Is it just me or is this song really dodgy?!?!

[stanstanthevegman]

I have name changed so this thread can't be linked to old threads and this thread is completely outing! My DDs go to a dance school and are doing a Christmas show. I absolutely love the school and the teacher is amazing and has worked to give my DDs some much needed confidence boosts so I won't be saying anything to the teacher or confronting anyone or do anything really beyond pearl clutching here. My daughter is doing a dance to a song called Back Door Santa. I can't do a link so have attached photos of the lyrics. Please tell me I am reading into these lyrics something that isn't there cos it sounds bloody dodgy as fuck!

I am a dance teacher and I put a lot of time and effort into finding age appropriate songs, it's actually much more difficult than you'd think. I would never use a song if there was a chance of it causing upset, in fact there are strict rules in the 'dance world' where children under a certain age are not even allowed to dance to a love song in competitions.

Am crying laughing at the theme from the Exorcist.

Written and Recorded by Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris

This reminds me of when i worked in a faith primary school and one of the teachers trying to teach her class Rockstar by Nickelback. I asked if she'd actually listened to the lyrics. She did and changed songs.

^It was written in the sixties though. Obviously it's about sex but "little girl" in sixties pop songs does not really refer to little girls any more tha "baby" refers literally to babies. And by "back door" they don't mean anal.
I'm as cautious about dodgy lyrics as the next person but people are viewing this through a modern lens.^

Yeah, they didn't have anal in the 60s.

Also, maybe a prude but I wouldn't let my child dance to that in a million years.

That's even worse than when my DD's church school had all the angels in the nativity skipping on to angelly sounding music that I instantly recognised as the theme from The Exorcist.

I'm dying!

Yes the 60’s was a bit prudish wasn’t it!

Anal was invented 16 years later by Deep Purple

They play this on Magic Soul, it always makes me laugh

Urgh I'm surprised there isn't a line about Santa wanting emptying his sack.Dodgy!

Fucking hell. That’s just wrong ..

It was written in the sixties though. Obviously it's about sex but "little girl" in sixties pop songs does not really refer to little girls any more tha "baby" refers literally to babies.

Actually, they might not have meant "little" girl but 11,12,13,14, year old "baby groupies" common in the 60s, so it's just gross on a lot of levels.

I always thought that bit of Hallelujah was referencing Samson and Delilah - still all a bit Old Testament for 8 year olds!

Previous message was trying to reply to reanimated - still haven’t got the hang of that.

Nearly as bad as Tonight's The Night.

I always thought that bit of Hallelujah was referencing Samson and Delilah - still all a bit Old Testament for 8 year olds!

It is, still definitely some sexy time going on in the song though. I'm not sure about BDSM though.

Oh wow.

Why dont they just get santa to sing 'candy shop' by 50 cent for good meausre! Incredibly inappropriate for children!

(Fab tune though)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ws0VfqkhFc

For afternoon performances!

That's even worse than when my DD's church school had all the angels in the nativity skipping on to angelly sounding music that I instantly recognised as the theme from The Exorcist.

Tubular Bells you mean? That was not written for the film it is a piece of music in its own right.

Afternoon delight makes me cringe so hard.

I grew up in the sixties, quite a few of my friends would probably be classed as "groupies " and I never heard of any girls under the age of about fifteen being remotely involved. Eleven and twelve would have been unheard of - though I'm sure someone will tell me I'm wrong.

RUN DMC sampled the riff for Christmas in Hollis which would have been much more age appropriate.
I’m sorry but it really doesn’t reflect well on the teacher that she sees nothing wrong with having her class dance to a pervert Santa song. She may well be great at dance but the song choice is really poor judgement and she hasn’t even got the excuse of not knowing now you’ve told her.

Bill Wyman. Mandy was 13. Rancid fucking pig.

OK, there's no need to ragepiss your pyjamas and start imagining it's all about the anal and the underage groupies - Back Door Santa is just a fun, bawdy song about a bloke who likes to shag 'bored housewives' - he gives their kids pocket money to clear off.
But no, I wouldn't use it to soundtrack a kids' show, either.