... to think this is not a suitable song for Asda to play

[MumInBeds]

this is my first AIBU but I am wondering if I am being too sensitive by being cross at hearing 'Wives and Lovers' by Burt Bacharach playing on Asda FM presumably to shoppers all over the country.

The lyrics are so very sexist, I know it is an old song but I don't think it should be broadcast now.

Maybe I have misunderstood, maybe it is tongue in cheek?

www.elyrics.net/read/b/burt-bacharach-lyrics/wives-and-lovers-lyrics.html

What damage, exactly, do you think will befall anyone who happens to hear the lyrics?

I quite like it, actually.

But yes, it's harking back to the fifties

For wives should always be lovers too.

Nowt wrong with that.

YABU, i don't think the staff have time to worry about the meaning of the songs that are playing in the store.

I had to laugh when we went to toys r us a few weeks ago and they were playing Morrisey (slightly depressing for a toy shop dont you think?) but Dh thought it was great.

Whenever I go to Asda it's bloody Matt Cardle warbling on and on and on and on. Should I take a pick axe to the store manager or should I find something else to worry about?

You are being ridiculously sensitive.

I say censor all music, film and TV...all books and magazines... ensure all people who have contact with the public only speak perfect PC. Never encourage any form of opinion that may not be politically and organically correct. etc etc etc. It's for our own good

IF i noticed it, which I probably wouldnt, id think it was funny!

Was it Coventry asda?

Maybe all outdated songs should be banned, also those sexist black and white films. Oh and old books that discriminate too, Bible, Koran, Torah, Pride and Prejudice...

so what songs would you have them play for a positive experience?

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Ultimately we can all take from lyrics or we can choose to just listen to the song in the background. The reality is that the majority of music is either about sex or drugs or both or has been written while under the influence of some substance or other - if you banned every song that was immoral on some level we would have no music left.

I like it. Its funny.

I also have a Marguerite Patton cook book that advises young wives to remember to stop dashing about with the housework and sit down for 10 minutes and have a cool drink if you are thirsty and to not feel guilty about having a break. Its just that crazy era!

I don't think women were ever so stupid that they needed to be told this stuff or that they took it to heart. Furthermore, I don't think its going to cause a mass outbreak of surrendered wifism in Asda customers.

(put feet up, ignores housework, puts hair in ponytail)

I always get confused about the cake-in the rain song, they sometimes play it at Sainsbo's and I always have to stop and listen to see if I can make sense of it...I can't:

it should be banned!

lyrics:

Spring was never waiting for us till
it ran one step ahead
as we followed in the dance.

Between the parted pages
we were pressed,
in love's hot, fevered iron
like a striped pair of pants.

Mac Arthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooo!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
foaming like a wave
on the ground beneath your knees
birds like tender babies in your hands
and the old men playing
Chinese checkers
by the trees

Mac Arthur Park's is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooo!

There'll be another song for me
and I will sing it
there'll be another dream for me
someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warn
and never let you catch me
looking at the sun, oh yeah
and after all the loves of my life
after all loves in my life
you'll be the one

I will take my life into my hands
and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes
and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
and my passion flow
like rivers through the sky
oh and after all the loves in my life
after all the loves in my life
you'll still be the one
and I'll ask myself why.

Mac Arthur's Park is melting in the dark
all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooo!

It is from a different age.

YABU

[bbiscuit] Here, have my first one!

And just for the record - I have a better example of inappropriate muzak than anyone!

Cee Lo Green - 'Fu*k You' played full blast at the kiddy disco at Center Parcs in Holland last December. It wasn't the radio edit either

Fair enough, I'd say that's unanimous, and a biscuit too - I almost feel like a proper mumsnetter now. :)

It's a great tune, must admit never took any notice of the lyrics. There are plenty of songs with crap words but does anyone take any notice of them. Video killed the radio star.........

RudeEnglishLady
They often play "Fuck you" in the full version on the radio on the continent. Swearwords sound less harsh in a different language. I have to be on the ball when we listen to the radio in the car.

I saw 2 beautiful little angels at swimming on the weekend, all blonde curls and sweetness. Then they started singing Kings of Leon's "Your sex is on fire" at the tops of their voices.

Swimming pool acoustics are great! Their mum looked mortified.
:)