Songs where the singer needs a MN intervention

[TheFaerieQueene]

I’ve got a Spotify playlist running and Jolene by Dolly Parton has just played.

If ever a woman needed to hear some truths from MN it is her. If she has to plead with the OW to leave her man alone, she isn’t in a great place!!

I’m sure there are loads out there that MN could help the singer, whatever the problem 😉

The whole of that Cheerleader song is a shocker.

Miley Cyrus stages her own intervention for Santa Baby.

"That Whitney Houston one where she's having an affair, can't remember its title" "saving all my love" hate that song!

Ditto Bryan Adams "run to you" ugh!

"Alanis Morrisette would be flamed in pedants corner." 😂 yea but I still love that whole album.

"I've always thought of Every Breath you Take as the ultimate Stalker's Song" even sting himself has said it baffles him the number of people who have it as their first wedding dance! It was written about his obsession over his soon to be ex wife, despite the fact the reason they split was his affair with her best friend!

"Also Sting Don't Stand so Close to me" indeed particularly as he had been a teacher himself

"Claire by Gilbert O'Sullivan. She's a little girl, ffs. You're a paedophile" I'm early 70's born SO MANY I went to school with named for this song! Yeuch!

Ditto brotherhood of man "save all your kisses" 'won't you save them all for me, even though you're only 3'

And "little children" billy J Kramer

'Little children, you better not tell on me I'm tellin' you
Little children, you better not tell what you see And if you're good
I'll give you candy and a quarter
If you're quiet like you oughta be
And keep a secret with me' bleuch!

Cheerleader (OMI?) He sees women purely as cheerleaders for his life, putting him first. His girl needs to have more self respect. I wonder what those two learned about relationships growing up.

George Ezra Listen To The Man. She should recognise that he is "hoovering". Block and delete.

The Brandy You're A Fine Girl song from Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

I really want her to say, "Look mate, I've had a bit of fun with you, now toddle on back to your boat, because, lets face it, you're not exactly husband material yourself are you?"

Shaggy - It wasn’t me.
Nuff said!

Somebody always brings up Little Children on these threads. Mr J Kramer is definitely not interested in the children in question. Au contraire, he wants them to bugger right off and leave him alone with their older sister.

And people also go on about the use of "Little girl" and even "Baby". It's just how people spoke then; they don't mean an actual little girl or baby. Not saying that it's not belittling to refer to a woman as a child.

I know that - those lyrics are still gross!

You'll be sorry when I 'm dead
And all this guilt will be on your head

The Police, 'Can't Stand Losing' - you can't blame your ex for your suicidal thoughts, and don't lay the guilt on her for your own actions.

Also 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' by Diana Ross, just let him go Di, Don't be permanently available for him no matter what, where is your self esteem?

It was Claire's mum Gilbert was really in love with, not Claire. However, I doubt Claire's dad was very chuffed!

Brandy & Monica, the Boy is Mine.

WTF ladies? Why are you fighting over some idiot that can't keep his cock in his pants? Get some self respect.

Escape (the Pina Colada Song) I'd suggest counselling to get to the bottom of your mutual need to cheat.

'I was tired of my lady, we´d been together too long
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read'

He's taking you for granted LTB don't take have an affair.

Shakira might need a bra intervention. "Lucky that my breasts are small and humble" - she's probably in a too-big band size, too small cup size.

My Guy, Mary Wells, she really isn't very complimentary about him at all.

Can't Live (if Living is Without You). FFS, get a grip, you've made your ex fucking miserable for years and your threats to kill yourself are purely just to regain control over them with fear.

I'm Not in Love. Nope, he just emotionally unavailable and dismissive. Classic abuse to tell somebody their picture is just there to hide a nasty stain and stopping them from telling their friends they have a boyfriend.

I reserve most distaste for Under My Thumb. So much so, I asked the OH to not perform it anymore - it's a fucking abuser's 'look how clever I am' anthem.

'It's down to me
The difference in the clothes she wears
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
And ain't it the truth babe?
Under my thumb
It's a squirmin' dog who's just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways
It's down to me
Yes it is
The way she does just what she's told down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, ah, say it's alright
Under my thumb
It's a Siamese cat of a girl
Under my thumb
She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world
It's down to me
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb'

Fucking repulsive.

That sad line from "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" :
'Now, laughing friends deride, Tears I cannot hide.....'
Please change your friends!!

"It was Claire's mum Gilbert was really in love with, not Claire" you mean in real life?

I was the biggest Pulp fan as a teenager and totally in love with Jarvis Cocker. Twenty odd years later I struggle to listen to half their stuff because of how 'problematic' the lyrics are. Pretty gutting really.

I watched them on an old episode of Top of the Pops over Christmas and half way through Disco 2000 he gets a pair of knickers out of his pocket and starts rubbing them over his face different times indeed!

Dub be good to me

And yy Dusty Springfield

Re 'I'm on fire' by Springsteen, I thought the song was about a working class guy in love with a woman who was already taken?
Nothing dodgy at all in terms of paedophilia etc.

I'd rather go blind Christine Perfect (others have covered it too)
No no no!

Talking in Your Sleep by Crystal Gayle.

LTB!!!

MN has ruined me.

Not a song but a book. Started reading “The Break” by Marian Keyes recently. Premise is husband in mid life crisis fucks off for 6 months to travel/shag other women.

All I could think is what the Relationships board would make of that particular scenario. Had to abandon the book

'Every breath you take' - The Police... might as well have been the soundtrack to my (now ended) marriage!
Shudder 😰