Wildly Inappropriate Songs, Literally Described

[prodigitalson]

Every Breath You Take – The Police
Obsessive stalker mistakes surveillance for affection

Christine Sixteen – KISS
35-year-old man in a bat lizard costume waits for the bell to ring.

Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen
A grown survivor fat shames his abuser.

There are lots more. What comes to mind?

[ScoutHikerDad]

1. Anything By Lucille Bogan or Bo Carter

Google at your own risk. Cardi B didn't invent filthy lyrics.

[pfitz59]

2. Young Girl

[prodigitalson]

5. Victim Blaming set to Music

With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe
You're old enough to give me love

Basically - grown man blames child for nearly getting him arrested.

[PJMcK]

3. Stacy's Mom, Fountains of Wayne

Teenage boy lusts for his friend’s mother.


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[ProfessorGAC]

9. That One I Disagree With

I can see the video being objectionable to many, but not the song itself.

[NJCher]

11. you're technically correct

but that video is over the top. The woman knows what she's doing.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Yeah, In The Song...

...we're hearing from an adolescent boy, but there's no suggestion anything other than fantasy is going on.
If there was, I'd find it creepy too.

[prodigitalson]

14. Teenage boys arent old enough to consent for a reason

Given the chance most would consent to about anything with any woman at any time...some not giving a shit if the woman was down for it.

When I was in middle school we had a Spanish teacher that all the boys thought was attractive. It would have been very easy for her to have taken advantage of us...
And it would have fucked any of us up for life.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Not Sure Your Point

I said that I don't think it's creepy because there's no suggestion in the song that it's anything other than a schoolboy fantasy.
If it were more, than I would find it creepy.

[prodigitalson]

25. ok

[pfitz59]

4. Hot Dog Man

[prodigitalson]

6. Are these things real or AI jokes?

[Marthe48]

7. I heard Hot Dog Man on Dr. Demento

I think

[prodigitalson]

17. So probably a 70s parody

[Marthe48]

22. I checked the song history

One link said Butterbeans and Susie, 1927. Another said Lil Johnson 1936. Another recording was by Bessie Smith who died in 1937. Seems to be an old song, with several artists performing it over the years.

[Marthe48]

8. When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman

Be sure to blame her when she gets hit on by your so-called friends.

[prodigitalson]

16. Not sure thats Dr. Hook's message

I think it's 'your friends sucks'

which is also hurtful

[Wiz Imp]

10. That's not what Fat Bottomed Girls is about.

In his 2008 interview with Mojo magazine, Brian May said he wrote the piece with his bandmate and co-founder, Freddie Mercury, in mind. He alluded that Freddie, now deceased, had a big love for women and men with big buttocks.

It was fitting because Freddie was the lead vocalist of the band, and he certainly poured his heart and soul into the song while recording it. His point was made — yes, Freddie loved voluptuous people.

The only thing inappropriate about it is people reading meanings into it that aren't there.

[prodigitalson]

15. Its a joke, mate

[True Dough]

20. Wiz Imp

to the rescue!

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27. Well it is pretty clear in the lyrics

I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew love before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Hey big woman, you made a bad boy out of me


I'm assume Freddie meant it as just some playful rhyming and a way to express the point of the song, being a lust for fat bottomed girls, but taken literally, nannies ought not to be making bad boys out their charges.

Seems in the spirit of this thread to include it.

[Wiz Imp]

29. Nope. You're reading something into it that isn't really there and clearly was never intended.

And Freddie Mercury did not write the song, Brian May did. I repeat from my other post:

In his 2008 interview with Mojo magazine, Brian May said he wrote the piece with his bandmate and co-founder, Freddie Mercury, in mind. He alluded that Freddie, now deceased, had a big love for women and men with big buttocks.

It's extremely arrogant and ignorant to try to claim you know better what a song is about than the actual songwriter.

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30. Dead wrong. Song lyrics, especially good ones, are open to interpretation,

Often multiple ones, sometimes including ones the lyricist never intended.

They can copyright the lyrics, but not the interpretation.

It's no more arrogant than having an opinion about any work of art.

Moreover, the quote you cite doesn't address my point. Idomb as a whole can be about his lust for a certain body type, but that doesn't negate the meaning of that particular verse. Arguably, that the origin of his lust.

Truth be told, most boys/men don't process early abuse by women the same as othe combinations. Doesn't mean it's not abuse.

And finally, *it's a joke*

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. You're trying too hard (n.t.)

[prodigitalson]

38. Thank you for taking the time to explain what should be obvious

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Green Day

So many people think the song's name is "Time Of Your Life", but that's the parenthetical.
The song is called Good Riddance. The first word in the tine us "Fuck"!
But, it was widely used at reunions, graduations, and retirement parties. Duh!

[True Dough]

21. Even the Seinfeld gang used it

in the series finale!

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[Upthevibe]

40. ProfessorGAC.......

Even though it was originally meant (and written) about a breakup, I still think the lyrics are appropriate to be used at these celebrations (other than the "Fuck" )
Fuck
… Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
… It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
… So take the photographs and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories, and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while
… It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
… It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
… It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

[ProfessorGAC]

42. I Know The Lyrics

We disagree.
The "in the end it's right" is referring to the separating. Essentially saying "it's best to not see each other anymore".

[catbyte]

18. One Way or Another by Blondie always kind of creeped me out.

Sounds like an obsessed fan or a stalker.

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[WestMichRad]

23. Mellow Yellow by Donovan

Perving on a 14 yr old girl.

[prodigitalson]

24. Really...I always heard it was about getting high off banana peels

[Eve Of Destruction]

32. Inaccurate

From Wikipedia:

The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked.[9] According to Donovan's liner notes for the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single.

According to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics.[10] Donovan stated, "I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow yellow," he said. "Really, you know the 'electric banana' was right in there and gave it away. And that's what the song's about." This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with NME magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene — which were ladies' vibrators."[11]

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. Welcome to DU

[prodigitalson]

39. thanks for that

[Rastapopoulos]

26. "Delilah" by Tom Jones

Man stalks his ex, sees her with another man, stabs her to death.

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28. I saw her standing there - the Beatles

Well she was just 17 if you know what I mean.

I mean it's innocent enough if a teenager is singing that song, but it started sounding creepier and creepier the older they got.

Ringo singing "you're 16" as well. Not a good choice for an aging rocker, if you're going to take the lyrics literally.

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. "You're Sixteen"

was originally recorded by Johnny Burnette in 1960, when virtually every song on the pop charts was about teenage romance. Most likely, Ringo just liked how it sounded in a different meter.

"I Saw Her Standing There" was about teenage love at first sight (to which everybody can relate), nothing more. "Mean" was simply an easy rhyme for "-teen." (And, there's no "if" between those lines.)

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36. I get it, and I'm taking this thread in a far more lighthearted manner than some.

I saw her standing there is at least phrased in the past tense, so even when Paul sings it as an old man, one could imagine it being about him reminiscing about when he was a teenager.

You're sixteen, unfortunately, is phrased in the present tense, making it sound cringy when sung by an old man.

That said, I'm fine treating most vocals as just part of the music anyway, the meaning is in many cases largely irrelevant. I know a few foreign language songs by heart and have no idea what they mean.

[Aristus]

33. "More Than This" by Chris de Burgh.

A married man frequently away on business rationalizes his repeat infidelities by imagining that his wife is having them, too, and that he’d be okay with that.

[Tikki]

41. These three:

“Are You Ready For The Sex Girls”. Gleaming Spire. (1983)

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“Pretty Please Me”…The Quick. (1976)

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“Don’t Push Me Around”. The Zeros”. (1977)

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Music in Los Angeles in the late 70’s and early 80’s was a bit of a misogynistic scene.

Tikki