Songs with lyrics that would never fly today

[Anonymous]

Sugar magnolia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Magic carpet ride always bugged me for the following:

Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride

A grown man telling a “little girl” to go away with him. Yuck.

I got a pedi last night. An older man came in, pointed at a mid-40s woman in the back and said "is that girl busy?" WTH? SHe's a full grown woman ffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sugar magnolia

Sugar Magnolia is so tame, it's sweet. Try Eazy E's love song, "I'd Rather F You"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Lola

Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola
Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said little boy won't you come home with me
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my Lola
La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me

Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
La-la-la-la Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
La-la-la-la Lola

What’s wrong with this? Seems unobjectionable.

I think it's because a trans man -->woman is trying to seduce a "boy" who I assume is straight and 18-21 for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Into the Night. How did it fly back then even?

“She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone, they say” and that leads into lyrics about implied kidnapping and underage predatory sex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Into the Night. How did it fly back then even?

“She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone, they say” and that leads into lyrics about implied kidnapping and underage predatory sex.

Yes, this was the first song I thought of when I saw the thread title. Someone posted the entire thing earlier. <shudder>

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Into the Night. How did it fly back then even?

“She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone, they say” and that leads into lyrics about implied kidnapping and underage predatory sex.

Yes, this was the first song I thought of when I saw the thread title. Someone posted the entire thing earlier. <shudder>

I had never listened to the lyrics of that song before. And omg the video. The singer is full-on creep (but also what's with the guy with the beard and suspenders who answers the door at the start? I was born in '73 and I do not remember people/dads looking like that, LOL). Link, if anyone dares watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWHjJt4833I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry:

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel

This one popped into my my immediately!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You’re Sixteen– Johnny Burnette

The fixation with 16 and 17 year olds in early rock n roll is a little creepy. That one, Sweet Little Sixteen, the first lyric to I Saw Her Standing There (“well she was just 17 if you know what I mean”).

I am 16 going on 17, I know that I’m naive…

This and....

"Daddy, I'm 16 years old. I'm not a child anymore." Ariel in the Little Mermaid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are songs with all of these lyrics and themes flying today. You just don't know about them.

Yes, but most of the songs listed here were mainstream. Cop Killer may be the only underground questionable song. Beastie Boys' "Brass Monkey", a song about a drink which loosens women up and in which they mention giving a woman a drink with Spanish fly in it and then having sex with her was played on the radio constantly.

WAP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are songs with all of these lyrics and themes flying today. You just don't know about them.

Yes, but most of the songs listed here were mainstream. Cop Killer may be the only underground questionable song. Beastie Boys' "Brass Monkey", a song about a drink which loosens women up and in which they mention giving a woman a drink with Spanish fly in it and then having sex with her was played on the radio constantly.

WAP

That's more raunchy than rapey. See also 2 Live Crew "Me so Horny".

[Anonymous]

You’re 16, You’re Beautiful & You’re Mine: Ringo Starr
Young Girl, Don’t Give Into Him: Gary Puckett & Union Gap
Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon: Neil Diamond
Go Away Little Girl: Donny Osmond

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Anonymous wrote:You’re 16, You’re Beautiful & You’re Mine: Ringo Starr
Young Girl, Don’t Give Into Him: Gary Puckett & Union Gap
Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon: Neil Diamond
Go Away Little Girl: Donny Osmond

The first one is a cover of You’re Sixteen, by Johnny Burnette.

[Anonymous]

Homecoming Queen has got a gun - Julie Brown
“Debbie's smiling and waving her gun
Picking off cheerleaders one by one”

Illegal Alien - Genesis
“It's no fun being an illegal alien
It's no fun being an illegal alien”

[Anonymous]

There the Mony Mony Billy Idol video where he grabs the singer's hip while they are singing.

https://youtu.be/sYYAv-QW38Q?t=163