And Neil’s Diamond’s Crackling Rosie, which is about an underaged prostitute:eek::
Oh, I love my Rosie child —
You got the way to make me happy.
You and me, we go in style …
Cracklin’ Rose, you’re a store bought woman
You make me sing like a guitar hummin’ …
He claims it’s about a type of wine. Yeah, right.
I don’t follow what your thought process at all there. It suggests the opposite to me, that she is still a virgin although she is well past the age at which it is normal for (non-Catholic) women to be sexually experienced.
Now, if it said “Catholic girls start much too soon,”. . . .
No, this is about innocent teenage romance. The narrator and the girl he’s singing to are of the same age.
Which puts him into “I’m My Own Grandpa” territory.
It wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article but I’m pretty sure Wyman dated Mandy Smith’s mom before he “dated” Mandy.
Google Image Search for Mandy Smith Wyman
The Courtney Stoddard of the 1980s.
Are you looking for songs about young girls in general or just songs from the viewpoint of someone age inappropriate? There are many songs that could be sung by one young person to another, even if we know that the actual singer was older. E.g., Puppy Love or Wouldn’t It Be Nice.
That said . . . Aqualung.
Sitting on the park bench –
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot is running down his nose –
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun –
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Aqualung
That’s what I thought at the time. Alas, t’was not to be.
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Over 100 posts and no “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”?
BTW, Dragon’s Are you Old Enough? was the first song I thought of seeing the OP.
I also tend to thin that Don’t Stand So Close to Me while obviously depicting an inappropriate relationship doesn’t necessarily involve an underage girl… but then as someone in a 16 as age of consent country quite a few of the songs listed don’t meet the OP requirement if applied here.
Well, I am learning a lot here! Originally, just songs whose content is less or not-at-all appropriate today re: adult/teenager reations. So, no, “I Saw Her Standing There,” doesn’t really speak to what I am looking for, or for that matter “Wouldn’t it Be Nice?” Age of consent is an interesting angle, but legally consenting or not, 40yo and 16yo is a relationship that today in th U.S. would be seen as inappropriate. The line where appropriate and inappropriate is drawn is interesting. All these questions are good questions . . . I am thinking of the essay in a new ways, so keep the responses coming if you “feel the creepiness”!
Why Don’t You Ask by Ethel the Frog (yeah, slightly obscure).
Grateful Dead Mexicalli Blues
Bob Seger misquoted Chuck Berry’s Little Queenie (and suggested one or the other was a pedophile) in Let It Rock.
And the Ian Hunter tune, as covered by Great White, Once Bitten, Twice Shy.
SFC Schwartz
He must have discovered his error - the version on his “Nine Tonight” live album said:
“Too damn hot to be a minute over seventeen”
But it’s not really about a relationship between an underage girl and a much older man, as the boy and girl are both the same age.
“We were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed.”
Yep, fair enough. The initial OP, and many of the suggested songs, were about under 18s, but Jmanmiami has since clarified that what he’s really after are transgressional songs (that involve younger women / girls).
Although the relationship in Paradise by the Dashboard Light, being about two 17 year olds, could be frowned on by some, or even potentially unlawful – it would be a misdemeanor in California I believe – it’s hardly a surprising one, and not transgressional in nature.
On the other hand, Don’t Stand So Close to Me is a very good fit – although the age of the female student isn’t mentioned (and she might not be a minor), the relationship is definitely an inappropriate one. (The reference to Nabakov perhaps suggests a very young student, but it’s not definite).
From another language, but El Dúo Dinámico (who were very big in Spain in the 60s and 70s) did a comeback tour a while back and they made it very, very clear that there was no way they’d play several of their biggest hits: “singing ‘my love is 15’ is ok when you’re 17, creepy when you’re 27 and should get you beaten to a pulp if beyond that age”. So no Quince años tiene mi amor (my love is 15) and no Margarita se llama mi amor (my beloved Margarita, which was the main song of the movie of the same name and the female protagonist was 14).
A lot of the songs I know where the male singer talks about a 15yo were written by someone who was 17 at the time - they were ok then, creepy 10 years later and no way José now.
Mac Davis. Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me. especially the line,
*baby, you’re a hot blooded woman-child and it’s warm where you’re touching me *
What I think is especially interesting about reading this thread is that it go on for three pages and name reams of songs sung from a man’s POV objectifying underage girls as sex objects, yet virtually no songs from the opposite POV (i.e. the girls who are being objectified.)
Offhand, I can think of two…
Strawberry Wine - Deanna Carter
Letter to a John - Ani Difranco ("I was eleven years old / he was as old as my dad / He took something from me / I didn’t know that I had…)
Not quite the “objectified” POV, but Joe Jackson’s [definitely does a gender switcharoo ([URL="http://lyrics.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=8290919"]lyrics](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzzK1dUtCI"Different For Girls[/URL))
(sorry, bad link)
Not quite the “objectified” POV, but Joe Jackson’s Different For Girls definitely does a gender switcharoo (lyrics)