@@dannycomellas I CANNOT believe that Seth missed "Don't Stand So Close to Me" that song is the ULTIMATE creeper song. I can't even listen to that song without getting grossed out.
I’ve never understood why people have that song as a wedding song “every breathe you take, every move you make, and every step you take, I’ll be watching you!”
I was in a car with a friend, my teenage kids and her very young children, 6 and 3, singing disney songs in the backseat. The song "Shut Up and Drive" by Rihanna, from Wreck it Ralph, came on. They are all singing at the top fo their lungs and i waited until it was over before i pointed out the song is about sex. She was a devout christian and had to listen to it a second time. The look on her face was priceless.
For my New Zealand perspective, I would put forward the song "Are You Old Enough?" by Dragon. it is extremely catchy and poppy, and very popular in New Zealand and Australia, but it exactly what you might think it is about. To quote: "I just wanted to kiss someone / I got the moon dog blues / You just happened to be standing there / So won't you tell me / Won't you tell me the truth? / Are you old enough?" And to which she is most certainly not, as the protagonist of the song ends up in jail. Yet it will STILL get sung by any crowd you play this for with nostalgic passion!
I'll add "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones. "She's just 16 years old Leave her alone, they said 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"
I gotta go watch From Religion to Reason asap. I'm so glad a religious person called in here. Seth is so patient with people and kind hearted, and religious people can learn that people who don't believe in their god are just as loving and kind as people who believe in a god, if not more. Seth did a great job gently cutting off the call at the right point when the caller wouldn't answer his question. I love how he calls out that these myths were written by people who didn't know what germs or stars were.
I guess I never actually thought that the singer, at whatever age they may be, was always the subject. There's lots of popular well known 50's and motown songs that were about first loves, going to prom, etc. But no one would consider these singers being the subject. I see those songs as being songs written 'from the perspective' of another teenager experiencing their first love, first encounters, or singing to their first love(r), etc. Certainly, there are some songs that are just over the top... You mentioned several.
Note: "Aqualung" is not about the behavior, it is voicing a misunderstanding of a homeless person's intent... from the perspective of one who would taunt him. The song is NOT about frilly panties, it's about dismissing the 'other' because it is uncomfortable to care. Now if you want salacious, check out "Cross-Eyed Mary" from the same album! ;-]
Context says a lot. The first cover that i had heard of Good Morning Little School Girl was the one from Jonny Lang's 1997 album Lie to Me. He would have been like 16 or so when it was recorded - and i thought it was him singing about suddenly becoming famous as a kid and trying to date incognito. When i learned it was a muddy waters song covered by a bunch of artists - many of whom were old men - is when it became creepy.
All throughout my childhood, I listened to Tears for Fears...as an adult, I decided to replace my missing tapes with CD's, those came with the lyrics snd when I was sitting down, just reading them, the actual meaning got through. I'm amazed I didn't kill myself when I was going through my over emotional preteens. When my son was about 6, he totally was into the song Roxanne and when he finally realized what it was about, he wanted to know why I kept letting him sing it. (I thought since he didn't know what it was about, why ruin his fun?) Edit: 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' The Police
@@Emiliapocalypse , their first album was called 'The Hurting'. Both Roland and Curt had 'less than ideal' childhoods and the lyrics really reflect that. The other albums weren't as bad... some of the songs were, but not like that first album. My favorite was their big hit from the 1980's, The Big Chair, but they're the one band I had all the albums too. The very first song I ever realized wasn't what I thought it was, was 'Stayin' Alive'. Before I had my 'OMG!- that's what they're saying' moment, I thought it was just a fun song about staying up all night, partying ☺️ Edit: The Staying Alive realization was when I was at work in a club. The TFF realization wasn't until my 30's
Why is everybody ragging on 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'? Sting is not advocating for anything in that. It's telling a story. Is it meant to make you uncomfortable? Only insofar as you care about what happens to the narrator. I think people do not understand the meaning of "creepy."
Thanks for having Selfless Self on!!! The Scientology protests are fantastic! I've been watching the protesters since November, no need for Netflix anymore. Real life is way more fascinating! #fsciento
The moment the guy asked "Where you a believer when you were a pastor" I knew he's trying to set Seth up. Well, from his definition, breathing is my religion.
I was thinking yesterday about the Sunday School song “His banner over me is love “. ….. it is from Song of Solomon 2:4….. the “banner” is over the head of a woman sitting in the shade of a standing man while she is tasting the man’s round (apples) wrinkly (raisins) “fruit”. Is there any part of male anatomy that is slightly above the “fruit” that waves in the wind like a banner? Why yes, yes there is. Let’s sing about it in church with small children.
Bruce Springsteen: "Hey little girl is your daddy home, or did he go away and leave you all alone. I got a bad desire. Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire. Tell me now, baby, is he good to you? And can he do to you the things that I do? Oh no, I can take you higher Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire." o.O
"Under My Thumb". My goodness, I used to like that song, until I really listened to the words. It's down to me The way she talks when she's spoken to It's down to me The change has come She's under my thumb
I forgot about "Little School Girl", but I think that one is more "I'm bad for you, stay away" than anything else. He even warns her that someone else might take advantage of her.
I bought a Whirlpool fancy front load washer and dryer set about 18 years ago. Electronic, sensors, computer controlled, all the bells and whistles. And you know what? I've still got them both. The washer has never broken. The dryer had a board issue when it was a bit over a year old, fixed under warranty. And I had to replace the belt. That's it, they've been great, used them yesterday. My friend who worked at Whirlpool got me the service manuals when I got them, because that manual wasn't public yet, those models were that new. And I've never used the manuals, the dryer belt was easy to change, I didn't even have to look it up. Oh, and I had to change the light bulb. I've never seen old school mechanical timers last that long, I've put 4 of those in my refrigerator in that time.
Oh dear, I just read the song lyrics and yeah, that's creepy. Take your baby by the hair And pull her close and there, there, there And take your baby by the ears And play upon her darkest fears Eeeeek!!
According to Wikipedia, “Good Morning, School Girl” was first recorded in 1937 by Sonny Boy Williamson. Cover versions since then added the word “little” to the title
My elderly mother defended the song, "It's Cold Outside." Back when this song came out, it was NOT socially acceptable for a "lady" to spend the night with a "gentleman." So what they song did for them was give the woman something called plausible deniability. She DID spend the night, but it was cold outside!!! The times certainly have changed. Having graduated from high school in 1983, I'm okay with our social shift with regard to music. Progress is good.
That song has always bothered me. It may well be about plausible deniability... I'll have to try to remember this 5 months from now, when I play it in my car after Thanksgiving. I've got a version that I love in my Christmas mix. Thanks for helping me reframe it. A little.
I'm surprised Seth didn't mention the PMRC's list of the "Filthy Fifteen". Of the fifteen songs, nine deal with sex, two with the occult, two with violence, two with drugs & alcohol, and one with language.
Oof, my list is nowhere near as good as yours, but my top one would be Lou Reed's Perfect Day, which I always thought was a gentle romance ballad. Turns out it's a heroin junkie in New York's Central Park singing his thanks to his gear. "You make me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good...". The reinterpretation cuts me up. All together now - "Oh show me the way to the next little girl, oh don't ask why" (The Doors).
@@tiltingwindmill I should have gotten it then. Didn't know until years later when somebody told me. Just re-watched the video, and have no idea how I missed it. I was not exactly innocent then, but that one completely got past me in the '80s. Of course, nobody but Dr. Ruth actually talked about masturbation back then.
@@jonc4403 I really should rewatch the video. I played that song, that tape, over and over. It was pretty clear to me. Not sure why, 'cause I totally was an innocent at the time, and agree with your characterization of the times.
I was born in 68 too. I lived in a parallel universe as the son of Pentecostal missionary in Taiwan and Hong Kong. You make me feel like I do have community . Thank You
And there it is….. “I can’t live if living is without you…. “ This quite literally touched my life this last week. 😢 And he did it. George Jones song, “ He stopped loving her today “, is all I’ve been hearing in my head. And “ whiskey lullaby “
The touch screen in cars example is actually a great example of what that caller was talking about. They are a massive safety problem, and I can't believe they're allowed. As if it's reasonable to make people stop to change radio stations or adjust the temperature? No, it really isn't. I mean, if I'm playing music from my phone, and have to change song because spotify thinks I want to listen to crap, andthe car doesn't have an interface for me to do so, so I have to do a single finger press on my phone screen, I risk the equivalent of $1000 fine, but if it's on the car monitor, and I have to go through multiple steps to get to the media section of the console, it's fine. Then it's perfectly safe. Point is, it does take a lot more attention away from driving when the driver, (because some of us sometimes is the only person in the car) has to do multi step processes to do something that could have been done with a button or a knob. And to be clear: I'm not against the size of the fine. There's just too many examples of people murdering other people because their attention is not on the road, just in the little community I live in, and I too often meet other drivers who look like they're busy inspecting their crotch.
Meanwhile I've had the reverse thing happen. As I was getting older and started realizing a lot of songs I'd been listening to had hidden sex metaphors (and I'm sex-repulsed so it really started to skeeve me out that I'd been vibing to sex talk), I remember listening to Bob Seger's "Makin' Thunderbirds" and bringing this sort of thing up. I'd already figured out what "Horizontal Bop" meant--and let's be real, that's about as obvious as one could get without explicitly saying "let's have sex"--so I thought that "Makin' Thunderbirds" was a similar issue. Nope. The Thunderbirds they were makin' were 100% literal, as in the car model not the mythological creature. Learning to pick up on all these subtler sex references in songs got me thinking lyrics about automotive manufacturing and how the job kinda sucked but it was still a _job_ and lamenting that you can't even _get_ a job like that anymore was somehow about Adult Fun Time.
For me it was "Jet Boy" early 80s. When I finally looked up the lyrics it's sadistic and violent, but made a great dance tune (based on C'est Plane pour Moi - a nonsense song by Plastic Bertrand).
I think some songs have to be taken in context with the times. In the 50s serenading a girl at her window was not about doing something bad to her. It felt more like moon-eyed puppy love. As for baby its cold outside, it sounds like an attempt at seduction between two adults.
Ring My Bell got me. I'd heard the song, but I never really paid attention to it. Mind you, the song is several years older than I am so it's height of popularity was a bit before my time. As I had never really paid attention to the lyrics I pretty much only knew the chorus and had never thought much about even that. Then one day a few years back my dad made a comment about the song being a bit explicit and I asked him why. His only response was 'just think about it...' suddenly it dawned on me and I was like ... Oh.... Oh my. 😅
“Into the Night” by Benny Mardones very first lyrics are, “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they said”! And Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop” is about mast****tion!
Let's go earlier, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl 1968. Many of the songs by the Four Seasons "December 63", "Sherry", "Save it for me" "Rag Doll". The original lyrics of "La Cucaracha", just about everything by Chuck Berry, and so many more! After all they live up to the original meaning of Rock and Roll!!!
Peaches and cream Lips like strawberry wine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine. -Ringo Star. Tie your mother down, tie your mother down Get that big, big, big daddy out of doors. Tie your mother down and give me all your love tonight. Give me every inch of your love. -Queen The latter could be about a person of consensual age, but on the other hand, it might not be
Some iffy songs (in no particular order): Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) I Don't Like Mondays (Boomtown Rats) In Germany Before the War (Randy Newman) Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) Family (Rolling Stones) Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
The Doors... _At least_ 3 songs with the phrase "little girl" that haven't aged well. Apparently, it used to be used in a similar context as "baby" in pop songs today, hence The Beatles and Springsteen both using the same phrase. Alabama Song "Oh show me the way to the next little girl. Oh don't ask why, oh don't ask why. For if we don't find the next little girl, I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die." Back Door Man "I'm a back door man. The men don't know but the little girls understand." You're Lost, Little Girl
It DOES seem targeted. I only get them when watching atheist content. I bet Christian channels don't have atheist ads running mid video. I've been told that creators don't get ad revenue if you click Skip. I've long wondered if it's a way to sort of "shadow-demonetize" atheist content.
@@adruiddrummer8841 poor Christians they can't persecute atheists anymore like they did in the past.. they are trying to demonitize critics. And then they have the bone to act like they are the ones getting persecuted. I wish there's a way content creators can choose which ads to play in their contents!
My goofy child's brain simply associated the song Mellow Yellow with the soft drink of the same name at the time. I loved that drink, but obviously didn't pay much attention to lyrics. But, then again, who would really figure those things out. "I'm just mad about Saffron, Saffron's mad about me."
When I was a kid Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow' and the 'electrical banana' lyrics were seen as maybe code words for a cheap psychedelic. I remember my friend scraping off the inside of a banana peel and drying it and we tried smoking it. It tasted awful! Of course it was just a big hoax, urban rumor and a big joke that Donovan played on the public . The Food & Drug Department refuted the whole thing. Magazines wrote articles about it.
The advantage of knobs & buttons & handles/levers is that you can feel them & not have to look at a screen which seems like a better design when you're driving. Btw, all new cars with computers & back up cameras etc are SPYING on you.
How about DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, "Parents Just Don't Understand": "You should've seen this girl's bodily dimensions..." "... turns out the girl was a 12 year old runaway!"
At the beginning? He's not talking about government censorship. Besides, he's talking about older songs that he knows are not going to be censored or cancelled. They aren't popular enough for any of that to matter, though of course they are still heard or played occasionally. It's like a call to go out and fight against these songs in any way. It's just observing that some song lyrics are really gross, but have gone largely unnoticed.
A less well known song and group Teenage lust by The Jesus and Mary Chain from the end of the 90's I think. One of my all time favourite groups. A song I love for its sleaziness but... " little skinny girl she's doing it for the first time, Little skinny girl she's doing it and it feels fine" It's difficult to listen to it. And the mention of Rolf Harris. Harris was convicted of sexual assult against young girls through the Yew Tree investigations!
I'm glad that I mostly listen to either jazz [no lyric], ambient, and KPOP [because most of the lyrics I can't understand anyway, but they are usually much more reserved than those from the USA]. Having said that, I think songs about "the blood of Jesus" are also quite wrong, though not in the same way, of course. hehe
I wouldn't call "Sweat" by Inner Circle creepy but it got a staggering amount of airtime on vanilla radio. The first "eyes" never sounds plural and that was probably deliberate😂
Naughty is what it is, i mean that's hardly what i would call creepy, but there are certainly some songs like Time of the season with Zombies that i find real creepy..
Don't look too close at Strawberry Wine, Seth. Lmao "I still remember when 20 was old." "I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child." "He was working thru college on my grandpa's farm. I was searching for knowledge and he had a car." 🤮🤮🤮
The song Baby it’s cold outside, you do need to look at it in context of the time this was. She likes the guy and doesn’t want to leave and is giving half excuses of why she should go home, while he’s giving her excuses to stay.
Vehicle, Ides of March. Hey, well, I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan Oh, won't you hop inside my car I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man I'd like to take you to the nearest star I'm your vehicle baby I'll take you anywhere you wanna go I'm your vehicle woman By now, I'm sure you know That I love ya (love you) I need ya (need you) I want to, got to have you child Great God in Heaven, you know I love you Well, if you want to be a movie star I got the ticket to Hollywood Well, if you want to stay just like you are You know I think you really should
"You Are My Sunshine"...This one isn't creepy, per se, but misconstrued. Moms sang all us kids this happy little tune when we were little, but it's actually pretty dark. This is a whole different take on the song. Note the video is done in one take...no cuts! And, if you want creepy from this band, The Dead South, check out "Fat Little Killer Boy", or "Banjo Odyssey"...I guess she's my cousin, but she needs sweet lovin', anyway! Enjoy! th-cam.com/video/1MevYCdn5S8/w-d-xo.html
Thinking Atheist, Seth! Excellent points! Sting said, some years ago, he wrote 'Every step you take' as basically a stalking song, when he had a thing for one of the other guys' wife. Ugh. As for the Gary Puckett and Union Gap, 'Go Away Little Girl', that was more about how a man can be fooled by perfume and make up, and seemingly maturity.👍🏼💙💙💙🥰✌🏽
Sting did not write the song about another guy's wife. Do your research. It's easy to find information on the writing and recording of that song. It's well documented.
Then there's the tune "Sweet Little Sixteen," which was written by Chuck Berry and released as a single by him in 1958. But it's probably best known in one of the recordings by The Beatles or by a member (Lennon) of that group after their breakup. I heard that song coming over the speaker system in a retail store the other day and I heard it in a way I'd never heard it before. Yikes. I'm pretty sure the behavior implicit in the lyrics of that song would be a felony in most, if not all, states of the United States. Who says the world never gets better? And on another tack, if I may be so bold as to offer advice to Seth: If you truly want to research the Scientology/SCTV thing you might want to contact Tony Ortega and your fellow TH-camr Chris Shelton (and there are others, too) for "the rest of the story," to cop a line from a famous but long-dead broadcaster. Just sayin' ... Edit and correction: Then there's the Ringo Starr titled “You’re Sixteen” from 1973, which I think is actually the song with the lyrics that creeped me out when I heard it in a store the other day. At any rate, I think my comment stands for both songs.
@@Dave-un7fh when's the last time you saw two 15 year olds dating each other get arrested? (The Romeo-Juliet scenario) The law is mainly to protect girls, under 18, from older men who tend to molest them.
To be fair about Macarena, the ONLY lyrics we in America understand are, "Heeeeeey, Macarena!" Juan wakka tena tukka wenna manna pe-uh HEEEEEEY, Macarena!
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Seth! I cant believe you missed the ultimate 80's stalker song! The Police, I'll Be Watching You! 😂
How about "Don't Stand So Close to Me," which is about a teacher being tempted by a student
@@dannycomellas Being honest about temptation is not creepy. The girl is the stalker here.
@@dannycomellas I CANNOT believe that Seth missed "Don't Stand So Close to Me" that song is the ULTIMATE creeper song. I can't even listen to that song without getting grossed out.
I’ve never understood why people have that song as a wedding song “every breathe you take, every move you make, and every step you take, I’ll be watching you!”
@@jeremysmetana8583anybody stalking anyone is creepy, sorry 😅
I was in a car with a friend, my teenage kids and her very young children, 6 and 3, singing disney songs in the backseat. The song "Shut Up and Drive" by Rihanna, from Wreck it Ralph, came on. They are all singing at the top fo their lungs and i waited until it was over before i pointed out the song is about sex. She was a devout christian and had to listen to it a second time. The look on her face was priceless.
Since believers don't even read their scripture ...
'You're 16... you're beautiful... and you're mine." --Ringo Starr
Thank goodness for pure music like "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails.
well it's not really creepy if a 17yo sings it
The line in Closer is "I wanna fuck you like an animal", not "I wanna fuck you in Garanimals".
NIN is pretty wholesome in comparison.
For my New Zealand perspective, I would put forward the song "Are You Old Enough?" by Dragon. it is extremely catchy and poppy, and very popular in New Zealand and Australia, but it exactly what you might think it is about. To quote: "I just wanted to kiss someone / I got the moon dog blues / You just happened to be standing there / So won't you tell me / Won't you tell me the truth? / Are you old enough?" And to which she is most certainly not, as the protagonist of the song ends up in jail. Yet it will STILL get sung by any crowd you play this for with nostalgic passion!
Love that group and esp that song (oops)...fellow Kiwi here btw 😊
I wanted a whole episode of these examples, please continue.
I'll add "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones.
"She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they said
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"
I gotta go watch From Religion to Reason asap. I'm so glad a religious person called in here. Seth is so patient with people and kind hearted, and religious people can learn that people who don't believe in their god are just as loving and kind as people who believe in a god, if not more. Seth did a great job gently cutting off the call at the right point when the caller wouldn't answer his question. I love how he calls out that these myths were written by people who didn't know what germs or stars were.
I guess I never actually thought that the singer, at whatever age they may be, was always the subject. There's lots of popular well known 50's and motown songs that were about first loves, going to prom, etc. But no one would consider these singers being the subject. I see those songs as being songs written 'from the perspective' of another teenager experiencing their first love, first encounters, or singing to their first love(r), etc.
Certainly, there are some songs that are just over the top... You mentioned several.
Note: "Aqualung" is not about the behavior, it is voicing a misunderstanding of a homeless person's intent... from the perspective of one who would taunt him. The song is NOT about frilly panties, it's about dismissing the 'other' because it is uncomfortable to care.
Now if you want salacious, check out "Cross-Eyed Mary" from the same album! ;-]
Yeah, I came in to say this as he was reading the lyrics as I was listening.
People miss the nuance.
Cross eyed Mary references Aqualung. He is an occasional customer of Mary.
"I drove all night, crept in your room, Is that all right?" No Roy, that is not all right! Boundaries!
BOUNDARIES!!!!
... Orbison earned it ! ...
Don't kink shame. Some people like that.
I would not be kicking Cyndi out of bed.
Context says a lot. The first cover that i had heard of Good Morning Little School Girl was the one from Jonny Lang's 1997 album Lie to Me. He would have been like 16 or so when it was recorded - and i thought it was him singing about suddenly becoming famous as a kid and trying to date incognito.
When i learned it was a muddy waters song covered by a bunch of artists - many of whom were old men - is when it became creepy.
I know it best as the yardbirds version.
I heard it first in the early 90s it's always set off warning bells.
All throughout my childhood, I listened to Tears for Fears...as an adult, I decided to replace my missing tapes with CD's, those came with the lyrics snd when I was sitting down, just reading them, the actual meaning got through. I'm amazed I didn't kill myself when I was going through my over emotional preteens.
When my son was about 6, he totally was into the song Roxanne and when he finally realized what it was about, he wanted to know why I kept letting him sing it. (I thought since he didn't know what it was about, why ruin his fun?)
Edit: 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' The Police
Don’t have time to listen to the podcast yet, but I’m reading the comments. Were tears for fears risqué? I can’t seem to remember that 😅
@@Emiliapocalypse , their first album was called 'The Hurting'. Both Roland and Curt had 'less than ideal' childhoods and the lyrics really reflect that. The other albums weren't as bad... some of the songs were, but not like that first album. My favorite was their big hit from the 1980's, The Big Chair, but they're the one band I had all the albums too.
The very first song I ever realized wasn't what I thought it was, was 'Stayin' Alive'. Before I had my 'OMG!- that's what they're saying' moment, I thought it was just a fun song about staying up all night, partying ☺️
Edit: The Staying Alive realization was when I was at work in a club. The TFF realization wasn't until my 30's
I think you're way off mark with TFF. They were both into Primal Scream. Nothing to do with under age sex.@@starpenta
@@EmiliapocalypseNope.
Why is everybody ragging on 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'? Sting is not advocating for anything in that. It's telling a story. Is it meant to make you uncomfortable? Only insofar as you care about what happens to the narrator. I think people do not understand the meaning of "creepy."
Thanks for having Selfless Self on!!! The Scientology protests are fantastic! I've been watching the protesters since November, no need for Netflix anymore. Real life is way more fascinating! #fsciento
The moment the guy asked "Where you a believer when you were a pastor" I knew he's trying to set Seth up.
Well, from his definition, breathing is my religion.
I was thinking yesterday about the Sunday School song “His banner over me is love “. ….. it is from Song of Solomon 2:4….. the “banner” is over the head of a woman sitting in the shade of a standing man while she is tasting the man’s round (apples) wrinkly (raisins) “fruit”.
Is there any part of male anatomy that is slightly above the “fruit” that waves in the wind like a banner? Why yes, yes there is.
Let’s sing about it in church with small children.
Bruce Springsteen: "Hey little girl is your daddy home, or did he go away and leave you all alone. I got a bad desire. Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire.
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you? And can he do to you the things that I do? Oh no, I can take you higher Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire."
o.O
I had an ex put this song on a "sexy" playlist, and it ruined the mood for me completely.
"Under My Thumb". My goodness, I used to like that song, until I really listened to the words.
It's down to me
The way she talks when she's spoken to
It's down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
I forgot about "Little School Girl", but I think that one is more "I'm bad for you, stay away" than anything else. He even warns her that someone else might take advantage of her.
"Brown Sugar" is about raping slaves in the old south.
yeah, those lyrics are pretty disturbing.
And don't forget "Brown Sugar", which is all about r*ping slaves in the old south.
The Beatles were already in their twenties when they recorded I Saw Her Standing There... "Well
she was just seventeen, and you know what I mean..."
🤔
Only a problem in the USA
I bought a Whirlpool fancy front load washer and dryer set about 18 years ago. Electronic, sensors, computer controlled, all the bells and whistles. And you know what? I've still got them both. The washer has never broken. The dryer had a board issue when it was a bit over a year old, fixed under warranty. And I had to replace the belt. That's it, they've been great, used them yesterday. My friend who worked at Whirlpool got me the service manuals when I got them, because that manual wasn't public yet, those models were that new. And I've never used the manuals, the dryer belt was easy to change, I didn't even have to look it up. Oh, and I had to change the light bulb.
I've never seen old school mechanical timers last that long, I've put 4 of those in my refrigerator in that time.
In the UK we are almost 'used to' hearing our idols were up to no good with kids
Yeah it's kind of if they were famous in the 70's keep an eye on them if they worked for the beeb as well check their hard drive!
Cough-Jimmy Page-cough cough
Gary Puckett? I was in high school, and 16, so it was cool. Now, 50 years later it was just a teenage thing.
My favorite creepy song that nobody really thought about at the time is "Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days" from the 1980's
Oh dear, I just read the song lyrics and yeah, that's creepy.
Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there, there, there
And take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears
Eeeeek!!
@@francelaferriere6106 😂
@@francelaferriere6106holy hell. I used to sing those lyrics, mindlessly, I guess. Good grief.
According to Wikipedia, “Good Morning, School Girl” was first recorded in 1937 by Sonny Boy Williamson. Cover versions since then added the word “little” to the title
“Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” is actually an old blues tune. The Dead covered it but didn’t write it.
My elderly mother defended the song, "It's Cold Outside." Back when this song came out, it was NOT socially acceptable for a "lady" to spend the night with a "gentleman." So what they song did for them was give the woman something called plausible deniability. She DID spend the night, but it was cold outside!!!
The times certainly have changed. Having graduated from high school in 1983, I'm okay with our social shift with regard to music. Progress is good.
Yeah that song gets taken out of its social context all the time. It's not about a guy holding a woman hostage & roofying her lol
That song has always bothered me. It may well be about plausible deniability... I'll have to try to remember this 5 months from now, when I play it in my car after Thanksgiving. I've got a version that I love in my Christmas mix. Thanks for helping me reframe it. A little.
I'm surprised Seth didn't mention the PMRC's list of the "Filthy Fifteen". Of the fifteen songs, nine deal with sex, two with the occult, two with violence, two with drugs & alcohol, and one with language.
At least in "Aqualung" the creeper is explicitly the villain.
Oof, my list is nowhere near as good as yours, but my top one would be Lou Reed's Perfect Day, which I always thought was a gentle romance ballad. Turns out it's a heroin junkie in New York's Central Park singing his thanks to his gear. "You make me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good...". The reinterpretation cuts me up.
All together now - "Oh show me the way to the next little girl, oh don't ask why" (The Doors).
The Alabama Song was originally a song by German Bertolt Brecht, it was translated in English by Kurt Weill in 1927. David Bowie also covered it.
Put it this way Seth, in a 100 years we are all dead and people will think what barbarian they were!
Given that I wish to have a Viking funeral when I die, they will be correct in thinking of me as a barbarian.
We are the same age Seth! You havent heard of Gary Puckett??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cindy Lauper “She-Bop” self love lol
Most disturbing is Boomtown Rats “I don’t like Mondays” a real School shooting.
She-bop was utterly obvious. Even to my tween ears.
@@tiltingwindmill I should have gotten it then. Didn't know until years later when somebody told me. Just re-watched the video, and have no idea how I missed it. I was not exactly innocent then, but that one completely got past me in the '80s.
Of course, nobody but Dr. Ruth actually talked about masturbation back then.
@@jonc4403 I really should rewatch the video. I played that song, that tape, over and over. It was pretty clear to me. Not sure why, 'cause I totally was an innocent at the time, and agree with your characterization of the times.
I was born in 68 too. I lived in a parallel universe as the son of Pentecostal missionary in Taiwan and Hong Kong. You make me feel like I do have community .
Thank You
And there it is….. “I can’t live if living is without you…. “
This quite literally touched my life this last week. 😢
And he did it.
George Jones song, “ He stopped loving her today “, is all I’ve been hearing in my head. And “ whiskey lullaby “
the song *All i want to do is make love to you* is kinda creepy too... A women picks up a stranger on the road is creepy
Paradise by the dashboard light...Meatloaf
That one's not exactly hiding anything! It's rubbing it in your face. So to speak.
The touch screen in cars example is actually a great example of what that caller was talking about. They are a massive safety problem, and I can't believe they're allowed. As if it's reasonable to make people stop to change radio stations or adjust the temperature? No, it really isn't.
I mean, if I'm playing music from my phone, and have to change song because spotify thinks I want to listen to crap, andthe car doesn't have an interface for me to do so, so I have to do a single finger press on my phone screen, I risk the equivalent of $1000 fine, but if it's on the car monitor, and I have to go through multiple steps to get to the media section of the console, it's fine. Then it's perfectly safe.
Point is, it does take a lot more attention away from driving when the driver, (because some of us sometimes is the only person in the car) has to do multi step processes to do something that could have been done with a button or a knob.
And to be clear: I'm not against the size of the fine. There's just too many examples of people murdering other people because their attention is not on the road, just in the little community I live in, and I too often meet other drivers who look like they're busy inspecting their crotch.
Now do a show about Xtian music. You know we all sang some really creepy ass worship songs in church.
I can explain these songs about under age girls with one word: Groupies.
Pretty much every hairband has some 😂
What?! The Macarena!!!!!??? Oh my gawd!!!!
Afternoon delight
Meanwhile I've had the reverse thing happen. As I was getting older and started realizing a lot of songs I'd been listening to had hidden sex metaphors (and I'm sex-repulsed so it really started to skeeve me out that I'd been vibing to sex talk), I remember listening to Bob Seger's "Makin' Thunderbirds" and bringing this sort of thing up. I'd already figured out what "Horizontal Bop" meant--and let's be real, that's about as obvious as one could get without explicitly saying "let's have sex"--so I thought that "Makin' Thunderbirds" was a similar issue. Nope. The Thunderbirds they were makin' were 100% literal, as in the car model not the mythological creature. Learning to pick up on all these subtler sex references in songs got me thinking lyrics about automotive manufacturing and how the job kinda sucked but it was still a _job_ and lamenting that you can't even _get_ a job like that anymore was somehow about Adult Fun Time.
I thought everyone knew what walk this way and pearl necklace meant.
I'm not sure I do. Please go into great detail to explain!!🤔😉
@@herbieshine1312 Walk this way means whacking off. A pearl necklace is splooj on someone's face and neck.
@rembrandt972ify yea sorry I intended my comment to be humorous and sarcastic!
I did know really.
That's the end of my comedy career!!!🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@herbieshine1312 Naw, you'll be a Will Farrell someday! 🤩
@@rembrandt972ify I'm pleased you have confidence in me!!🤣👍🏻
Winger did a revised version "She's Only 17" a few years ago...
It was called "She's Only 35". It was somewhere on TH-cam.
Squeezebox by The Who. Good stuff😅
And, it's got some cool banjo in it, as well!
That's not creepy. It is as obvious as possible, and the people involved are consenting adults.
For me it was "Jet Boy" early 80s. When I finally looked up the lyrics it's sadistic and violent, but made a great dance tune (based on C'est Plane pour Moi - a nonsense song by Plastic Bertrand).
I think some songs have to be taken in context with the times. In the 50s serenading a girl at her window was not about doing something bad to her. It felt more like moon-eyed puppy love.
As for baby its cold outside, it sounds like an attempt at seduction between two adults.
Ring My Bell got me. I'd heard the song, but I never really paid attention to it. Mind you, the song is several years older than I am so it's height of popularity was a bit before my time. As I had never really paid attention to the lyrics I pretty much only knew the chorus and had never thought much about even that. Then one day a few years back my dad made a comment about the song being a bit explicit and I asked him why. His only response was 'just think about it...' suddenly it dawned on me and I was like ... Oh.... Oh my. 😅
“Into the Night” by Benny Mardones very first lyrics are, “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they said”! And Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop” is about mast****tion!
Let's go earlier, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl 1968. Many of the songs by the Four Seasons "December 63", "Sherry", "Save it for me" "Rag Doll". The original lyrics of "La Cucaracha", just about everything by Chuck Berry, and so many more! After all they live up to the original meaning of Rock and Roll!!!
Peaches and cream
Lips like strawberry wine.
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine.
-Ringo Star.
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Get that big, big, big daddy out of doors.
Tie your mother down and give me all your love tonight.
Give me every inch of your love.
-Queen
The latter could be about a person of consensual age, but on the other hand, it might not be
Deep Purple "Knocking at Your Back Door". 👍
Jim Morrison, "I'm your back door man."
Some iffy songs (in no particular order):
Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
I Don't Like Mondays (Boomtown Rats)
In Germany Before the War (Randy Newman)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Family (Rolling Stones)
Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Ha ha ha ha ha! 😂_ "Little girls" by OINGO BOINGO
The Doors... _At least_ 3 songs with the phrase "little girl" that haven't aged well. Apparently, it used to be used in a similar context as "baby" in pop songs today, hence The Beatles and Springsteen both using the same phrase.
Alabama Song
"Oh show me the way to the next little girl.
Oh don't ask why, oh don't ask why.
For if we don't find the next little girl,
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die."
Back Door Man
"I'm a back door man. The men don't know but the little girls understand."
You're Lost, Little Girl
Why am I getting an evangelical Christian advertisment on an atheist channel?😂
TH-cam is trying to give me a born-again experience.
It DOES seem targeted. I only get them when watching atheist content. I bet Christian channels don't have atheist ads running mid video. I've been told that creators don't get ad revenue if you click Skip. I've long wondered if it's a way to sort of "shadow-demonetize" atheist content.
@@adruiddrummer8841 poor Christians they can't persecute atheists anymore like they did in the past.. they are trying to demonitize critics. And then they have the bone to act like they are the ones getting persecuted.
I wish there's a way content creators can choose which ads to play in their contents!
The Beatles' Run For Your Life is pretty creepy.
That name of the band is too.
Jake Geils Band: Angel is my centerfold. KISS: Black Diamond, Nothing to lose, Love gun....
Good thing we have wholesome songs like "Tube Snake Boogie" by ZZ Top.
Pearl Necklace 👍
My goofy child's brain simply associated the song Mellow Yellow with the soft drink of the same name at the time. I loved that drink, but obviously didn't pay much attention to lyrics. But, then again, who would really figure those things out. "I'm just mad about Saffron, Saffron's mad about me."
I primarily recall the Jasper Carrott version, where he makes it be about a kid with bad acne.
When I was a kid Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow' and the 'electrical banana' lyrics were seen as maybe code words for a cheap psychedelic. I remember my friend scraping off the inside of a banana peel and drying it and we tried smoking it. It tasted awful! Of course it was just a big hoax, urban rumor and a big joke that Donovan played on the public . The Food & Drug Department refuted the whole thing. Magazines wrote articles about it.
She aint but 16, but she's my rider... traveling riverside blues
The advantage of knobs & buttons & handles/levers is that you can feel them & not have to look at a screen which seems like a better design when you're driving. Btw, all new cars with computers & back up cameras etc are SPYING on you.
How about DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, "Parents Just Don't Understand":
"You should've seen this girl's bodily dimensions..."
"... turns out the girl was a 12 year old runaway!"
Spill Wine, Take that pearl...
I'm a bit surprised by Seth's promotion of censorship in this episode.
I don't think he's promoting censorship, per se. But cancellation, yes, to a degree.
At the beginning? He's not talking about government censorship. Besides, he's talking about older songs that he knows are not going to be censored or cancelled. They aren't popular enough for any of that to matter, though of course they are still heard or played occasionally. It's like a call to go out and fight against these songs in any way. It's just observing that some song lyrics are really gross, but have gone largely unnoticed.
Key & Peele did a sketch based on the song Baby it's cold outside, but the roles were reversed. Check it out!!
Winger 17 still love it
My Dad once told me that The Eagles' "Witchy Woman" could be about using drugs.
A less well known song and group Teenage lust by The Jesus and Mary Chain from the end of the 90's I think.
One of my all time favourite groups.
A song I love for its sleaziness but...
" little skinny girl she's doing it for the first time,
Little skinny girl she's doing it and it feels fine"
It's difficult to listen to it.
And the mention of Rolf Harris.
Harris was convicted of sexual assult against young girls through the Yew Tree investigations!
Quiet Riot," Lets get crazy" 🎤 💧
I'm glad that I mostly listen to either jazz [no lyric], ambient, and KPOP [because most of the lyrics I can't understand anyway, but they are usually much more reserved than those from the USA].
Having said that, I think songs about "the blood of Jesus" are also quite wrong, though not in the same way, of course. hehe
I've only realized recently that Grace Jones singing, Pull up to the bumper baby on your long black limousine, is NOT about traffic congestion.
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Baby its Cold Outside sounds like she just gave in to the guy.
A lot different from I Stole Your Love by KISS 👍
How 'bout "Creep" from Radiohead... I mean talk about creepy!
"Mendocino" by Sir Douglas Quintet
No!!! The summer of 69 isn’t 1969?! 😮…. I’m done!
Once we had internet available, I was surprised to see that Brian isn't old enough for that to make sense. 😅
@@socialistprofessor3206 except not all artists write their songs.
It's both. Song's about nostalgia, but the joke of it being 'the' 69 is a fun double joke.
Considering Bryan Adams was born in 1959, and would have been 9 in the summer of 1969, it's rather unlikely he's singing about the year.
@@Luubelaaryes, that’s been established at this point. 😂
I wouldn't call "Sweat" by Inner Circle creepy but it got a staggering amount of airtime on vanilla radio. The first "eyes" never sounds plural and that was probably deliberate😂
"It'll Be Me (and I'll be look'in for you)" by Jerry Lee Lewis. Stalking in overdrive, y'all.
Sounds like the Judge Roy Moore mix tape.
Naughty is what it is, i mean that's hardly what i would call creepy, but there are certainly some songs like Time of the season with Zombies that i find real creepy..
Don't look too close at Strawberry Wine, Seth. Lmao
"I still remember when 20 was old."
"I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child."
"He was working thru college on my grandpa's farm. I was searching for knowledge and he had a car."
🤮🤮🤮
Talk about creepy.The song,"I'm on fire" by Springsteen makes him sound like a pervert.
The song Baby it’s cold outside, you do need to look at it in context of the time this was. She likes the guy and doesn’t want to leave and is giving half excuses of why she should go home, while he’s giving her excuses to stay.
19:12 you wanna talk about stalking. Watch Emilio Estevez in St Elmos Fire. That entire movie is just bizarre watching it today.
“Save your kisses for me…..even though you’re only three.” 😳🤮
The Rolling Stones STRAY CAT BLUES
Vehicle, Ides of March.
Hey, well, I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Oh, won't you hop inside my car
I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man
I'd like to take you to the nearest star
I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
I'm your vehicle woman
By now, I'm sure you know
That I love ya (love you)
I need ya (need you)
I want to, got to have you child
Great God in Heaven, you know I love you
Well, if you want to be a movie star
I got the ticket to Hollywood
Well, if you want to stay just like you are
You know I think you really should
"You Are My Sunshine"...This one isn't creepy, per se, but misconstrued. Moms sang all us kids this happy little tune when we were little, but it's actually pretty dark. This is a whole different take on the song. Note the video is done in one take...no cuts! And, if you want creepy from this band, The Dead South, check out "Fat Little Killer Boy", or "Banjo Odyssey"...I guess she's my cousin, but she needs sweet lovin', anyway! Enjoy!
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Thinking Atheist, Seth! Excellent points! Sting said, some years ago, he wrote 'Every step you take' as basically a stalking song, when he had a thing for one of the other guys' wife. Ugh. As for the Gary Puckett and Union Gap, 'Go Away Little Girl', that was more about how a man can be fooled by perfume and make up, and seemingly maturity.👍🏼💙💙💙🥰✌🏽
Sting did not write the song about another guy's wife. Do your research. It's easy to find information on the writing and recording of that song. It's well documented.
Run for Your Life - The Beatles. Yikes.
John Lennon later apologized and said he wished he hadn't written the song. It actually was a parody of the "macho man " culture of the day.
Then there's the tune "Sweet Little Sixteen," which was written by Chuck Berry and released as a single by him in 1958. But it's probably best known in one of the recordings by The Beatles or by a member (Lennon) of that group after their breakup. I heard that song coming over the speaker system in a retail store the other day and I heard it in a way I'd never heard it before. Yikes. I'm pretty sure the behavior implicit in the lyrics of that song would be a felony in most, if not all, states of the United States. Who says the world never gets better? And on another tack, if I may be so bold as to offer advice to Seth: If you truly want to research the Scientology/SCTV thing you might want to contact Tony Ortega and your fellow TH-camr Chris Shelton (and there are others, too) for "the rest of the story," to cop a line from a famous but long-dead broadcaster. Just sayin' ...
Edit and correction: Then there's the Ringo Starr titled “You’re Sixteen” from 1973, which I think is actually the song with the lyrics that creeped me out when I heard it in a store the other day. At any rate, I think my comment stands for both songs.
16? 17? Legal pretty much everywhere except the good old U.S.
Legal in the Romeo and Juliet sense, but not old man perving on girls.
@@snookoed No. Legal age of consent is 18 in the US. Sixteen everywhere else. Thirteen in most Islamic states.
@@Dave-un7fh when's the last time you saw two 15 year olds dating each other get arrested? (The Romeo-Juliet scenario) The law is mainly to protect girls, under 18, from older men who tend to molest them.
@@snookoed Oh. Dating. I thought we were discussing sex. BTW. If your 15 year olds are having sex (in the US), then it's statutory rape.
@@Dave-un7fh The Romeo-Juliet scenario infers sex. You're not the sharpest tool are you?
Seth you should check out Hazbin Hotel and the song Hell is Forever.
I wouldn't call this creepy, but I would say it hasn't aged well, but parts of the song Jump Around by House of Payne.
The Toadies - Tyler
"So Long" by Fisher Z. Creepy stalker song.
Matt Geatz approves
40:18 "Eh... there's a problem here" ya think? 🤣
To be fair about Macarena, the ONLY lyrics we in America understand are, "Heeeeeey, Macarena!"
Juan wakka tena tukka wenna manna pe-uh HEEEEEEY, Macarena!