Posted on 06/17/2024 6:14:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff
It's a hard fact to process, but the '80s began over 40 years ago. And in the decades that have passed since, some entertainment that wasn't given a second thought at the time is considered inappropriate today, as people have become more educated and aware of different viewpoints and experiences. These reconsidered pieces of media include everything from politically incorrect movie quotes to outdated storylines on TV shows. And while some offensive moments from the past are lost to time, when it comes to the most popular songs of the '80s, many uncomfortable ones live on as classics
1 "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police (1980)
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Temptation, frustration So bad it makes him cry Wet bus stop, she's waiting His car is warm and dry
Seems to imply that the teacher is attracted to her. The reference to Nabokov's character of the old man obsessed with Lolita backs up the implication to me.
Some of the best/ worst offensive songs were just a few years earlier, in the 70’s:
Play That Funky Music, White Boy! by Wild Cherry 1976
Fat Bottomed Girls, by Queen, 1978
She’s a Brick....House!, by Commodors, 1977
What is offensive about Mexican Radio? They don’t eat barbecued iguana in Tijuana?
If we’re gonna go back to the 70’s:
Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU
Hey! The words to that song were written by a WOMAN!
YOu don’t say!
Wonder how old she was when she wrote it?
36? 24? 36?
Dirty White Boy
Who did that one?
There was a lot offensive about that album, especially the album cover.
WHat a total whiff! ) The Police song is specifically about the scandalous nature of the attraction. The protagonist is deeply unsettled by the attention given him by a student, and even more horrified that she is now on his mind.
2) The goal line has moved so swiftly, but this is a case of a hetero male unknowingly falling for a trans male-to-female, and shockingly deciding it doesn’t matter.
OTOH, I always hated “Do They Know It’s Christmas” because of its lazy ignorance. Sure, it conflated all of Africa with Ethiopia, but it even got Ethopia so dreadfully wrong. “No rivers flow” through the land of the longest river in the world, the Nile. And of course, it’s a largely Christian country merely destroyed by Communism. Largely Orthodox, that is. So the answer to “Do the know it’s Christmas” is “Nah, mate, the’re waiting another 12 days.”
Speaking of The Police
On Any Other Day (Written by Stewart Copeland)
My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
And it would be okay on any other day
And it would be okay on any other day
Surprised it’s not there: Rock the Casbah. Sharia don’t like it.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille (You B____! You S___! You W____!)
I was thinking of that one. And you didn’t even add the part about wombats.
“I talk and talk and talk
She didn’t hear a word I said
Gonna get Hank Aaron’s baseball bat
And tenderize her head
Gotta put on my travelin’ shoes...”
Travelin’ Shoes - Elvin Bishop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlFFlcR4LQ
Pat Travers - Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)
No kiddin’
I’m ready to fight
I’ve been lookin’ for my baby all night
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! Out go the lights!
Bob Seger - Her Strut
I don’t get it. What am I missing here?
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