Perhaps the most notorious of all, although there’s an argument to be made that it’s a song cataloging misogyny rather than a misogynist song, per se (after all, it was co-written by a woman, namely Carole King). The Crystals - “He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)” Kinda like “Kim,” actually, only whinier and more annoying than terrifying. Dre said, “If I was her, I would have ran when I heard that shit.” Well, yes.įall Out Boy - “Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today”
All of which means that listening to this tirade against his ex-wife “Kim” is just as hard to do as it was in 2000.
It’s really a matter of “close your eyes and point at an Eminem song” here - his ongoing problems with women have been well documented, and he doesn’t seem to be getting any closer to resolving them. No, really, it’s about how Neil Young wants a maid, because life is hard and women keep fucking him over and it’d be nice to just have someone to “keep my house clean, fix my meals, and go away.” The struggle is real. “I did it all for the nookie,” claimed music’s most aggressively priapic frontman, a man whose entire demeanor just screamed “INCEL RAGE.” OK, if you say so, Fred. Happily, Bradley Nowell comes along and, after having sex with her because he is a manly man and cannot control his manly urges, he explains to her that she’s doing it all wrong and that, “It’s up to you what you really want to do/ Spend some time in America!” Sadly, she goes back to her wicked ways, but hey, he tried his best and got laid, right? She’s put out on the street by her “drunk-ass dad,” and sadly she doesn’t know that she’s making money the “wrong way,” the poor lamb. I mean, what do you expect from a band that’s known for a song called “Date Rape”? This one takes the biscuit, though, a gender-essentialist tale revolving around the life of a 14-year-old prostitute. The misogyny here is almost tangential to the general air of alienation, but it’s still very much present: “Turn around, bitch, I got a use for you/ Besides, you ain’t got nothing better to do/ And I’m bored.”
The casual nihilism of a small-town Saturday night. First, then, the misogynist side of the equation. None of this, of course, means that doing so is anything less than obnoxious, so as an exercise in symmetry, over the next couple of days, we’re looking at both misogyny and misandry (because, you know, that’s a real thing!) in music. We’ve selected it as one of the posts we’re republishing for our 10th anniversary celebrations in May 2017.Īs long as there’s been music, there have been unpleasant lyrical descriptions based on the subject’s gender - songwriters have long been relying on stereotypes and/or on demonizing the opposite sex as a way of expressing their pain and heartbreak and resentment and whatever else is troubling them. Eminem & EPMD - EPMD 2 / Eminem Ft.Editor’s note: This post was originally published in November 2014. Eminem, Polo G & Mozzy - Last One Standing / GRIP Ft. Eminem - Parables (Remix) / Skylar Grey Ft. Eminem | Events Worth checking out: Cordae Ft. Song of the Week #459: 50 Ways - Past SotW | New: Music To Be Murdered By - Side B (Deluxe Edition) | Other: Friday Night Cypher / The Adventures Of Moon Man And Slim Shady - Kid Cudi Ft. 8 Mile and Abbey: Eminem Meets The Beatles.Kxng Crooked, Royce Da 5'9" & Joell Ortiz Royce Da 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun Music To Be Murdered By Discussion Threads.Governors Ball Music Festival, New York, NY Obos Oslo Sommertime Festival, Oslo, Norway Rapture 2019 Tour - New Zealand, Wellington Past Events Dateĭu Arena, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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