# 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:** 3
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> [@dorvann](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > There are a number of comedy songs that go way past “dickitude” and well into “monstrous”, but that is entirely the point of them. > > There’s “Weird” Al Yankovic’s song “Good Old Days”: - He’s got several that are quite dark (and funny as hell) in various ways. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/r_U377vst5o/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Do I Creep You Out (Official HD Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_U377vst5o) ---
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Nine Inch Nails’ “ **Big Man With a Gun** ” is an example of the singer creating a monsterous character. Literally “dick-ish”. As far as I know, Trent Reznor is not that way. I’ll let you Google the song & lyrics yourself. Pearl Jam’s “ **Glorified G** ” is another example. This time, the gun is just a metaphor for a gun, not a penis (er, well kind of it is, but not the same as the other song) “Got a gun, fact I got two That’s OK man, 'cause I love God Glorified version of a pellet gun Feels so manly, when armed” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/43 "2022-02-25T17:25:46Z")
Stevie Wonder’s “Part-Time Lover” is “how to” advice. > Call up, ring once, hang up the phone > To let me know you made it home > Don’t want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover > If she’s with me i’ll blink the lights > To let you know tonight’s the night > For me and you my part-time lover > … > If i’m with friends and we should meet > Just pass me by, don’t even speak > Know the word’s “discreet” when part-time lovers Of course, at the end he finds out that his wife also has a part-time lover. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/44 "2022-02-25T17:53:49Z")
I’m probably being much too harsh, but Joan Baez’s “Please Come to Boston” has always annoyed me - her lover is always on the road and begging her to join him, but she says: “hey ramblin’ boy now wontcha settle down? Boston ain’t your kinda town There ain’t no gold and there ain’t nobody like me I’m the number one fan of the man from Tennessee” So, basically, instead of being willing to share in his adventures and experience new things with him, she’s saying he should give it all up and come home to her because she’s superior to anything he’s going to find in the wider world. That seems both controlling and egotistical to me. If they’re that different, and she’s a homebody and he’s got itchy feet, maybe she should let him go find someone better suited to his rambling ways while she stays home and marries the boy next door who doesn’t want to travel either. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/45 "2022-02-25T17:57:14Z")
_I was tired of my lady_ _We’d been together too long_ _Like a worn out recording_ _Of a favorite song_ I think you all know this song. [https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=pina+colada+song+lyrics](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=pina+colada+song+lyrics) ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/46 "2022-02-25T18:03:22Z")
Allman Brother’s _Ramblin’ Man_ is another example of ‘Hey, babe, this is just who I am.’ Ricky Nelson’s _Traveling Man_ is a serial philanderer. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/47 "2022-02-25T18:05:51Z")
[I Know What Boys Like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UX2afsTqFI) by The Waitresses. Bitchitude? I make them want me I like to tease them They want to touch me I never let them ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/48 "2022-02-25T18:33:04Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Allman Brother’s _Ramblin’ Man_ is another example of ‘Hey, babe, this is just who I am.’ > > Ricky Nelson’s _Traveling Man_ is a serial philanderer. Dion’s “The Wanderer” maybe is the most extreme song of that type. It’s a brag from start to finish how he travels around and breaking hearts of girls left and right without even telling them his name: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0FFtht9k87k/maxresdefault.jpg "The Wanderer - Dion (BEST QUALITY)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFtht9k87k) ETA: this reminded me of another blatantly misogynistic early rock’n’roll song, Eddie Cochran’s “My Way” (could have been one of John Lennon’s favorite songs. The Who covered it): [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pTP1xFegvg) ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/49 "2022-02-25T18:38:57Z")
Yes - that’s it. I’m being tongue-in-cheek, I’m sure Pete Burns is a lovely person - or at the very least, _I simply don’t know_. I think it’s the hallmark of a great lyricist to inhabit different personas. Sting, for instance, has been a lovesick john, perv teacher, stalker, murderer, and a divorced dad with custody of his kids on the weekends. None of those personas really match up with him as person, AFAIK. I recently saw something where someone was suggesting that Sting was problematic because of “Don’t Stand So Close To Me,” particularly because he was a teacher for some time. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/50 "2022-02-25T18:42:23Z")
CairoCarol, I agree with you 100% about “Please Come To Boston”, that song has always annoyed me for the exact same reason you said. What a clingy, controlling wet blanket the singer sounds like! ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/51 "2022-02-25T18:50:00Z")
> [@solost](#): > > But I think it’s fair to point out that some songs are from the point of view of a character. The same could hold true for all singers mentioned in this thread. I don’t believe Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but it seems a fair amount of posters in this thread think Sting and John Lennon are authentic and not portraying characters. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/52 "2022-02-25T18:53:21Z")
In general I totally agree that singers often impersonate a character that’s not their own in songs, but the thing with Lennon is that it has been reported a lot of times that in real life he really was the controlling, hyper-jealous jerk of songs like “Run For Your Life”, “Jealous Guy” and “You Can’t Do That”. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/53 "2022-02-25T18:58:55Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I’m probably being much too harsh, but Joan Baez’s “Please Come to Boston” Baez did cover the song later, but the only version I know is the original by Dave Loggins, which was a top-ten hit in 1974. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/54 "2022-02-25T19:04:57Z")
A cursory glance proves that [Patti D’Arbanville](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_D%27Arbanville) inspired Cat Stevens’ _Wild World._ Dodged a bullet there, she did. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104/55 "2022-02-25T19:08:14Z")
Although I liked the Beatles tune “Norwegian Wood”, I have a new perspective ever since someone on these boards pointed out that it can be interpreted **that at the end the singer sets fire to the “girl’s” furniture or room.** I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room Isn’t it good Norwegian wood? . . . And when I awoke I was alone This bird had flown So I lit a fire Isn’t it good Norwegian wood? ---
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I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned The Mamas & the Papas’ “I Saw Her Again,” written by Denny Doherty (and John Phillips) about Doherty’s brief fling with Phillips’ wife, Michelle: > I saw her again last night > And you know that I shouldn’t > To string her along’s just not right > If I couldn’t I wouldn’t > But what can I do, I’m lonely too > And it makes me feel so good to know > You’ll never leave me So yeah, you’re stringing her along because you’re lonely and it’s so gratifying to know she won’t leave you. Ugh. ---
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**Heart** ’s “All I want to do is make love to you” has the woman showing the dickitude. Her man is shooting blanks so she goes out, hooks up with a stranger, uses him to get pregnant, then ghosts him. > And in the mornin’ when he woke > All I left him was a note > I told him I am the flower, you are the seed > We walked in the garden, we planted a tree > Don’t try to find me, please don’t you dare > Just live in my memory, you’ll always be there > Then it happened one day > We came 'round the same way > You can imagine his surprise > When he saw his own eyes > I said, “Please, please understand > I’m in love with another man > And what he couldn’t give me, oh-oh > Was the one little thing that you can” ---
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> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Although I liked the Beatles tune “Norwegian Wood”, I have a new perspective ever since someone on these boards pointed out that it can be interpreted **that at the end the singer sets fire to the “girl’s” furniture or room.** There’s [another interpretation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-beatles-melancholy-songs/533262/24) that’s more benign. I’m inclined to believe that interpretation. Lennon was an asshole, but not _that_ much of one. ---
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Jimmy Dean (not to be confused with James Dean) had a few winners back in his day. [Little Black Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oQyNlYPNVU) (1962) – kinda funny but still a bit jerkish. To be fair, he described all his girlfriends as being jerkish too. > [@](#): > > What my baby didn’t know was the same thing happened > Not once, but a half a dozen times > And she didn’t realize that with a telephone call > I’d have another fickle chicken on the line > But every time I leave I do my best to play the part > Of the lovesick, heartbroke clown > But with a little bit of luck, and my little black book > I’ll have another’n before the sun goes down But his real winner was his hillbilly hick song [I Won’t Go Hunting With You Jake But I’ll Go Chasing Wimmen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Uq5VHGuPA) (1961) which, IIRC, was on the flip side of Big Bad John. > [@](#): > > Now I was headin’ for the general store when a silly thing I’ve seen > They make 'em in the city it’s called a magazine > I turned to page 32 and look at what I found > Them gals wear clothes that we ain’t seen beneath them gingham gowns. ---
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> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > At least Michael Stipe is recognizing his psychopathy and breaking them off. Of course, we learn that this isn’t the first time this has happened: > > _Another prop_ > _Has occupied my time_ Huh, I had always interpreted that final line as saying “and you were just a prop, too” rather than “this isn’t the first time I’ve cheated on you.” But you’re right, it could be either one. I’m not sure which is more dickish. > [@dorvann](#): > > Robin Thicke"s “Blurred Lines” Yup, the epitome of clueless dickitude. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reveal-amazing-dickitude-from-the-singer/960104.md?page=4)