Displaying all 3 Episode of Lyrics To Go with the tag “sexism”.
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169 - That'll Be The Day
March 18th, 2024 | 51 mins 26 secs
buddy holly, buddy holly and the crickets, manipulation, mind games, sexism, that'll be the day, the crickets, the day the music died
Seth and Marc unfurl the lyrics to The Crickets' (by the way of Buddy Holly) hit That'll Be The Day. Does it surprise us that this song is filled with a litany of different kinds of mental manipulation? No, not at all. Are we going to still cover it? Absolutely.
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151 - Island Girl
November 13th, 2023 | 44 mins 52 secs
elton john, island girl, prostitution, racism, sexism, youch
Seth and Marc look at a song that was described as "racist, sexist and fetishistic" all in one fell swoop; Island Girl by Elton John (and Bernie Taupin.) A song that is swinging for a Caribbean feel and ends up being tone deaf in more than one way.
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89 - Every Picture Tells A Story
August 29th, 2022 | 53 mins 59 secs
every picture tells a story, racism, rod stewart, sexism, the faces, world traveling
Rod's back, baby! And he brought Ronnie Wood with him to tell stories about traveling the world, being so hot and famous you cause a stampede, and then being racist toward Asian people. Why don't we wrap it up by repeating the song title 24 times which has absolutely nothing to do with anything in the song? Whatever, Rod. Just leave the woman in the cabin alone.