Infidelity is rotten, but if you’re readying pedophilia into this song you’re way off.
Johnny Cash’s Cocaine Blues–A cocaine- addled man shoots his cheating girlfriend and flees to Mexico, but gets caught and sent to prison. The tune is very upbeat for the subject matter.
Jane’s Addiction’s paeon to shoplifting, Been Caught Stealin’
In the Grateful Dead’s Mexicali Blues, the protagonist sleeps with a fourteen year old, then shoots an unexpecting stranger at her request.
That’s what you get when thinkin’ and drinkin’ are all you have, today…
I don’t know about way off, as the song appears to have more than one double meaning… I interpret the “little girls understand” part originating from a daughter seeing the lover leave the house, but daddy has no idea… however, while generally and originally a song of infidelity, it isn’t that far a stretch…
The criticism of rap (and punk rock and heavy metal to some degree) isn’t the fact that individual songs are glorifying bad behavior, it’s that the genre as a whole glorifies bad behavior. In other words, all the songs on an entire album by rap star X tend to be in praise of drugging, violence and/or loose sex, not just one song here or there. Pretty much all of the songs in this thread are isolated examples. Live from Folsom Prison also has Greystone Chapel, John Henry’s Hammer and a bunch of other songs unconnected to crime on it.
No, the top creepy behavior Rod Stewart lyrics are from Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright):
C’mon angel my hearts on fire
Don’t deny your man’s desire
You’d be a fool to stop this tide
Spread your wings and let me come inside
. . .
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
Alice Cooper
I Love The Dead
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave…
I have other uses for you darling!!!
My Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind.
The man who wrote it was 26 at the time and was lusting after a 17 year old named Sharona.
Janie’s Got A Gun-Aerosmith. Yeah, the guy deserved killin’ IMO.
The Thunder Rolls-Garth Brooks, esp the “extended” version where the wife kills her philandering husband.
Mr. Brownstone-GnR-getting hooked on cocaine to the detriment of your life and career.
Re: “Makin’ Whoopee”:
I think it’s popular at wedding receptions solely because of the first verse:
Another bride, another groom
Another sunny honeymoon
Another season, another reason
For makin’ whoopee.
Everybody conveniently ignores the rest of the song.
She was talking about “Every Breath You Take” by The Police…
HEre I thought it was about Hobbits…
Frodo, you dog! Love and leave the hot elfbabes, yeah, before Sam finds out and kills them.
How is wanting to reform a prostitute glorifying rotten behaviour (not that there’s anything *fundamentally *wrong with prostitution - wait, is that what you meant? Didn’t seem like it.)
I’d nominate almost the entirety of Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads.
Okay, the one I have always hated the most is, “Hello It’s Me” by Todd Rundgren. It’s that whole awful chickenshit 70’s bullshit of if you love something, set it free…
“It’s important to me
That you know you are free
'Cause I never want to make you change for me
Think of me
You know that I’d be with you if I could
I’ll come around to see you once in a while
Or if I ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think I should”
It’s a lame, passive-aggressive style of dumping somebody where you tell them that you’re dumping them for their own good, and you make it sound like something you’re doing for them because they mean so much to you blah blah lie lie scram. But you’ll be back for a booty call some night if you can’t score at the disco. Possibly.
I have always hated that song.
(then again, I think, “I Saw the Light” is one of the best pop songs ever. Go figure.)
From the 1950s, Have some madeira m’dear by Flanders and Swann, the charming tale of alcohol-assisted date rape of an ingénue by an elderly roué who invites her back to his flat under the pretext of viewing his collection of stamps. With amazingly clever lyrics:
I love that last bit - a pun of a pun, and in French too.
One murder example…**Delilah **by Tom Jones
“I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more
My, my, my delilah
Why, why, why delilah”
One bounder, cad example…Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me by Mac Davis
“Girl you’re getting that look in your eyes
And it’s starting to worry me
I ain’t ready for no family ties
Nobody’s gonna hurry me”
OK, here’s a second bounder, cad example…Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood
“I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you
I’ll break a thousand more baby, before I am through”
The Thunder Rolls reminds me of another Garth Brooks Song - Papa Loved Mama
Mama cheats on Papa, he finds out, rams his big rig into the hotel she’s having the fling in. The resulting line is “Mama’s in the graveyard, Papa’s in the pen.”
One of the worst has to be this charming little ditty about vigilantism and lynching. I love it and can not help singing along.
I would have said most by Warren Zevon. There always seems to be something just wrong in his songs. Even Tenderness on The Block. I love Warren Zevon.
Bernadette isn’t the healthiest song out there, either. (Yup, another one of my favorites.)
Most of the songs in Guys and Dolls. I hate that musical. The only song I can stand is Luck Be a Lady.
Am I being whooshed? I thought this song was referencing the YMCA as a gay cruising spot. Unsanitary perhaps, but no one’s being taken advantage of such as in the other “cad” examples.
I knew where that link was headed before I clicked. I despise Toby Keith’s music, because he writes such great songs full of such ignorant filth. This song couldn’t possibly be further from my own personal life philosophy, and yet… so damn catchy.
Forgive yourself; the way Nelson plays his voice like a harmonica in that song makes up for almost everything.
I love the song because I hear the title line as ‘…before my horses …’
I get the most vivid mental image of a figure in a duster, hat, and big leather gloves holding a shot glass for a horse …