We often listen to oldies at work, and I find myself really listening for the first time to songs I've known since childhood. Most of them are really disturbing. My favorite "Whoa, that is wrong!" discovery this month is "Big Girls Don't Cry." The poor girl's ex is egotistical and possibly a stalker, and her mother is just plain evil.
Anne Bouey,
Rachel Lea Fox,
Big Joe Silenced,
Derrick,
Hookuh Tinypants,
Eric - Final Countdown,
John (bird whisperer),
Yolanda,
Alix May,
Kisha,
Steve C, Team Marina,
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She has every reason to cry. I hope she graduated soon after and went to college far from home.
- Lo
First the guy dumps her. He doesn't want to break up, but he wants to see her get all upset over him. She, probably stunned and hurt, tries to preserve her dignity and accept it stoically. He cannot stand the idea that she is okay without him, so he contacts her mother, who tells him that she is, in fact, devastated. So then he shames her for lying. WTF? I'm trying to imagine how I would react if a friend came to me in this situation.
- Lo
I'd put on my steel-toed boots and go kick the guy in the balls repeatedly until he lost consciousness.
- Hookuh Tinypants
But would you CRY, Tiny? That's all that matters. :P
- Lo
Yes, but only because those boots hurt after a while. :P
- Hookuh Tinypants
Moral: Never, ever, ever pay attention to song lyrics.
- Bruce Lewis
But if we don't listen to song lyrics, then we'll end up like Andie at the end of Pretty in Pink, picking Blane over Duckie because Blane manipulated her with some totally bogus guilt trip that made her think it was all her fault. AND she wore an ugly dress!
- Hookuh Tinypants
I remember recoiling in horror when I first realized that Kenny Rogers was singing about a gang rape.
- Victor Ganata