Wishin' and Hopin'" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David fits squarely into that same category. There are no shortage of these songs. Many are great, unless you examine them.

They are, at least in part, why women have demanded more female directors on Broadway and in film. Let's hear for a while from women about how women feel about men. That we do so is the absolute minimum that we can do.

Christine Sixteen by KISS Island Girl by Elton John The Bitch is Back by Elton John Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones Angie Baby by Helen Reddy Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed Turning Japanese by the Vapors

Demeaning situations are still part of the range of angst that can be found in popular music through history. I’d say they’re ubiquitous now more than ever, what with the recent popularity of thin, raspy, suicidal female voices and whiny, moany, suicidal male voices in pop music.

Isn’t The Bitch Is Back self- descriptive? He’s saying he’s a bitch and he’s back.

Yeah like people today don't put up with people who can be terribly unreasonable and at the same time incredibly loving and exciting. To think it's nothing more than being treated like a doormat is narrowminded and stupid beyond excuse. It's a stunning complicated glorious song. Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers were geniuses. They don't exist anymore in either sex. And to think any man or woman can come up with comparable work is a joke of major proportions.

Human relations are as complicated as they ever were. Both King and I and Carousel are masterpieces and to think people know better today is arrogance beyond the pale. Like people who think Cosi Fan Tutte one of the artistic glories of western civilization is problematic. I cannot believe how unnuanced people's thinking is today. It is jaw dropping in its superiority and condescension.

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” would have people screaming bloody murder today.

This song fits me perfectly.

She's A Lady Tom Jones Well, she's all you'd ever want She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner But she always knows her place She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner She's a lady Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady Talkin' about that little lady And the lady is mine Well, she's never in the way Always something nice to say, and what a blessin' I can leave her on her own Knowin' she's okay alone and there's no messin' She's a lady Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady Talkin' about that little lady And the lady is mine Well, she never asks very much And I don't refuse her Always treat her with respect I never would abuse her What she's got is hard to find And I don't want to lose her Help me build a mountain From a little pile of clay, hey hey hey Well, she knows what I'm about She…

"I cannot believe how unnuanced people's thinking is today. It is jaw dropping in its superiority and condescension."

The backwards-looking Republicans who whine about "people today" and who think everything was better in the past didn't seem to care when the Dixie Chicks were banned from country radio. You people seem to think everything was better in the Jim Crow era.

Everything was better in the 50s, when gay people were thrown in jail for having consensual sex!

88 Lines About 44 Women by the Nails. First verse:

Deborah was a Catholic girl

She held out till the bitter end

Carla was a different type

She's the one who put it in

Mary was a black girl

I was afraid of a girl like that

Susan painted pictures

Sitting down like a Buddha sat

Who was talking about gay rights and Jim Crow? I was talking about musicals and opera. This is what I mean about the crushing stupidity of people like R292 and R293.

Great song, but the lyrics would be different today. ABBA's Dancing Queen

R290 I believe that song has been banned from radio play for at least 2 Christmases now.

r272, "Something Wonderful" was, at times, all that got me through the night when my best friend was dying of AIDS in 1986. Barbra mixed it up with "I Have Dreamed" on 1985's The Broadway Album. Surely I am not the only eighties 'mo who had a newly-demented friend these lyrics suddenly described perfectly:

"He will not always say

What you would have him say

But now and then he'll say

Something wonderful.

The thoughtless things he'll do

Will hurt and worry you

Then all at once he'll do something wonderful

He has a thousand dreams that won't come true

You know that he believes in them

And that's enough for you."

I cried so many times to that album. And there was "Somewhere." How can I forget her version of "Somewhere"? And I'm not even a Streisand queen.

It’s hard to imagine “The Pina Colada Song” going over too well today.

Have we discussed "Hurts So Good?"

Elvis' Costello's "Oliver's Army," with the phrase "another white n****r," Is played on Sirius/XM's First Wave ALLTHE TIME. I cringe.

[quote]It’s hard to imagine “The Pina Colada Song” going over too well today.

Mainly because people wouldn’t be able to grasp the concept of a classified ad with no pictures or conversation.

I'm the pro Something Wonderful poster and Babs doing that arrangement of those two magnificent songs is a wonder.

[quote]This is so ridiculous when you consider how racist, sexist, misogynistic, violent and hateful are the majority of rap and hip-hop lyrics.

Then you haven't been listening to a lot of rap and R&B the past 15 or so years. This is less true now than say, in the 90s.

There's a big difference between Drake singing, "Nice for What?" (2018) and Jay-Zs "Money, Cash, Hoes" (1998). Eminem couldn't sell a damn album now if he tried with his old lyrics.

The pendulum has swung back the other way. People want to be "commercial." The Migos (rappers) want to perform with Katy Perry.

But urban Latin music (reggaeton, trap, hip-hop) is all about ¡CULO!

R305, I wasn't talking about "urban latin" music. You'll need to talk about someone else about that.

R306 who?

This:

Miss Lee wrote that song, r2

The best versia of I have dreamed

Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"

[quote] Don't you know, girl, you'll be a woman soon Please, come take my hand Girl, you'll be a woman soon Soon, you'll need a man

Oh my, R289! You are clearly the past president of your high school's chapter of the International Thespian Society.

We are the world. That horrible USA for Africa song.

We are the world. That horrible USA for Africa song.

R314 And Band Aid would never have gotten away with the line about “Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of you” from “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

Can't Help Lovin' That Man o' Mine ("Show Boat", as we're digging up offensive songs from musicals, and totes agree with the criticism of "What's the Use of Wondrin'" - has to be borne in mind, though, that "Carousel" was based on Molnar's, "Liliom", following the original very closely except, interestingly, for the upbeat ending; he fails in his attempt to help his now adolescent daughter after being killed in the robbery attempt. So don't blame Rodgers and Hammerstein.

R289 - Actually, I agree that both works are musically extraordinary. I have friends who live in Maine near Bar Harbour who swear that the fabled opening waltz with its slightly off-kilter breathlessness is exactly how the early expectation of spring in that area of New England feels.

Yes, the Id is still running a lot of things behind the scenes - we're only talking here about the impact of current trends on what can and cannot be said any longer.

You made a fair point, it's just that this thread is about something else. No one is suggesting erasing the memory of the music in those works from everyone's memory.

R&H's music is extraordinarily evocative, especially of nature. And, yes, it is of another cultural era. As are other works mentioned here.

It's a short leap from CAROUSEL and THE KING & I to another landmark musical that cannot be produced today in its original form, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. Or, it should be a short leap.

We are no longer comfortable with the musical comedy Native Americans in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, even when the entire musical comedy, and everyone in it, are played for laffs. Before ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is produced, it is very often rewritten.

Unfortunately, the way R&H present women, and women's relationship to men, in THE KING & I and in CAROUSEL, is widely accepted and objections are often flatly dismissed. The fact remains that "Something Wonderful" and "What's the Use of Wondrin'" are both very serious songs written by two men who endeavor to seriously portray women's thoughts about men, love, and relationships. On the surface, both are beautiful songs, but they point to problems in having men so heavily represented in in what gets produced. There is still a lot more for the women's movement to accomplish.

Oh this one... 16 yrs old??? Ugh

This one from just 2010. To think only 9 years ago this was okay but with all the shootings we've had since then, nobody would dare make a song with lyrics like this now. Especially one which sounds so catchy and makes you want to sing along.

R320 I still remember overhearing my sister telling her friend how she got fucked to that song in backseat of a Camaro. Must've been around 1980.

I would think most early 90s rap music would be frowned upon these days.

Has anyone here ever had sex with Jasun Mark?

err.. sorry wrong thread.

R322 how did you overhear?

r322 nice melody, creepy lyrics and the video , OY VEY!

All That She Wants by Ace of Base is an affront to empowered sex workers!

Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so. Lol. Memory lane.

R319 - "Annie Get Your Gun" (and I'd add Howard Kee;'s "The Doll that I Marry" as not exactly proto-feminism, either, nor Annie's mournful "You can't get a man with a gun") brings to mind "Calamity Jane" which is equally interesting in this context, citing here Calamity's transformation from a virtual lesbian to acceptably feminine love interest.

I recently watched the film version of "Bell, Book, and Candle", a far more sophisticated entry, and whilst not having a signature song, and despite having a nearly perfect script, also ends by warning women that too much power makes them unsuitable for love and commitment. It's an amusing film (even with the horribly too old and miscast Jimmy Stewart) but the moral at the end as Gillian finds romantic happiness only when her powers are taken from her (and in fact, are taken from her because she falls in love, another moral), was startling in a modern context. I don't think they'd get away with it today.

^*Howard KEEL's

R330

Pistol Packing Mama

Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters

FDR's campaign theme song

Mitch Miller and his gang

Happy Days are Here Again!

Sweet Sixteen - Billy Idol

"Why Is It Always Miss Marmelstein?"

A woman in an office wishing she were sexually harrassed more.

I wonder if Carole King's "A Natural Woman" would offend the transgender women now . . .

Shit if those Broadway tunes are considered offensive or demeaning, we might as well retire half the discography of countless tormented lyrics by all types of female acts, from Billie Holiday to The Shangri-Las. We’ll be left with Lollipop by the Chordettes and I Am Woman by Helen Reddy.

The Cure wins this thread with "Killing an Arab."

"Nigger Love A Watermelon"

I’m not sure how r99 thinks “Strut” by Sheena Easton would be considered offensive today, considering it’s a song about a woman who rejects the sexist notions of her boyfriend:

Strut, pout, put it out, that's what you want from women

Come on baby, what'cha taking me for?

Strut, pout, cut it out, all taking and no giving

Watch me, baby, while I walk out the door!

"That's sounds pretty pedophilious, doesn't it?"

No. "Young Girl" was about a guy trying to fend off the advances of a hot to trot teenage girl. I thought the guy in the song was commendable; he's telling her "you better run girl...you're much too young girl...hurry home to your momma."

I thought people misunderstood "Into the Night" by Benny Mardones. People seemed to assume that it was about an adult male expressing his lust for a 16 year old: "she's just 16 years old, leave her alone they say." But I thought the song was sung from the perspective of a teenage boy, maybe 18, pining for his love who was being kept away from him.

I thought all those "16" songs, "Sixteen Candles", 'You're Sixteen", etc. were about teenage love, not about love between an adult man and a 16 year old girl.

[quote]add Howard Keel's "The Doll that I Marry" as not exactly proto-feminism...

Especially since the song is called "The Girl That I Marry".

Gah!

All the posters saying sexist songs wouldn’t be recorded today clearly have not listened to “Hey Mama” by Nicki Minaj

[quote]I thought all those "16" songs, "Sixteen Candles", 'You're Sixteen", etc. were about teenage love, not about love between an adult man and a 16 year old girl.

That's how they were supposed to be taken, but these days people try to look for anything sinister in the most mundane places just to get offended, it seems.

Julie Andrews' "I Swallow His Kids"

R342 - Right. I think "the doll that I carry" is the second line . . .

A doll I can carry the girl that I marry must be.

"Mad Dogs and Englishmen"

Even though it's making fun of the English, it manages to treat other cultures like quirky pets.

"Rum and Coca Cola" by the Andrews Sisters — servicing American GIs is good for the local economy.

She went down on the Titanic, but she never went down on me'.

"Sweet Caroline" was written by Neil Diamond and inspired, it is said, by Caroline Kennedy - he needed a three syllable word. When he was 28 and she was 11.

Good times never felt so good.

The Kellie Ann Pussy-Jersey Trot Polka.

More ahead of it's time.

Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. An ode to pedophilia. Young girl, get out of my mind

My love for you is way out of line

Better run girl, you’re much too young, girl

and the refrain:

With all the charms of a woman

You kept the secret of your youth

etc. I forget the rest. It’s still amazing to me that it was even allowed on the radio, much less a minor hit at the time.

And their followup hit, This Girl Is a Woman Now:

She’s found out

What it’s all about

And she’s learning, learning to liiiive

A MINOR hit? r353, "Young Girl" peaked at #2 for three weeks, #1 in the UK. It was a huge hit.

And the whole point of the song is that the male singer has discovered that the girl he's interested in is underage, so he's telling her to stay away!

The sexual ones are fine, for the most part, because no one would bat an eyelash these days as back then. I still remember the skeet skeet song from HS that was all over the place. The others would probably have a harder time, depending on the context.

R343 some lyrics from 'Hey Mama'

Yes I do the cooking Yes I do the cleaning Yes I keep the nana real sweet for your eating Yes you be the boss yes I be respecting Whatever that you tell me 'cause it's game you be spitting

Peggy Lee - Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)

[quote]All the posters saying sexist songs wouldn’t be recorded today clearly have not listened to “Hey Mama” by Nicki Minaj

The thing is, R343, in "Hey Mama" from 2015, Nicki is very careful in telling everyone [italic]what she would like to do[/italic] while not telling anyone else [italic]what they should be doing.[/italic]

Has anyone mentioned Young Girl yet? How about I’m Turning Japanese? And songs about sixteen-year-old girls, maybe?

My Little Town, by Simon and Garfunkel. Written in 1975. In my little town, I never meant nothin’, I was just my father’s son. . . Saving my money, dreaming of glory . . . Twitching like a finger on the trigger of a gun. Leaving nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town.

Mustang Sally

The thing that's creepy about Young Girl is the man is telling her to stay away because he's almost changing his mind

R258 that song is a pop-music footnote!

[quote]The thing that's creepy about Young Girl is the man is telling her to stay away because he's almost changing his mind

Same with Go Away Little Girl, Love Child, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and Lola

R365 needs to re-read the lyrics to Love Child, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and Lola.

"It’s still amazing to me that it was even allowed on the radio, much less a minor hit at the time."

"A minor hit?" It was No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, stuck behind "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding for the first week and "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro for the remaining two. It also hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart [1] and the US Cash Box listing. Not exactly a "minor" hit. And it sure as hell wasn't "an ode to pedophilia." The guy in the song isn't saying "young girl, let's fuck all the time, I want your cute little ass to mine." He's telling her that she tempts him (what guy wouldn't be at least tempted?) but he's telling her to get AWAY from him. A pedophile sure as hell wouldn't do that.

"Young Girl" was such a big hit that Gary Puckett and the Union Gap were given several girl/woman songs after that and they were all successful: "Woman, Woman", "Lady Willpower", and "The Girl Is A Woman Now." I liked their songs. Gary Puckett had an incredible voice.

"Hot Child in the City." Here are the lyrics:

Danger in the shape of something wild Stranger dressed in black she's a hungry child No-one knows who she is or what her name is I don't know where she came from or what her game is

Hot child in the city Hot child in the city Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty Hot child in the city

So young to be loose and on her own Young boys they all want to take her home When she comes downtown the boys all stop and stare When she comes downtown she walks like she just don't care Yeah

Hot child in the city Hot child in the city Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty, yeah Hot child in the city

Come on down to my place baby, we'll talk about love Come on down to my place baby, we'll make love Hot child in the city Hot child in the city (she's kinda dangerous) Hot child in the city (a young child) Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty (young child, runnin' wild) Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)

Oh, yes, Bobby Goldsboro. We know what you were up to with that title, "Honey."

You should be ashamed!

“Push Push in The Bush” or whatever the name is. Nowadays you can’t say “bush” because it would trigger the T brigade, not every woman has a bush.

At least 80% of the songs mentioned in this thread are still played on commercial radio every fucking day. Offensive indeed.

"Sweet Caroline" is offensive? That's ridiculous. It's one of Neil Diamond's greatest songs. He was just inspired to use the name; it wasn't like he was hot for little Caroline, for fuck's sake.

There's nothing wrong with "The Girl That I Marry", either. It's a humorous song about wanting a very feminine, sweet girl for wife, which bodes ill for Annie Oakley, who is smitten by Frank Butler yet is the opposite of the type of girl he wants to marry.

They play "Sweet Caroline" at every Red Sox home game in Fenway Park. Usually in the middle of the 8th inning. The whole park chants along. It's great.

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home

'Tis summer, the darkies are gay....

I don't see that one being recorded any time soon. It's best days are past.

[QUOTE] They play "Sweet Caroline" at every Red Sox home game in Fenway Park. Usually in the middle of the 8th inning. The whole park chants along. It's great.

R373 = Frau

R372 - With Charlize Theron beating up 6 thugs at once in Atomic Blonde and a female Captain Marvel and Killing Eve glamourising sociopathic female murderers and television ads being pulled because they reinforce gender stereotypes, the constant railing against the pressures on women to be slim and appealing, you're trying to tell us that a song referring to a man's longing for a feminine girl, part of whose essential femininity is that she's small enough for him to carry in his arms like a little doll, wouldn't be seen as offensive today?

Listen, it is a humorous song and I like Annie Get Your Gun and I'm particularly partial to the melodic gfits of Rodgers and Hammerstein, as well, but trying to say that this song wouldn't, if released today, be acceptable as anything but sardonic irony is just blindered.

The reference to Caroline Kennedy is only one of several legends about the origin of "Sweet Caroline." If you're going to get hysterical about it being a reference to Caroline Kennedy, then temper your hysteria with the story that he wrote it about Marcia Murphey, his wife at the time, but nothing nice rhymes with "Marcia" so he changed it to a name that fit the rhythm of the song.

Tear the song apart for its appallingly bad lyrics throughout. Not just the title.

Because all peppy women are insane?

[quote]With Charlize Theron beating up 6 thugs at once in Atomic Blonde and a female Captain Marvel and Killing Eve glamourising sociopathic female murderers and television ads being pulled because they reinforce gender stereotypes,

Hollywood today is all about presenting a fantasy. For instance, a multiracial utopia. Every show/movie is cast like the United Nations for diversity's sake, but it's not realistic. Same with the recent portrayal of women. Far left liberals like to pretend that there are no biological differences between men and women, which is why they despise stereotypes, which, let's face it, are based on fact. The fact is, men (XY) in general are bigger, stronger, and faster than the average woman (XX). A woman will almost always lose against men when it comes to physical activities. Hollywood has become anti-male, particularly anti-white male.

R301, yeah, I love the song but probably prudent to only listen to the song on headphones. Does Costello still perform the song live?

My Pussy

Gotcha-Joe Tex (thought you could get away from me, gonna give me what you promised me -or words to that effect)

Not old but Push by Matchbox 20 (if I wanna push you around ...knock you down...take you for granted I will)

"Young Girl"

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud/When the darkies beat their feet on the Mississippi mud

"With Charlize Theron beating up 6 thugs at once in Atomic Blonde and a female Captain Marvel and Killing Eve glamourising sociopathic female murderers and television ads being pulled because they reinforce gender stereotypes, the constant railing against the pressures on women to be slim and appealing, you're trying to tell us that a song referring to a man's longing for a feminine girl, part of whose essential femininity is that she's small enough for him to carry in his arms like a little doll, wouldn't be seen as offensive today?"

Only if it's taken seriously. And it's not MEANT to be taken seriously. It's meant to be amusing. Lighten up, already.

I'm a Boy-The Who

One girl was called Jean Marie Another little girl was called Felicity Another little girl was Sally Joy The other was me, and I'm a boy

My name is Bill and I'm a headcase They practice making up on my face Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair

[Chorus] I'm a boy, I'm a boy But my ma won't admit it I'm a boy, I'm a boy But if I say I am I get it

Put your frock on, Jean Marie Plait your hair, Felicity Paint your nails, little Sally Joy Put this wig on, little Boy

[Chorus]

I wanna play cricket on the green Ride my bike across the street Cut myself and see my blood I wanna come home all covered in mud

A few of the songs on Tommy by the Who

"Cousin Kevin""Uncle Ernie" and "Gypsy the Acid Queen"

Whoever said George Michael’s “Father Figure” — wasn’t that song a thinly veiled reference to a gay relationship?

anything by Janis Joplin, because her blues inspired wailing would be considered cultural appropriation today.

Anything by Slave

The SJWs would go apeshit over this; all women should be free to walk around looking like Lens Dunham if they want!

Forgot the link:

Come to the Supermarket in Old Peking

Some of the lyrics like "lizard cakes, pickled eel, pickled snakes" and "noodle soup, poodle soup" would have the Twitter SJWs in a tizzy.

Hit Me Baby One More Time

I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl

Miss Nina Simone

The horrid syntax is the most offensive thing about it, but 'Who's David?' would certainly raise more eyebrows now than it did 10 years ago.

[quote] Are you sure that you're mine?/Aren't you dating other guys?/You're so cheap, and I'm not blind,/You're not worthy of my time...

Also:

[quote] You left your phone so I invaded;/I hated what I saw,/You stupid lying bitch, who's David?

If That Ain't Country by David Allan Coe.

There was a song from the Forties, The Too Fat Polka: I don't want her / You can have her/ She's too fat for me.

Or that paean to mental illness from the Sixties: "They're Coming to take me away, Ha-Ha." (It has several references to "the funny farm.")

"The Siamese Cat Song" was dropped from the remake of [italic]Lady and the Tramp[/italic].

Patti. On 3 counts. Saying " Whore", Calling herself a Muslim... And of course the obvious.

You can see females expressing themselves from their point of view which is great. But like physical strength they are never going to reach Olympian heights as creators. Not that men can any longer either. Life today won't permit it. You can give genius grants to the creator of Hamilton or a guy doing his laundry on stage but it is really reaching.

R75, Now Joan Armatrading would have to record "Me, Myself, They".

I chickened out on playing National Lampoon's "Magical Misery Tour," a collection of choice John Lennon quotes from a "Rolling Stone" interview, because of all the offensive words. It's funny if you're old enough to remember John Lennon and his Primal Scream therapy and heroin days, it's not funny to someone who hears only "fuckin' faggot" and "shoulda beat the living shit right out of him" and doesn't know much about a recording musician 39 years dead.

A lot of songs had the word "Personality" as a title, but back in the Big band days there was one written by Johnny Mercer. I think it went: "A girl could learn to spell/ And take dictation well/ But never sit on her bosses' settee/ Unless she had a certain Personality ."

Pointer sisters Slow Hand.

Jail Bait by that pos creep Nugent.

"With Charlize Theron beating up 6 thugs at once in Atomic Blonde and a female Captain Marvel and Killing Eve glamourising sociopathic female murderers and television ads being pulled because they reinforce gender stereotypes, the constant railing against the pressures on women to be slim and appealing, you're trying to tell us that a song referring to a man's longing for a feminine girl, part of whose essential femininity is that she's small enough for him to carry in his arms like a little doll, wouldn't be seen as offensive today?"

No, I don't think it would, unless you were really ultra-sensitive, an extreme left-winger. By the way, I don't think the line "a doll I can carry" was meant to be taken literally. I think it was just Frank Butler's way of saying he wants a very feminine girl. And what's the matter with wanting a feminine girl? Why should anyone be offended by that?