Songs with lyrics that would never fly today

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My Little China Girl
I Think I'm Turning Japanese

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Anonymous wrote:Art Lover was originally thought to be about a pedophile who sits in the park and stares at the little girls.

In 1981 the BBC would not allow it’s release.

But it really is about a divorced Father.

Many songs that sound creepy actually are not.

Context matters.

Yes it does but unlike in the early eighties, now people are more apt to judge a song’s lyrics and when they do, the song along with the musical group can be canceled immediately.

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Anonymous wrote:My Little China Girl
I Think I'm Turning Japanese

I am 100 percent Asian and at the time, loved both these songs.
However I found the video of the latter song very offensive because the way the singers slanted their eyes with their fingers.

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Brown Sugar

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Little China Girl
I Think I'm Turning Japanese

I am 100 percent Asian and at the time, loved both these songs.
However I found the video of the latter song very offensive because the way the singers slanted their eyes with their fingers.

That song is about masturbation isn’t it?

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YMCA. If you didn't know it was by the Village People, would it make a difference?

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Almost any Rolling Stones song from the period when Brian Jones was in the band: Stupid Girl, Backstreet Girl, Under my Thumb, Yesterday's Papers, et al. Brian Jones was not very nice to women, let us say. By contrast, Mick was and is a perfect gentleman.

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Anonymous wrote:YMCA. If you didn't know it was by the Village People, would it make a difference?

I cannot express how much I love that the MAGAs use this at their “rallies.”

Classic.

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People Everyday by Arrested Development sadly has the n* word. Clean version is great otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:People Everyday by Arrested Development sadly has the n* word. Clean version is great otherwise.

What? No! This was an Afrocentric group whose music had positive uplifting messages. This song could absolutely be made today.

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“Bounce That D*ck” by Jenna Marbles. It’s one of the videos that got her cancelled.

Which is a shame considering all the examples here of songs with pedophilia and sexual assault. The whole song is about how men have been objectifying her since she was a teen and now it’s time to turn things around and let men feel what they put females through. Anytime a woman makes a song objectifying men (like WAP) people freak out.

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Anonymous wrote:Art Lover was originally thought to be about a pedophile who sits in the park and stares at the little girls.

In 1981 the BBC would not allow it’s release.

But it really is about a divorced Father.

Many songs that sound creepy actually are not.

Context matters.

Now do Aqualung.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Art Lover was originally thought to be about a pedophile who sits in the park and stares at the little girls.

In 1981 the BBC would not allow it’s release.

But it really is about a divorced Father.

Many songs that sound creepy actually are not.

Context matters.

Now do Aqualung.

It was too risqué at the time to even be released as a “B”-side single.

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Anonymous wrote:My Little China Girl
I Think I'm Turning Japanese

Still a good song, and the millennials are all listening to 80s and 90s music.

I figure a lot of the nasty rap and hip hop tops a lot of these songs.

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Anonymous wrote:YMCA. If you didn't know it was by the Village People, would it make a difference?

No nothing offensive about it. Gave YMCA a boost!