Hmm... statutory rape in pop songs....

[CanuckAmok]

This just crossed my mind. Many pop and early rock songs from the "innocent" Fifties and Sixties are about bedding underage girls.

And I thought of a few since then which are even more...um...direct:

Fat Bottomed Girls, by Queen


Are you gonna take me home tonight ?
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out ?
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery - huh
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!
Wooh

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen every blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies everytime

C'mon
Oh won't you take me home tonight ?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here
Now I got mortgages on homes
I got stiffness in ma' bones
Ain't no beauty Queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still get my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me

Now get this
Oh (I know) you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out ?
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round yeah
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Get on your bikes and ride
Ooh yeah oh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Alright, ride 'em, c'mon
Fat bottomed girls - yes yes


And my personal favourite, Everyone's Hone to the Movies, by Steely Dan:

Kids if you want some fun
Mr. LaPage is your man
He's always laughing, having fun
Showing his films in the den
Come on, come on
Soon you will be eighteen
I think you know what I mean
Don't tell your mama
Your daddy or mama
They'll never know where you been

CHORUS:
Everyone's gone to the movies
Now we're alone at last

Listen to what I say
He wants to show you the way
Right down the hallway with open arms
To teach you a new game to play
Come on, come on
Soon it will be too late
Bobbing for apples can wait
We know you're used to sixteen or more
Sorry we only have eight

CHORUS

Kids if you want some fun
See what you never have seen
Take off your cheaters and sit right down
Start the projection machine

CHORUS

[BattyDem]

1. My Sharona is another one

I was always amazed that they played this song on the radio (in 1979!) without cutting the line:

"I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" :rofl:

[Zuni]

2. statutory rape is a fun topic for songwriters

what about Backdoor Man, written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Howlin' Wolf?

the line--- men don't know, but the little girls understand

or Good Morning Little Schoolgirl by Sonny Boy Williamson?

[LostInAnomie]

3. You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine.

Wonder if the morays of our culture have changed enough that singers could get by with that stuff now.

[CanuckAmok]

5. I guess part of it is that early rock 'n' rollw as written by teens,...

...for teens.

Still, one could really go to town analysing these!

[Twillig]

14. What do the eels of our culture have to do with it?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mores

[Sandpiper]

4. Teenage groupies are as inseparable from popular music culture

As booze and coke.

[Radical Activist]

6. Juliet was 13

The idea that its immoral for a 16 year old to have sex is kind of a recent phenomenon. Its ironic since people are supposedly maturing at a younger age.

[Sandpiper]

9. Juliet also lived in an age

When young women were regarded as little more than breeding chattel.

[Radical Activist]

11. and now

they're considered incapable of making their own decisions about sex and abortion. Either way, they're not in charge of their bodies.

[chelsea0011]

7. also a topic in top-rated Desperate Women

one main character female bedded a 16 year old friends' son.

and keeping with the songs. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"

[tridim]

8. "She was just seventeen.. and you know what I mean"

[ET Awful]

10. Then there's the really obvious ones like Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl

:)

Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you
Tell your moma and your papa, I'm a little schoolboy too
Come on now pretty baby, I just can't help myself
You're so young and pretty, I don't need nobody else
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you
Don't you hear me crying

I'm gonna leave you baby about the break of day
On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away
Come on now pretty baby, I told you to come on home (note 1)
You know I love you baby, I gotta get you all alone
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you
Can't you hear me crying

I'm gonna buy me an airplane, fly all over your town
Tell everybody baby, Lord know you're fine (note 2)
Come on now pretty baby, I just can't help myself
You're so young and pretty, I don't need nobody else
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you
Can't you hear me crying

Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you
Tell your moma and your papa, I'm a schoolboy too

_________________________

or how about Jim Croces's Five Short Minutes?


Well, she was standing by my dressing room after the show
Asking for my autograph and asked if she could go
Back to my motel room
But the rest is just a tragic tale
Because five short minutes of lovin'
Done brought me twenty long years in jail

Well, like a fool in a hurry I took her to my room
She casted me in plaster while I sang her a tune
Then I said, 'Ooh, ooee! Sure was a tragic tale
Because five short minutes of lovin'
Done brought me twenty long years in jail'

Well, then a judge and a jury sat me in a room
They say that robbin' the cradle is worse than robbin' the tomb
Then I said "Ooh, ooee! Sure was a tragic tale'
(Wasn't worth it, wasn't worth it!)
'Because five short minutes of lovin'
Done brought me twenty long years in jail'

And when I get out of this prison gonna be forty-five
I'll know I used to like to do it but I won't remember why
(Wasn't worth it, wasn't worth it!)
I'll say, 'Ooh, ooee! Sure was a tragic tale
Because five short minutes of lovin'
Done brought me twenty long years in jail'

'Because five short minutes of lovin'
Done brought me twenty long years in jail'

[gmoney]

12. Sweet Little Sixteen : Chuck Berry maybe?

And I thought the line in Fat-Bottomed Girls was:

"Heap big woman you made a fat boy out of me"

[JimmyJazz]

13. Hot Child in the City.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. How's about

Young girl, get outta my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl...
You're much too young, girl.

That one always bothered me. "So hurry home to your mama, you're just a baby in disguise." WHAT????

[Sandpiper]

16. How About "Happy Birthday Sweet 16"

Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
Happy birthday sweet sixteen

Tonight's the night I've waited for
Because you're not a baby anymore
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Happy birthday sweet sixteen

What happened to that funny face
My little tomboy now wears satin and lace
I can't believe my eyes you're just a teenage dream
Happy birthday sweet sixteen


When you were only six I was your big brother
Then when you were ten We didn't like each other
When you were thirteen You were my funny valentine
But since you've grown up Your future is sewn up
From now on you're gonna be mine, so

If I should smile with sweet surprise
It's just that you've grown up before my very eyes
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Happy birthday sweet sixteen

[Pool Hall Ace]

17. Benny Mardones - Into the Night

She's just sixteen years old
Leave her alone, they say
Separated by fools
Who don't know what love is yet