# Songs or Lyrics That Make You Say "Yuck" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827 "2018-03-19T15:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/61 "2018-03-20T15:55:24Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Me too, **WOOKIN**. Again, I think I have an issue with hearing it from that particular singer. Ooh, good point. Maybe I think of BS as a bit more poetic / subtle, and hearing him sound like a perverted old uncle pings my disturb-o-meter 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/62 "2018-03-20T15:59:05Z")
…and along those same lines, here’s another : My Sharona - The Knack “Never gonna stop Give it up Such a dirty mind Always get it up From the touch Of the younger kind” It’s amazing how something like this never registered an awkward thought when I was 12 but now, as a parent, all I can think is “get the hell away from her!” ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/63 "2018-03-20T17:19:16Z")
More Jethro Tull… Thick as a Brick: “Your sperm’s in the gutter, your love’s in the sink” Baker St Muse: The whole prostitute section, such as “Proposition deal. Fly button feel. Testicle testing, wallet ever bulging” and “Shedding bell-end tears into the pocket of her resistance” ---
**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:** [March 20, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/64 "2018-03-20T17:25:20Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Bums aren’t known for handwashing. I once saw a bum diligently washing his hands. With his own urine. :eek: Brazil, circa 1984, Rua General Osorio. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/65 "2018-03-20T17:43:05Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Hee. I was 17 when this song came out, so kinda , sorta still a “girl”, and at the time I thought(wished)he was singing it just for me 😛 I just took “little girl” as some kind of term of endearment used by . . .whatever kind of dude also uses the term “daddy”. So, not literally a “little girl”; more like a 17 year old one ;). I can totally get the skeevyness now though. I’m not sure how much it counts, but in the video, the “little girl” is the beautiful wife of some rich guy, and she’s the one hitting on low rent mechanic Brice. And in the end, he doesn’t succumb to her temptations. [I’m on Fire](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5io7u) The video has an intro bit that’s not part of the song. I think making it a song about pedophilia is really a stretch. At worst, for all we know, the singer is also underage. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/66 "2018-03-20T17:54:44Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Recently there was a thread (a resurrected zombie, IIRC)about Bob Seger’s \*Night Moves \*. I admitted that I never really understood the words (though I got the basic gist) and I was a bit icked to learn “points all her own, sitting way up high” refers to the girl’s breasts. I don’t know how to describe it but something about that description disgusts me just a little bit. To be fair, an earlier lyric in the song refers to his own points, these being metal adornments on his shoes (can’t seem to find a picture of one). When enthusing about her appearance (“She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes, with points all her own sitting way up high”) he can’t just come out and say “she had nice tits”; he makes the callback to “points”, and in doing so he has to make it clear that he’s referring her breasts (“sitting way up high”) rather than her shoes. The parallel, I suppose, is that his points and her “points” were both adornments to be admired. [https://www.segerfile.com/nmoves.html](https://www.segerfile.com/nmoves.html) ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/67 "2018-03-20T19:25:33Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not sure how much it counts, but in the video, the “little girl” is the beautiful wife of some rich guy, and she’s the one hitting on low rent mechanic Brice. And in the end, he doesn’t succumb to her temptations. > > [I’m on Fire](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5io7u) The video has an intro bit that’s not part of the song. > > I think making it a song about pedophilia is really a stretch. At worst, for all we know, the singer is also underage. One could argue that the video was made that way purposely in order to distract the average listener from the true meaning of the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/68 "2018-03-20T19:36:18Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > I always cringed at the Ani DiFranco line “my cunt is built like a wound that won’t heal”. Hey, it’s Ani DiFranco. What else would you expect? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/69 "2018-03-20T19:38:23Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Recently there was a thread (a resurrected zombie, IIRC)about Bob Seger’s \*Night Moves \*. I admitted that I never really understood the words (though I got the basic gist) and I was a bit icked to learn “points all her own, sitting way up high” refers to the girl’s breasts. I don’t know how to describe it but something about that description disgusts me just a little bit. The song is old enough, as is Bob Seger, that he could have been referring to a woman who happened to be wearing a bullet bra. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/70 "2018-03-20T20:02:03Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not sure how much it counts, but in the video, the “little girl” is the beautiful wife of some rich guy, and she’s the one hitting on low rent mechanic Brice. And in the end, he doesn’t succumb to her temptations. > > [I’m on Fire](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5io7u) The video has an intro bit that’s not part of the song. > > I think making it a song about pedophilia is really a stretch. At worst, for all we know, the singer is also underage. Nope, “I’m on Fire” is creepy. “Is your daddy home? Did he leave you all alone? I’ve got a bad desire.” Sorry, but the combination of that, introduced by “Hey little girl,” is just bad. And it could have been such a good song. We’ve discussed this before. I’m apparently in the minority on this one on this board (not in real life) but it’s always, always given me the shudders. It should be noted that I am not aware of any grown women or, quite frankly, any teenaged girls, who would appreciate being addressed as “little girl” but my female acquaintances tend to be sophisticated and well educated, so I may be in the wrong demographic to appreciate this ditty. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/71 "2018-03-20T20:22:05Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Ben Folds “Cologne” - Beautiful-sounding song, generally nice lyrics, drops this stinker right in the middle: > > “Says here an astronaut > put on a pair of diapers > Drove sixteen hours > to kill her boyfriend.” That actually happened though: [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/us/06cnd-astronaut.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/us/06cnd-astronaut.html) I get grossed out by ACDC’s “She was a fast machine she kept her motor clean”. I find the entire premise of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” skeevy and it reminds me of the “peer pressure” in high school to have sex. When it first came out it was catchy but then I listened to the lyrics and was like “ew no.” ---
**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:** [March 20, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/72 "2018-03-20T21:11:42Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Nope, “I’m on Fire” is creepy. “Is your daddy home? Did he leave you all alone? I’ve got a bad desire.” > > Sorry, but the combination of that, introduced by “Hey little girl,” is just bad. And it could have been such a good song. We’ve discussed this before. I’m apparently in the minority on this one on this board (not in real life) but it’s always, always given me the shudders. It should be noted that I am not aware of any grown women or, quite frankly, any teenaged girls, who would appreciate being addressed as “little girl” but my female acquaintances tend to be sophisticated and well educated, so I may be in the wrong demographic to appreciate this ditty. My take on it is that ‘little girl’ is a term of endearment for his young married and paramour, and that the ‘daddy’ who has left her all alone is her husband. Note that he asked if the missing guy can do the things to her that the protagonist does, suggesting that he must be the better lover. It’s unlikely in the extreme that Bruce Springsteen would write a song about a guy suggesting to a child that she consider whether he’s better in bed than her pedophile father. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/73 "2018-03-20T21:24:51Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > and that the ‘daddy’ who has left her all alone is her husband. I don’t know if that makes it even more creepy or less. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/74 "2018-03-20T21:33:29Z")
Probably meant it in the sugar daddy sense. It’s apparent the guy provides for and takes care of her, even though he sometimes/often leaves her by herself. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/75 "2018-03-20T23:09:36Z")
There’s a Tegan And Sara song called “Back in Your Head” with the lyrics " I’m not unfaithful but I’ll stray.". Fuck that, that’s unfaithful. And that is “ick.” ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/76 "2018-03-20T23:30:27Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Google the lyrics to just about every GWAR song… More specifically, Google “Rock and Roll Never Felt So Good”. Actually, don’t. No, but seriously, don’t. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/77 "2018-03-20T23:44:42Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > …and along those same lines, here’s another : > > My Sharona - The Knack Keeping it a mystery, it gets to me Running down the length of my thigh, Sharona reminds me of ejaculate, so yuck. “She’s Having My Baby” repulses me the worst. And in memory of my Mom, “Brandy, you’re a fine girl What a good wife you would be” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/78 "2018-03-20T23:46:58Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Recently there was a thread (a resurrected zombie, IIRC)about Bob Seger’s \*Night Moves \*. I admitted that I never really understood the words (though I got the basic gist) and I was a bit icked to learn “points all her own, sitting way up high” refers to the girl’s breasts. I don’t know how to describe it but something about that description disgusts me just a little bit. That’s one of my “things you realized about a work of art after many repetitions”. It finally hit me like 35 years later what he was saying and what it meant. :smack: Probably “way up firm and high” blurred together and didn’t sound like what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/79 "2018-03-21T03:58:11Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > My take on it is that ‘little girl’ is a term of endearment for his young married and paramour, and that the ‘daddy’ who has left her all alone is her husband. Note that he asked if the missing guy can do the things to her that the protagonist does, suggesting that he must be the better lover. It’s unlikely in the extreme that Bruce Springsteen would write a song about a guy suggesting to a child that she consider whether he’s better in bed than her pedophile father. Yeah name one other rock song where “little girl” is an endearment. There may be one; all I can think of is “Sooner see you dead little girl than to see you with another man,” or “Hey little girl, it’s all over for you.” Name one woman you know who thinks “little girl” is any kind of endearment. Even actual little girls don’t like it! ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827/80 "2018-03-21T04:08:04Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Yeah name one other rock song where “little girl” is an endearment. There may be one; all I can think of is “Sooner see you dead little girl than to see you with another man,” or “Hey little girl, it’s all over for you.” > > Name one woman you know who thinks “little girl” is any kind of endearment. Even actual little girls don’t like it! Not rock, but pop: “Go Away Little Girl” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-or-lyrics-that-make-you-say-yuck/810827.md?page=5)