# Songs that reveal amazing dickitude from the singer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 25, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104 "2022-02-25T15:26:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/181 "2022-03-03T06:37:12Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@pkbites](#): > > > > I don’t understand what’s dickish about this song or these lyrics in particular. > > I think the phrase “the girl I _had_ last night” is kind of gross. It’s tantamount to saying “the girl I was with last night” or “the date I had last night”. Nothing gross or dickish about it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/182 "2022-03-03T14:30:05Z")
I dunno. I’m not the most PC person around, but “the girl I had” sounds something you ordered off the menu at McDonald’s. And I interpret it to mean “fucked,” though reviewing the lyrics, it may not necessarily be so. Overall, though, the song isn’t particularly dickish. That phrasing does make me cringe, though. “A date I had last night” - neutral. “A girl I had last night” - sounds like a sexual conquest. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/183 "2022-03-03T14:34:14Z")
That’s what I think. The girl is not a commodity to be consumed. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/184 "2022-03-03T14:49:32Z")
That’s _sort of_ what it means - I wouldn’t understand it to mean the speaker simply spent time with the girl last night, but that there was sex involved. But that’s not the real problem - the problem is that the girl is an object, not a person. I mean, if you had dinner with a friend last night you _had_ dinner _with_ a friend - you didn’t have the friend. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/185 "2022-03-03T14:50:25Z")
The phrasing is definitely dated. I can understand how it is dehumanizing, but it is in line with its time. Dated, not dickish. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/186 "2022-03-03T15:37:47Z")
And this was the point my collage GF was trying to make to me. The guy was bragging about his sexual conquest of girl in the song as if she were a high value prize to be taken. The fact that she had outstanding qualities just made his conquest of a higher bragging value to his friends than just of having sex with ordinary girl. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/187 "2022-03-03T17:39:48Z")
“Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix. Just 2 guys talking casually about the first guy murdering his wife for cheating on him. And the second guy saying “Shoot her one more time for me.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/188 "2022-03-04T12:51:37Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > “Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix. Well, it was a cover of a cover. But true, he chose to sing it. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/189 "2022-03-04T16:51:44Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > _In the Dave Loggins version, it is his girlfriend (or clinging wet noodle) that is saying “come back to Tennessee”. The singer is out doing good stuff. The girl is trying to change him, guilting him to come back and lead her boring life._ > > While I’ve always thought the girl was a small-town wet blanket, the singer admits late in the song that while he has nothing to show for his rambling ways, he is never coming back, but plans to keep on leading her on through letters or phone calls, giving her false hope and never allowing her to move on with her life. He is a dick. > > This, along with Michael Murphy’s “Wildfire,” was one of the most overplayed songs of the 1970s on “Soft Rock” radio stations of the 1980s and 90s That’s not how the lyrics read to me. The girl back home calls herself the protagonist’s “number-one fan”, which I take to mean he’s a musician, traveling the county, trying to build a career. By the end of the song he’s living in Los Angeles, in a house that “looks out over the ocean”; he’s found some success, enough to buy an expensive home, anyway. And he still wants her to share it with him. Meanwhile, she’s happy back in Tennessee, and doesn’t want to leave her home, even for him. I don’t think either is a dick, because they still clearly care for each other; but their lives have grown apart. Time to say “I love you, and goodbye”, I think. ---
**Author:** ![PLGJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@PLGJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PLGJ)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/190 "2022-03-04T18:42:01Z")
In case you do not know this, Pete Burns was more than punished (if that is your perception). He died the absolute most horrible death ever for the sin of not loving the beautiful body he was born with. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/191 "2022-03-04T23:23:46Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Dated, not dickish. Even at the time, many of us females thought it was dickish. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/192 "2022-03-05T18:34:48Z")
“Big Ten Inch Record”? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/193 "2022-03-05T20:23:26Z")
What’s dickish about loving the blues? Can’t a girl be totally into the blues? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/194 "2022-03-05T20:43:44Z")
How about a duet, where only _one half_ is being dickish? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/phEGTuAdDtM/maxresdefault.jpg "Hi There") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phEGTuAdDtM) ---
**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 5, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/195 "2022-03-05T22:03:02Z")
**Sublime** was mentioned above, but they got a lot more than two songs with some major dickitude. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/196 "2022-03-05T23:14:44Z")
🙂Big Black 🙂 _I’m a Mess_ _Jordan, Minnesota_ _Bad Penny_ _My Disco_ _Fists of Love_ _Precious Thing_ _The Ugly American_ _I Can Be Killed_ …could be others The Fall _Frenz_ oh there could be many, _many_ others - we’re dealing with Mr. Smith, here, after all. anything by AxCx ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/197 "2022-03-06T20:48:20Z")
Well, maybe you’re happy to know the lead singer died a month before their album was released and never got to know the success they achieved. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/198 "2022-03-06T20:52:59Z")
Plenty of Revenge songs out there by Women too: _Goodbye Earl, Before He cheats. Two Black Cadillacs_ (where two women kill the husband of one because he cheated with the other). In the music and even film business killing your partner because they cheated is not considered a dick move. (Mind you, I think it is, but that’s not that way it is usually portrayed). ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/199 "2022-03-06T21:41:11Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > > [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > > > “Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix. > > Well, it was a cover of a cover. But true, he chose to sing it. I think it the impromptu “Shoot her one more time for me” that really seals the dickitude. AFAICT, it’s not in any previous versions. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/200 "2022-03-06T21:48:21Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Plenty of Revenge songs out there by Women too: > > _Goodbye Earl, Before He cheats. Two Black Cadillacs_ (where two women kill the husband of one because he cheated with the other). At least in “Goodbye Earl”, it was somewhat justified since Earl had put her in intensive care and the police weren’t any help. I don’t know the other two songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104.md?page=11)