Singing about it makes it OK

Cafe Society
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In today’s bit of idiocy, Breitbart editor Joel Pollak tried to defend Roy Moore by drawing a parallel to the song “You’re Sixteen” as recorded by Ringo Starr in 1973. He said Ringo “was 30-something at the time, singing about a 16-year-old. You want to take away Ringo Starr’s achievement?”

Why stop there? What other behaviors can we justify with music? Did Bob Marley make it OK to shoot sheriffs? Did The Prodigy make it OK to smack up bitches? We don’t want to take away their achievements, do we?

So, what other songs could be used to justify antisocial behavior?

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Yes, it was wrong for Ringo, and therefore he should never be president of the USA. Happy, breitbart?

There’s no indication the narrator of the song was not also 16. Ringo-as-singer might be remembering when he was 16.

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Maybe he was going on 17 at the time.

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Taunting kids in pumped up kicks to outrun bullets.

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Driving a train while high on cocaine, wanting to sniff some glue, wanting to be someone’s dog, becoming a flagpole sitta, not giving a damn about your bad reputation. The sky’s the limit.

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Young Girl-Gary Puckett and The Union Gap.

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Neil Young shot his baby, down by the river. That ain’t cool, Neil.

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Feeding abusive husbands poisoned black-eyed peas. Killing cheating wives with a semi. Tying your high school romance to a chair, shaving off all her hair, and leaving her in the desert all alone.

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Someone shot a man in Reno once, just to watch him die.

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Hey, it’s the Roy Moore theme song.

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At 17, you learn the truth.

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wow those were the good old days…(I remember the whole song heh )

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Joe has a gun in his hand. He’s going out to shoot his old lady. Caught her messing around with another man.

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Pat Travers is in real trouble (“I’d Rather See You Dead”, “Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights”)

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Excitable boy, they all said.

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John Lee Pettimore is up to something out on Copperhead Road. Might want to avoid that area.

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Who cares whether or not Germany is losing the war, so long as it’s springtime for Hitler?

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There was a glut of people throwing babies off the Tallahachee Bridge as I recall. And for the OP, apparently it’s okay to shoot the sheriff as long as you cut the deputy some slack.

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If we want to keep it to the Beatles, there’s Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Ringo sang backup vocal.

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Well, I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more!

…what is thread about again?