What are some songs that discuss rape or sexual assault? I’m not looking so much for songs about child molestation or pedophilia, but feel free to add them if you wish.
Sorry if this has been done before.
Some basics:
Date Rape/ Sublime
Me and a Gun/ Tori Amos
Rape Me/ Nirvana
Anything by Anal Cunt
Nirvana’s Polly is about the rape/torture/murder of a girl.
Prison Sex is about the vicious cycle of child molestation, which you said you specifically didn’t want, but the sex there is non consensual, so…I figured I’d add it.
One Last Caress- Misfits
Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers
OT, the video’s hella disturbing too, one of the few I’ve seen that creeped me out.
“Hold Her Down” - Toad the Wet Sprocket
White Boy by Bikini Kill. Also, Every State Line by Ani Difranco.
Raped by the Beast - Cannibal Corpse
Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play has this lovely passage:
"I’m afraid, I’m so afraid.
being raped, again and again, and again
I know I will die alone
but loved.
John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens… rather obviously.
Stone Temple Pilots “Sex Type Thing”
Korn “Daddy”
Maybe?:
Bat For Lashes “Trophy”
Marry Me Jane “Faithless” (it’s hard to tell if it was consensual)
“Fire Down Below”, the Nick Cave version of the old sea chantey.
Before You Were Born by Toad the Wet Sprocket - although it’s a bit vague, it’s not about a rape exactly, but a child born of rape.
Pearl Jam’s Alive maybe has non-consensual sex in it, although it’s a mother with her child. At the very least, she exposes herself to him; he says he can’t remember what happened.
Good god. You miss a lot when you can’t understand the lead singer.
The first verse of the song is the guy’s mother casually dropping the news on him that oh hey, the man you thought was your dad really isn’t, and the real father died when you were 13.
Second half includes these lyrics:
Cheery song, eh?
“Wounded” Third Eye Blind
The guy who put his hands on you
Has got nothing to do with me
And the bruises that you feel will heal
And I hope you come around
Cause we’re missing you
I’ve been listening to Pearl Jam since the early 90’s and I never knew this. It makes me wonder how many other songs I’m completely ignorant about. :smack:
Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” would seem to qualify.
I know this is more about pedophilia but this song made me want to bathe for a long looong time:
The Childcatcher by Patrick Wolf
“well I’ve got no time for victims and I don’t think it was all that bad
and if you can’t run to save yourself well then you deserve to be had
this is the age of constipation, this is the age of martyrdom
I think you even enjoyed it, I think I even saw you come”
Shudder
Raped and Freezing-Alice Cooper
The Chalet Lines - Belle & Sebastian