In the front of the club I see this girl like, "Yo love"Thought she said thug but she called me a scrub
This ain't my Benz there, it's my man's, yeahBut this ain't my car like that ain't your hair
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 03:10 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt5DE4hbYY
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 July 2023 13:39 (ten months ago) link
Talking of Roy Orbison. I know we're supposed to feel sympathy for Roy in this song but what a whiny deluded sap he is. She's obviously not that into you, Roy, develop a backbone why don't you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgnsOXoAVM
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 3 July 2023 11:36 (ten months ago) link
Lehrer notes that there was (even then) a trope of women singing about guys who they loved even though they were repulsive and unsanitary.
Is “My Funny Valentine” the origin of this trope?
First example that jumps to mind is The Crystals “He’s Sure The Boy I Love” (“He doesn't hang diamonds 'round my neck/And all he's got is an unemployment check”).
What’s great about “Give Him A Great Big Kiss” is that the Shangri-Las are clearly turned on by his “dirty fingernails”, no qualifiers needed.
Of course the male versions of this trope are the ones that are truly nasty e.g. “You Got What It Takes”:
You don't live in a beautiful place, noYou don't dress in the best of tasteAnd nature didn't give you such a beautiful faceBut baby, you got what it takes.
Who could resist such buttering up?
Also, as mentioned upthread, the Temptations “Beauty’s Only Skin Deep” (yeah, yeah, yeah):
Now, good looks, I've learned to do without'Cause now I know it's love that really counts
and
A pretty face you may not possessBut what I like about you is your tenderness.
― gjoon1, Monday, 3 July 2023 12:38 (ten months ago) link
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alrightAnd that's alright with me
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Monday, 3 July 2023 13:44 (ten months ago) link
…And here’s why
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 July 2023 13:49 (ten months ago) link
(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care(…kind of the flip of Great Big Kiss, where she loves that the guy is cool)
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 3 July 2023 15:00 (ten months ago) link
reminds me of the thing you can find in some old r&b tunes where the male lead singer loves his girl because she's either too fat or too skinny, thus reducing the chances that somebody will try to steal her
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:49 (ten months ago) link
"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul took that concept to #1 in 1963. Kinda funny that the song was written by a married couple, together with a third writer.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:51 (ten months ago) link
lol god that song
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 17:04 (ten months ago) link
I still hear it at public joints, it is so cringe. It's not even a good song.
― Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Thursday, 6 July 2023 23:02 (ten months ago) link
Bono
― BrianB, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:24 (nine months ago) link
Which one
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:30 (nine months ago) link
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car (at the moment, but I guess you could argue the "without meaning to" clause in that era, so more generally, just Bono.
― BrianB, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:34 (nine months ago) link
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― BrianB, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:35 (nine months ago) link
Great song though
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:38 (nine months ago) link
Dang now I have an image in my head of Bono and Cher
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:46 (nine months ago) link
Songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick
The lyrics to The Jets - "Rocket 2 U" are really funny, every verse is just a list of all of the things the protagonist cannot do, doesn't understand how to do, or will not do
And the chorus is basically "I am an idiot and kind of useless but I can fuck all night, it is actually the only thing I can do" lol
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:45 (nine months ago) link
Climax Blues Band - “I Love You”
Classic woman-as-savior-of-the-lost-soul-male-genius song, not a single line about what she’s really like, only about how she fulfilled her duty in talking this piece of shit off the ledge.
― henry s, Saturday, 12 August 2023 04:03 (nine months ago) link
The Turtles, "Let Me Be".
"Don't try to plan me or understand me / I can't stand to be understood"
Good, because there's nothing to understand, you're a pompous whiny dick, end of story.
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 September 2023 12:24 (seven months ago) link
Ha, attempt to rewrite It Ain’t Me Babe
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 24 September 2023 14:05 (seven months ago) link
See I think "It Ain't Me Babe" almost doesn't fit the category because he clearly intends dickitude.
Compare "Rambling Man" or "Free Bird" or "Goodbye Stranger" for basically the same message.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:27 (seven months ago) link
I just mean that it was the Turtles follow up single to their cover of It Ain’t Me Babe. Sounds like dumbed down Dylan lyrics.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:06 (seven months ago) link
PF Sloan I think?
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:09 (seven months ago) link
Adding to the Beach Boys coverage itt, "Girl Don't Tell Me" is quite the little bundle of grievance. Like, okay, I get it, she didn't write you after your fling last summer, and you're bummed. But maybe take it as a life lesson and don't go on a creepy tangent about her short shorts and all the going-out she must have done during the school year. Gross.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 29 September 2023 17:21 (seven months ago) link
Dr. Hook's "More Like the Movies" is one long extended "apology" where every "sorry" strikes me as deeply insincere and manipulative:
I guess the dance is over nowSo you just courtsey and I'll bowAnd ask the band to play us Auld Lang SyneThen I'll just take what's left of meRight back to where it used to beAnd you'll go sail your magic carpet, far across the skyI wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violinsDid you girl?No, you never got to hear those violins, noThe castles that you built so highWere just too steep for me to climbAnd I guess these dirty streets of mineWere just too rough for youI wish I could've helped you seeJust one of your sweet childhood dreamsBut though I tried, I could not make not one of them come trueAnd I wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violins
I wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violinsDid you girl?No, you never got to hear those violins, no
The castles that you built so highWere just too steep for me to climbAnd I guess these dirty streets of mineWere just too rough for youI wish I could've helped you seeJust one of your sweet childhood dreamsBut though I tried, I could not make not one of them come true
And I wish I could have made itMore like the movies for youSome pretty Technicolor way it's never beenI'm sorry when I kissed youYou only heard me whisperYou never got to hear those violins
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
Add Dr. Hook's "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" to thread also
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:32 (one month ago) link
I never got to hear those violins, no
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link