“Sweet Young Thing” by the Monkees:
“I know that something very strange
Is happening to my brain
I’m either feeling very good
Or else I am insane.
The seeds of doubt you planted
Have started to grow wild
And I feel that I must yield before
The wisdom of a child.”
A Who's Who of Hollywood celeb anti-Trumpers.
Let’s not forget it also goes the other way:
Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (First Time)
Older woman “preying” on a teen male. And, the Movie and Theme song to “Summer of ‘42” also has to go.
And the colored girls sang do, do do, do dododododo
16 year old girls bought most of the records back then.
Mac Davis. the birthday song and baby baby don’t get hooked on me
"Young Blood" - The Coasters
The Police ~ Dont Stand So Close To Me
https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM
How about “Edge of Seventeen” Stevie Nicks.
"Little Girl" - Syndicate of Sound
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa I’m a little schoolboy too.
Come on now pretty baby I just can’t help myself
You’re so young and pretty I don’t need nobody else.
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Don’t you hear me crying?
I’m gonna leave you baby about the break of day
On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away.
Come on now pretty baby darling com on home
You know I love you baby, I got to get you all alone.
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Don’t you hear me crying?
I’m gonna buy me an airplane and fly all over your town
Tell everybody baby, lord knows you’re fine
Come on pretty baby now, I just can’t help myself
You’re so young and pretty I don’t need nobody else.
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Don’t you hear me crying?
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa I’m a little schoolboy too.
I’m a schoolboy, too. Hey, I’m a schoolboy, too.
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
I want to put a tiger, baby I want to put a tiger, baby.
I want to put a tiger, baby, hey in your sweet little tank.
Hey baby now yes I do ha, yes I do
Hey I got to hey, I got to come on home with you
Tell your mama, tell your papa, tell your mama and your papa
Hey, I’m a schoolboy, too, hey, hey, I’m a schoolboy, too.
Ha oww, I’m a schoolboy, too, ow, I want to keep your company
Hey I want to keep your company.
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they said
...
...or Christine Sixteen - KISS
...or Seventeen - Winger
...or Seventeen - Foreigner
Benny Mardones - Into the Night
She’s just sixteen 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 till 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
Like you’ve never seen - ever seen.
I am definitely hearing musical lyrics differently after all the sexual harassment scandals. In class, I am seeing sexual issues and the paintings about them very differently.
And then last night, I was listening to Springsteen and “I’m on fire” with those first lyrics, and all I could think of was “abuse!”:
Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I’m on fire
I was also listening, in a new and similarly shocked way, to David Byrne’s “Buck Naked.”
What does this say about the different filters through which we see the world and how this is changing now? I admit that I am not as perceptive in the world of musical lyrics as I am with artworks, but it is interesting to get a completely different image of the world and perhaps inklings of past abuse. And it is fascinating that so many other Freepers are thinking along the same lines
Most obvious one is “White Christmas”. Singing it or playing it will soon be a hate crime.
Shades of junior high school!
I remember when one of my friends brought an X-Rated copy of those lyrics to school.
I still laugh out loud when I think about that...
She was just seventeen
When I stuck it in betw***