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Songs That Were Demeaning to Women
If You Want to be Happy for the Rest of Your Life - Jimmy Soul
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals
Hard to believe the great Goffin/King writing team came up with this.
Run For Your Life - The Beatles
This one is downright scary.
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I always thought Sandy Posey's two hits - Born A Woman and A Single Girl, both about how badly a woman needs a man to be fulfilled in life - would not be welcomed on the radio today.
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GrimsbyFan wrote:
If You Want to be Happy for the Rest of Your Life - Jimmy Soul
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals
Hard to believe the great Goffin/King writing team came up with this.
Run For Your Life - The Beatles
This one is downright scary.
Interestingly no one was bothered when Elvis sung the same lyric
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Not a pop song, but the absolute ultimate male-chauvenest-pig song has to be "Put Another Log On The Fire". by Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glasser, and others. As you can imagine, it gets quite a reaction when I sing it at karaoke.
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so now this site is going to look into the past to find problems. I'm sure there are many songs from the past that wouldn't be done today. I don't understand why people are always looking under rocks.
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Personally, and as the primary admin of this site, I'm just glad to see more postings here recently and from a good variety of people. As I think I've mentioned before, I sometimes go looking for articles to post that may only be of marginal interest just so the board doesn't go too long without some activity ... I well remember how inactive the previous board had become long before Ron Smith finally shut it down.
But I was already thinking of saying something partly in response to memphis boy's comment about Elvis, which of course was referencing "Baby Let's Play House". With the exception of "He Hit Me", which I know went nowhere when it came out because it was viewed so negatively, I'm not aware of there being much if anything in the way of significant negative reaction to the other songs when they came out. I was born in 1960 and so I'm not old enough to have firsthand knowledge about how songs from my childhood or before were viewed, but I certainly heard most of them played enough as I got older to have the impression that this was generally the case.
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so now this site is going to look into the past to find problems. I'm sure there are many songs from the past that wouldn't be done today. I don't understand why people are always looking under rocks.
Beverly Cardinals, I like your response.
I would add this to the song "Run For Your Life":
The Bible already writes about jealousy, cruelty, killing, murder, theft, lies and other human vices. What's one song by The Beatles against that?
Here is perhaps just a simple piece of advice.
Whoever wants to, let them keep listening to the old songs.
And whoever doesn't want to, let him forget that they exist.
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Thinking about Jimmy Soul, there is a line in a song I love by Sam Cooke that I guess demeans one woman, great lines though " Another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine, instead of being my deliverance, she bore a strange resemblence to a cat named Frankenstein " Classic !
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Lesley Gore had a hit song with the theme that it doesn't matter if guys mistreat you because "That's the Way Boys Are'.
When I'm with my guy and he watches all the pretty girls go by
And I feel so hurt deep inside, I wish that I could die
Not a word do I say
I just look the other way
'Cause that's the way boys are
That's the way boys are
When he treats me rough and he acts as though he doesn't really care
Well, I never tell him that he is so unfair
Plus, he loves me and I know it
But he's just afraid to show it
'Cause that's the way boys are
That's the way boys are
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Alice Cooper released one with a title that embarrasses me to even mention it but it epitomizes misogyny:Only Women Bleed. And it charted #12 on the Billboard charts in 1975.
Jack Jones: Wives and Lovers
Bob Dylan: Just Like A Woman
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Obviously The Rolling Stones had several. To mention a few:
Stupid Girl
Some Girls
Under My Thumb
possibly, She's So Cold
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Obviously The Rolling Stones had several. To mention a few:
Stupid Girl
Some Girls
Under My Thumb
possibly, She's So Cold
Not to mention Brown Sugar, which they no longer perform in concert.