# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/42 "2017-11-28T12:17:47Z")
Bruce told me its ok to blast away at my TV when there’s nuthin on I might just have a drink and a drive - go out, see what I can find. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/43 "2017-11-28T12:35:49Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 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: Why are we picking on Ringo and not [Johnny Burnette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Sixteen), who performed the original version in 1960? Or indeed the Sherman Brothers who wrote it (and then went on to write the songs for several family films like _Mary Poppins_, _The Jungle Book_, _The Aristocats_, _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_, etc)? And speaking of family films, Liesl in _The Sound of Music_ was only 16 going on 17 when Rolf went after her - I mean, this is [classic grooming behavior](https://www.stlyrics.com/songs/s/soundofmusic9841/sixteengoingonseventeen323515.html). Won’t someone besides Roy Moore think of the children? As for other songs, I’m not even going to get into the lyrics of the Bloodhound Gang’s “A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Cryin’” but, yeah, not really something to emulate. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/44 "2017-11-28T14:52:28Z")
Interestingly, I was listening to The Shankill Butchers by the Decembrists while reading this thread. _The Shankill butchers ride tonight You better shut your windows tight They’re sharpening their cleavers and their knives And taking all their whiskey by the pint._ (It’s based on a true story.) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/45 "2017-11-28T15:21:58Z")
Phew, fortunately Black Flag only wants to watch TV and have a couple of brews. ---
**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, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/46 "2017-11-28T17:21:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Why are we picking on Ringo and not [Johnny Burnette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Sixteen), who performed the original version in 1960? I guess rockabilly is too close to country and potential Roy Moore voters don’t want to be reminded that in the summer when she turned 18, Momma took [Bobbie Gentry](https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tcj73lgwxzxh4r5exrxqkj7czvq?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics), painted her eyes and lips, put her in a satin dancin’ dress with a split in the side clean up to her hips, and told her, “Now get on out, you better start sleepin’ uptown.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/47 "2017-11-28T17:49:06Z")
Greatest crime of all? Leaving a cake out in the rain. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/48 "2017-11-28T17:54:28Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Greatest crime of all? Leaving a cake out in the rain. And losing the recipe. ---
**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, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/49 "2017-11-28T18:33:52Z")
Led Zeppelin has made it clear our only goal should be invading the western shore. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/50 "2017-11-28T19:36:58Z")
Didn’t kill nobody, but I know the score, I just start the fires in the great car dealer war. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/51 "2017-11-28T21:09:13Z")
In the song _Let It Go_ Elsa is basically saying she doesn’t care any more and is going to do whatever she wants. “Call me Ms. Freeze” ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/52 "2017-11-28T21:19:23Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > Bruce told me its ok to blast away at my TV when there’s nuthin on > > I might just have a drink and a drive - go out, see what I can find. And abandon your wife and kids while you’re at it? “I took a left turn and I just kept going.” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/53 "2017-11-29T00:36:02Z")
I light the fires [while the city sleeps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KB54p8_wh8) Not to mention all these [merry pranks.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvnkTUbssbI) ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/54 "2017-11-29T02:27:16Z")
You know in 1992 Ice-T rapped about going out and revenge killing policemen, while fully conscious of the pain it might cause. You want to take away his achievement? Oh right, you did manage to take it away. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/55 "2017-11-29T02:34:25Z")
Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” took the law into his own hands, with the Gatlin boys who took turns at Becky. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/56 "2017-12-03T19:33:48Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” took the law into his own hands, with the Gatlin boys who took turns at Becky. He just beat them up; the woman in Martina McBride’s “Independence Day” burned the house down with her abusive husband (and herself) in it, leaving her child to be placed in the county home. I can’t condone that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/57 "2017-12-03T19:59:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I can’t condone that sort of thing. But she sang about it! That makes it OK! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892/58 "2017-12-03T23:15:14Z")
Paul Simon, after learning how to play lead guitar, was in this funky bar and I hear tell he was underage. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-about-it-makes-it-ok/802892.md?page=2)