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

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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? 🤔🤣

Yeah, All that she wants is to just have one night stands and fun. “She leads a lonely life” not staying around with a partner for long. She doesn’t want an actual baby. She does want to chill on the beach and have fun and get a tan. You can’t do that with a baby 😂

Young girrrrrrrl get out of my miiiind.....

A decade earliuer than the 90s, but DanceHall Days by a band called Wang Chung:

...Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there, there, there
And take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears
We were so in vies
In our dance hall days
We were cool on cries
When all you and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true
Dance hall days love
Dance hall days
Dance hall days love
Take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth an amethyst
And in her eyes two sapphires blue
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
We were so in vies...

Creepy video too

Greased Lightning!
‘The chicks will cream’
I never properly listened to the words until I was an adult and realised how rude it was!

Candy Shop 50 cent ‘i’ll Let you lick my lollipop’

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Was going to say Young Girl too
More lyrics that are a bit off

So hurry home to your mama
I m sure she wonders where you are
Get out of here before I have the time to change my mind
Coz I m afraid we ll go too far.
..
Also there's a line
Beneath your perfume and make up
You're just a baby in disguise
And though it's wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes

I mean wtf it's like he s saying this kid is coming on to him and asking for it so she better run home to her mum coz he can't be expected to control himself!

As a mum with a pretty daughter it's very disturbing

@ReanimatedSGB

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

Did you listen to all of it the bit about his mum I found that really sickening

Well I think My Boy Lollipop is just disgusting Clutches pearls

Loopylou: worse than Sign O The Times, or White Lines? Even if it's got gross bits, I'm OK with shocking, angry songs TBH.

Apparently greased lightning has john Ttravolra throw a bit of cling film in the air because there was originally a line in the play about using it as a condom!

You may well be tight about All That She Wants. Shows how easy to misinterpret lyrics.

I read Young Girl,as he didnt realise how old she was.And when he did he sent her packing.

I'm surprised at some of the choices on the thread (and absolutely WTAF about Mr Brightside and paedophilia!). BUT one song that has always made my flesh crawl is Clair by Gilbert O Sullivan & every time they play it on R2 I have to switch off. I know others on this thread have said it isn't creepy but it's about a man babysitting and falling in love with a young girl "I don't care what people say, to me you're more than a child".... here are the lyrics:

Clair
The moment I met you, I swear
I felt as if something, somewhere
Had happened to me
Which I couldn't see
And then
The moment I met you again
I knew in my heart that we were friends
It had to be so
It couldn't be no
But try
As hard as I might do, I don't know why
You get to me in a way I can't describe
Words mean so little when you look up and smile
I don't care what people say, to me you're more than a child
Oh, Clair
Clair

Clair
If ever a moment so rare
Was captured for all to compare
That moment is you
In all that you do
But why
In spite of our age difference do I cry
Each time I leave you I feel I could die
Nothing means more to me than hearing you say
"I'm going to marry you, will you marry me, Uncle Ray?"
Oh, Clair
Clair

Clair
I've told you before, don't you dare
Get back into bed
Can't you see that it's late
No you can't have a drink
Oh all right then, but wait just a bit
While I, in an effort to babysit
Catch of my breath what there is left of it
You can be murder at this hour of the day
But in the morning this hour will seem a lifetime away
Oh, Clair
Clair
Oh, Clair

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me...….

Nuff said!

I've not heard those ones SGB so can't comment

Not creepy but a bit is the pina colada song.

Guy is bored with his partner so answers a personal ad for some action on the side, but turns out it was his partner who placed the as looking for their own bit on the side.

Lolz worra we like, eh?

Yeah both of the Pina Colada people sound horrible. "... and guess what ... I was cheating on her" "... and I was cheating on him ... hahaha" "oh darling, just wait till we have kids and tell them about it"

Arseholes deserve each other.

Same as part time lover by stevie wonder. Another little catchy number that is about both partners screwing around behind each others backs !
And they say romance is dead !

I know it isn't 90's and it's slightly different, but the creepiest songs I know are the ones on the last album by lostprophets.
On their own the lyrics aren't that bad, but when you consider what Ian Watkins did and the fact his ex kept trying to tell people but nobody would believe her it makes me shudder.
Oh I doubt that mouth could get any bigger, You live in hypocrisy, those skies are always sunny, You're never gonna be a threat to anybody. You're lying, you're lying, You're gonna be the one left crying.

Also, the video to a town called hypocrisy with the kids in it. Ugh not envy.

Haroldssocalledbluetits
It turns out is was not about wanking at all.

"^Another example that has been around for years is the subject meaning of the Vapors’ 1980 hit Turning Japanese. Ill-informed journalists and trivia-writers have long since passed on the ‘fact’ that it’s about masturbation because Turning Japanese refers to the Oriental facial expression people pull at the moment of climax whilst holding your sausage hostage. Actually it isn’t about that at all.

There was also talk at the time that certain members of the band had a fascination with the Japanese culture, which was rubbish too. There really is only one small connection to the East and that it the guitar sound that opens the song. That recognisable riff which is also repeated a few places in the song is actually called the oriental riff and is generally used when a Western band wants to invoke the sound of the Far East in a song. Other examples of this are Carl Douglas’ Kung Fu Fighting and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Hong Kong Garden.

The Vapors were a pub-rock group from Guildford in Surrey and were formed by singer David Fenton, guitarist Edward Bazalgette and included Steve Smith on bass and Howard Smith on drums. They originally spelt their name The Vapours, but decided to drop the ‘U’ to make people think they were American. Bruce Foxton of the Jam discovered them and went on to co-manage them with Paul Weller’s dad John. Bruce invited them to support The Jam on their Setting Sons tour.

Dave Fenton explained in an interview about the title, “It could have been Portuguese or Lebanese or anything that fitted with that phrase, it’s nothing to do with the Japanese. It’s actually a love song about someone who had lost their girlfriend and was going crazy over it. The title is just all the cliché’s about angst and youth and about turning into something you didn’t expect to.^”
www.jonkutner.com/turning-japanese/

Hahaha just goes to show what I know. Interesting - thank you.