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![]() Suspect lyrics: “If you want to dance find you a big fat man. She even bumped him on the dancefloor and hurt his hip. Mr Tex, who was no male model himself, complains in this 1977 disco smash about being hit on by a larger lady. JOE TEX - I Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) Baby, I’m determined, and I’d rather see you dead.” Suspect lyrics: “I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man. ![]() Turns out John Lennon wrote some pretty regrettable lyrics.Īnother of John Lennon’s lyrical lowlights, pointing out that as he is jealous of his lady being with another man she better toe the line, or the only option is death. Man, I was mean, but I’m changing my scene.”įight club. Suspect lyrics: “I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. That happy ending doesn’t make them any easier to listen to. It’s on Sgt Peppers, yes, but there’s some abusive lyrics on this sung by Paul McCartney but written by John Lennon. If he didn’t care for me, I could have never made him mad, but he hit me and I was glad.” Suspect lyrics: “He hit me and it felt like a kiss, he hit me but it didn’t hurt me, he hit me and I knew he loved me. King has since disowned the song, but it has a lot of fans, from Courtney Love (Hole covered it) to Amy Winehouse to Lana Del Rey. Carole King wrote this 1962 hit with husband Gerry Coffey after their babysitter Little Eva (she sang Locomotion) told them she was being beaten by her boyfriend but believed the abuse demonstrated he loved her. T HE CRYSTALS - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)ĭat title. Suspect lyrics: “One of these days gonna tell him I dream of him every night, one of these days gonna show him I care, gonna teach him a lesson all right.” ABBA also had further retrospective grief seeing that their movie stars a pre Hey Dad Robert Hughes, now in jail for child sex offences. But imagine trying to get this on the radio now, especially given ABBA’s lyrics were written by the male members of the band. It was totally innocent back in 1976, there’s even a video where Agnetha gives the geometry teacher a few cheeky pecks on the cheek. In the pantheon of student/teacher songwriting this falls somewhere between To Sir With Love and Hot For Teacher. You can find the complete lyrics below.Activist pushes politically correct plan to rename Father’s Day ‘Special Person’s Day’ The music video above, written and directed by Taylor Swift herself, is the perfect transposition of this message into images. The full lyrics are fascinating, as they show how Taylor Swift sees her weaknesses, labeling them with modern psychological terms and explicitly saying that fans should not consider her a hero. The line “ It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me” has been quoted massively in the social network, both ironically (TikTok is full of women “training” their boyfriends to say those words and being prepared for when they will have to repeat them, in future misunderstandings) and seriously (by people who relate with Taylor Swift’s self-analysis and exposure of insecurities). For this reason, I have a revelation for you: I’m not a hero you are worshipping an anti-hero, a personality with many weaknesses. I can be brave and stare at the sun without fear, but I’m scared to watch inside myself (the mirror). ![]() ![]() I struggle in many ways (the song talks about depression, narcissism, ghosting, and insomnia, all signs that something is not entirely in harmony inside our psyche), and I can recognize that the problem is inside myself. Identifying and recognizing our weaknesses is a sign of intelligence, and this is the meaning of these lyrics: I’m not perfect, although you all worship me. It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-heroĬonfessing “I’m the problem” doesn’t necessarily mean that the singer feels she’s a bad person. I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror From this point of view, the chorus comes as a sort of confession, starting with the line that became famous on social networks. In the lyrics, Taylor Swift goes through all the ways she sees herself, exposing her weaknesses and dark sides. “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem”: Anti-Hero, the lyrics & their meaningĪnti-Hero is a song about human insecurities.
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