# Singing about it makes it OK **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892 "2017-11-27T20:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/21 "2017-11-27T23:38:27Z")
“I don’t see the problem - all I did was key the car, cut up the car seats, slash the tires, and break the headlights - ruined my best baseball bat. But he _cheated_.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/22 "2017-11-27T23:58:04Z")
Jim Morrison killed his dad, probably his brother and sister too. And then fucked his mom. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/23 "2017-11-28T00:09:27Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > If we want to keep it to the Beatles, there’s **Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.** Ringo sang backup vocal. And you gotta run for your life if you can, little girl – catch you with another man, that’s the end. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/24 "2017-11-28T00:10:47Z")
Somebody better stop Joe, before he shoots his old lady with that gun in his hand! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/25 "2017-11-28T00:18:00Z")
Gwar might have a song or two about…objectionable…things…preschool prostitutes, for example… lyrics in spoiler \ Edit: I forgot to mention, singing about it doesn’t make it ok unless you are dressed in foam rubber armor. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/26 "2017-11-28T00:26:09Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Gwar might have a song or two about…objectionable…things… Lordi (2006 Eurovision winners) are a similar band, with a similar discography. Serial murder, necrophilia, cannibalism… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/27 "2017-11-28T00:32:16Z")
**[Moderating]** **snfaulkner** , quite aside from the fact that that song is disgusting, it’s also against the board’s rules to violate copyright, such as by quoting the entire lyrics of a song. I’ve thus edited them out of your post. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/28 "2017-11-28T00:32:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > **[Moderating]** > > **snfaulkner** , quite aside from the fact that that song is disgusting, it’s also against the board’s rules to violate copyright, such as by quoting the entire lyrics of a song. I’ve thus edited them out of your post. Bah! i didn’t even think of that. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/29 "2017-11-28T01:29:59Z")
Having sex with a woman without a condom and then shipping her away to a foreign country. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/30 "2017-11-28T02:25:15Z")
Who knew “Age of Consent” was so hard to understand, and remember, and at the right time… Plenty of 16 year old legal marriages and relationships in our US past. It’s not explicit anyway. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/31 "2017-11-28T03:06:03Z")
Never mind Ringo. John Lennon used to be cruel to his woman. He beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man, he was mean (until he was changing his scene and doing the best that he can.) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/32 "2017-11-28T03:39:30Z")
The Sublime song “Wrong Way” (which charted, somehow) is about a 12 year old prostitute who the singer feels bad about but definitely took her “to the can, in the wrong way.” But he’ll totally help her if she wants. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/33 "2017-11-28T03:41:09Z")
But John didn’t mean to hurt her. In fact he’s sorry that he made her cry. He’s just a jealous guy. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/34 "2017-11-28T03:47:19Z")
Oh, and never mind all those illegal street drag races. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/35 "2017-11-28T04:34:16Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > In today’s bit of idiocy, [Breitbart editor Joel Pollak tried to defend Roy Moore](http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/cnns-anchor-clashes-with-breitbart-editor-over-defense-of-roy-moore-cnntv/index.html) 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? Not having read the rest of the thread yet, “You’re Sixteen” was recorded a decade after “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, which made a “dumbest songs ever” list by someone who pointed out that IWTHYH was recorded by guys in their 20s, one of them already married with a child. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/36 "2017-11-28T05:14:38Z")
It’s O.K. to tie up your girlfriend, put her in the trunk of your car and drive off a bridge but only if a celebrity doesn’t answer your fan mail. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/37 "2017-11-28T05:47:21Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > The Sublime song “Wrong Way” (which charted, somehow) is about a 12 year old prostitute who the singer feels bad about but definitely took her “to the can, in the wrong way.” But he’ll totally help her if she wants. Nitpick: Not that it matters a great deal but she was 14 at the time she became a prostitute and the song’s protagonist ‘took her to the can’. “Annie’s 12 years old, in two more she’ll be a whore…” ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/38 "2017-11-28T05:47:49Z")
It is customary to grant a guy a running start before shooting at him for cutting a rug with Linda Lou. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/39 "2017-11-28T05:52:52Z")
Billy Paul might come into this thread and post something in a gentler vein, but he’s a little busy with Mrs. Jones right now. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/40 "2017-11-28T07:31:12Z")
And certainly Limp Bizkit taught us all that it was Ok, when you’re upset, to break stuff, including “your fucking face tonight”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892.md?page=3)