91 - He Hit Me

September 12th, 2022  |  24 mins 36 secs

abuse, and it felt like a kiss, domestic abuse, he hit me, many yikes, the crystals

Yikes. Double yikes. TRIPLE yikes, even. This short-played single dealing with abuse seen as love through the eyes of the abused was pretty instantly put on the back burner and with good reason. Carole King and her then husband writing a song about their babysitter who was showing up bruised at the hands of her boyfriend and making it into a hit with Phil Spector? QUADRUPLE YIKES.