It was a different time, the 70s...Mungo Jerry 'In The Summertime'

Stuckfast

This was probably a bad idea even at the time.

hollywoodrox

sticker said:

Danny1969 said:

He was a good guy, produced an EP for some friends of mine in the early eighties at his home studio.  Earned a fortune from that song apparently 

and a shed load more for Kelly Marie's "It feels like I'm in Love" ...

I think it was originally for elvis , then elvis died , scoot on a year or two and it turned into the disco classic by Kelly Marie ,  with those synth drum sounds that go bdooo bdoooo 

wittenham

Neill said:

scrumhalf said:

Gary Puckett's "Young Girl" wouldn't be allowed these days.

Too bloody right  - shame, it's a really good tune.

More recently ABBA's "Does your Mother Know" is sailing pretty close to the wind these days, and even the ever popular "Dancing Queen" can be heard in a very different light now.  

as well as Abba's 'I Kissed the Teacher'.  Or Kenny Rogers' 'Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town' [if I had a gun, I would put her in the ground].

DiscoStu

'Young Girl' is the one I usually reference in these conversations but recently I heard 'Annie I'm Not Your Daddy' by Kid Creole & The Coconuts and some of the lyrics are savage for such a happy, party, sunshine song. 

Philly_Q

"Seventeen" by Winger is an uncomfortable one, even in 1988 it seemed a bit weird, I wonder how Kip Winger would feel singing it now?

Going back even further, "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry doesn't really say much in the lyrics, but still...

But most likely with all these songs, the bands concerned just play them and neither they nor the audience give much thought to the words.

Neill

It's a shame  (or is it..?) we have these discussions because you can tear apart an awful lot of great songs from the past.

"My Sharona" is another one that surely wouldn't be written today.   

Stuckfast

There is a live version of 'Mellow Yellow' in which Donovan makes uncomfortably clear what he means when he sings 'I'm just mad about fourteen, fourteen's mad about me'.

Philtre

RandallFlagg said:

...and poor old Ray Dorset would get cancelled big time for promoting drink driving

On the other hand...

Barquentine

Slade's Skweeze Me Pleeze Me - 'And I thought you might like to know
When a girl's meaning "Yes", she says, "No"

RandallFlagg

Philtre said:

RandallFlagg said:

...and poor old Ray Dorset would get cancelled big time for promoting drink driving

On the other hand...

That's cognitive dissonance right there. Ray got royalties for a song that promoted care free drink driving that was was also used in a public information film highlighting the dangers of drink driving. 

Fuck.

ICBM

RandallFlagg said:

That's cognitive dissonance right there. Ray got royalties for a song that promoted care free drink driving that was was also used in a public information film highlighting the dangers of drink driving. 

Fuck.

It’s arguable that the second redeemed the first, given how effective it was.

WiresDreamDisasters

How is this tune any more immoral and offensive than Wet Ass Pussy, out of interest?

Heartfeltdawn

RandallFlagg said:

Grumpyrocker said:

Phrases like "political correctness" and "woke" are just the words angry people use to decry and diminish decency. 

or to poke fun at the ridiculously over sensitive, snowflake attitude that has pervaded society where it's possible to be offended and outraged by literally anything including the smell of your own farts. 

Or not enough Union Flags around the place. 

boogieman

Philly_Q said:

"Seventeen" by Winger is an uncomfortable one, even in 1988 it seemed a bit weird, I wonder how Kip Winger would feel singing it now?

Going back even further, "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry doesn't really say much in the lyrics, but still...

But most likely with all these songs, the bands concerned just play them and neither they nor the audience give much thought to the words.

There’s ZZ Top’s Francine too, about a guy who loves a girl who just turned 13. It was cringey even back then. 

Danny1969

Well never mind lyrics, a long time ago it OK for Jerry Lee Lewis to marry his 13 year old cousin ... that still amazes me and horrifies me now, just mental !

hollywoodrox

Philly_Q said:

"Seventeen" by Winger is an uncomfortable one, even in 1988 it seemed a bit weird, I wonder how Kip Winger would feel singing it now?

Going back even further, "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry doesn't really say much in the lyrics, but still...

But most likely with all these songs, the bands concerned just play them and neither they nor the audience give much thought to the words.

Can’t see anything wrong from a U.K. point of view