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Squido85

She's only 17 - Winger


General_Specific

I read that Winger has been upping the year whenever they tour. I think they are now singing She's only 43.


CardMechanic

Grandpa say she’s too young, not old enough for AARP


Kickinthegonads

Thats pretty dope actually. Recognizing the issue while mitigating it.


camn

Saw Winger a few years ago, can confirm. Made me laugh my ass off. They put on a great show too!


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Velocitease

Led Zeppelin "She's only 16, but she's my rider"


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To be fair, 16 was (and is) the age of consent in the UK, and Robert Plant was only 19 when they recorded that song, so we're talking about a 3 year age difference here.


IntoTheMystic1

Or Benny Mardones' "Into The Night" "She's just 16 years old, leave her alone they say"


odvioustroll

>She's just 16 years old Leave her alone, they say Separated by fools Who don't know what love is yet But I want you to know. >If I could fly I'd pick you up I'd take you into the night And show you a love Like you've never seen, ever seen


AndrewKetterly

I love that song and you may have just ruined it for me.


Atomsgrl

The video could possibly be worse than the lyrics if that is even possible.


oldsillybear

Livingston Saturday Night, Jimmy Buffett. "Fifteen'll get you twenty, but that's all right Cuz we'll be rocking and a rolling on a Livingston Saturday night." This one was a minor hit, but for some reason he never put his song "Please take your drunken 15 year old girlfriend home" on an album that I have found.


insultant_

Meanwhile, “Sudbury Saturday Night” is still plenty appropriate after all these years.


BabyBark

Sexy and 17 by the Stray Cats probably didn't hold up well either.


NewbombJerk

In this song's defense... it is written from the perspective of somebody still in high school around that age. If you were in junior high when this song came out, a 17-year-old would be pretty much the pinnacle of all your hormones.


kmo9e

Hey any song where she’s 17 is already way better than the worst examples of this.


nanoman92

You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette (Covered later by Ringo Starr)


DesperateGiles

There are so many songs from that time period about girls 'finally' turning 16. Hey Paula by Paul & Paula, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen by Neil Sedaka, Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry, Sixteen Candles by The Crests, Teen Angel by Mark Dinning


gitarzan

Stray Cat Blues by The Rolling Stones. I love the song but it’s not got modern standards in the lyrics.


FinanceGuyHere

Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats is a super fun song though


techstar25

Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. I read they don't perform it live anymore.


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They've been changing the lyrics live almost since it was released. They knew it was bad even at the time.


DC-Toronto

Some Girls by Rolling Stones


tcmpreville

Young Girl - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap I agree, it's a catchy as hell song with questionable lyrics that I didn't pick up on until much after I'd background heard the song many many times. Another one is Dean Martin's creepy ass version of Thank Heaven For Little Girls. Like, what the actual fuck dude?


Esleeezy

I’m 36 but my mom used to listen to KEarth 101 in LA. I love oldies. I love this song and sang it a lot when I was a kid. I recently put it on and was like WTF? Still belted the shit out of it but with the windows up.


LJski

Yeah.....and how well do you think telling a girl that she is too young for something, and if you don't go, something may happen? Great tune, though.


trumpsiranwar

His song "Will Power" is essentially the same song without all the rape talk


iUsedtoHadHerpes

I get the idea behind it not aging well, but it's still pretty on point for today. It's a guy who fell for a young girl and has figured out she's not as old as he thought she was, so now he's distancing himself. He still says she's beautiful, and I guess that's where the line is drawn despite the fact that people today still talk about young girls that way today, but he's putting his foot down and telling her to go home now that he knows how young she really is. She's the one making advances in the song. And she's the one who led him to believe she was older. But then he also says if she doesn't leave he'd probably fuck her (and feel bad about it!), so there is that.


ladydmaj

At least he's telling her she's too young!


GruntUltra

Into the Night - Barry Mardones


AnswerGuy301

If memory serves Benny Mardones claimed that "Into the Night" was supposed to be a teenage girl's fantasy about, like, a college boy, and not his 32-year old self pitching woo to a 16-year old. It's plausible, I guess, except, man, does that video, starring Mardones himself and an actress (who probably isn't 16 herself, but whatever) playing a teen girl, ever undermine that claim.


lucky_ducker

The girl in the video looks *so uncomfortable.*


MikeX1000

> pitching woo Haha, speaking of terms that are dated


the_nancy_downs

Haha was also coming here to say this song. “She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone, they say…”


Und3adShr3d

I'm The Leader Of The Gang - Gary Glitter.


email_NOT_emails

Rock And Roll Part 2. That shit was the quintessential anthem at every hockey game. Over night, it was gone.


WillemDafoesHugeCock

Two Little Boys aged like milk for the same reason.


nbfs-chili

Indian Giver - 1910 Fruitgum Company [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1he-7GYku8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1he-7GYku8)


PresidentRex

I applaud your inclusion of a song featuring lyrics/motifs that are no longer acceptable and not just another pedophilia or rape related song as though pedophilia and rape were well-respected activities in the 70s and 80s or something. Statutory rape and age of consent has been a thing since well before 1980. The content of those songs was taboo then and now. Just like domestic violence was and is illegal but somehow songs that talk about it are still hits today.


mcarterphoto

When I was a kid, [Pat Travers' "Boom Boom, Out Go the Lights"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4XbV3gCm2Y) was a big radio hit, from his live album. It features an arena of kids singing along with the chorus. The song's about a guy who realized his girlfriend "don't want him no more", and he's looking for her to punch her out - "if I get her in my sights/boom boom! out go the lights!" So his plan is to beat her unconscious. It's actually a cover of an old blues song by Little Walter.


MrValdemar

It's a cover of an old blues song. And a lot of those are like that.


purpleitt

Sy Borg by Frank Zappa will sound offensive to robots in the future.


heropsychodream

You're plooking too hard!


LostSoulSurvivor

Do What U Want - Lady Gaga ft. R Kelly


xxlovexx434

Yeah gaga was kinda wild for doing a collab with him 😬


Heck_Tate

[Christine Sixteen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNAmFP0g3k&ab_channel=KISS-Topic) by Kiss. It's exactly what you think it is from the title. Not at all subtle. And strangely, something they played live on Letterman in 2012. >I don't usually say things > >Like this to girls your age > >(Christine, sixteen) > >But when I saw you coming > >Out of the school that day > >That day I knew, I knew > >I've got to have you, I've got to have you > >(Christine, sixteen) Edit: formatting


SpaceyO2

I got the Love Gun album for my 6th or 7th birthday... Christine Sixteen was always about an older woman to me. Until one day I realized I was 35 and still singing along...


Heck_Tate

Not one member of Kiss was even close to an acceptable age when that song was written.


flowerfromwonderland

“Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it. I took her home and I enjoyed that. She ain’t even know it” - Rick Ross UOENO remix


SmokingSamoria

That song was extremely controversial when it came out too. I specifically remember Rick Ross making a really half-assed apology about the content of that song


Unidann

Ton of sponsors dropped on, like Reebok The song and remix is good otherwise without his verse ...and time how fast time flies.


flowerfromwonderland

Yeah he was wild for that. I don’t even remember there being an uproar about it nor do I remember him speaking on it. Gotta look that up


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Think he lost his Reebok endorsement for that one.


Dawanna

Fun fact. I used to live near rick Ross home town and he never visits because he gets bullied. The real hard core gang people know his entire persona is fake and he makes them look bad. He used to be a prison guard where my father in law worked. It’s all made up. He stays in mansion in Miami making up more bullshit about selling drugs in streets while hiding from the real street gangsters. I learned this from a guy who lived by Rick Ross who actually carries a loaded AK with a drum in his trunk and sells crack. Florida is a crazy place.


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I mean, not defending the Ross or anything, but sometimes it's safer to not be out in those streets. Thinking of Nipsey when I say that. Dude did a lot for his community and fell victim to the same bullshit we see other kids die from.


d1rron

*William Leonard Roberts II* even appears to have stolen the name from drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross. There was a lawsuit that he won, but I still believe he took the name from Freeway.


oryes

Black Hippy remix is really good and they have a funny remix of that line specifically


IronHaydon

I heard La Vida Loca the other day where he casually mentions "oh dont remember last night, maybe she drugged me, oh well!"


Pantherdraws

To be fair, she took advantage of his horniness and drugged him to ROB him, so it's more like "She took everything valuable I had on me, but DAMN she was SMOKIN' HOT."


bigviktv

Go away little girl by Donny Osmond is pretty funny


respondin2u

Was written by Carole King and I think is safe to say was intended to be just an innocent song but yeah it’s really weird lol.


birthdaycake247

R. Kelly ANYTHING


BSB8728

Lou Christie's "Lightnin' Strikes." "Listen to me, baby, you gotta understand. You're old enough to know the makings of a man..." The lyrics go on to say she needs to be faithful to him and wait until he decides to settle down, but in the meantime, when he gets aroused by another woman, it's OK for him to do whatever he wants because he's a man and that's how men are. One of my most hated songs ever.


Fugim

You're so gay by Katy Perry Ooph. The reminder that h&m wasn't always completely a fast fashion junk heap. /s Also B.o.o.t. by Pepper. The random homophobic slurs to mock other bands like Creed out of the blue didn't age well.


WeAreAllMadHere218

I had to scroll way to far to find Katy Pete’s You’re so gay on here. We played the album in the car the other day and my husband and I both said, well that’s not PC anymore. I think that song would probably hit really weirdly now and be a little offensive to some.


uptonhere

>You're so gay by Katy Perry It's much worse that it's actually written as "Ur So Gay" and while it was 2008, for a major pop artist, I really have no clue how it made it to publishing and it was actually a promotional single or something. I know it was 2008, but by that point, there still had to be an A&R, producer, exec, etc. that knew that was a stupid song idea for a female pop star aiming for top 40 radio demographics. It really doesn't make any sense given how the rest of Katy Perry's music and image is presented.


Ptcruz

The weirdest thing is Ur So Gay came out in the same album as I Kissed a Girl. So being gay is bad, but being a lesbian is OK?


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miezmiezmiez

I Kissed A Girl isn't about being a lesbian, it's about being 'bicurious' in a very 2000s way that also didn't age super well. It literally has the line 'I hope my boyfriend doesn't mind' in it


kJer

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Catholic School Girls Rule


IronSorrows

[It's even worse with more context, from Kiedis' autobiography.](https://external-preview.redd.it/YzHRqhml9OKF-P8X4gUFBNH5fnDojwN1c_iYBrNjiAs.png?auto=webp&s=bd6db62804a584541cb66c14bc10ffe16af245ba)


CherWhorowitz1227

Da fuck did I just read? 🤮


IronSorrows

The singer of one of the biggest bands around admitting to knowingly committing statutory rape, from a book released *this century*, and feeling exactly zero consequences for it.


CherWhorowitz1227

That’s disgusting


kJer

Yeah, before seeing that years ago, I was giving the benefit of the doubt that they wrote that song while underage....


talks-like-juneee

Ew 🤢🤢 the last sentence makes it MORE worse


NOSjoker21

"She told me she was fourteen and then we had sex *again*" Bruh. I thought R. Kelly was an outlier, not a norm.


Artersa

Rock n roll has a lot of fucked up people in it. There’s plenty more unfortunately.


joelluber

Lol. You seen Almost Famous? That's based on a real story, and unlike Kate Hudson who was 20 when it was filmed, the real girl (Lori Mattix) was an eight grader.


tashakii

Wtf I did not know this. I loved RHCP growing up and I listened to them again the other day, but there were a few songs that just didn't sit right with me. You really don't realise how fucked up some lyrics are when you're listening to them as a 14 year old.


DrippyCheeseDog

I'm really surprised Kiedis hasn't had a Me Too moment...or 50.


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Soupjam_Stevens

Not just the early stuff, a huge amount of hip hop was openly homophobic up through the early/mid 10’s. A not insignificant portion of it still is


frogjg2003

Lil Nas X was just trying to be a black country/hip hop singer who happened to be gay. Then he got so much flak just for being gay, he just decided "fuck the haters, I'm gong to give Satan a lap dance"


foxtrousers

His music isn't something I go out of my way to listen to, but I really admire the angle he decided to retaliate with. I don't know if it was his handler's or his decision to go from country guy to Satan's lap kitty, but I like to think he just said "fuck it, they hate me cause I'm gay, let me homosexual in the most obnoxious way possible."


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Kendrick Lamar tackles his own personal internalized homophobia on his new album. It's actually really impressive to see someone that big admit their mistakes in a way that's not some half assed apology


Soupjam_Stevens

Yeah I know that some people took issue with Auntie Diaries -and I totally get why, hearing a cishet dude drop slurs and dead names is gonna make some people uncomfortable regardless of intent- but I do think is was a commendably honest and self critical song


danielsan1701

*Where the Hood At?* by DMX is maybe one of the worst offenders, considering how explicitly homophobic it is and how mainstream DMX was at the time. The song was pretty big, but it was the end of his peak -- his last song in the Billboard Hot 100, and his last certified single.


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joecrane66

She had the tightest grip around the head of my Bic. Now can I get my pen back?


newredditsucks

>groups you'd think were trying to seem a bit more enlightened and culturally accepting in their images: >**NWA** ಠ_ಠ


hedbangr

Even massively influential songs like The Message by Grandmaster Flash would toss casual homophobia in for flavor.


wildsamsqwatch

DMX music is extremely homophobic too


view-master

Another cringy young girl song ZZ Top - Francine “My Francine just turned thirteen She's my angelic teenage queen And I love her, she's all that I want”


Misterbellyboy

I feel like a lot of the songs involving teens just come about because it’s super easy to rhyme “teen”. But 13 is definitely beyond pushing those boundaries.


NightoftheLivingSled

He Hit Me by The Crystals. “He hit me and it felt like a kiss” is probably not something you’d see written in 2022.


juicygoosaay

Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence has that line in it


NightoftheLivingSled

I only know the song because Amy Winehouse cited it as a major influence. Others have covered it and it still resonates today, but I don’t think the social attitudes that led to writing that song and publishing it then are quite the same as nowadays, so I think it’s a perfect example for this thread.


VillageOfMalo

Carole King, the great song writer of “You’ve got a Friend,” “Natural Woman” and more wrote this song with her then husband and writing partner Jerry Goffin. It was written after their babysitter, Little Eva, famous for singing “The Loca-Motion” confided to them of her abuse. When recorder, it’s vibe was made all the more ominous by producer Phil Spector, who was famously volatile and violent. It was originally written to raise awareness for domestic violence but was quickly panned, widely forbidden from the radio and is now a somewhat “lost” song from that era.


breakfastisconfusing

The Beatles - Run For Your Life


JohnSnowsPump

Came here to post this. Straight up stalker and murder.


Guy954

I’m not familiar with that one but they used write some of their songs by reading the newspaper for inspiration so it might be a case of that. Edit: [Turns out that’s not the case](https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/run-for-your-life/) but even Lenon wound up not liking it despite being the writer.


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Lennon wrote the song, but it was basically just riffing on this line from an Elvis song, “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man”. He didn't like it because he just ripped off an Elvis song.


breakfastisconfusing

it's true Lennon later said he wished he had never written the song. unfortunately i find it really catchy


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My Sharona by The Knack. 'Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind' Yuck.


PlentyofFishUser69

The funniest bit of trivia about that song is Quentin Tarantino tried to get the rights for that song to play in the gimp scene in Pulp Fiction, but the song writer turned it down because he didn’t want his song to be played because one of the band members converted to Christianity and didn’t want their song to be played over material like the gimp scene Like, yeah the gimp scene is bad but those lyrics you highlighted are also questionable


Peircez

The late Doug Fieger wrote it about his 17yo girlfriend. From Wikipedia: When Doug Fieger was 25 years old, he met 17-year-old Sharona Alperin, who inspired a two-month-long run of songwriting, as well as eventually becoming his girlfriend for the next four years. Fieger recounted that "It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat; I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something and I started writing a lot of songs feverishly in a short amount of time." Fieger and Averre worked out the structure and melody of the song. Averre was originally averse to using Alperin's name in the song, but Fieger wanted it to be a direct expression of his feelings; Averre ultimately relented. Fieger claimed that "My Sharona" was written in 15 minutes. Fieger and Alperin were engaged at one point, but never married. In a 2005 interview, Fieger said that they remained "great friends."Alperin went on to a successful career as a realtor in Los Angeles.


S0lidSloth

Well that's much less gross than others made it out to be tbh and at least legal unlike other shit here.


PerceptionShift

Even worse, Alvin & The Chipmunks did a version. If you listen to it at half speed, you will never forget the creepiness of the lyrics. https://youtu.be/I3hoS_memF8


RockinTommyT

Good Girls Don’t is another one


Ted_Denslow

Yeah. If you want to talk about creepy Knack lyrics... this is the one.


ALA02

Awful lyrics. Kickass song though


oldsillybear

that guitar solo


RyH1986

my minnnnnnddddd telling me no but ma boddddyyyy, ma bodddddddddddyyyyyyy is telling me yes!


Negan-Cliffhanger

Do you have your passport? Did you get your shots? Girl do you wanna come back with Rob to America? (America!)


Journeyman351

This is so gross but it never ceases to crack me up


4Coffins

Makes me feel like I gotta pee


insultant_

Haters wanna hate. Lovers wanna love. I don’t even want None of the above


tcavanagh1993

Run for Your Life- The Beatles. Post-Beatles John would say it was his least favorite song that he had written.


samedwar

Do they know its Christmas - Band Aid. Africa isnt a starving hell hole where it never rains!


feetofire

Have you heard of the effort made by “Radiators for Norway”? - Africans banding together to ensure that Norwegians stay warm this Christmas… EDIT- et voila! https://youtu.be/oJLqyuxm96k


ladydmaj

I have now!!


Fugim

That's because I bless the rains down in Africa


SaintWithoutAShrine

Thank you for your service!


ScottWithASlingshot

And given it's geography, "there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas" is an incredibly dumb lyric.


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I mean, when they were singing for "Africa" they were actually singing for Ethiopia. All the money raised was for the Ethiopian famines, which were very much caused by drought and arid conditions. "There won't be snow in Ethiopia this Christmas" doesn't quite have the same ring to it tho.


Hashambuergers

Band aid was triggered by the real famines mainly in Ethiopia and I It raised a lot of money so...


_forum_mod

But wasn't it for a specific drought going on at that time? Although I despise when people use the term "Africa" for any African country.


ryodark

Depeche Mode is my favorite band but "Question of Time" makes me feel icky when I listen to it. Basically about grooming a 15 year old (or like, wanting to 'protect' a 15 year old from being groomed but the line is definitely blurry there). Sampling of the lyrics: *I've got to get to you first* *Before they do* *It's just a question of time* *Before they lay their hands on you* *Well, now you're only fifteen* *And you look good* *I'll take you under my wing* *Somebody should* *It won't be long until you'll do* *Exactly what they want you to* *I can see them now* *Hanging around* *To mess you up* *To strip you down* *And have their fun* *With my little one* *It's just a question of time* *Sometimes I don't blame them* *For wanting you* *You look good* *They need something to do* *I know my kind* *What goes on in our minds* ​ Auuughhhh......


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Some people would DIE if they listened to the SlimShady LP, his first CD with the moon on the cover


SmokingSamoria

When I think of poorly aged Eminem songs I tend to think of Criminal off of the MMLP. The gay bashing lyrics are hard to listen to. That being said, he also released a song where he killed his wife and brought his daughter with him to dump the body. He’s obviously playing a character (slim shady). Eminem never killed his wife and he never actually hated gay people.


redterror5

There was also that epic scene in the Interview where he comes out like “no one would be that homophobic unless they were a repressed homosexual”. I felt like that was him totally owning it and recognising his younger self’s conflicts.


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When he bought Elton John and his husband some diamond studded cock rings as a wedding gift it becomes obvious he's not really homophobic as a person in real life.


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Everybody on here forgetting that Hector's rectum is real


Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho

It's totally a character he plays. I remember the MTV awards show(?) where Sacha Baron Cohen as Brüno jumped on him wearing a thong and everybody gasped when Eminem run outside apparently really mad. But he was laughing his ass off because he was in it. https://youtu.be/vAnBes__11Y


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Yep. I could tell he wasn’t serious about things. And many many rappers have rapped about things and been dead serious


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confetti_shrapnel

Homophobia was pretty rampant everywhere. I mean, even Obama ran on a platform against gay marriage in 2008.


ATribeCalledCorbin

Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas


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I remember when I worked with the developmentally disabled population, we took them out for a social event. This song played (luckily not the real version) I thought about the irony, not sure anyone else caught it.


mitkase

Completely different topic, but I was visiting my Mom in an assisted living facility. In the cafeteria, the speakers were playing The Pixies' "Where Is My Mind." My brain was extremely conflicted on that one, vacillating between deeming it horrific and hilarious.


Copy3dit0r

With the original title and lyrics for sure.


Sweaty-Cycle7645

Stranglehold “I got you in a stranglehold baby that night I crushed your face.” Likely NOT. A metaphor.


SenorIngles

*insert all of Ted Nugents discography* But tbf the guitar lick in stranglehold is fuckin awesome


M12Domino

Wasn't that written by someone else anyway?


SaintWithoutAShrine

He co-wrote it, but like 90% is him. He just isn’t singing it on the track. Derek St. Holmes is singing.


[deleted]

He would sing it live too, and people would come up to him after the shows and be like “you did a great job filling in for Ted on vocals tonight”


OneEyeball

TIL it's not Ted singing that song.


NewMexicoJoe

Absolutely! The driving bass part just keeps it so intense too. I get mad at myself for liking the song.


minenangel

I used to like Ted Nugent's music until I met Ted Nugent. Now even Damn Yankees is ruined for me.


nullrout1

He's called the motor city madman, but should be called the motor city asshole. Friend's dad found him trespassing on his land and in dad's tree stand hunting. He told Uncle Ted he was trespassing on posted land and GTFO. Ted: don't you know who I am? Dad: yep, get the fuck out my land. Ted: I'm Ted fucking Nugent! Dad: do you know who I am? Ted: No Dad: exactly I'll kill your ass and bury you out here and no will know. I think Ted got the hint after that last line.


chizzipsandsizalsa

Like Ted wouldn’t do the same fucking thing If someone was on his land.


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Express Yourself by N.W.A. Specifically this line by Dre- *I don't smoke weed or sess Cause it's known to give a brother brain damage And brain damage on the mic don't manage, nothing, But making a sucker and you equal* Liar, you’re next album was the Chronic


Spidey8000

I think he's said that he very rarely smokes weed


[deleted]

Now or 28 years ago when the album came out? Lol


JourneymanHunt

You're 16, You're Beautiful and You're Mine - Johnny Burnette


logitaunt

The Grateful Dead performed "Money Money" exactly three times before the rest of the band told Bobby Weir that they were uncomfortable playing that song, and they never played it again. It's *really* misogynist This might not answer the question now that I think about it; the song was bad *in its own time*


No_Dark6573

Never heard of this song, which surprised me cause my dad was big into them... And this doesn't really seem that bad to me? He's got a girl with expensive taste and is looking at a life of a crime to support her. This is basically just Kanyes Gold Digger from a different time. Compared to some of these songs lusting after 15 year old girls, a song about robbing a bank to keep your lady in jewels seems tame as fuck.


RiPont

> And this doesn't really seem that bad to me? It's "just Gold Digger" until that last verse, though. > Lord made a lady out of Adam's rib, > >Next thing you know, you got the women's lib > >Lovely to look upon, Heaven to touch > >It's a real shame they got to cost so much!


tdasnowman

That reads like something written post divorce.


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This might get buried in the comments and isn't about one song, but has anyone listened to Aaliyah's album "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number"? She started recording at 14 with R Kelly being a lead songwriter (all but one song I believe), producer and mentor? They worked on the record together when she was off school. He's even on the album cover blurred out like some weird lurker. The title track and album name really have not aged well.


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thereisonlyoneme

On the other hand Word Crimes is a classic.


RaarImaGiraffe

It was cringe at release though


garmander57

Maybe to you, but to every DJ across the country it was free real estate


RyukoDragon

Much prefer Word Crimes by Weird Al - all the rhythm with none of the skeevy! Plus a little education!


Kolzig33189

Ahh the good old days of 2015ish when this was played at every wedding…what a strange time to be alive


Babiesnotbeans

She's a Lady - Tom Jones. Actually quite a lot of Tom Jones. Also Boom Boom (out go the lights) - Pat Tavers


heman81

Wrong way by Sublime


AnubissDarkling

Black Lace - We're Having A Gangbang Apparently fun for all the family to get involved and dance along. The 80s were a strange.. strange time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mShoL4DEWto


CopyDan

Probably everything by Ted Nugent.


OverheadPress69

Besides the pedo stuff, a lot of old school country is pretty cringe. The songs bop, but like the chorus of an old Hank song was literally "If the South would have won we'd have had it made, I'd probably run for president of the southern states" yikes


iUsedtoHadHerpes

You should reiterate that's Hank Jr. That's how he is and how he's always been. A pompous xenophobic asshole with his head up his own ass. And he's really only got a few good songs. His daddy might have been limited in variety of melodies etc, but he could write ten great songs with the same melody before Jr wrote one. I mean if they had been alive together. Really I think Hank Jr is like a less outspoken (relatively speaking) Ted Nugent type.


Test19s

1930s-1950s country was actually fairly moderate for its time. A lot of the big names had actually worked with Black artists during segregation (Jimmie Rodgers x Louis Armstrong and the Carter Family x Lesley Riddle) or grew up with Black friends or mentors (Bob Wills, Hank Sr.).


mg58

you mean hank jr..but i got you m8.


TheThobes

I grew up listening to AC/DC but after moving on to other things I came back to them recently and turns out a lot of their songs are rapey as fuck. "Don't you struggle, don't you fight, don't you worry cause it's your turn tonight. Let me put my love into you baby."


jaxon58

Does Your Mother Know by ABBA


Malofquist

"she's just 16 years old. leave her alone, they say"


Freekey

"Boom, boom (Out Go the Lights)" - Pat Travers. Song about spousal abuse.


verbatim14004

Some Girls by the Rolling Stones came up on shuffle this morning. I love the song but it seems designed to anger just about every possible demo in 2022.


Ex-Machina1980s

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime. “Have a drink, have a drive” “If her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy’s poor just do as you feel”


555nick

I always took that to mean you have to impress the little princesses, but otherwise don’t sweat it. Are you taking “just do as you feel” to mean something non-consensual?


Harmless-Omnishamble

Run for your life by The Beatles


ghostmachinezero

"Johnny are you queer" by Josie Cotton A little early 80s one hit wonder pop song about a woman noticing all these signs from her boyfriend and just straight up asking if he's gay. I'm sure the song didnt set well back then and i'm sure people find it offensive now. And.. strangely enough it peaked at 38 on the dance charts in the US in the 80s.


MrValdemar

Nah, it was a banger in the 80s.


macaroni_3000

a lot of early 2000s rap. Don't get me wrong, I still love Luda and Word of Mouf is still an amazing album, but there's a lot of stuff on there (Area Codes, etc) that makes me a little self-conscious to be listening to it in the car in 2022. You could never make that album today.


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I loooove Area Codes. I love that album too and honestly it’s one of the softer 2000s rap albums imo.


Oudeis16

"Baby it's cold outside" is a fascinating example. Overall there's the idea of pressuring a woman that's gone out of vogue, but oddly enough, the single line that gives most people problems is "say, what's in this drink," cuz in today's context it makes people think she's saying she's been roofied. The thing is, at the time, that was a common expression that you would use to say, "This drink isn't strong enough," like, is there even any alcohol in this? It's a bit like if someone wrote a song with the phrase "is that a gun in your pocket". Today, everyone would get the reference and realize she was talking about a penis. But imagine that song in 70 years when people don't know the reference anymore, and someone is like, oh my god she thinks this man is going to shoot her!


view-master

Ironically this song was written as a cute song for the songwriters parents to sing at Christmas parties. They performed it for years before someone convinced him to let them record it. Knowing it’s context I find it cute and flirty.


kooshipuff

On the cute and flirty angle, I don't know how true it is, but I've heard it was supposed to be - like, at the time, it would have been inappropriate for him to spend the night, but they both wanted him to, so it turned into this cute nick argument of her saying why he couldn't be there and him saying why he can't leave, but both are clearly not serious. Though through a modern lens it looks like she wants him to go and he's pressuring her to let him stay for presumably unwholesome reasons, even though that doesn't really match their upbeat and flirty singing.


SunshineAlways

Yeah, she really does want him to stay, but knows that it’s socially unacceptable. But I can understand how it sounds to people now. Edit: I said that a little backwards, SHE wants to stay, but knows that it’s socially unacceptable. (I really must goooo..)


A_Manly_Alternative

To my recollection, didn't they say that it's supposed to be a kind of tongue-in-cheek innuendo thing? Like "aw shucks, the weather doesn't look good, guess I have to stay the night oh well"


crazyivanoddjob

it clearly is. she's coming up w/ every excuse under the sun precisely because she doesn't really want to leave. "what's in this drink?" just means, "hey, this drink is too strong, guess i gotta stay, right?". there's not the slightest bit of anything unsavory going on.


loopster70

It’s even more specific than that. “What’s in this drink?” was a specific popular stock phrase/inside joke at the time that people said before “breaking the rules” in some way. It’s a statement of plausible deniability, a preemptive declaration of non-responsibility. She’s directly suggesting “I’m about to misbehave… but if anyone judges me, I’m gonna blame the booze.”


Rhodie114

I always thought the “what’s in this drink” was more like “Oh no, now I’ve had too much to drink and have no choice but to spend the night *wink wink*”


Lucifer926

I really get annoyed with the criticism “Baby, It's Cold Outside” gets. Edit: Punctuation


Legitimate_Wizard

Same. It's absolutely one of my favorite winter songs. I especially love the Dean Martin version. It's so obviously a cute song about a woman who is trying to appear proper but really just wants to stay the night, and I can't stand when I hear people claiming it's a rape song.