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This could go on forever, "offensive" is in the eyes of the beholders & some of the songs mentioned on previous pages stretch the notion of that... although I understand some of this is exaggeration. Sex, politics, race, gender, more sex... it always evolves given time.
There was a trio of women who had a musical show quite a number of years ago titled "The Songs That Almost Ruined Our Lives" that included all those irresistable, catchy pop tunes we sang back then that treated "girls" as doing anything for a teenaged boy's approval. "Wishing, Hoping, Dreaming..." etc., very entertaining!
Haven't read the whole thread. I love Led Zeppelin's music and go on Led Zeppelin binges every once in a while. So I was listening at work one day and this other guy starts telling me some lyrics of the song. Wow. I told him I don't want to know about the words since I never could understand 90% of what they were saying anyway.
Sometimes it is better not to know.
Also there is a song by ZZ Top whose lyrics I knew but never really tried to figure out. A girl at work explained one such song and made my face red. I've never heard that song the same way since my innocence was ruined.
I loved the Immigrant Song from Led Zeppelin. Them's my peeps.
Then I read the lyrics. Oops. We really didn't do any of that in Minnesota, though.
And mental health. I have come to despise all the songs that sing about how someone can't live without their love object.
Let's not send that unhealthy message out anymore to all the emos to take it seriously.
Music has power and as such should be gently considered.
“Lou Reed is the guy that gave dignity and poetry and rock n’ roll to smack, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny, stumblebum passivity, and suicide,” wrote Bangs, a dedicated fan and fearless detractor, “and then proceeded to belie all his achievements and return to the mire by turning the whole thing into a monumental bad joke with himself as the woozily insistent Henny Youngman in the center ring, mumbling punch lines that kept losing their punch.” Lester Bangs
A friend of mine, who dislikes them, always says "Great, more songs about hobbits and trolls"
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Also there is a song by ZZ Top whose lyrics I knew but never really tried to figure out. A girl at work explained one such song and made my face red. I've never heard that song the same way since my innocence was ruined.
I love their song Mexican Blackbird, which includes the lines
"They all call her her, "p.u.t.a" (remove the dots - CD censors the word)
'Cause no one really knows her name
She works the cantina
Dancin' and a-lovin's her trade"
It wasn't until many years later, that I learned from a friend from Mexico what the word "p.u.t.a" meant.
I don't know how teen girls back in those days could stomach various lyrics by the Rolling Stones. It's like the band was celebrating misogyny. The title "Under My Thumb" comes to mind. I think the girls didn't pay attention to the lyrics, and simply were reacting to the music and the beat.
Haven't read the whole thread. I love Led Zeppelin's music and go on Led Zeppelin binges every once in a while. So I was listening at work one day and this other guy starts telling me some lyrics of the song. Wow. I told him I don't want to know about the words since I never could understand 90% of what they were saying anyway.
Sometimes it is better not to know.
Also there is a song by ZZ Top whose lyrics I knew but never really tried to figure out. A girl at work explained one such song and made my face red. I've never heard that song the same way since my innocence was ruined.
What song by ZZ Top? "Legs"? That was a fun video!
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