# What singers should have taken their own song's advice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779 "2021-03-26T14:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 26, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/1 "2021-03-26T14:41:56Z")
The obvious one is that Amy Winehouse should have gone to rehab. Keith Whitley sang that he was over Lorrie Morgan when he pretty clearly wasn’t and should have been. He also sang that “You’ve heard I’m drinking more than I should…Why they make them old stories up?” And then he died of alcohol poisoning. I’m hoping that there are less depressing examples. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/2 "2021-03-26T15:18:12Z")
The only one I can think of involves a double entendre and a Michael Jackson hit and there’s no way that I’m going to post it. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/3 "2021-03-26T15:36:21Z")
Kurt Cobain swore in the Nirvana song “Come as You Are” that he didn’t have a gun. Tragically that was not true. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/4 "2021-03-26T16:07:38Z")
Ringo Starr eventually took the advice of his “[No No Song](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_No_Song),” but it was long after the song was released that he got clean and sober. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/5 "2021-03-26T17:10:13Z")
A good friend of mine says she wishes Joni Mitchell really would find a river to skate away on. I know many people adore her, but I completely agree. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/6 "2021-03-26T17:14:33Z")
Pete Townshend wrote “hope I die before I get old” and then didn’t. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/7 "2021-03-26T17:17:56Z")
Bon Scott should have taken his advice to just “Ride On”. Sadly, the life he described in the song killed him in the end. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sFUGvdxuQGQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Ride On") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUGvdxuQGQ) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/8 "2021-03-26T17:55:25Z")
I was fond of David Bowie’s “Hunky Dory” album, and some of his songs (_Man Who Sold the World_) that came before “Ziggy Stardust” . The final track on “Hunky Dory” was _Quicksand_, which contained these lyrics: _Should I kiss the viper’s fang,_ _ **Or herald loud the death of Man** ,_ _I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought_ _ **And I ain’t got the power anymore** _ _Don’t believe in yourself, don’t deceive with belief_ The opening track of “Ziggy Stardust” was _Five Years_, about mankind facing some disaster that would leave us all dead in… five years. Basically he heralded loud the death of man. I can’t say Bowie should have taken his own advice, since “Ziggy Stardust” was his commercial breakthrough, but I found the album dull and the songwriting mediocre (including _Five Years_). ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/9 "2021-03-26T18:15:46Z")
Jan & Dean: “Dead Man’s Curve, you best keep away” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Cuekbklkg) > **[Dead Man's Curve (song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Curve_(song))** > > "Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song was written and composed by Brian Wilson, Artie Kornfeld, Roger Christian, and Jan Berry at Wilson's mother's house in Santa Monica. It was part of the teenage tragedy song phenomenon of that period, and one of the most popular such selections of all time. "Dead Man's Curve" was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. Th... P.S.: Hey, isn’t “Rehab” an anti-rehab song? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/10 "2021-03-26T18:19:34Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > P.S.: Hey, isn’t “Rehab” an anti-rehab song? Sure, but I think it’s in the spirit of the thread. The advice given to the narrator was that they should go to rehab but they refused. Winehouse probably should have taken that advice. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/11 "2021-03-26T21:54:45Z")
She said, “No, no, no.” ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/12 "2021-03-26T22:05:28Z")
Tammy Wynette, most famous for _Stand by your man_, was married 5 times. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/13 "2021-03-26T22:07:04Z")
Is it mean if I say the Black-Eyed Peas? _Shut up Just shut up, shut up Shut up Just shut up, shut up Shut up Just shut up, shut up Just shut up Shut up Shut up, Just shut up Shut up, just shut up, shut up Shut up, just shut up, shut up Shut it up Just shut up, shut up_ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/14 "2021-03-26T22:37:28Z")
“Eat It”, by Karen Carpenter. Oh wait, that was Weird Al. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/15 "2021-03-27T01:12:51Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > “Eat It”, by Karen Carpenter. > > Oh wait, that was Weird Al. I’m going to allow that. Damn… [wipes tiny tear]… that was beautiful. … I know it doesn’t fit the OP exactly, but I’m flashing back to hearing Madonna on the car radio. My passenger: _"Like A Virgin?_ Girl, stick to something you KNOW!" ---
**Author:** ![moojja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@moojja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moojja)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/16 "2021-03-27T03:09:42Z")
That doesn’t make sense, everyone has been a virgin, and knows what’s being a virgin feels like. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/17 "2021-03-27T06:50:37Z")
Is it mean if I say the Black-Eyed Peas? No. ---
**Author:** ![ric62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@ric62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ric62)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/18 "2021-03-28T03:59:14Z")
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy - Got to give it up, might have helped. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/19 "2021-03-28T04:56:35Z")
The song was called “LIKE A Virgin”, not “A Virgin.” ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779/20 "2021-03-28T05:05:34Z")
The joke at the time of Aaliyah’s death was “Rock the Boat? She should have taken the boat!” since she died in a plane crash. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singers-should-have-taken-their-own-songs-advice/938779.md?page=2)