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 
…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!”
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”
I once saw a bum diligently washing his hands.
With his own urine. :eek: Brazil, circa 1984, Rua General Osorio.
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 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.
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.
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.
Hey, it’s Ani DiFranco. What else would you expect?
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.
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.
That actually happened though: 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.”
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.
I don’t know if that makes it even more creepy or less.
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.
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.”
More specifically, Google “Rock and Roll Never Felt So Good”.
Actually, don’t. No, but seriously, don’t.
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:
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.
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”