COULD A GUY EVER WRITE THESE VIOLENT LYRICS AND GET AWAY WITH IT?
Imagine the following lyrics:
A guy finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him. He imagines her cheating with another guy. He finds her car and keys it. He has carved his name into her leather seats. With a bat, he violently knocks out the headlights, and then he slashes her tires.
Imagine all this to upbeat country lyrics. Without a doubt NOW, the Elizabeth Freeman Center, and virtually every women’s group would be going ballistic. “Take back the night!” they would cry. It would be on the news about the “glorification of violence against women” to make record sales. Talking heads would shake their heads in disbelief, with a stiff upper lip.
But when a woman is the perpetrator of the violence, well, it’s a cute little country song. Currently Carrie Underwood has a country hit with such violent lyrics. And its treated as a cute country song. The song became a #1 country hit in 2006 and still gets wide play on many country stations.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD LYRICS
“Before He Cheats”
Right now he’s probably slow dancing with a bleach blonde tramp,
and she’s probably getting frisky…
right now, he’s probably buying her some fruity little drink cause she can’t shoot whiskey…
Right now, he’s probably up behind her with a pool-stick, showing her how to shoot a combo…
And he don’t know…
That I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats…
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires…
Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.
Right now, she’s probably up singing some
white-trash version of Shania karaoke..
Right now, she’s probably saying “I’m drunk”
and he’s a thinking that he’s gonna get lucky,
Right now, he’s probably dabbing on 3 dollars worth of that bathroom polo…
And he don’t know…
That I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats,
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires…
Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.
I might’ve saved a little trouble for the next girl,
Cause the next time that he cheats…
Oh, you know it won’t be on me!
Ohh… not on me…
Cause I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats…
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires…
Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.
Ohh.. Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats…
Ohh… before he cheats…
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steven deluca said,
May 13, 2007 at 10:26 pm
amfortas said,
May 14, 2007 at 12:59 am
BobH said,
Check out the video Miranda Lambert’s “Kerosene”. Although the lyrics are a bit obscure, they contain the phrase “Strike a match and watch ‘em burn. Teach ‘em what they need to learn.” In the video, the guy decides to marry some other women (Can’t imagine why!!) so Miranda burns down his house.
Then there is the scene in the chick flick “The Holiday” where Cameron Diaz punch her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend, twice, hard enough to knock him down and break his nose. And this is supposed to be a romantic comedy!
Jack Ingram did a video where some women trashed a truck, supposedly his. Unfortunately, it was another guys. Another case where we’re supposed to deal with female viciousness with humor.
The general rule is: when women attack men we’re either supposed to (1) sit quietly and respectfully listen to what they say or (2) laugh at them as too powerless to actually do any damage. Picking the wrong one can be dangerous to a man’s health, but of course it’s men’s fault when we don’t correctly deal with women’s Jekyll and Hyde personality.
May 14, 2007 at 5:58 am
wheresmy40 said,
As long as it is NOT a MALE/CAUCASIAN promoting violence it is okay. Just ask Fat Al “Comic Book” Sharpton.
This is a time of ‘War on Males/War on Whites’. Only males are violent, only whites are racists.
Someone please send me a history book from one hundred years from today. I can’t wait to see how this plays out.
May 14, 2007 at 7:58 am
bolwriter said,
May 14, 2007 at 9:56 am
Robert Stevens said,
I don’t really care for miss Underwoods song, but I would not want it banned or something. I do think some of the commercial that are anti male, are funny, just not that funny . And limits should be respected, they don’t do negative commercials about women, and maybe they should.
I Love Lucy was hilariously funny, she would do something dumb and we all laughed. It was not demeaning, it was entertainment . Now the problem is that no limits of good taste and good entertainment seem to apply to those that make commercials that protray men badly.
May 15, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Scribble said,
A choice sample:
“Hey Joe! Where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
Goin’ to shoot my old lady, caught her messin’ round with another man”
(He killed her and headed “down Mexico way.”)
The Jimi Hendrix version is still played on the radio.
As with all art and entertainment, nobody’s forcing anybody to pay attention. But don’t be so disingenuous as to pretend it’s something new.
May 21, 2007 at 5:11 pm