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Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yeah, sweet seventeen by Chuck Berry also hits … as at the very least, creepy in 2024.

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MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t forget “Sweet Caroline” about an 11 y/o Caroline Kennedy. Fucking creep.

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darkpanda@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Might you be thinking of “Sweet Little Sixteen” by Chuck Berry? The guy who btw installed cameras in women’s bathrooms?

Also, the most venerated boomer band of all time…

“She was just 17… if you know what I mean “

Love the Beatles, mind you, but uhhhh… all of those boomer bands were like that.

“I used to pull your pigtails And your scrunched up nose But baby you been growing And baby it’s been showing From your head down to your toes”

Another Elvis hit, “Little Sister.”

Again, love the King, but uhhh….

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- Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Might you be thinking of “Sweet Little Sixteen” by Chuck Berry? The guy who btw installed cameras in women’s bathrooms?
  
  Ah yes, that’s the one (oops).
  
  Love the Beatles, mind you, but uhhhh… all of those boomer bands were like that.
  
  Yeah, I like several Chuck Berry songs but … definitely a different take. Those songs would not fly today on the radio.
  
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- brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  For “She was just 17” Paul McCartney was only 21 when that song came out and was dating a 17 year old then. Might have written it when he was 20 and the age of consent in Britain in that time was 16. That’s only 3 or 4 years age difference. I don’t get weird vibes from that. The Beatles were young when they started.
  
  Neil Sedaka’s “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” is one that gives me the strangest vibes.
  
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  - darkpanda@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, I mean it’s in the context of the time,‘I never had a problem with that per se. It’s more that some folks took it out of that context and were not quite as situationally aware I guess you could say.
    
    Then there’s the cases of folks like Jerry Lee Lewis marring his 13 year old cousin, Elvis marrying a 14 year old, etc.
    
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