Sublime’s Wrong Way:
Annie’s 12 years old…
But I’m starin’ at her tits…
But I am only a man
So I take her to the can…
A song that is not as old as some of the others mentioned in this thread but is along the same lines , in terms of being about love between an older man , and a teenager , is this one , “Older Than My Years” , by Cherie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrRHw7LFS1w
“Chevy Van” by Sammy Johns
It’s practically a date rape carol. He picks up a girl off the side of the road, she passes out, he fucks her in the van, then he dumps her barefoot in some tiny town, intending to never return.
Huh?
If anything, she was the aggressor.
One song made famous by Kate Smith and Groucho Marx alludes to in “Duck Soup” (which usually gets bleeped out on television).
Huh? It’s about The Irish Troubles.
It’s not date rape because it’s consensual. However, if the girl (or boy) were below 18, that would raise another uncomfortable issue. In any case, this is a song that was dripping with cheese when it first came out and now has an added “ick” factor that makes it even more unlistenable.
Also, I’m not the first one whose pointed this out but this much better Tom Waits song is the obverse of “Chevy Van”.
Not to mention, the song starts out:
I gave a girl a ride in my wagon.
She climbed in and took control.
No Reply by the Beatles is stalker-creepy, too. I love playing and singing it, though.
Whoosh
No, John was kind of a creep when he was a young man; I doubt there was a huge intent to “challenge” the listener.
Anyway, the premise of this thread is on a par with calling any book that’s been the subject of an angry letter “banned”: Singers didn’t get arrested for their songs back then or now, and claiming that playing old pop songs would lead to a huge backlash is faintly ridiculous given that “playing old pop songs” is one of the dominant formats in commercial radio. Yes, some songs get elided from any nostalgia format, but then you have tracks like “Brown Sugar”, which is explicitly and unambiguously about rape and abuse and which has been a staple of commercial radio for as long as I can remember.
Bah. I guess the one thing which will make me a fogey the fastest is watching others act like fogies. Get back to your lawns!
I know it’s comedy but the Bloodhound Gang’s “A Lap Dance is So Much Better If The Stripper Is Crying” is an absolutely horrorshow. Not only does the narrator get off on having unprotected sex with an underaged stripper who is prostituting herself to pay for baby formula, but later when he spots her picture on a milk carton his reaction is to masturbate to it. Nice guy.
On a more pleasant note, whoever referenced Flanders and Swann’s “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear” above all those years ago was wrong to describe the events as “date rape” - at the end of the song the girl is already out the door and down the street in full knowledge of what will befall her if she stays and drinks with the old letch…and she voluntarily comes back (and apparently enjoys herself).
But it shouldn’t have been controversial! It’s not about a child molestor- it’s about a man babysitting for a precocious little girl. She’s not having sex with him, she’s driving him nuts with requests for water and whatnot.
I’ve always felt that I Gotcha by Joe Tex was pretty sickening - a guy insisting on sex from a woman who wants to avoid him.
Well, if I’m whooshed, you’re going to have to explain the whoosh, because I don’t get what’s whooshing.
Bob Marley’s Waiting in Vain is about a stalker. Ditto The Police’s Every Breath You Take. Sting, who wrote the song, says he’s amazed that the song gets played at weddings.
Not so much lyrics, but the visuals. . .
I think any performance by the original lineup of the Runaways would raise serious eyebrows today. Or maybe not, sadly. But they were underage for sure.
The zombie “joke” that people like to make on here when old threads are revived. I didn’t get it either until I scrolled back up and looked at the dates of the posts.
I still don’t get it.