Songs you can't play today

[Crafter_Man]

@Dr.Winston_OBoogie

I found it very squeamish hearing 50+ year-old Jimmy Buffet singing “Hitting on the honeys right out of high school” and “15 will get you 20, but that’s all right” in Livingston Saturday Night.

As for most of the ballads about 15- or 16-year-olds, the target is high school kids, and they’re implying the singer is school age, too.

If you would like a “WTF were they thinking?” moment, read the lyrics for Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School by Cheap Trick. Ugh.

[HMS_Irruncible]

@EinsteinsHund

That’s a good point. Legal age in Germany is still 16, like in the days of “Sweet Little Sixteen”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, “Siebzehn Jahr, Blondes Haar” and others, but try getting away with that kind of song about a sixteen or even eighteen old girl today.

I hate to break it to folks but age of consent in the US is less than 18 years in all but 13 states. In the majority of states, the age of consent is 16. And that’s without parental authority, change that and it goes down to 13 years in a surprising number of states.

Yet still we don’t do songs about “my sexy teenage high school girlfriend” anymore, because most of us understand that the law hasn’t yet caught up with society.

[rippingtons_fan]

I always thought that Ray Stevens’ “A-Hab the A-Rab” was kind of racist.

[puzzlegal]

@Johnny_L.A

That got me thinking about the Witch Doctor lyrics. Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah, ting tang, Walla-walla, bing-bang is a Euro-American version of what ‘African’ languages sound like. Seems a bit insensitive nowadays.

I hate hate hate that song. It’s a popular square dance singing call, and I find the lyrics offensive enough that it detracts from my enjoying the dance.