"Innocuous" lyrics that are actually disturbing

goalscrounger

goalscrounger

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Just been listening to yesterday's Radcliffe & Maconie show on the BBC Sounds app and they played a song I've heard a million times before, but for some reason I started thinking about how wrong the lyrics were:

The Clapping Song - Shirley Ellis

My mother told me if I was goody
That she would buy me a rubber dolly

(ok, seems a reasonable thing for a little girl....how old are girls who play with dolls? 7? 8 maybe?)

My aunty told her I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me a rubber dolly

What. The. Actual. Fvck??????

Ok, so is this song about:

a) a grown woman who has her fetish for "rubber dollies" enabled by her mother?
b) a little girl who was assaulted by a grown adult and is being punished by her mother for being a victim?
 
They used to play this regularly when I worked in a supermarket as a teenager. It always struck me as rather... predatory.

You saw me kissin' your sister
You saw me holdin' her hand
But if you snitch to your mother
Your father won't understand

I wish they would take a nap, little children
Now why don't you go bye-bye? Go anywhere at all
Little children, I know you would go if you tried

Go up the stairs, me and your sister, we're goin' steady
How can I kiss her when I'm ready to with little children like you around?
I wonder what can I do around little children like you
 
What was Maggie May doing to keep Rod Stewart from going back to school?

Wake up, Maggie, I think I got somethin' to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being used
Oh, Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more

You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts
 
The lyrics to Birthday by The Sugarcubes are pretty disturbing. A five year old girl tortures animals, makes friends with the bearded bloke who lives next door, he 'sews a bird in her knickers' whatever that means and then they smoke cigars and have a bath together. Great song though.
 
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, I, yi, woo!
M-m-m-my Sharona
 
‘Told me, act your age,
That’s why she’s underage,
Said her papa hates the federales,
And when he drinks too much he smacks her face’

The Orwells - Body In The Bayou

All the more chilling that shortly after they released this, a whole raft of sexual abuse and rape allegations surfaced about them.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
The Police every breath you take - frightening.
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Sting should have been humanely put down after he wrote 'Russians'. That might be the worst song ever written by anyone.

"How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?"

Did no one ever think to tell him that every single word of that song is dreadful?
 
goalscrounger said:
Just been listening to yesterday's Radcliffe & Maconie show on the BBC Sounds app and they played a song I've heard a million times before, but for some reason I started thinking about how wrong the lyrics were:

The Clapping Song - Shirley Ellis

My mother told me if I was goody
That she would buy me a rubber dolly

(ok, seems a reasonable thing for a little girl....how old are girls who play with dolls? 7? 8 maybe?)

My aunty told her I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me a rubber dolly

What. The. Actual. Fvck??????

Ok, so is this song about:

a) a grown woman who has her fetish for "rubber dollies" enabled by her mother?
b) a little girl who was assaulted by a grown adult and is being punished by her mother for being a victim?
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Its about dildo's.
 
The_Unicorn said:
Always had my doubts about George Formby

'Leaning on a lampost at the corne of the street in case a certain little lady goes by'

Stalker alert
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All of Formbys song are full of double entendre. The ones you know are just the ones recorded.
 
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