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AIBU to cringe whenever I hear this lyric? (by The Weeknd)

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alltoomuchrightnow · 08/04/2017 13:22

This one (I Feel It Coming)

Tell me what you really like
Baby, I can take my time
We don't ever have to fight
Just take it step-by-step
I can see it in your eyes
'Cause they never tell me lies
I can feel that body shake
And the heat between your legs

ie the heat between legs. Horrible lyric! I'm sure I am getting prudish in my old age. However, I think of a recent thread (fanjo mist) and still chuckle at same time. But it just makes me think of sweaty non cotton knickers on plastic seats. I'm sure it's meant to be a sexy lyric.
It's not working for me.

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DanGleballs · 08/04/2017 23:52

Better make up your mind
What do you mean?
When you nod your head yes, but you wanna say no
What do you mean?
(You're so confusing baby)
Heyyy, when you don't want me to move,
But you tell me to go
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
Said we're running out of time
What do you mean?
Oh oh oh what do you mean?
Better make up your mind
What do you mean?

Justin, take it as a no. If it isn't an explicit yes harassing her until she agrees does not equal consent.

CoolCarrie · 08/04/2017 23:52

Tonight's The Night Rod Stewart, " Spread your wings and let me come inside" !

MorrisZapp · 08/04/2017 23:54

Just googled Mama.

Fucking hell.

DanGleballs · 09/04/2017 00:04

Blurred lines is nasty but ' defined lines ' a feminist parody is fucking hilarious, please youtube it!

You think that you're so slick
Let me emasculate ya
Because your precious dick
Can't beat my vibrator
We're feeling the frustration
From all the exploitation
Prepare for your castration

[Hook]
So we can fuck this man's world
With all its bullshit
Girls don't deserve it
And that's why we quit
We ain't good girls
We are scholastic
Smart and sarcastic
Not fucking plastic

GabsAlot · 09/04/2017 00:23

i lov that some peopl thought lyrics were nice eand pure ein the 80's

like a virgin-relax-i want your sex?

Shematt · 09/04/2017 00:23

Not a lyric, but a beautiful song "Gaye" by Clifford T Ward from 1973 (showing my age). You certainly wouldn't name your daughter Gaye anymore. What a shame some words have taken on different connotations over the years. The Lyric "You're my tray of nice things I upset yesterday. The display of bright rings I let slip away." Sweet. So far removed from some of the sleazy stuff in songs around today. Sadly he died just this past year. A brilliant singer songwriter. And so to bed.....

DontPullThatTubeOut · 09/04/2017 00:41

morris that song is about a teens feelings towards a prostitute based on a book Phil read. It does sound eerily like abortion, I still see it that way when I see the lyrics.

kimann · 09/04/2017 00:46

Is his name the Weeknd because he cannot spell Weekend? never heard of him nor that weird song... bring on Spandau and U2 anytime... Smile

treaclesoda · 09/04/2017 01:08

Sleazy lyrics and songs about sex are definitely not a new thing. There are loads of well known songs from the 50s that are blatantly about sex.

Alexandra87 · 09/04/2017 17:22

This song is on the radio right now! Weird. But yeh it's an awful line

pinkstinks · 09/04/2017 17:44

Surely it should be thighs though not legs so that it rhymes... it makes me twitch every Time I hear it the word legs just jars.

StripyHorse · 09/04/2017 17:46

Gallway girl - I can accept that he might be calling her a pretty little girl but she's just a petite woman. But.... " Kissed her on the neck and then took her by the hand". If someone came up to me in a bar and just kissed my neck he'd have a knee in his knackers!

CaoNiMartacus · 09/04/2017 17:49

"You certainly wouldn't name your daughter Gaye anymore. What a shame some words have taken on different connotations over the years."

Why a shame? Is there something wrong with being gay?

WomanStanley · 09/04/2017 17:51

Top cringe lyrics:
"I don't want clever conversation,
I don't want to work that hard...
I just want someone that I can talk to;
I love you just the way you are..." - (You're thick, which is ok, because so am I)

"I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.." - (WHAT?!)

Elaine and Barbara:
"But in the end he needs a little bit more than me..." - (I'm not good enough for him)

The following horrible sexual overtones of:
"Young girl, get out of my mind. My love for you is way out of line, better run girl..."
"She came on like a dream, peaches and cream, lips like strawberry wine. You're 16, you're beautiful and you're mine..."

There are literally so many. You Gotta Be by Desree has awful lyrics, ditto Life is a Rollercoaster by Ronan Keating.

On a personal level...

The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush always reminds me of really really tragic women swigging voddy and slow dancing by themselves in the living room at half four in the morning (we've all been there)...

"'Cause I am your LAYYYYYDDDDEEEEEEE,
And your are my MAHHHHAAAANNN..."

Ming.

Jaxhog · 09/04/2017 17:52

Always a bad idea to listen too closely to modern song lyrics. Most are pretty rubbish.

Give me a good Beatles song any day.

noitsnotme · 09/04/2017 17:54

Aw naw. I had been trying to convince myself that wasn't what he was actually saying. Hoped it was "lips" Sad. Spew.

bbismad · 09/04/2017 17:58

Recently went to see Bat Out Of Hell the musical...huge Meatloaf fan, but listening to some of those old lyrics...some very cringey lyrics, occasionally seem to verge on advocating sexual assault (mind you watching 'Carry On' films also makes me cringe in this way). Each generation seems to recreate cringe!

Clawdy · 09/04/2017 17:59

As soon as Beatles are mentioned, someone will trot out with a moan about Run for your life. Happens every time there's a thread on lyrics.

maybeitssomethingelse · 09/04/2017 18:07

Starving lyrics make me cringe
I didn't know that I was starving till I tasted you
Don't need no butterflies when you give me the whole damn zoo
By the way, right away, you do things to my body
I didn't know that I was starving till I tasted you
😳

Butterymuffin · 09/04/2017 18:19

I've Never Been To Me is appalling. Not much is as offensive as Blurred Lines, though.

lilywillywoo · 09/04/2017 18:22

I hate that Hang on in there, Baby, don't know who sang it, but I always have to turn it off immediately if it comes on the radio. Also Lonely Boy, and Mr Blue Sky (because it goes on for ages)

Bythepowerof · 09/04/2017 18:25

Isn't it " heat between your thighs" so it rhymes?

Led Zepplin did have done dodgy lyrics but to be fair Plant is a bona fide Rock God who one would be happy to receive a whole lotta love from.
This muppet sounds like a smug school boy with the only girl whose snogged him more than once.

Emma2917 · 09/04/2017 18:46

You are a massive prude sorry but your really are, there's nothing pornographic there, i've heard old people joke and say the 'heat between her loins' same thing! Get a grip or get laid

Pollydonia · 09/04/2017 18:50

Was going to say "Young Girl" but was beaten to it.
What also disturbs me about " Summertime" is the line " Have a drink, have a drive" Confused

MyGastIsFlabbered · 09/04/2017 18:56

I always wince when I hear that Simply Red song that goes 'remembering the first time we made love' not just because of the use of the term make love but because I then think about shagging Mick Hicknell -

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