# Oj simpson's favorite beatle song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161 "2013-08-13T21:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/1 "2013-08-13T21:35:17Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s39xBHpjI5Q/hqdefault.jpg "Run For Your Life by The Beatles with lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39xBHpjI5Q) As much as I love The Beatles can anyone imagine these lyrics being accepted today? They are appalling. Or am I too critical? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/2 "2013-08-13T22:35:43Z")
I simply typed **1980** in the white area below the video and… ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/3 "2013-08-13T22:47:42Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I simply typed **1980** in the white area below the video and… ??? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/4 "2013-08-13T22:49:39Z")
Carole King and Jerry Goffin wrote [He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebDCRFSJzzU) for the Crystals. Lots of appalling songs from that era. But is “slap my bitch up” really any different? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/5 "2013-08-13T23:50:12Z")
> [@koufax](#): > > As much as I love The Beatles can anyone imagine these lyrics being accepted today? > > They are appalling. Or am I too critical? Maybe not; [John Lennon didn’t like it much either.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_for_Your_Life) > [@](#): > > Lennon designated this song as his “least favourite Beatles song” in a 1973 interview and later said it was the song he most regretted writing. Still, it’s hardly the worst sentiment ever expressed in song, then or now. And one of the things they teach you—or ought to—in high school lit classes is that the “speaker” of a poem or song is a character, a persona, not to be confused with the writer of the poem/song. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/6 "2013-08-14T00:04:22Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Maybe not; [John Lennon didn’t like it much either.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_for_Your_Life) And don’t forget, Lennon answered his younger self in [Getting Better.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0dBZ1meio) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/7 "2013-08-14T00:09:05Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > And one of the things they teach you—or ought to—in high school lit classes is that the “speaker” of a poem or song is a character, a persona, not to be confused with the writer of the poem/song. Although in this case, I hear Lennon \*was \*kind of an abusive ass in his younger days. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/8 "2013-08-14T00:38:46Z")
Why is this one worse than _Maxwell’s Silver Hammer_? Or Warren Zevon’s _Excitable Boy_? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/9 "2013-08-14T00:39:12Z")
So, would OJ’s favorite Pat Travers song be “I’d Rather See You Dead”? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/10 "2013-08-14T00:55:32Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > But is “slap my bitch up” really any different? Prodegy claimed that song wasnt about violence against women; > **[Urban Dictionary: smack my bitch up](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smack%20my%20bitch%20up)** > > Request another to inject you with Heroin or get you high. "Get me high." "Light my fire." "Shoot me up." "Smack my bitch up." The phrase was made famous by The Prodigy. The phrase does not mean to hit your girlfriend, nor does it advocate violence... ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/11 "2013-08-14T01:03:03Z")
Have you heard Norah Jones’s song _[Miriam](http://www2.norahjones.com/)_ from her latest album _Little Broken Hearts_? It’s a sweet, soft-sounding strain she’s singing to her husband’s lover as she kills her. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/12 "2013-08-14T01:47:48Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Prodegy claimed that song wasnt about violence against women; > > [Urban Dictionary: smack my bitch up](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smack%20my%20bitch%20up) That urbandictionary page says it’s a bit more complicated than that. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/13 "2013-08-14T02:01:18Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Carole King and Jerry Goffin wrote [He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebDCRFSJzzU) for the Crystals. > > Lots of appalling songs from that era. > > But is “slap my bitch up” really any different? this is an even more appalling version [He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss) by Nicole Dollanganger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mxu_RrVtIU) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/14 "2013-08-14T02:39:58Z")
If you listen carefully, the Beatles’ **We Can Work It Out** are pretty bad, though far more subtle. The lyrics are basically, “See it my way or else we’re through.” Real passive aggression while pretending to be reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/15 "2013-08-14T03:13:17Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > And don’t forget, Lennon answered his younger self in [Getting Better.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0dBZ1meio) That’s (mostly) a Paul song. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/16 "2013-08-14T03:27:31Z")
That’s new. Usually it’s grumpy old people saying, “music wasn’t this crude back in my day!” Now we have “music back in my day is too crude for today!”. I thought the OP’s link would be _Maxwell’s Silver Hammer_. As stated, _Smack My Bitch Up_ is not about bitches, or smacking them. And _He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)_ is **not encouraging violence**! It’s about battered spouse syndrome (“he hits me because he loves me”). Artists are allowed to disagree with their works. I am pretty sure Jeff Lindsay/James Manos, Jr. doesn’t carve people up in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/17 "2013-08-14T04:00:54Z")
Shall we talk about Neil Young’s “Down By The River” or just about everyone’s “Hey Joe”? Or “Banks Of The Ohio”? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/18 "2013-08-14T04:32:42Z")
> [@koufax](#): > > ??? Click on the title of the video, then type 1980 (you won’t see it echoed). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/19 "2013-08-14T06:01:26Z")
[Lennon didn’t even come up with the “I’d rather see you dead, little girl” line.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_Let%27s_Play_House) There are tons and tons of old rock and blues lyrics that read as extremely creepy or unsettling today because people’s sensitivities change. I mean, forget the “I’d rather see you dead” part - do you hear “little girl” very much these days? I think that brings up all the wrong associations. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161/20 "2013-08-14T06:32:43Z")
Norwegian Wood is about burning a girl’s house down, isn’t it? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpsons-favorite-beatle-song/666161.md?page=2)