To think it's not fluffy 90s pop, but creepy asf?

[stellenbosch]

So, 'You're Gorgeous" (Babybird) was on the radio today in the car. Naturally, I turned it up.
Was singing along, (dc in back) and it struck me that it's actually a very creepy song and not a happy 90s pop tune.. got me thinking, what other songs that were acceptable back in the day probably wouldn't make the cut today?

The 80s song, 'I touch myself', comes to mind... lol

AIBU Or what other old songs do you think are, in retrospect, creepy asf? 🤔🤣

'All I wanna do is make love to you' was on the radio the other day while I was painting. I never really listened to it before but this time I did.

My reactions all the way through it:

'It was a rainy night when he came into sight
Standing by the road, no umbrella, no coat
So I pulled up alongside and I offered him a ride'

• That's sweet of her, bit dodgy though but OK...

'He accepted with a smile so we drove for a while
I didn't ask him his name, this lonely boy in the rain
Fate tell me it's right, is this love at first sight
Please don't make it wrong, just stay for the night'

• LOL that escalated quickly, not sure there's any need to mention love after five minutes but sure, get a shag

All I want to do is make love to you
Say you will you want me too
All I want to do is make love to you
I've got lovin' arms to hold on to

• cool

'So we found this hotel, it was a place I knew well'

• Hmm, you do this regularly then? Ok maybe just a dodgy lyric to make it rhyme

'We made magic that night. Oh, he did everything right
He brought the woman out of me, so many times, easily'

• NICE ONE LOVE!

'And in the morning when he woke all I left him was a note'

• but why though, if it was so good?

'I told him I am the flower you are the seed
We walked in the garden we planted a tree
Don't try to find me, please don't you dare
Just live in my memory, you'll always be there'

• Eh? 1) you actually said that? 2) you seem to be implying pregnancy, how the fuck would you know after a couple of hours and 3) you shagged a stranger with no condom

All I want to do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All want to do is make love to you
I've got lovin' arms to hold on to
Oh, oooh, we made love
Love like strangers
All night long
We made love

• ah love LIKE strangers, maybe it was her bf and they did that roleplay thing where you pretend not to know each other?

'Then it happened one day, we came round the same way
You can imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes'

'I said please, please understand
I'm in love with another man
And what he couldn't give me
was the one little thing that you can'

• WTF love? So your husband is infertile so of course you go out picking up strangers to cheat on him and get you up the duff instead of maybe you know talking about it and going to a fertility clinic. Why the hell did I even just listen to this nonsense

There's me thinking it's about a liberated woman who knows what she wants and gets it but it's actually just vile

Lubey

It is not vile,it is a whole novel in one song

It's art

But surely her husband knows what she did, as she had a child and he's infertile. And, I assume, they were still together when the stranger returned (she talked about him in the present tense), so he must have been OK with it?

It does make me squirm though!

I am so disappointed though. I really wanted it to be about a woman who wants a decent shag and can't be arsed with a relationship

BUT NO I GET THIS UTTER pukeworthy TOSH instead fucks sake

Take Good Care of My Baby isn’t creepy exactly, just really hypocritical.

He’s cheated on her and she’s gone off and found somebody else (“If I’d been true, I know she’d never be with you”), and is then telling that e new man to be good to her. I always got the impression it was a teenager who was feeling poorly done to (although I think she was quite reasonable to dump him!) and trying to prove that he was actually better.

I find the Heart song hilarious TBH, but it's no worse and no weirder than any amount of folk songs and old ballads which condense a whole story into three or four verses.

I'm not linking to it as it's far to vile, but, Immortal Technique - Dance with the devil.

Too*

Desperately trying to resist the temptation to Google that one, loopy!

You certainly wouldn't forget it @near

I remember reading that Anne Wisin hates 'All I want to do....'
It was written by Mutt Lang and Heart no longer perform the song (or at least they didn't for many years, I'm not sure about recently)

Every breath you take is the ultimate stalkers song.

Not creepy but one that's always got on my tits is All I Have to Give by the backstreet boys

"When you talk, does it seem like he's not even listening to a word you say?

That's ok babe, just tell me your problems, I'll try my best to kiss them all away"

That's not listening either is it you twat, that's pretending to listen so you can cop a feel, at least the first guy had the decency to openly not give a toss!

I love 'I drove all night' it's someone who is passionately besotted by someone and misses them deeply, the feeling is clearly mutual

"No one can move me the way that you do, nothing erases this feeling between me and you"

I think this thread has lost its way with what is as creepy AF and songs that are a little sexy and people don't like them.

Fine young Canibals, Extreme, Bucks Fizz, ffs!
It started off quite interesting but when people just put songs down because they are a bit risqué it has become boarding on hysteria!

Barbie girl by Aqua gives me the rage !

flapjack
Ok so Barbie girl gives you the rage.
We built this city on rock n roll makes me pretty angry but why is Barbie girl as creepy as Fuck?

I have never even heard that song, I will have to listen to it. I remember there was a radio show one time in Australia, I think the ABC, and they were talking about creepy song. I always used to like that I’ll be watching you song, which is popular at weddings. Someone mentioned it was a stocker song. The song about stocking. Sorry I’m using dictation and it won’t write the word correctly. But you know, when you follow somebody around. I never knew

I had a look at the Immortal Technique one - seems to me like a polemic coming from a place of justifiable anger. Maybe not everyone's taste, but no more appalling or evil than the Levellers.

I am so disappointed though. I really wanted it to be about a woman who wants a decent shag and can't be arsed with a relationship

Which would have been entirely in keeping with the Heart persona in Magic Man, Barracuda or Crazy on You. I didn't know it was such tosh.

Haven't read the whole thread but has Neil Diamond's Girl you'll be a woman soon been mentioned.

I find it disturbing that people don't realise Blue covered Too Close, it was originally released by Next.

Did people think it was about parking too close to another car? There's a clue in the title.
It's no more creepy than Do The Right Thing by Simply Red.

I Drove All Night is so erotic, Cyndi Lauper's version gives me goosebumps. It's a classic!

In my 80s primary school we sang the far more wholesome "Relax, don't do it, pick your nose and chew it."

Does anyone remember All.that she wants is another baby? Sounds similar to the hitchhiking one but a bit more obvious.

I always interpreted ‘all that she wants is another baby’ in the metaphorical sense that she is going to leave him for another man?

@Megabeth
I completely agree, I find I drove all night incredibly erotic too I do love the Roy Orbison version though. That video with Jason Priestley.....(double and fanny gallops)