7 Hit '70s Songs That Are Offensive by Today's Standards

BestLife ^ | 7/10/23 | Lia Beck

[dfwgator]

There was also a Foreigner song called "Seventeen", from "Head Games".

[Fai Mao]

B.B. King
Paying the cost to Be the Boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUTwVtS_-NA

[usurper]

Doctor Jimmy and Mr. Jim by the WHO.

“What is it, I’ll take it, who is she, I’ll rape it, he only come comes out when I drink my gin”.

Even in the 70s I could not believe they wrote that. Glad they did great song.

[pa_dweller]

Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever

[Clarancebeaks]

AC/DC Big Balls & You shook me all night long.

[SamAdams76]

What about "Billy, Don't Be A Hero" by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods.

Man goes off to the Civil War and becomes a hero. But his would-be wife throws the letter away.

[FamiliarFace]

I was so naive when I first heard Brown Sugar.

[Organic Panic]

Only 7?

Today’s snowflakes would be offended by any 70s song.

[ro_dreaming]

Well, now it’s a non-white bleached blonde telling dirty little lies.

[Organic Panic]

Fat bottom girls... Queen

Or any song with “MAN” or “WOMAN.”

[BlueLancer]

Benny Mardones - Into the Night

She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they say
Separated by fools
Who don't know what love is yet

But I want you to know

If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you've never seen, ever seen

It's like having a dream
Where nobody has a heart
It's like having it all
And watching it fall apart
And I would wait 'til the end
Of time for you
And do it again, it's true
I can't measure my love
There's nothing to compare it to

But I want you to know

If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love ...

Oh, if I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you've never seen.

[Fiji Hill]

How about this one from the sixties?

No--Dodie Stevens (1960)

"Don't you know that a girl means 'yes' when she says 'no'?"

[Fiji Hill]

What about “American Woman” by the Guess Who?

Being an American patriot, I found that to be offensive and couldn't believe that it rose to #1 in America.

[rktman]

Offensive to who?

[WASCWatch]

I love that song.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I think they censored a song by Dire Straits money for nothing

[Fiji Hill]

The 70s was nothing compared with some of the stuff that was around in the 20s.

Suwannee Shore--Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra (1927)

Stay Out of the South--The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (1928)

I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain, aka Mississippi Mud--Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys (1928)

[Publius]

Butterbeans and Susie: "I Want a Hot Dog for My Roll"

[Karliner]

They muted all of it on You Tube.

[Major Matt Mason]

I look forward to the day where rap is treated like the gutter trash that most of it is. There is some from the 80's that I don't mind, pre-gangsta rap, but from the late-80's onward it is a race to the bottom.