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#1

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/3/12 at 6:24pm

So I was listening to the radio today and heard an oldie but goodie- and upon listening closer I realized that the song made me uncomfortable and even awkward just listening to it. So it made me think- how many Pop songs are out there that are just plain wrong, awkward, that play constantly or were big hits back in the day that make us all go hmmmmmmm, something is wrong here.

Here are some culprits I thought of, but can anyone think of more?

maybe it's a song you grew up with and then as you got older you realized, OH NO! What was i singing in the back of my parent's car?

it's funny how songs age uncomfortably with time.


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Young Girl -Gary Puckett
(Pedophiles Anonymous???)

Young girl, get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl
With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe
You're old enough
To give me Love
And now it hurts to know the truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0ZJHVH17I


SWEAT ( A La La La La Long) - Inner Circle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGr9Z14xH18

(This one screams 'forceable rape')

Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat till you can't sweat no more
And if you cry out
I'm gonna push it some, more, more


And then there's
Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills
(This one is awkward to sing along when you're with the one you love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH3ruuml-R4

Well there's a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love honey
Love the one you're with, Love the one you're with






Updated On: 12/3/12 at 06:24 PM

#2

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/3/12 at 11:02pm

I've always been uncomfortable with 30-something (at the time) Ringo Starr singing, "You're 16, you're beautiful and you're mine."

But the champion in cringe-worthiness may be Paul Anka:

"You're havin' my baby!
What a lovely way of sayin'
How much you love me
Havin' my baby
What a lovely way of sayin'
What you're thinkin' of me...."

I think we can all agree THAT's a message teenage girls needed to hear.
#4

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 6:21am

This is going to be a fun thread. There are so many songs that I sing along to and only later upon reflection realize how creepy they truly are.

I'm of course drawing a blank now, but I'll think of some and post 'em!
....but the world goes 'round
#5

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:28am

For creepy and inappropriate, I always go to 2 Become 1 from the Spice Girls. It was mid-Spice Girls craze. Little girls were running around singing:

"Are you as good as I remember, baby?
Get it on. Get it on.
'Cause tonight is the night when two become one."
O_o

And it also plays well into the "ridiculous lyrics that make no frackin' sense" thread.

"I need some love like I never needed love before.
(Wanna make love to ya baby.)
I had a little love, now I'm back for more.
(Wanna make love to ya baby.)
Set your spirit free.
It's the only way to be."

I mean, REALLY? The whole CD was like that, but since that song was slow, it was weirder.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#7

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:49am

I was once in a car load of 5-6 year olds all singing this Nelly verse at the top of their lungs.

"It's getting hot in here, so hot, so take off all your clothes
I am, getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off
It's getting hot in here, so hot, so take off all your clothes
I am, getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off

Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out!"

#8

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:45am

For the pure misogyny of it: "She's a Lady" (Tom Jones)


Well she's all you'd ever want,
She's the kind they'd like to flaunt and take to dinner.
Well she always knows her place.

AND "Ain't No Woman" (Four Tops)


She can fill me up when it's down I'm goin'
Put a little music in my day
Wouldn't be surprised if my love keeps growin'
Bigger every minute that she stays away
I would kiss the ground she walks on
'Cause it's my word, my word she'll obey, now
#10

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:52am

I love "Afternoon delight"...

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto's always been; when it's right, it's right.
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night.
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day.
And you know the night is always gonna be there any way.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
looking forward to a little afternoon delight.
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
and the thought of rubbin' you is getting so exciting.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might try nibbling
a little afternoon delight.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Please be waiting for me baby when I come around.
We could make a lot of lovin' 'for the sun goes down.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:54am

"Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson
#12

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:56am

I love "Afternoon delight"

OMG...that was the FIRST song to pop into my head. I remember singing it in the car when I was 6.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#13

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 9:02am

Yeah, taboo, you can't say

Just for one moment
To be warm and naked
At my side

Then tell me you'll be a "father figure".
#14

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:05am

I heard a current song by Lana Del Rey called "Cola" the other day that had the opening line of:

"My pu**y tastes like Pepsi Cola"

It was awkward at best. If only because I'm a Diet Coke guy. The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

#15

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:23am

Fun. We Are Young.

He's beaten and scarred his ex-girlfriend and is hoping she gets so drunk he can take her home and "make up."
#18

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:09am

Not as bad as others mentioned, but the Bruno Mars song "Marry You" is awkward to be using for wedding stuff, which I have heard before. Essentially it sounds like the first marriage of Britney Spears. And of course they sung it going down the aisle at the wedding of Kurt's dad and Finn's mom on Glee. Talk about awkward.

The deejay at my sister's wedding played "Get Low" by Lil' John and the East Side Boyz. For some reason it made me uncomfortable with my grandparents there and knowing years before I had been dancing to it in college and getting drunk at parties. Not to mention some of the lyrics.
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#19

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:46am

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me complete
But I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free
Hey lady...I've been to paradise
But I've never been to me!

#20

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:46am

I LOVE The Smiths, but...

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head
#21

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:49am

Without over-the-top lines like that, there would be no Smiths. I love them so much that if a ten-ton bus smashes into us, to die by their side- a heavenly way to die.
#23

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 1:50pm

Once I was driving with our receptionist somewhere, and the Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma" was on...........she just busted out laughing and said "Girl, you white people listen to some weird stuff!"
KFTC!!!!!
#25

The Most Uncomfortable/Awkward Pop Songs Ever.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 1:54pm

"It's Judy's Turn to Cry" - Poor Lesley Gore had to make that vindictive song work
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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