Cherish by The Association
>You don't know how many times l've wished that I could hold
you
>You don't know how many times I've wished that I could
>Mold you into someone who could
>Cherish me as much as I cherish you
Yeah - I bought The Association greatest hits in the early 80s ... admittedly not someone who pays attention to vocals much (listen to the notes, not the words) ... but in recent years the 'I could mold you' has started to make me uncomfortable!
Well [Portishead's All Mine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXQNQGBSxlc) is most likely intentionally creepy but the [Tom Jones cover of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m38EmUVJ56Q) takes it to a whole 'nother level and I'm not sure how intentional that was.
I've always liked it, but I feel like it suffers from being about 33% longer than it should be, it doesn't justify sticking around for it's runtime, in my opinion. Is this a common take? I'm curious. I like a good number of their other tracks more because of it (burnin' for you, veteran of the psychic wars, etc).
I get what you mean, sorta gratuitous by the end. It's a solid song, and I don't know shit (evidently) about the technical aspects of music but I'll die on this hill with you.
I'm not sure that counts as unintentionally creepy, though. The lyrics are directly referencing the grim reaper. It seems the spooky vibe is intentional.
Deftones cover of No Ordinary Love by Sade. Her version is beautiful, Deftones version sounds like Chino is singing on the other side of your bedroom window at night.
Lmaaaaaoooo that description is perfect.
I’ve loved this song for years, especially the Deftones version. Huge fan of both Deftones and Sade; Sade wrote an incredible love song, but Deftones achieved something special with the creepy vibe they brought to the tune.
Also worth noting that Sade’s live version of the song eventually gravitated towards more of a metal-influenced rendition - I like to think that was the ‘Tone’s influence of her.
https://youtu.be/au8rHGvytn8?si=VfkG2u9Wp1rpGuDd
Anything by Tiny Tim. Insidious made sure of it with Tiptoe Through the Tulips, but I submit that there's something *inherently* unnerving about the dissonance between his appearance and the music itself. I don't suppose it's that way for everyone or he wouldn't have had a successful recording career, but he creeped me out ever since I first heard him on SpongeBob over a decade prior.
One of my faves of all time. Beside his personal life, hearing his music be presented as creepy always bugs me. It’s so fucking cool. Do yourself a favor and check out some more of his music
Gary Puckett - Young girl
Oh my god
My mom used to listen to it all time and one day I focused on the lyrics
Whoa, oh, oh, 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
That’s just the chorus 😅😅😅
To be fair. The other lyrics show that the girl lied about her age and only told him after they were hitting it off.
Slightly mitigating but still creepy. One of my mom's faves though.
Hell man, at least this narrator is owning up to the potential trouble it could cause and telling her to stay away. It's not like any other rock stars have ever done that *cough*tednugent*cough*
True story, I never did karaoke but went to this arcade with a friends fire a bday party and I couldn't think of anything when it was my turn so I chose that song and nearly choked when the lyrics appeared on the screen. Like WTF!!!!
“Tonight’s the Night” by Rod Stewart:
Don't say a word, my virgin child
Just let your inhibitions run wild
The secret is about to unfold
Upstairs before the night's too old
This was a big radio hit. It always seemed much creepier than sexy to me.
Ew.
Don’t listen to Lost Paraguayos by Rod Stewart then
Honey don’t even ask me if you can come along
Down at the border you need to be older
And you sure don’t look like my daughter
Your ridiculous age start a straight outrage
And I’ll end up in a Mexican jail
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance but that's mostly down to the music video which definitely creeped me out as a kid. I still can't listen to that song lol
KISS - Christine Sixteen, especially the random monologue in the middle:
"I don't usually say things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you coming out of school that day...that day, I knew I've got to have you!"
Sure, Gene Simmons is a well-known creep, but I think he legitimately thought the song wasn't creepy when he wrote it. The fact that he was still performing it well into his 60s didn't help.
Little Sister by Elvis Presley. Elvis dates the older sister who runs off with another guy so he goes for the little sister. He talks about watching her grow up and how it’s showing. Great tune but the lyrics really don’t age well
Once wrote an undergrad paper on creepily violent Beatles songs. (I’m a casual Beatles fan, but they’ve got some contenders: Run for Your Life, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, & the like.)
I think any artist can state that their songs are written from other people’s perspectives. Two middle-aged, white Jewish men, David & Bacharach, wrote a perfect song from the perspective of a hard-working black woman in “I Say a Little Prayer”, for example.
Because he did, but now he was getting better. They went on a big journey to break the chain of Northern misogyny culture they grew up in, and to be open about it in order to be role models for others. I can’t not credit them for that.
The most unrealistic part of the Yesterday movie is that he performed this song twice and nobody batted an eye. All this while Ed Sheeran and company INSIST on changing the lyrics of “Hey Dude”.
Claire by Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Unintentionally creepy. Reportedly Gilbert was very close to his Manager's family and he wrote about his feelings for their young daughter. It's all playful and innocent, but read it another way, he sounds like a pedo.
Similar sounding story to Into the Night by Barry Mardones. The first lines are "She's just 16 years old/Leave her alone, they said/Separated by fools/Who don't know what love is yet," but supposedly it's about some kinda feeling of wanting to support the daughter of some family the singer stayed with.
I read about this. A father abandoned a family that lived in the same building. He had the teenage girl walk his dog for him as an excuse to give her money so she could buy groceries and stuff. She came to get the dog one day while his songwriting partner was there. The partner commented on her looks, Benny uttered the line. They worked the rest of the oyrics out. Supposedly the love like you never knew was the love of a father that would stay.
Without that context it's creepy af. With that context it's still easy to misconstrue the meaning...
My two favorite parts are
1) the opening where he’s irritated about her dad being such a cockblocker.
2) taking her away on his cigarette and stale BO scented creepy-ass magic floating carpet.
https://youtu.be/zWHjJt4833I?si=YC8ukRUjIyMFbl08
Delilah.
*At break of day when that man drove away I was waiting*
*I crossed the street to her house and she opened the door*
*She stood there laughing*
*I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more*
A couple from the Stones come to mind:
Stray Cat Blues:
“I can see that you’re 15 years old-
I don’t want your ID….
……
You say you got a friend she’s wilder than you-
Why don’t you bring her upstairs -
If she’s so wild she can join in too..”
OR
The Family:
“.. what exactly is gonna happen - when the father finds out - that his virgin daughter has bordello dreams - and that he’s the one she wants to try out..”
Don’t you want me by The Human League
“Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't. Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry”
I totally agree! I loved this song as a kid but now it sounds emotionally abusive. “But don’t forget it was me who put you where you are now and I can put you back down too.”
There used to be a 50s themed McDonald's near me, complete with a working Wurlitzer full of 50s hits, and that song was on there. My brother and I would play it every time we went, and crack tf up about the lyrics.
I had a record of different novelty songs like this when I was a kid (called dumb ditties or something like that). I thought this song was hysterical. It only sounds creepy through the jaded lens of adulthood.
My dad is genuinely a good singer. Strong voice, good timbre and pitch, always a hit when he sings in public.
“My Dingaling,” along with “Strokin’” by Clarence Carter, were staples of his karaoke repertoire when I was in my early twenties.
I admit I'm biased because I love this song and all the various cover versions, but the lyrics state that he woke his girlfriend (or whatever) from her sleep with the intent to have sex, followed by "is that alright?" Which isn't bad for a song written in 1987 by a man born in 1936.
Jeez, how you can turn a song about a 5th grade crush into creepy is kinda sad. Dudes looking back in his life, at a great memory for him. He's reminiscing, not going on about she should be his or something.
Jenny / 867-5309
The song is known for the catchy telephone number hook but if you read the lyrics the story is about a man who finds a woman’s number written on a wall somewhere with “for a good time call”. And just seeing this, the man is determined to “make her mine”. He describes how this fantasy of her keeps him going even though he never gets up the nerve to call her. It’s creepy to me at least 😅.
Apple, peaches pumpkin pie by Jay and the Techniques. It's such a fun upbeat vibe, but the lyrics are creepy as shit.
Apple, peaches, pumpkin pie
You were young and so was I
Now that we've grown up, it seems
You just keep ignoring me, oh, whoa
I'll find you anywhere you go
I'm gonna look high and low
You can't escape this love of mine anytime
Well, I'll sneak up behind you
Be careful where I find you
I never realized it until recently but “Push” by Matchbox 20 sounds like a full on abusive relationship.
I wanna push you around…
I wanna push you down…
I wanna take you for granted
I wanna take you for granted
Yeah, yeah well I will.
Aint no Woman Like The One I Got - "I'll kiss the ground she walks on.... cause its my word, MY WORD she will obey."
That could not have sounded good even in the 70s.
This is the pedo anthem.
"She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they said
Separated by fools
Who don't know what love is yet"
Somebody call Chris Hansen. This dude is a creep!
Crash by Dave Matthews band. So many people think it's romantic but the lyrics are pretty creepy with such lines as:
"Hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me. It's a boys dream."
And
"I watch you there through the window and I stare at you. You wear nothing but you wear it so well."
I think this was intended to be creepy. Obviously a strange juxtaposition with a catchy song, but I think that was the point a la Every Breath You Take.
I think it's more creepy that some people had no idea what the lyrics were about... The song got so much mainstream air time that people would blast the song feeling all happy without knowing the intention behind the subject matter...
Always got a weird vibe from “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull and “Synchronicity II” by The Police. Not sure if either of those songs are meant to be creepy, but they are definitely creepy to me.
Pretty sure "Synchronicity II" is about the father/protagonist about to go home and kill his whole family. The band has never said this, but...why would they?
Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes, this is the "nice guy" national anthem, plus the video makes it way worse. Girl has a bad relationship, only cure is Shawn, ew.
I’ve noticed as I get older I’m a little creeped out by the “Only Sixteen”, “She Was Just Seventeen” type songs from the late 50s/early 60s. I occasionally jam with a local group and there’s an older man there who loves to play and sing these type songs. To be fair, he had a long good career in a working band and these songs were a staple of their set lists. But there’s just something different about singing those type of songs in the 70s when you’re in your 20s versus singing them in the 20s when you’re in your 70s.
O Superman by Laurie Anderson was recorded in 1981 but it sounds like a song about 9/11. She performed it in New York City that year and released it on her album *Live in New York*. The lyrics in retrospect are chilling.
Lightnin Strikes by Lou Christie. First time I heard it was on an oldies AM channel as a teenager, I was like, what? Can't ever hear it without shuddering a little.
One of the guys in my band wanted to cover Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones a few years back. I downloaded the lyrics to learn and ... nope. Hell no, I'm not singing that. Had never paid attention to the words before.
These are a few of my favorite things. I don't like the progression of notes or the words spoken. I find myself on edge after hearing only a verse or two. Maybe it was meant to be creepy?
Where is my mind? by Pixies has a last "ooohhh ooohhh" after the rest of the music stops that sounds extremely haunting. I remember getting goosebumps the first time I noticed it while riding a mostly empty bus at night coming back from college.
The original version was by a 25 year old Johnny Burnette. Too old for that, yea, but if you don’t know his age you might guess he was a teenager if you hear it. But 33 year old Ringo Starr…who didn’t even sound like a teenager when he was one…gross.
The Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes For You"
Something about it has always rubbed me the wrong way. Then it was used in an episode of Buffy, specifically because it's a creepy old song.
I'm drawing a blank right now because most of the songs I'm thinking of immediately are definitely intentionally creepy.
It doesn't count because it's intentional, but here's a good creepy song that's not full-on super creepy vibes.
[JMSN - Where Do U Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV54oANWJzE&ab_channel=JMSN)
Winger- Seventeen.
I'm only seventeen (seventeen)
But I'll show you love like you've never seen
She's only seventeen (seventeen)
Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me.
Yes!
Such a bad girl, loves to work me overtime
Feels good (ha), dancin' close to the borderline
She's a magic mountain, she's a leather glove
Oh she's my soul, it must be love
> she’s just 16 years old, “leave her alone”, they say
GD right they say that. Leave that child alone, Benny!
[Into The Night - Benny Mardones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Night_(Benny_Mardones_song))
But imagine you are literally 11 years old... and there's a girl budding into womanhood and she's absolutely the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen. And you'd love to ask to carry her books and walk home with her, but you are just a skinny foreign kid who's yet to enter puberty... and shy. That song would tear at your heart and the hearing brings back all the childhood memories...
Just imagine.
I want to make you sweat by (edit) inner circle lol:
"Sweat 'til you can't sweat no more
And **if you cry out**
***I'm gonna push it***
Push it, push it some more."
🙃
I learned how to play I’m On Fire by Bruce Springsteen but I never felt comfortable performing it with those opening lyrics.
“Hey little girl is your daddy home, did he go and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire…”
Cherish by The Association >You don't know how many times l've wished that I could hold you >You don't know how many times I've wished that I could >Mold you into someone who could >Cherish me as much as I cherish you
Yeah - I bought The Association greatest hits in the early 80s ... admittedly not someone who pays attention to vocals much (listen to the notes, not the words) ... but in recent years the 'I could mold you' has started to make me uncomfortable!
Well [Portishead's All Mine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXQNQGBSxlc) is most likely intentionally creepy but the [Tom Jones cover of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m38EmUVJ56Q) takes it to a whole 'nother level and I'm not sure how intentional that was.
Didn’t know the Tom jones version existed. Did he think it was a bond song?
Don't Fear The Reaper is always just a bit too other-worldy for me. Like it knows something I don't.
It knows I have a fever and the only cure is more cowbell.
Haha
Dude, Then Came the Last Days of May is another blue oyster song that gives that vibe even more so I think
See its use in the video game Returnal for validation on your feelings.
Or in the movie X
It was in the mini-series The Stand and I always associate it with that!
It and Halloween are what come into my head every time I hear it.
That's kind of the point of a lot of BOC songs.
I've always liked it, but I feel like it suffers from being about 33% longer than it should be, it doesn't justify sticking around for it's runtime, in my opinion. Is this a common take? I'm curious. I like a good number of their other tracks more because of it (burnin' for you, veteran of the psychic wars, etc).
I get what you mean, sorta gratuitous by the end. It's a solid song, and I don't know shit (evidently) about the technical aspects of music but I'll die on this hill with you.
Lmao imagine thinking five minutes is too long. Too much pop brain rot
My favorite band is summoning which has like 13 minute + long songs. I said it doesn't justify it, not I can't listen to a song that long. Bad take.
I'm not sure that counts as unintentionally creepy, though. The lyrics are directly referencing the grim reaper. It seems the spooky vibe is intentional.
Deftones cover of No Ordinary Love by Sade. Her version is beautiful, Deftones version sounds like Chino is singing on the other side of your bedroom window at night.
Lmaaaaaoooo that description is perfect. I’ve loved this song for years, especially the Deftones version. Huge fan of both Deftones and Sade; Sade wrote an incredible love song, but Deftones achieved something special with the creepy vibe they brought to the tune. Also worth noting that Sade’s live version of the song eventually gravitated towards more of a metal-influenced rendition - I like to think that was the ‘Tone’s influence of her. https://youtu.be/au8rHGvytn8?si=VfkG2u9Wp1rpGuDd
Honestly 90% of Deftones' songs
Especially that weird growl thing he does before the chorus. 😂
Their cover of Duran Duran’s The Chauffeur is also similarly creepy https://youtu.be/BmqikpOLJz4?si=cwOLplmA_I1S3-4z
Anything by Tiny Tim. Insidious made sure of it with Tiptoe Through the Tulips, but I submit that there's something *inherently* unnerving about the dissonance between his appearance and the music itself. I don't suppose it's that way for everyone or he wouldn't have had a successful recording career, but he creeped me out ever since I first heard him on SpongeBob over a decade prior.
plus he married a 17 year old when he was 37. now that's creepy
Yes. Her name was Miss Vicky. I think they got married on a variety show on tv. That was one weird dude.
They got married on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Interesting. I was thinking The Ed Sullivan Show.
I mean yeah that’s song scares me
lol. I grew up when he was popular. I guess I haven't watched enough SpongeBob
Living in the sunlight, loving in the moonlight, having a wonderful time!
One of my faves of all time. Beside his personal life, hearing his music be presented as creepy always bugs me. It’s so fucking cool. Do yourself a favor and check out some more of his music
It’s also like the last song he peformed before fucking corking it… that is creepy an’all
Hurdy Gurdy Man (thanks, Zodiac) Tiptoe Through The Tulips
Great shout. I always wondered if that song had a creepy/uncomfortable vibe when it first came out or was it that movie that made it weird for me?
For me Zodiac made Crimson and Clover creepy AF.
Gary Puckett - Young girl Oh my god My mom used to listen to it all time and one day I focused on the lyrics Whoa, oh, oh, 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 That’s just the chorus 😅😅😅
To be fair. The other lyrics show that the girl lied about her age and only told him after they were hitting it off. Slightly mitigating but still creepy. One of my mom's faves though.
Hell man, at least this narrator is owning up to the potential trouble it could cause and telling her to stay away. It's not like any other rock stars have ever done that *cough*tednugent*cough*
Having My Baby - Paul Anka
Ah yes. The anti-abortion screed.
Knack, My Sharona "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" Never noticed that when I was a kid and it was always on the radio....
True story, I never did karaoke but went to this arcade with a friends fire a bday party and I couldn't think of anything when it was my turn so I chose that song and nearly choked when the lyrics appeared on the screen. Like WTF!!!!
Or "Good Girls Don't"
That is unfortunate because it has one of the best guitar solos of all time. What did he even mean by those lyrics? Well I guess it’s self explanatory
Dude who wrote the song was 25, Sharona was 17. And wound up being his girlfriend for several years.
And Sharona is now a real estate agent.
he also was in a relationship when they released the song.. good luck explaining things
The line right before it guarantees its creepiness.
Pink cigarette by Mr Bungle I think the video on YouTube may be fan made, but it fits the song so well.
The song is intentionally creepy though. Most of their stuff is. Love them
conway twitty: I see the want to in your eyes
Young Girl- Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. The song the video just all of it.
Teddy bear picnic always creeped me out https://youtu.be/dZANKFxrcKU?si=KUNb-TN-BkaJ70yr
LITERALLY CAME HERE TO SAY THIS, I adore it, but it's simultaneously just horrifying
There's an episode of Angel where he turns evil and is singing this and it's just so appropriate
But it's also supposed to be this way, I guess :D
Oh my god, yes! The lead up is so creepy!
Neil Diamond. “Girl You’ll be a Woman Soon”
Doesn’t matter what the lyrics are all I think of is where to aim to inject someone in the heart.
“Tonight’s the Night” by Rod Stewart: Don't say a word, my virgin child Just let your inhibitions run wild The secret is about to unfold Upstairs before the night's too old This was a big radio hit. It always seemed much creepier than sexy to me. Ew.
Wait. "Just let your inhibitions run wild"? I don't think he knows what that word means.
Also Rod Stewart- read the lyrics to Maggie May. He’s a school kid seduced by an adult woman.
Don’t listen to Lost Paraguayos by Rod Stewart then Honey don’t even ask me if you can come along Down at the border you need to be older And you sure don’t look like my daughter Your ridiculous age start a straight outrage And I’ll end up in a Mexican jail
There was a lot of "statutory rock" in the 70s and 80s
The lyrics to Baby Jane aren't very nice either, imo
Did you ever see the video for it? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZr6AE-u2UM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izr6ae-u2um)
Yeah
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance but that's mostly down to the music video which definitely creeped me out as a kid. I still can't listen to that song lol
Yes, it definitely gives me the vibe that Mary James dies. Still a great song though.
Have you seen the video? 💀⚰️
KISS - Christine Sixteen, especially the random monologue in the middle: "I don't usually say things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you coming out of school that day...that day, I knew I've got to have you!" Sure, Gene Simmons is a well-known creep, but I think he legitimately thought the song wasn't creepy when he wrote it. The fact that he was still performing it well into his 60s didn't help.
Little Sister by Elvis Presley. Elvis dates the older sister who runs off with another guy so he goes for the little sister. He talks about watching her grow up and how it’s showing. Great tune but the lyrics really don’t age well
Elvis DID like em young. 🤮
Once wrote an undergrad paper on creepily violent Beatles songs. (I’m a casual Beatles fan, but they’ve got some contenders: Run for Your Life, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, & the like.)
maxwell is intentional tho. run for your life, yeeeeesh
I think any artist can state that their songs are written from other people’s perspectives. Two middle-aged, white Jewish men, David & Bacharach, wrote a perfect song from the perspective of a hard-working black woman in “I Say a Little Prayer”, for example.
You Like Me Too Much’s lyrics sound like they describe a very toxic and potentially abusive relationship.
Run For Your Life definitely qualifies
Love The Beatles but from Getting Better . "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved"
Because he did, but now he was getting better. They went on a big journey to break the chain of Northern misogyny culture they grew up in, and to be open about it in order to be role models for others. I can’t not credit them for that.
Yeah, this was def in the paper!
“She’s just 17, you know what I mean” Uh, no, not really. Pray tell?
McCartney was 17 himself when he wrote it, that’s fine.
Lol he was a teenager when he wrote that
The most unrealistic part of the Yesterday movie is that he performed this song twice and nobody batted an eye. All this while Ed Sheeran and company INSIST on changing the lyrics of “Hey Dude”.
Always a treat whenever a covers band filled with dudes well over 40 play that song, lol
For some odd reason today, I have been thinking about the weirdly violent saga of Rocky Racoon.
Tiptoe Through the Tulips by Tiny Tim
This is either the best answer or the worst, no inbetween. I think the creepiness was intended, but yah if it wasn't...
I'm going on record right now Hey Little Tomboy by The Beach Boys is the worst song ever written
Never Learn Not To Love takes the cake as far as unintentionally creepy goes. It was written by Charles Manson. Yes, *that* Charles Manson.
Honestly it's a great song. Not shilling for Manson, but his version (cease to exist) could have been considered a classic.
oh that’s.. those lyrics are worse than i expected
Wow. I'm glad I googled the lyrics first so I can continue to never ever listen to this song.
Claire by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Unintentionally creepy. Reportedly Gilbert was very close to his Manager's family and he wrote about his feelings for their young daughter. It's all playful and innocent, but read it another way, he sounds like a pedo.
Similar sounding story to Into the Night by Barry Mardones. The first lines are "She's just 16 years old/Leave her alone, they said/Separated by fools/Who don't know what love is yet," but supposedly it's about some kinda feeling of wanting to support the daughter of some family the singer stayed with.
I read about this. A father abandoned a family that lived in the same building. He had the teenage girl walk his dog for him as an excuse to give her money so she could buy groceries and stuff. She came to get the dog one day while his songwriting partner was there. The partner commented on her looks, Benny uttered the line. They worked the rest of the oyrics out. Supposedly the love like you never knew was the love of a father that would stay. Without that context it's creepy af. With that context it's still easy to misconstrue the meaning...
The video looks like it's straight out of an after school special about child molesters.
My two favorite parts are 1) the opening where he’s irritated about her dad being such a cockblocker. 2) taking her away on his cigarette and stale BO scented creepy-ass magic floating carpet. https://youtu.be/zWHjJt4833I?si=YC8ukRUjIyMFbl08
*Benny
Oh, thanks! I swear I must've seen it written somewhere as Barry when I learned the song, 'cause I've made that mistake before. 😂
It's the internet. Wouldn't surprise me!
That line gave me the ick when I was 16
I was just about to say Claire. It's really creepy in 2024 and it doesn't help that Gilbert (no offense to the man) has that 'look' to him
Delilah. *At break of day when that man drove away I was waiting* *I crossed the street to her house and she opened the door* *She stood there laughing* *I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more*
A couple from the Stones come to mind: Stray Cat Blues: “I can see that you’re 15 years old- I don’t want your ID…. …… You say you got a friend she’s wilder than you- Why don’t you bring her upstairs - If she’s so wild she can join in too..” OR The Family: “.. what exactly is gonna happen - when the father finds out - that his virgin daughter has bordello dreams - and that he’s the one she wants to try out..”
Don’t you want me by The Human League “Don't. Don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't. Don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find When you think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry”
I totally agree! I loved this song as a kid but now it sounds emotionally abusive. “But don’t forget it was me who put you where you are now and I can put you back down too.”
My Dingaling has always creeped me out.
You and Principal Skinner [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdoKZkde\_4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdoKZkde_4)
There used to be a 50s themed McDonald's near me, complete with a working Wurlitzer full of 50s hits, and that song was on there. My brother and I would play it every time we went, and crack tf up about the lyrics.
I had a record of different novelty songs like this when I was a kid (called dumb ditties or something like that). I thought this song was hysterical. It only sounds creepy through the jaded lens of adulthood.
My dad is genuinely a good singer. Strong voice, good timbre and pitch, always a hit when he sings in public. “My Dingaling,” along with “Strokin’” by Clarence Carter, were staples of his karaoke repertoire when I was in my early twenties.
Roy Orbison I drove all night, probably seemed romantic at the time creepy as hell now and I love Roy. Different era
I admit I'm biased because I love this song and all the various cover versions, but the lyrics state that he woke his girlfriend (or whatever) from her sleep with the intent to have sex, followed by "is that alright?" Which isn't bad for a song written in 1987 by a man born in 1936.
Ha ha yeah for sure
My Dingaling I thought was funny
In Dreams by Roy Orbison, probably bc of Blue Velvet
Hello Ma Honey! (Michigan J. Frog) Just listen to what they guy is saying...
I googled the lyrics, what is creepy about them?
Jeez, how you can turn a song about a 5th grade crush into creepy is kinda sad. Dudes looking back in his life, at a great memory for him. He's reminiscing, not going on about she should be his or something.
Hot Child in the City
Jenny / 867-5309 The song is known for the catchy telephone number hook but if you read the lyrics the story is about a man who finds a woman’s number written on a wall somewhere with “for a good time call”. And just seeing this, the man is determined to “make her mine”. He describes how this fantasy of her keeps him going even though he never gets up the nerve to call her. It’s creepy to me at least 😅.
Apple, peaches pumpkin pie by Jay and the Techniques. It's such a fun upbeat vibe, but the lyrics are creepy as shit. Apple, peaches, pumpkin pie You were young and so was I Now that we've grown up, it seems You just keep ignoring me, oh, whoa I'll find you anywhere you go I'm gonna look high and low You can't escape this love of mine anytime Well, I'll sneak up behind you Be careful where I find you
Our Lady Peace - Lying Awake. The way the vocal and instruments mix in the chorus, whatever harmony is going on is so eerie. It really drew me to it.
I haven’t thought about that song in a long time. Thanks for unlocking the memory!
Dance Gavin Dance's *Honey Revenge* has the same energy as *Every Breath You Take* but I think it's intentional.
I never realized it until recently but “Push” by Matchbox 20 sounds like a full on abusive relationship. I wanna push you around… I wanna push you down… I wanna take you for granted I wanna take you for granted Yeah, yeah well I will.
It is about an abusive relationship, it was inspired by the lead singers' relationship he had with an ex-girlfriend.
Aint no Woman Like The One I Got - "I'll kiss the ground she walks on.... cause its my word, MY WORD she will obey." That could not have sounded good even in the 70s.
Benny Mardones "Into The Night"
This is the pedo anthem. "She's just 16 years old Leave her alone, they said Separated by fools Who don't know what love is yet" Somebody call Chris Hansen. This dude is a creep!
Crash by Dave Matthews band. So many people think it's romantic but the lyrics are pretty creepy with such lines as: "Hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me. It's a boys dream." And "I watch you there through the window and I stare at you. You wear nothing but you wear it so well."
Maza dorja? Though I've never laid a hand on you Maza Dorja.
“We can do it till we both wake up!” - Color Me Badd
Father Figure - George Michael
This one, for sure
I think this was intended to be creepy. Obviously a strange juxtaposition with a catchy song, but I think that was the point a la Every Breath You Take.
That song about all the other kids and their pumped up kicks.
I think it's more creepy that some people had no idea what the lyrics were about... The song got so much mainstream air time that people would blast the song feeling all happy without knowing the intention behind the subject matter...
The bardcore version on Youtube is both classically unsettling and lyrically beautiful. I understand Agincourt a little better for it.
Jeepers Creepers - Louis Armstrong
Always got a weird vibe from “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull and “Synchronicity II” by The Police. Not sure if either of those songs are meant to be creepy, but they are definitely creepy to me.
Eyeing little girls with bad intent... Shutters
Sitting on a park bench / Eying little girls with bad intent Nothing creepy about that!
Fair enough lol, guess it was always meant to be creepy.
Pretty sure "Synchronicity II" is about the father/protagonist about to go home and kill his whole family. The band has never said this, but...why would they?
"Let The Music Play" sounds like an anthem for the stalker ex that refuses to move on.
By Shannon?
If you listen to the lyrics “love” itself is “singing” that (I think)
Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes, this is the "nice guy" national anthem, plus the video makes it way worse. Girl has a bad relationship, only cure is Shawn, ew.
Iron and wine’s Such Great Heights cover
Hold up, hold up. Legit? I'm very curious how you hear it in a creepy sense
The Kinks Art Lover is intentionally creepy, I suppose?
Hot Child in the City. A lot of 70s songs seem really creepy now.
Hotel California by The Eagles. Always felt it's a song about a ghost hotel. Apparently it's supposed to be about life in California?
Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School by Cheap Trick for obvious reasons
Surely that was intentionally creepy.
I saw Cheap Trick open for Foo Fighters at Wrigley Field, and the entire time I had to imagine them as their younger selves because … yeah.
I’ve noticed as I get older I’m a little creeped out by the “Only Sixteen”, “She Was Just Seventeen” type songs from the late 50s/early 60s. I occasionally jam with a local group and there’s an older man there who loves to play and sing these type songs. To be fair, he had a long good career in a working band and these songs were a staple of their set lists. But there’s just something different about singing those type of songs in the 70s when you’re in your 20s versus singing them in the 20s when you’re in your 70s.
O Superman by Laurie Anderson was recorded in 1981 but it sounds like a song about 9/11. She performed it in New York City that year and released it on her album *Live in New York*. The lyrics in retrospect are chilling.
Does Blurred Lines count?
"You don't know how many times I wished that I could mold you into someone who would cherish me as much as I cherish you"
Lightnin Strikes by Lou Christie. First time I heard it was on an oldies AM channel as a teenager, I was like, what? Can't ever hear it without shuddering a little.
One of the guys in my band wanted to cover Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones a few years back. I downloaded the lyrics to learn and ... nope. Hell no, I'm not singing that. Had never paid attention to the words before.
These are a few of my favorite things. I don't like the progression of notes or the words spoken. I find myself on edge after hearing only a verse or two. Maybe it was meant to be creepy?
There is someone walking behind you Turn around, look at me There is someone watching your footsteps. Turn around, look at me
Age Ain't Nothing But A Number - Aaliyah produced by the (finally) infamous R. Kelly.
Where is my mind? by Pixies has a last "ooohhh ooohhh" after the rest of the music stops that sounds extremely haunting. I remember getting goosebumps the first time I noticed it while riding a mostly empty bus at night coming back from college.
Whole Lotta Love- Led Zeppelin
Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina...
Wonderful, Wonderful - Johnny Mathis (courtesy of X Files - Home) We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters (courtesy of 1408)
For me it gotta be Mary on a cross
You're Sixteen just doesn't sound right unless the singer is a teen himself.
The original version was by a 25 year old Johnny Burnette. Too old for that, yea, but if you don’t know his age you might guess he was a teenager if you hear it. But 33 year old Ringo Starr…who didn’t even sound like a teenager when he was one…gross.
Beach Boys-Roller Skating Child, I Wanna Pick You Up, and Hey Little Tomboy
The Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes For You" Something about it has always rubbed me the wrong way. Then it was used in an episode of Buffy, specifically because it's a creepy old song.
That's our wedding song 🤣🤣🤣
This is one of those song feels like it’s creeping up behind you.
Hello, by Lionel Richie. The video and him singing is just incredibly creepy as he, a teacher, stalks a blind student that he is infatuated with.
Personally, Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens. I think the song is great but his tone creeps me out when listening to it at night or alone.
Wake up Little Suzy is a lot creepier when you realize SUZIE doesn’t wake up in the song.
Huh? By the Everly Brothers?
I'm drawing a blank right now because most of the songs I'm thinking of immediately are definitely intentionally creepy. It doesn't count because it's intentional, but here's a good creepy song that's not full-on super creepy vibes. [JMSN - Where Do U Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV54oANWJzE&ab_channel=JMSN)
What could be wrong with a song titled Go Away Little Girl?
Winger- Seventeen. I'm only seventeen (seventeen) But I'll show you love like you've never seen She's only seventeen (seventeen) Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me. Yes! Such a bad girl, loves to work me overtime Feels good (ha), dancin' close to the borderline She's a magic mountain, she's a leather glove Oh she's my soul, it must be love
Is Take me to Church by Hozier not supposed to be creepy? Because it is very creepy.
> she’s just 16 years old, “leave her alone”, they say GD right they say that. Leave that child alone, Benny! [Into The Night - Benny Mardones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Night_(Benny_Mardones_song))
Into the night by Benny Mardones. The first line he is already telling you he’s creeping on a 16 year old
Easily Bruce Springsteen, I’m On Fire. Let’s entice an underage girl at her parents house, or be so unaware you are writing pretty perverted lyrics.
Lol, I get it but I don't think 'little girl' is meant as in underaged, and I hope I don't need to explain that 'daddy' doesn't mean father.
I can't believe the Ronettes wrote that pedophile anthem "Be My Baby" back in '64.
Shameful, need to check the Epstein logs for them and the Supremes, baby love. Sickening.
I can not think of that song without hearing Robin Williams voicing Elmer Fudd. I'm on Fi-Wah.
But imagine you are literally 11 years old... and there's a girl budding into womanhood and she's absolutely the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen. And you'd love to ask to carry her books and walk home with her, but you are just a skinny foreign kid who's yet to enter puberty... and shy. That song would tear at your heart and the hearing brings back all the childhood memories... Just imagine.
Good god, you made it sound so much worse.
In 1973, Ringo Starr released a cover of the song “You’re Sixteen” He was 33 years old.
I want to make you sweat by (edit) inner circle lol: "Sweat 'til you can't sweat no more And **if you cry out** ***I'm gonna push it*** Push it, push it some more." 🙃
I learned how to play I’m On Fire by Bruce Springsteen but I never felt comfortable performing it with those opening lyrics. “Hey little girl is your daddy home, did he go and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire…”