Evil misogynistic song lyrics

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Billy Joel, ‘Always a woman to me’. Heard this introduced on the radio today as a romantic love letter to his wife.
‘She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding’ - wtf?
What other apparently sweet loving songs have lyrics that on closer inspection turn out to be woman-hating bile?

Madonna’s like a prayer is a song about giving a blow job!

Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone
I hear you call my name
And it feels like home
When you call my name it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer you know I'll take you there
I hear your voice, it's like an angel sighing
I have no choice, I hear your voice
Feels like flying
I close my eyes Oh God I think I'm falling
Out of the sky, I close my eyes
Heaven help me
When you call my name it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer you know I'll take you there
Like a child you whisper softly to me
You're in control just like a child
Now I'm dancing
It's like a dream, no end and…

Eamon Fuck I don’t want you back

No no no

See, I don't know why I liked you so much
I gave you all of my trust
I told you I loved you,
Now that's all down the drain
You put me through pain,
I wanna let you know how I feel

Fuck what I said it don't mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw 'em out
Fuck all those kisses, they didn't mean jack
Fuck you, you whore I don't want you back

Fuck what I said it don't mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw 'em out
Fuck all those kisses they didn't mean jack
Fuck you, you whore, I don't want you back

You thought you could
Keep this shit from me, yeah
You burnt bitch, I heard the story
You played me, you even gave him head
Now you asking for me back
You just another hack, look elsewhere
'Cause you done with me

Fuck what I said it don't mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw em out
Fuck all those kisses they didn't mean jack
Fuck you, you whore, I don't want you back

Fuck what I said it don't mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw em out
Fuck all those kisses they didn't mean jack
Fuck you, you whore, I don't want you back

You questioned did I care
You could ask anyone,
I even said you were my great one
Now it's over but I do admit I'm sad.
It hurts real bad,
I can't sweat that,
'Cause I loved a whore

Fuck what I said it don't mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw 'em out
Fuck all those kisses they didn't mean jack
Fuck you, you whore, I don't want you back

The whole of Dr Dre's "2001" album - lyrics are super nasty. It's such a weird thing to be radfem, & having 2001 as my fav album.

It’s an old one but ‘in the summer time’ by mungo Jerry:
‘If her daddy’s rich you can go for a meal
If her daddy is poor you can do what you feel’....

There was another one last year, I’m trying to wrack my brains for it but it’s gone.....

@FrenchFancie ooohi detest that song. Those horrible lyrics supported by such a bouncy happy melody.

This is a ridiculous thread.
Seems like some women have nothing better to do with their time and life but gang up on men and dissect every single word they say or write in order to justify an attack on them. On a Saturday morning! Are you really that bored with your life?
These are song lyrics FFS.

@Verily1 Eamon's girlfriend Frankee came out with a response to that song called 'Fuck you right back' where she said he was a shit lover and she faked all her orgasms, so at least Eamon's song didn't go unchallenged.

woodhill Run for Your Life was on Rubber Soul, as was Norwegian Wood, which John actually wrote about an affair he had, so in a way it is misogynistic (I'm a huge Beatles fan but some of their work is questionable).

John regretted writing Run For Your Life but it was always one of George Harrison's favourites.

There's another song they did that I hate called "You Can't Do That", also misogynistic. Google the lyrics.

I suspect Blurred Lines is the worst one because it’s so recent, was everywhere but actually it’s vile.

Have you ever heard the lyrics for the verses of ‘You are my sunshine’? It’s about a bitter ex!
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
I'll always love you and make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me and love another
You'll regret it all some day
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me and love another
You have shattered all of my dreams

I always thought the Roy Orbison song ‘i drove all night’ redeemed itself because he repeatedly asked the woman ‘is that all right? ’ So he was in fact asking for her consent.
Is that not all right?

Honestly to the PP who said about "it's a man's world" try actually listening to it.

He's not incorrect when he lists what men have done.

He also clearly, deliberately and without ambiguity states "and it'd be nothing without a woman or a girly"

He also, to me anyway, ridicules men for using their earned money to buy shit they don't need from other men.

If anything, it's the opposite of misogyny.

"This is a man's world, this is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
Man made the trains to carry heavy loads
Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark

This is a man's, a man's, a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boys
Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything he can
You know that man makes money to buy from other man

This is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl

He's lost in the world of man
He's lost in bitterness"

Boom Boom - Out go The Lights

"I never felt this mad before
When I just found out she don't want me no more
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom, come on, out go the lights"

Easy Lover by Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey

Under My Thumb is the only song DP has dropped from his repertoire because two people - me and an ex - both said we hated the words.

I hated having to facilitate kids performing Cee-Lo Green's 'Forget You' because the entire thing, even when it's been deemed acceptable by SLT because they sung 'forget' rather than 'fuck', repeated golddigger, rather than using the N word and took out 'shit' for 'shhh', is still 'well, never mind, she's a whore anyway because she dumped me for being a waster'

@Waxonwaxoff0

Of course it is on RS

I'm a massive fan too but haven't listened for a while.

I know "you can't do that".

I suppose JL was of his time and very odd

It's not evil, but I hate Ed Sheeran's Shape of You. "I'm in love with the shape of you. I'm in love with your body". Women don't like being treated like a piece of meat.

"Alison" by Elvis Costello - he wants to murder her?
Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking
When I hear the silly things that you say.
I think somebody better put out the big light,
Cause I can't stand to see you this way.
Alison, I know this world is killing you.
Oh, Alison, my aim is true.
My aim is true.

@woodhill John was definitely the jealous type for sure! Of course attitudes in the 60s were very different as well.

Well I never knew ‘Bring me Sunshine’ was a love song, misogynist or otherwise. I thought Morecambe and Wise were addressing it to their audience?

I had ‘Just the way you are’ as our first dance song I didn’t think Billy was telling her she needed to dumb down or anything, just to be herself?

Now as for dodgy lyrics, is the 80s awesome tune ‘Big in Japan’ by Alphaville about Western men being male prostitutes in Asian countries? The implication that they’re ‘bigger’ than Japanese men and if they pay ‘ill sleep by your side.’?

Well that’s one theory anyway

@TheFastandTheCurious
Not disagreeing with the vom angle, but you've left out a word in those lyrics that at least make it more about her enjoying the sex than crying about it
Girl I'm gonna make you sweat, sweat til you can't sweat no more, and if you cry OUT, I'm gonna push it push it some more
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Touch the hand by Bryan Adams - just awful!

Stand up, if you wanna fight
I’m telling all the women, stand up for your rights
If you wanna wear the trousers, wanna act like a man
I’d love to trade you places, love to be your thing
I’d do all the shopping, collect your favourite suit
Press all the laundry, polish all your boots
If you brought me flowers I’d meet you at the door
Have your dinner ready, your slippers on the floor
And when day turns to night and you feel alright, I turn out the lights
Touch the hand of the man who makes you a woman
Touch the hand of the man who’ll make it right

It carries on for a couple more verses and gets worse.

Walk this way by Aerosmith is also pretty horrific with all the sexy schoolgirl references

Slade Everyday- It seems to be sung from prison by someone serving time for some sort of domestic abuse

I mean, it was probably meant to be romantic, but JESUS:

Everyday when I'm away I'm thinking of you,
Everyone can carry on
Except for we two
And you know that our love
And you know that I
And you know that our love won't die
And it won't even show
And no-one will know
One little wave
To say you'll behave
It won't even show
How far love can go
Everyday when I'm away
And there's been a few
Every land I need a hand
To help me come through
And you know that our love
And you know that
And you know that our love won't die
And it won't even show
And no-one will know
One little wave
To say you'll behave
It won't even show
How far love can go
And you know that our love
And you know that I
And you know that our love won't die
And it won't even show
And no-one will know
One little wave
To say you'll behave
It won't even show
How far love can go

Or how about "Girls, Girls, Girls" by Mötley Crüe, referencing strip clubs:

Friday night and I need a fight
My motorcycle and a switchblade knife
Handful of grease in my hair feels right
But what I need to make me tight are those

Girls, girls, girls
Long legs and burgundy lips
Girls, girls, girls
Dancing down on Sunset Strip
Girls, girls, girls
Red lips, fingertips

Trick or treat, sweet to eat
On Halloween and New Years Eve
Yankee girls, you just can't be beat
But they're the best when they're off their feet

Girls, girls, girls
At the Dollhouse in Fort Lauderdale
Girls, girls, girls
Rocking in Atlanta at Tattletale
Girls, girls, girls
Raising hell at the Seventh Veil

Have you read the news
In the Soho Tribune?
You know she did me
Well, then she broke my heart
I'm such a good, good boy
I just need a new toy
I tell you what, girl
Dance for me, I'll keep you over-employed
Just tell me a story
You know the one I mean

Crazy Horse, Paris, France
Forgot the names, remember romance
I got the photos, a menage a trois
Must've broke those Frenchies' laws with those

Girls, girls, girls
B-B-Body Shop, Marble Arch
Girls, girls, girls
Tropicana's where I lost my heart
Girls, girls, girls

Cheerleader by Omi

She walks like a model
She grants my wishes like a genie in a bottle
yeah yeah
'Cause I'm the wizard of love
And I got the magic wand

Bleurrrgh 🤢

I can't see what is wrong with Lady in Red??

The one that really irritates me and gives me flashbacks is Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Let's make love tonight. Really gets on my nerves and I want to shout "Every bloody word you sing is about you! You selfish git!"