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Red Hot Chilli Peppers might want to explain
“But who cares what the good books says
‘Cause now she’s taking off her dress”
from (ahem) Catholic School Girls Rule
Kiedis has already explained that one. It's the song about the time he committed statutory rape on a 14 year old girl when he was an adult. I'm not joking.
I wish Miley Cyrus would get a nice steady relationship so she stops writing dreary and tedious break-up songs!
To be fair, Adele’s not done too bad out of it.
Or Phil Collins. Breakups have been fertile source material for songs since forever.
And sometimes the breakup was due to one or other party being killed in a car/motorcycle crash.
Brown sugar hasn’t aged very well...
The woman it was written about doesn’t actually care what people think, she’s perfectly happy about the song, so I think that’s the final word on that.
Chuck Berry recorded some fairly iffy songs, lyric-wise, as well.
I remember being at a party when I was about 10 and the girls belting that out at karaoke. That seems a bit inappropriate now.
Why? It’s about masturbating, and there’s more than a few songs about that subject. There used to be a rather wonderful female duo, called the Dear Janes, who I saw a few times, and one of their songs was called ‘My Guilty Hand’; the backing music included a rhythmic squeaking sound, not unlike bed-springs. It was written by Ginny Clee, one of the band, who went to Catholic school…
The Ramones had it.
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah!
According to Joey Ramone, there was one specific brat that inspired this song. He grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in the Forest Hills section of Queens where some "rich snooty" women would raise obnoxious children. There was a playground with women sitting around and a kid screaming, a horrible kid just running around rampant with no discipline whatsoever," he said in Rolling Stone. "The kind of kid you just want to kill. You know, 'Beat on the brat with a baseball bat' just came out. I just wanted to kill him."
"Hole in the road" by Bernard Cribbins is a jolly song about burying a pesky local government official, possibly alive.
Ted Nugent's Jailbait includes the lines
"Well I don't care if you're just thirteen
You look too good to be true
I just know that you're probably clean
There's one lil' thing I got do to you"
And later goes on
"It's all right baby
It's quite all right I asked your mama
Wait a minute officer
Don't put those handcuffs on me
Put them on her and I'll share her with you"