Classic songs that might be seen today as an "Oooooow"

Yes, that line could be considered as not being literal; which is another compositional device.

When I first heard it, as a tween, I thought it was silly.

 

My girl friend in high school had a friend named Cecelia and when ever they ran into each other my girl friend would started singing the "Celia, you're breaking my heart" part of the song and it was sweet and they both would laugh and so I love that song for that!

 

Genesis - "Illegal Alien" would at least have the Twittersphere blowing up.

 

Let’s add “You’re Sixteen”, by Ringo Starr - he was 33 when he recorded Johnny Burnette’s song.
I liked the song before, it seemed like a 50’s rock chestnut, bouncy and happy...
But now it’s cringeworthy...

 

Van Halen's "Feel Your Love Tonight"

"We're gettin' funny in the back of my car
I'm sorry honey if I took it just a little too far, yes
Ah too, too far

So I, I told the fellas out behind the bar
Told them to tell you honey just how fine you are, yes
Uh yes, you are"

So the singer possibly date-rapes the girl and then tells his buddies how fine she was.

 

I can imagine that The Beatles "Run For Your Life" would ruffle a few feathers if released today.

 

Kiss' Christine Sixteen

 

I listened to the O'Sullivan song a while back. Totally innocent yet can't avoid sounding creepy in the 'current climate.' Sad.

 

Is it?

Yes I listened — that's why I responded. You could read it that way, I suppose, if you want to frame sexual desire as being totally one-sided and the narrator as unreliable, but the responsibility in question is not necessarily defined as being limited to respecting the other person's desires — in the lyric, it's expressed as a responsibility for both the singer and his partner to uphold broader social mores around "traditional" propriety (which, broadly, have nothing to say on the subject of consent). Particularly in the Teenage Idiom of Jones' audience, one is "responsible" in an "upstanding, God-fearing" way, rather than just being respectful of another person's boundaries (which they hopefully both are, in this context). The desire for BOTH of them is "too much" to worry about what other people think of indulging their mutual desires, is how it reads to me

 

'Wives and Lovers', great tune, but those words…

Hey, little girl, comb your hair, fix your make-up
Soon he will open the door
Don't think because there's a ring on your finger
You needn't try any more
For wives should always be lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
I'm warning you

Day after day, there are girls at the office
And the men will always be men
Don't stand him up with your hair still in curlers
You may not see him again
Wives should always be lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
He's almost here

Hey, little girl, better wear something pretty
Something you wear to go to the city
Dim all the lights, pour the wine, start the music
Time to get ready for love
It's time to get ready for love
Yes, it's time to get ready for love
It's time to get ready for luuuuhve!

 

I always thought the song Baby Driver was about a fondness of young girls by Paul Simon.

I'm not talking about your pigtails
But I'm talking 'bout your sex appeal

 

Lyrics
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up
Standing at your door just like I done before
You've changed so strange you're all grown up
You wear those heels and hose dressed up in your mama's clothes
You're hip, I'm flipped, your all grown up
When I'm walking talking to ya all the time
Makes me glad all over honey so glad your mine
When you feel my touch by loving you too much
You're right, so nice, you're all grown up
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up
You threw away those candy bars started gazing at the stars
Brand new that's you you're all grown up
When your lips so fine start closing in on mine
More thrills, more chills you're all grown up
When I'm walking talking to ya all the time
Makes me glad all over honey so glad your mine
When you feel my touch by loving you too much
You're right, so nice, you're all grown up
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up

 

The Beatles - Little Child

"Little child, little child
Little child won't you dance with me
I'm so sad and lonely
Baby take a chance with me"

 

I looked at the lyrics of Clair on a site called 'Lyric Interpretations,' and the personal abuse that G O'S has got there is appalling, the site should be closed down for allowing some of the comments. Oddly, no-one has commented on Sweet Little Sixteen.

 

And interestingly the video features a teenage Carrie Fisher:

 

That would be classed as 'satire' if Randy Newman had written it.

 

QUOTE="perplexed, post: 18177910, member: 24286"]
Lyrics
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up
Standing at your door just like I done before
You've changed so strange you're all grown up
You wear those heels and hose dressed up in your mama's clothes
You're hip, I'm flipped, your all grown up
When I'm walking talking to ya all the time
Makes me glad all over honey so glad your mine
When you feel my touch by loving you too much
You're right, so nice, you're all grown up
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up
You threw away those candy bars started gazing at the stars
Brand new that's you you're all grown up
When your lips so fine start closing in on mine
More thrills, more chills you're all grown up
When I'm walking talking to ya all the time
Makes me glad all over honey so glad your mine
When you feel my touch by loving you too much
You're right, so nice, you're all grown up
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up[/QUOTE]

This rhyme is more offensive than any of the rest of the song

 

I take "Sweet little sixteen" on its own terms, but I really don't think "all the cats wanna dance with sweet little sixteen" is totally about dancing.

 

The Byrds one about that horse.

 

Young Girl - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

I kind of thought it was cringe worthy even when it was a hit...

 

Schoolgirl[Five Royales]given today's headlines of-pedophiles this song might get pulled.

 

The Crystals song, He Hit Me ( It Felt Like a Kiss).

No one plays that. I can’t play that.

 

Mabel John's 'Don't Hit Me No More' is a cracking tune with an astonishing vocal but some of those lyrics...Ooooooow...



"I'm sorry you had to slap me..." is a great start but it's also quite a ballsy song in general and Mabel makes it known that she's had enough of this sort of shenanigans.

 

Grizzly bear plays it. Was just gonna say the same song though. I think it was taboo even when it came out

 

Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren
Goodness, Gracious Me

Racist, bigoted stereotype of an Indian doctor inappropriately besotted with patient as perpetuated by Sellers - post Goon Show, pre Kubrick - with affected voice.
Fortunately the producer found some blokes from Liverpool to work with for the rest of the sixties.