I just realized what the Rihanna lyrics say (can you get it up/is you big enough) and I know I’m getting older when I tune into the same hip-hop station I’ve been listening to for 15 years and I think the material is bordering on inappropriate for airplay. Not that those lyrics are offensive to me personally, but I picture a bunch of 8 year old girls in the back of a station wagon on the way home from a soccer game singing about if their partner can get an erection and if his penis is big enough to satisfy them. Which could be funny as shit depending ok your perspective, but I’d be pissed if I had a 8 year old daughter. In any case, it’s an interesting choice of a metaphor for a Rihanna song - is a man her age likely to have erectile dysfunction and thus be unable to get it up?
[quote]iflyboats wrote:
I just realized what the Rihanna lyrics say (can you get it up/is you big enough). I know I’m getting older when I tune into the same hip-hop station I’ve been listening to for 15 years and I have no idea what’s going on anymore. Not that those lyrics are offensive to me personally, but i picture a bunch of 10 year old girls in the back of a station wagon on the way home from a soccer game singing about if their partner can get an erection and if his penis is big enough to satisfy them. Which is kind of funny, but I’d be pissed if I had a 10 year old daughter. [/quote]
Which is why, Like my father did to us. if a radio is on and I’m around her, it’s on the classic rock station. Hell Pearl jam and nirvana and soundgarden have found their way onto the classic rock station, so A) I’m getting old and B)I like the classic rock stuff anyways.
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Tough to say dude, I had blank tape after blank tape of Motley Crue and Ozzy and NWA and Ice-T singing/rapping about everything from killin’ a bitch to barking at the moon. Kids are going to find a way to listen to stuff.
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I know that song, but I have a feeling kids are like me, hear it a bunch of times and don’t even register what they’re saying.
hahah! i heard the same song too, and thought it was funny that erectile dysfunction had made it into a pop song.
sex has always been in the lyrics, just a matter of how blatant it is. When I was in HS, the parents were ups et about the kids sinign along to “me so horny” by 2 live Crew. Parents will always get uptight, and the kids will try and find the more “taboo” songs they can find.
We should ban these groups- no! better ban the radiostations- or better: ban all radios - wait, along with singing and dancing, since this also leads to promiscuous behaviour.
Children shouldn’t be exposed as little as possible to the filthy, real world until they are big enough to kill (as soldiers) or wear a burqa (filthy non-males).
p.s. while we’re at it, erectile disfunctions should be banned under sharia law, too.
The kind of content that has made it’s way into popular music, and specifically the songs that get popular hasn’t gotten any worse since the 80s, so it’s not like it’s a recent problem.
Not to mention you have to really pay attention to how kids respond to lyrics before you worry. A lot of times it goes over their heads, like the dirty jokes on the Simpsons used to go over my head.
Rude Boy is a catchy as hell song though.
I got detention in elementary because I was singing the lyrics to Bloodhound Gang’s Bad Touch. They played it on the radio all the damn time and my parents didn’t understand English, so they never understood why I got in trouble.
I was singing it to a girl and making humping movements as well. Maybe that’s what did it.
I was already in the Navy when that song came out… Motherfuck.
and who can forget that rap classic by 2 Live Crew…WE WANT SOME PUSSY
Wait, that’s what she says in the song?.. count me as one of the “gone over their head” people… didn’t even register, even if I heard them before.
my interpretation of that song is, she wants it in her pooper.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
Rude Boy is a catchy as hell song though.
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It grows on you, like a fungus. Like all her stuff.
Now, if only she would dye her hair back to how it used to be… that blond mess is not attractive.
I personally love the subject matter, btw.
This song always reminds me of Cartman when he goes on the maury show
Edit: idk how to post the youtube vid, but its “Candy” by The Pack
[quote]iflyboats wrote:
I just realized what the Rihanna lyrics say (can you get it up/is you big enough) and I know I’m getting older when I tune into the same hip-hop station I’ve been listening to for 15 years and I think the material is bordering on inappropriate for airplay. Not that those lyrics are offensive to me personally, but I picture a bunch of 8 year old girls in the back of a station wagon on the way home from a soccer game singing about if their partner can get an erection and if his penis is big enough to satisfy them. Which could be funny as shit depending ok your perspective, but I’d be pissed if I had a 8 year old daughter. In any case, it’s an interesting choice of a metaphor for a Rihanna song - is a man her age likely to have erectile dysfunction and thus be unable to get it up? [/quote]
Is that any worse than the classics that I was listening to in sixth grade like “Gin and Juice,” “California Love,” or “Fuck the Police”?
It’s this kind of thinking that makes parents no fucking fun, and yes, you’re getting old.
Don’t worry. The kids are alright.
And by the way- at 11 years old I saw two of my “idols” you could say gunned down between Tupac and Biggie. These cats led the real lifestyle… and if anything’s worse than your daughter singing some lyrics she don’t understand anyway, it’s watching your heroes get dropped and realizing very quickly that the world ain’t sunshine and rainbows.
remember this damn song? listen to the lyrics. Rihanna got nothin man.