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[Ransomed]

The young girl fan thing and social media is the difference today. I bet more 8 year olds today know these references made in the songs than back in the day, you just go to a website that breaks down the lyrics.

Freegards

[dfwgator]

Like the frog in the pan, the temperature has increased slowly, but eventually, we will all boil.

[bgill]

Remember Mohammed’s 9 year old wife. Gotta indoctrinate them young.

[BroJoeK]

dfwgator: " I would suggest that Madonna then wasn’t being marketed to 8-year old girls, like Grande is."

I'm not sure of that, always understood that young teens & pre-teens were a large part of the market for popular music.
Possibly today it's more overt, as is everything else you can imagine.
I have no idea the longer term affects.

[BroJoeK]

marron: "The question is, what are your kids being shown as beautiful and good and worthy."

Agreed.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Yeah human depravity is as old as time, and cultures have embraced or rejected it with varying intensity. Stupid people like the parents of the young girls at that concert might have the moral courage to make better choices if they heard dissenting voices like Barnhardt’s more frequently, but some here want to be the rhetoric police, and miss the point entirely.

[Yaelle]

I don’t doubt it, but the first three songs on her newest album don’t have dirty lyrics. So not every song.

[ResponseAbility]

***If you don’t like Grande’s music, don’t listen to it and don’t let your kids listen to it if that’s what you want***

I am not a muslim and I don’t go to a mosque, but that does not stop muslims from blowing people up.

[ResponseAbility]

Sorry Godebert, should have been directed to skimbell...

***If you don’t like Grande’s music, don’t listen to it and don’t let your kids listen to it if that’s what you want***

I am not a muslim and I don’t go to a mosque, but that does not stop muslims from blowing people up.

[faucetman]

I did and found this.

“Touch It”

[Verse 1:]
How do I make the phone ring?
Why do I even care?
How are you all around me when you’re not really there?
When you’re not really there
How do I feel you on me when you’re not on my skin?
Why do you say you want me then tell me, “I’m not coming in.”
Baby, just come on in

Maybe it doesn’t say to you what it says to me, but then you are DEAF!

The rest of the song is worse.

[faucetman]

Oh yeah?

“Bang Bang”
(with Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj)

[Verse 1 - Jessie J:]
She got a body like an hour glass
But I can give it to you all the time
She got a booty like a Cadillac
But I can send you into overdrive (oh)

(You’ve been waiting for that...
Step on up swing your bat)
See anybody could be bad to you,
You need a good girl to blow your mind, yeah

[Chorus - Jessie J:]
Bang bang into the room (I know ya want it)
Bang bang all over you (I’ll let ya have it)
Wait a minute lemme take you there (ah)
Wait a minute till ya (ah)
Bang bang there goes your heart (I know ya want it)
Back, back seat of my car (I’ll let ya have it)
Wait a minute lemme take you there (ah)
Wait a minute till ya (ah)

[Verse 2 - Ariana Grande:]
She might’ve let you hold her hand in school
But I’m a show you how to graduate
No, I don’t need to hear you talk the talk
Just come and show me what your momma gave (oh, yeah)

(Okay you’ve got a very big shhh,
Mouth but don’t say a thing)
See anybody could be good to you,
You need a bad girl to blow your mind

[faucetman]

MORE!
“Dangerous Woman”

Oh, yeah

Don’t need permission
Made my decision to test my limits
‘Cause it’s my business, God as my witness
Start what I finished
Don’t need no hold up
Taking control of this kind of moment
I’m locked and loaded
Completely focused, my mind is open

All that you got, skin to skin, oh my God
Don’t ya stop, boy

Somethin’ ‘bout you makes me feel like a dangerous woman
Somethin’ ‘bout, somethin’ ‘bout, somethin’ ‘bout you
Makes me wanna do things that I shouldn’t
Somethin’ ‘bout, somethin’ ‘bout, somethin’ ‘bout

Nothing to prove and
I’m bulletproof and
Know what I’m doing
The way we’re movin’ like introducing
Us to a new thing
I wanna savor, save it for later
The taste of flavor, ‘cause I’m a taker
‘Cause I’m a giver, it’s only nature
I live for danger

All that you got, skin to skin, oh my God
Don’t ya stop, boy

[faucetman]

“Lovin’ It”

Baby don’t you know you got all my love, all my love
Baby don’t you know you got all my love, all my love

Hold up, wait, before you go just stay
And talk to me for a little
Baby, won’t you loosen up just a little, uh?

See what you don’t understand is falling in love wasn’t part of my plan
Started with a crush
Call you my man
Doubt that I’d ever fall in love you,
Ever fall in love again

‘Cause you give me chills every time we chill I spend all of my days
Doin’, doin’

Nothin’ but lovin’ you
Nothin’ but lovin’ you baby
(Boy you got all my time)
I’m lovin’ your lovin’
I’m lovin’ it, lovin’ it baby
(Boy you got all my, all my)
Love and affection
All my attention
You don’t gotta question
If I’m really
Lovin’ your lovin’
I’m lovin’ it, lovin’ it baby
(Boy you got all my, all my)

Hold up, wait, shut up and kiss me, babe
I just wanna get a little taste
I just wanna get a little taste before you go

[faucetman]

And MORE

“The Way”
(feat. Mac Miller)

What we gotta do right here is go back, back in the town.

I love the way you make me feel
I love it, I love it
I love the way you make me feel
I love it, I love it

Say, I’m thinking ‘bout her every second, every hour
Do my singing in the shower
Picking petals off the flowers like
Do she love me, do she love me not? (love me not)
[One version:] I ain’t a player, I just crush a lot (crush a lot)
[Another version:] I ain’t a player (I just play her, I just play her)

You give me that kind of something
Want it all the time, need it everyday
On a scale of one to ten I’m at a hundred
Never get enough, I can’t stay away

If you want it, I got it, I got it everyday
You can get whatever you need from me
Stay by your side, I’ll never leave you
And I ain’t going nowhere ‘cause you’re a keeper

So don’t you worry, baby, you got me

I got a bad boy, I must admit it (hey)
You got my heart, don’t know how you did it (hey)
And I don’t care who sees it, babe
I don’t wanna hide the way I feel when you’re next to me (hey)

I love the way (I love the way you make me feel)
I love the way (I love it, I love it)
Baby, I love the way (I love the way you make me feel)
Ooh, I love the way (I love it, I love it)
The way you love me

Oh, it’s so crazy you get my heart jumping
When you put your lips on mine
And, honey, it ain’t a question (q-question)
‘Cause, boy, I know just what you like

So If you need it, I got it, I got it everyday
Be your lover, your friend, you’ll find it all in me
Stay by your side, I’ll never leave you
And I ain’t going nowhere ‘cause you’re a keeper

So don’t you worry, baby, you got me

[faucetman]

And MORE

“The Way”
(feat. Mac Miller)

What we gotta do right here is go back, back in the town.

I love the way you make me feel
I love it, I love it
I love the way you make me feel
I love it, I love it

Say, I’m thinking ‘bout her every second, every hour
Do my singing in the shower
Picking petals off the flowers like
Do she love me, do she love me not? (love me not)
[One version:] I ain’t a player, I just crush a lot (crush a lot)
[Another version:] I ain’t a player (I just play her, I just play her)

You give me that kind of something
Want it all the time, need it everyday
On a scale of one to ten I’m at a hundred
Never get enough, I can’t stay away

If you want it, I got it, I got it everyday
You can get whatever you need from me
Stay by your side, I’ll never leave you
And I ain’t going nowhere ‘cause you’re a keeper

So don’t you worry, baby, you got me

I got a bad boy, I must admit it (hey)
You got my heart, don’t know how you did it (hey)
And I don’t care who sees it, babe
I don’t wanna hide the way I feel when you’re next to me (hey)

I love the way (I love the way you make me feel)
I love the way (I love it, I love it)
Baby, I love the way (I love the way you make me feel)
Ooh, I love the way (I love it, I love it)
The way you love me

Oh, it’s so crazy you get my heart jumping
When you put your lips on mine
And, honey, it ain’t a question (q-question)
‘Cause, boy, I know just what you like

So If you need it, I got it, I got it everyday
Be your lover, your friend, you’ll find it all in me
Stay by your side, I’ll never leave you
And I ain’t going nowhere ‘cause you’re a keeper

So don’t you worry, baby, you got me

[skimbell]

No, the real terror attack is the whack job that blew himself up in an auditorium full of kids.

Grande's music is chit-I get it, but it's you who's asleep at the switch if you think you're going to end these terror attacks by changing the songs you sing.

[DoodleBob]

I don't see anyone picketing Wagner's Ring, where brother and sister make whoopee, giving rise to Siegfried. Or countless other Works of Art that have this or that moral weakness.

The REAL problem is the collapse of the family and an implosion of morals, all driven by pride and selfishness. But fixing that hinges on individuals looking into their mirrors and soul searching, and cleaning one's own house.

This is hard work, and frankly Jesus himself said "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye."

I am not suggesting silence in the face of filth. Indeed, I will monitor what comes into my home, and rest assured Ms. Grande's tunes and similar vapid "entertainment" aren't to be found anywhere in Casa de DoodleBob.

But I AM suggesting that the likes of Ms. Barnhardt do their homework before making those of us who MAY be culture warriors look like dopes-by-association.

[Arthur McGowan]

“...somehow we’ve survived.”

Depends on who “we” is.

Sixty million babies (in the U.S. alone) have not survived. Three hundred thousand sodomites (in the U.S. alone) have not survived. Tens of millions infected with STD’s have not survived. Tens of millions of children of divorce have not survived. Countless souls in Hell have not “survived.”

[BroJoeK]

Agreed, I'm only saying that Nickelodeon's Ariana Grande is far from the first to make such music.
I wouldn't blame her for the evils you listed.

[BroJoeK]

"I don't see anyone picketing Wagner's Ring, where brother and sister make whoopee..."

Agreed, it didn't start with Ariana Grande.