7 Hit 'from the 70s offensive songs according to today's standards
Including Smashes by Elton John and the Rolling Stones.
The 1970s were half a century ago, and this fact is particularly obvious when you look at the media of the time. Watch a movie or a television show of this decade or Listen to a song , and you will not only notice fashion, interiors and obsolete slang, but you will also meet intrigue, characters and words that are offensive , especially according to the standards of 2023. Regarding music in particular, there are many songs from the 70s which are offensive for listeners now.
The list below is made up of seven songs from the 1970s which would not fly today, or because of racist or misogynist words or because they are unacceptable or illegal activities, such as sexual relations with minor girls or consumption and driving. Read the rest to find out more about these politically incorrect songs of artists as Elton John and the Rolling Stones. (Note that there is questionable content in the clips below - of course!)
Read this then: 7 songs from the 80s which are offensive according to today's standards .
1 "Brown Suchon" by the Rolling Stones (1971)
Without listening too much, one might think that "brown sugar" simply concerns a white man objectifying black women - which is sufficient in itself. But the song does it by telling a story about slavery, including black women beaten and raped by slave owners. The first lines are: "The slave ship of the Gold Coast for the cotton / sold fields sold on a market in New Orleans / Old Slaver marked, knows that it will well / hear it whipping women towards midnight."
Rolling Stones singer and song co-series Mick Jagger said he would not write "brown sugar" today.
"God knows what I am in this song. It's such a meli-meter Rolling stone in 1995 ( via Far Out magazine ). "I never wrote this song now." He added: "I probably was. I think:" Oh my God, I can't. I have to stop. I can't just write Raw like that. ""
In 2022, The independent reported that the group last time played the song live was in 2019.
2 "The woman is the [n-word] of the world" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1972)
He was already controversial when he was released, but the fact that it exists is even more surprising today. John Lennon And Yoko Ono wrote a song entitled "Woman is the [n-word] of the world", which is supposed to be a feminist song on mistreated and unequal women for men, but they did it by repeatedly using a racial insult .
The lyrics include: "When she is young, we kill her desire to be free / while telling her not to be so intelligent as we have deposited her to be so stupid" and "The woman is the [explanive] of the World, yes she is / if you do not believe that I take a look at the one with whom you are / woman is the slave of slaves. "
As indicated from afar, some Radio stations have banned song . During an interview with the outing of the song, the song, Lennon defended the song And said that the title came from a quote that gave an interview for a few years before.
"Obviously, there were a few people who reacted strangely, but generally they were white and male," said Lennon. He added: "I think the word [n-word] has changed and it does not have the same meaning that it was before." The Beatles musician also said that his black friends told him that he had the "right" to use the word.
3 "MALF-GREED" by Cher (1973)
In 1973, Pamper has published a song entitled "Half-Greed" which is written from the point of view of a woman who is half Amerindian and half white. Metis is also the title of his album of the same year. Dear, for the record, is half Armenian through his father but claimed to be 1/16th Cherokee by his mother . It mainly has European ancestry, as reported by And Canada .
The lyrics of the song include: "My father married a pure Cherokee / My mother's people was ashamed of me" and "half, that's all I have ever heard".
In addition to singing dear to be a racial pariah of a perspective that is not hers, she wore culturally inaccurate Native American costumes in the clip and the subsequent performance of the song.
In 2017, Dear tweeted that she would retire "half -burst". "I made a song 50 years ago, and it was not meant 2 [Being] offensive. However, it's a bit of an excuse [explained]. Need to remove a beautiful costume, and Stop singing it is going well, "she wrote. That said, she interpreted the song on tour in 2018.
4 "Island Girl" by Elton John (1975)
"Island Girl" by Elton John Talk to a Jamaican sex worker in New York, whom a Jamaican man wants to "save" and take in his "world of the island". The words are more than questionable today, especially as sung by white English.
"Well, she is black like coal, but she burns like a fire / and she wraps around you like a well worn tire," sings John. "Island Girl / What do you want with the world of white man?" As with a large part of the rest of his discography, he co-wrote the song with the Paroli Bernie Taupin .
Rolling stone reported that John did not play the song live Since 1990, although he has not talked about reason.
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5 "Christine Seize" by Kiss (1977)
If you cannot guess the title, "Christine SixWen" talks about an older man who tries to sleep with a 16 -year -old girl. The year the song was out, the singer and the songwriter Gene Simmons was 27 years old.
"I generally do not say things / like that to girls your age / but when I saw you coming / leaving school that day / that day, I knew, I knew / I must 'Having, "sings Simmons.
According to Far Out, The song was prohibited Through certain radio stations because it was considered inappropriate, but it still managed to become popular and trace the hot 100 Billboard.
Simmons said he had written the song after him and bandmate Paul Stanley were teasing themselves on the type of song they tended to write. "I said to him:" All you do is write girls' songs like "Christine Sixteen". "" It's just out of my mouth "" Simmons said Rolling stone In 2016. "And he said:" Hey, it's pretty cool. "So I went home and I wrote" Christine Sixteen ".
6 "Cruisin 'and Boozin'" by Sammy Hagar (1977)
This song by Future Van Halen Singer Sammy Hagar is obsolete today simply because it promotes the consumption of alcohol and driving.
"Were just Cruisin 'and Boozin' / Try to have a good time," sings Hagar. "We don't drink anything but the best / jump in the fuel tank / We drink the rest."
If these words surprise you, know that when the song was published, the laws we have today to prevent drinking and driving were not yet in the books. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times reported that 26 states have always authorized people to drink legally Alcoholic drinks when operating a car, although there have been variations in the blood alcohol content.
7 "Some Girls" by the Rolling Stones (1978)
We started with the Rolling Stones, and we will end with them too. In 1978, the group released the song "Some Girls", which list its misogynist and stereotypical words. During part of the song, Jagger sings a variety of women, including "French girls", "Italian girls" and "British girls". Then he sings: AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
White girls, they are quite funny, sometimes they drive me crazy
Black girls just want to become [explanive] all night, I don't have much jam
Chinese girls are so soft, they are really a tease
You never know what they are cooking, inside these silky sleeves
There have also been reactions to this song when it came out. Rolling stone reported this activist Jesse Jackson spoken against , calling it a "racial insult" which "degrades blacks and women". Some radio stations refused to play it.
A statement was then published on behalf of the group who said: "It has never come to mind that our parody of certain stereotypical attitudes would be taken seriously by anyone who heard the word of the song in question. No insult was not planned, and if everything has been taken, we sincerely apologize. "
As Yahoo has reported!, The group changed some of the offensive words When they interpreted "Some Girls" in 2008 Martin Scorsese concert documentary Shine .