There’s another one that’s pretty much the same - “Johnny Get Angry”. She wants him to go all caveman so she’ll know he cares. :rolleyes:
I’m familiar with this song. I have it on a 78 by Georgia White and once had an mp3 of it up on my web site.
I disagree that the song is about date rape. It’s about a girl who sets out to lose her virginity and succeeds. The guy she meets is insistent and she’s unsure at first, but she decides to go ahead. The lyrics are pretty clever - they convey a sense of ambivalence, as the girl isn’t quite sure how she feels about what she just did. For example:
This sounds to me like they both wanted sex, but she was being coy so he insisted on an answer. She may have lied to him about something - perhaps her virginity.
Anyway, regardless of the meaning, I believe this song is tame compared to a lot of rap.
I think that this song is the opposite of creepy. It’s by the guys in Abba, who must have had underage girls throwing themselves at them. The song shows that the guy is being slightly flirtacious I guess, but the premise of the whole song is that he is telling the girl she shouldn’t be doing what she’s doing, and turning her down despite the fact he can tell she’s panting for it.
Given the context, I would have thought the song was pretty much a model of probity.
Nobody has yet mentioned the show-stopping dance number in The Fantasticks called Rape, although the word is used more as substitute for “abduction”: Raaaaaape! Such a pretty Raaaaaaape!..
We can get the rape emphatic,
We can get the rape polite,
We can get the rape with indians:
A truly charming sight.
We can get the rape on horseback;
They all say it’s new and gay.
So you see the sort of rape depends on what you pay,
It depends on what you pay.
Update: this happened to be in today’s Scoop on MSNBC.com
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Presumably the reference is to the older meaning of “make love” as simply “to be amorous with” rather than “to have sexual intercourse with” (cite), though that was already old-fashioned when the song was recorded.
Yeah, how about NWA’s “She Swallowed It?”
I wanted to see the face, I felt the order
Peep over the seat - OH SHIT! it’s the preacher’s
Daughter!
And she’s only 14 and a ho’
But the bitch sucks dick like a specialized pro
She looked at me, I was surprised
But was it passin’ up the chance of my dick gettin’
Baptised
I told the bitch to do it quick :
“You little ho’ hurry up and suck my dick!”
I doubt that one ever got much airplay.
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The original original was sung by Dorothy Dell in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931; I don’t know if she ever recorded it. But here’s a version from the '30s, at least.
Not sure about that. It was based on the novel “The Stranger,” by Camus. But I could be wrong.
Also, “Daytripper,” by the Beatles. Just really listened to the lyrics the other day.
I just googled Virgin Killer. I expect the FBI to arrive shortly.
I was going to say something snarky like “We must be using different Internets,” but then I realized how old this thread was, so I guess things have changed.
ETA: So why exactly did I post this? Good question.
Man this thread is three years old and nobody thought of the song “I shot the sheriff…but I did not shoot the deputy”? 
Sounds like an arrestable confession to me.
Silhouettes by the Diamonds and the Rays, later by Herman’s Hermits:
Guy walks past his girl’s house and sees a couple embracing in silhouette on the windowshade. Has a meltdown.
Oops. Stalking, intimidation, trespassing, possible attempted burglary. No charges filed for bad sense of direction.
In many cases the singer is just a narrator, they don’t necessarily condone what they are singing about.
How about this from the Beatles,
Well I’d rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won’t know where I am
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That’s the end’a little girl.
I think personally that this was something of a play between the darker lyrics and the uptempo jolly tune, any rate I do think its a challenge to the average listener which is what they probably intended.
‘The night has a thousand eyes’ if that isn’t a song about a stalker, then I don’t know what is.
I swear, it was in self-defense.
‘He Hit Me (and it Felt Like a Kiss)’ was Carole King’s 1962 follow up to ‘Will You Still Love Me’ – what’s even sadder is that she based the song lyrics around a story her young teen baby-sitter told her one day, quite earnestly, about her boyfriend. King was shocked that the young girl really did see this as a sign of true love, and she hoped actually to raise awareness of such an awful attitude among young girls, but the record company pulled the song pretty quickly afterwards.
Jacqueline Warwick has a good analysis of the song and its background, as well as other similar songs from the period in her Girl Groups, Girl Culture (p. 66 onwards). Another similiar toe-tapper is Joanie Somer’s ‘Johnny Get Angry’ (which I think Dave Barry also mentions in that same essay CalMeacham refers to.)
Oops – sorry zoogirl! I see you mentioned Johnny Get Angry. 
To satisfy the curious: The Crystals and ‘He Hit Me’ (which has been covered by Hole and Grizzly Bear)
It’s worse than you think… In the live version of the song (from the album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out), she’s only 13.
Which reminds me…has anyone mentioned Frank Zappa’s ode to Suzy Creamcheese…“only 13 but she knows how to nasty…”?