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Originally Posted by Thomas4
I guess he could of chose a different set of words to better communicate his love for an adult woman? .... I kinda ask the question, why leave it to chance or why not avoid all the backlash in the first instance.
Check out the lyrics to "My Sharona" by the knack ...
How is someone meant to read into that, or more to the point why did they write that lyric in the first place if that was not what they meant.
If people don't mean what they say then why say it?
Bruce Springsteen..... Hey little girl is your daddy home did he go and leave you all alone, I got a bad desire I’m on fire.
Is Bruce referring to a mature female? If yes why not simply say so and drop the ambigous doublespeak?
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It could be that Springsteen is singing in the voice of a teenage boy. You can't truly know what the intent was when he wrote that song. Trollheart is a bigger Springsteen fan; he might have some thoughts on that.
As for the phrase Little Girl, there have even been examples of that being used in song titles. The Syndicate of Sound had a hit with Little Girl in 1966 for example.
We could even go into the movies. I recall a scene in Cocoon where an amorous Wilford Brimley is hitting on his wife (Maureen Stapleton) referring to her as "little girl". She obviously is of age of consent so it clearly is something of a nickname (for want of a better word) in the film.
Anyhow, I don't think songwriters are thinking about how to describe things in the politically correct sense when they write. And, on the other hand, in the case of Gary Glitter, did he write any songs that actually suggested pedophilia? And, yet, he's doing time in Thailand for exactly that.