ChangeAndChance
10th December 2014, 07:27
Just what it says on the can. Songs that have either insipid or reactionary subject matter that are, at the same time, unfortunate earworms. My own recent addition to a depressingly long list is '60s white R&B artist Lou Christie's 1966 number one hit, "Lightnin' Strikes". The basic message from the song's narrator to his girlfriend is "Wait for me to fool around with a ton of other girls. Be chaste and virginal. When I'm done with my conquest of the opposite gender, maybe I'll return; we can get married and you can wait on me hand and foot into my old age." Despicable yes, oh, but that horn line and rhythm! :unsure: It pisses me off to no end; the message is the epitome of male entitlement, yet it hasn't left my brain all day.