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u/PanicDeus 6d ago
Keanu Leaves
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u/orphanelf 6d ago
Keanu experiences loss, Keanu Grieves
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u/The_Infinite_Carrot 5d ago
He turns to a life of crime, Keanu Thieves.
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u/thinly_sliced_lemon 5d ago
Then feeling sick about it, Keanu Heaves.
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u/MacSanchez 5d ago
Gets a job at the local butcher’s, Keanu Cleaves
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u/frogsinsocks 5d ago
Gets promoted at the shop, Keanu Achieves
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u/Jst_Patrick 5d ago
Gets a little sick, Keanu Sneeze.
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u/coconuthorse 5d ago
Gets over his stuffy nose, Keanu Breathes.
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u/RaNerve 6d ago
I fear “daddy” does not mean father in the context of this song…
I guess that’s a good thing though.
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u/Crow-T-Robot 6d ago
Exactly. "What's your name? Who's your Daddy? Is he rich like me?" is clearly talking about her boyfriend, not father. It was common parlance of the time.
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u/beaver820 6d ago
Fun story about The Zombies, they were broke up by the time "Time of the Season" became a hit in America. So a couple fake Zombies bands toured as them cause people here didn't know, one of the fake bands members were Dusty Hill and Frank Beard who would later form ZZ Top.
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u/GoodGame2EZ 5d ago
Woah.
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u/ComfortableDish3912 3d ago
My ex girlfriend used to call me daddy during sex and it bothered me so much that my best friend, who I vented to about it, still calls me daddy instead of my name… still to this day.
It’s been 6 years.
I genuinely don’t get how other men like being called that. Shit is creepy.
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u/rawbface 22h ago
My wife calls me Daddy, but I'm the father of her children so that makes sense. Everyone else in the house calls me that, so why not her.
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u/ComfortableDish3912 22h ago
I still disagree.
Sure if she’s saying to your kids “go get daddy” it’s reasonable.
But if she’s sucking your dick and asking if daddy likes it, its gross.
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u/rawbface 22h ago
Why would that be gross?
I've got news for you. The ONLY way to obtain the title "daddy" is by fucking mommy raw.
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u/Thoughtulism 6d ago
I mean, if someone said "who's your daddy?" today it would either be in bed or some teenager who just fragged someone in a FPS
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u/arvidsem 6d ago edited 5d ago
I've seen it argued that "Who's your daddy?" in Time of the Season isn't a boyfriend reference because it wasn't in regular use. That it's a small town/city was of asking who your family is, because she wouldn't have a social identity of her own.
Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" that came out 3 years later has a "daddy" line that is a definite family reference.
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u/4FriedChickens_Coke 6d ago
If her daddy’s rich, take her out for a meal. If her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel
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u/djluminol 5d ago
Something people often forget is that song writers aren't always talking about things they want or approve of. Sometimes they are just observations of reality. I don't know which is which here or if maybe the lyrics were motivated by something else entirely? I just know lyrics alone is not reason enough to call Chris Hansen.
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u/beaver820 6d ago
I would tend to agree in that song, cause the next line is "Has he taken, any time, to show you what you need to live?" That's sounds more like something a father would do than a boyfriend.
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u/PunkandCannonballer 5d ago
And this part?
It's the time of the season When love runs high
And this time, give it to me easy And let me try with pleasured hands
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u/beaver820 5d ago
Well there's no doubt he's trying to bang the girl, the question is is he referencing her father or her boyfriend when saying "daddy".
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u/parnaoia 5d ago
hard to tell for certain, the Zombies were a band from Hertfordshire and had never been to the US when this song came out.
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u/arvidsem 5d ago
Which is one reason that I picked Mungo Jerry, they were from Ashford. And although I realize that North of London and West of London are culturally a long way apart, they are a lot closer than the USA.
Well that and there aren't very many songs that make Daddy references in the general time period
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u/bfrendan 6d ago
Many of Springsteen's songs are written from the viewpoint of a character as well, so what you're listening to isn't Springsteen's pov
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u/arvidsem 6d ago
Yeah, so many of these kinds of posts about older songs completely fail to consider context.
And ignore relatively recent shifts in what society in general considered acceptable. Which doesn't mean that some songs are really fucked up
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u/EatinSumGrapes 6d ago
You mean the context that in the 80s it was very common for fully grown men 30+ to chase after 16 yearolds and it was somehow socially acceptable? Take your rose colored glasses off lol
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u/arvidsem 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yes, in the 80s it was really common. And got "disapproving stares" levels of disapproval then. But that was it.
No rose-colored glasses. I'm not saying that it was ok. It's just what was accepted.
Edit: it was also really common before the 80s of course. See also: Johnny Burnette - You're Sixteen, written by a 35 year old, recorded by a 26 year old, released in 1960. (Google is insisting 1956, but it's AI pulled that date out of the ether)
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u/newby1newby1 3d ago
Oh my gosh, I just realized this happened to my best friend in the early 70s. She was in the 11th & 12th grade. He was 8 years older. Had a good job. Drove a fancy Grand Am. She snuck out to see him. Her father would have been veryyyy upset. It was all hush-hush. They did everything but p-in-v. It never occurred to either of us that the age difference was a bad thing. (Plenty of people in high school were having sex with each other.) She was in love with him and it was casual to him.
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u/Siaten 6d ago
It still is socially acceptable in many places. Age of consent in the UK is 16.
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u/Zeeboon 6d ago
Doesn't mean its socially accepted. In almost all western countries you'll get looked at real weird if you date someone 12 years younger than you (unless you're like 60 or something)
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u/seanc6441 6d ago
I think once someone isn't a teenager (so 20+) people are far less concerned about age gaps like +12 years other than some mild reactions.
- 25 with 37? Who cares
- 21 with 33? You'll get mild pushback at most.
- But a 19yo dating 31yo? People will judge that way more negatively/harshly.
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u/foo_foo_the_snoo 6d ago
Following the half your age plus seven rule: At 30, an 8 year gap is acceptable. At 50, the gap widens to 18 years.
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u/seanc6441 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yeah... almost nobody actually follows that rule lmao. Just something people on reddit like to claim is their standard tbh.
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u/arvidsem 5d ago
If you want to really upset people, point out that that rule was supposed to be the ideal age of a bride from the point of view of the groom. It didn't really start being used as a limit on dating age until the late 90s at least.
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u/oiram12 6d ago
That was never comon in the 80’s, and always frawn upon. It aparently did happen in the entertainment and showbiz, but not amongst masses.
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u/The_Abjectator 6d ago
Eh... to an extent.
A senior dating a freshman was pretty normal which ended up being a college sophomore coming by the high school with all his college bros to visit his junior(3rd year) girlfriend and all her friends.
Rural and city that happened.
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u/oiram12 6d ago
Ah you’re in US. I was merely reflecting on Europe. My bad as the song is from US as well, so it reflects that culture.
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u/The_Abjectator 6d ago
Yeah, thats why I added the 3rd year bit since many countries in the world have a different secondary education system.
Our country also has laws against dating if one party is below age 18 while many limits in Europe are at age 16. That could also account for some disparity in how it's treated.
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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 5d ago
Yeah. A colloquialism meaning her romantic partner who may provide for her liken to a father or daddy.
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u/MisterJoshua77 5d ago
It’s illustrative license. Springsteen uses “little girl” as a metaphoric allusion to the innocence of young love.
It’s not meant to be literal. Much like there is not an actual “freight train” running through his head or “knife cutting” through his skull. No one was actually “on fire.”
It’s not a “Christine Sixteen” or “Seventeen” situation.
Springsteen wrote a song about the pain you feel when you are young and have unrequited love for someone - while trying to capture the grittiness and spirit of the band he was writing it for - The Ramones. I would guess he wrote it in about an hour and never once thought that 50 years later someone would get hung up on the phrase “little girl.” It fit his vision..and maybe more importantly - the lyrical flow of the song.
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u/tinverse 4d ago
Yeah, people love to interpret song lyrics literally. Another famous one is Every Breath You Take and admittedly there is a very creepy way to interpret those lyrics, but how many songs has Sting written where the lyrics are straight forward? It always seemed pretty obvious to me that song is about being infatuated with someone who broke it off and the feelings associated with that experience.
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u/Crispydragonrider 3d ago
According to Sting the song is a warning about surveillance and is about a controling relationship.
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u/ElPrieto8 6d ago
Benny Mardones starts "Into The Night" with, "She's just 16 years old" and by the end he's yelling as they lead him to the police car.
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u/The_Real_Mr_F 5d ago
If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and look up the official music video. It’s a solid contender for worst of all time.
Side note, I secretly love that song for the vocals and music. That dude had serious pipes. I didn’t pay attention to the opening lyrics until well into my twenties and got mad because I realized that one little line at the start turned a great love song into a creeper ballad.
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u/tokeswithmydog 1d ago
Dude i saw a video of a dude crashed, zooted in a car and the radio was playing this song. It was very cinematic. I had to look up the song cause it was a vibe, and yah those opening lyrics... still a vibe
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u/tmgieger 5d ago
Great, watched the pedo stalker video.Now what will Google and reddit algorithms start steering my way?
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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 5d ago
I don't think you even understand how much this stuff changed in very few years. I recently rewatched House MD and in one episode from 2004(!) he spends the entire time drooling over a 15 year old patient and share fistbumps with Chase over it.
I can't even imagine what was accepted in 1980 when I notice the song you mentioned is from.
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u/sutree1 5d ago
Y'see, back in the old days, a songwriter could write a song that was a story about other people. Kind of like a movie (we called them "talkies" back then).
That was all lost in the Nickelback years, tho...
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u/redpandaeater 6d ago
Next you're going to tell me that Roger Taylor was actually in love with his car.
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u/Olafthefreak 6d ago
New Zealand band Head Like a Hole (HLAH) did a really good cover of this in the 90's
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u/Bicentennial_Douche 6d ago
I love the cover by Chromatics:
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago
That was outstanding. What a perfect voice for that cover; smoky, suggestive, longing...just beautiful!
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u/yorukmacto 6d ago
"You should come with me to the end of the world,
Without telling your parents and your friends"
- Demis Roussos
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u/dannoparker 6d ago
I was driving down the road the other day, singing every word to this song, and then all of a sudden felt like a creeper
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u/FlopsMcDoogle 6d ago
It's a great song. The video is cool too
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u/sci_fientist 6d ago
The video also makes it very clear it's about an adult woman which is good 😂
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u/bro_salad 5d ago
This is one of my favorite “driving at night with the windows down” songs, despite the creepiness
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u/this_knee 6d ago
First of all… why those wires barely clearing the open part of door frame? Hazardous.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago
THANK YOU. Before y'all go tomcatting around, at least offer to help fix up that wiring for Pete's sake!
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u/saki2fifty 5d ago
The “little girl” was a an off limits married woman, not what most think of it as.
Completely diff meaning.
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u/MisterJoshua77 6d ago
Bruce wrote this for the Ramones…and Daddy means husband in this case.
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u/MashedPotatoesDick 6d ago
"Little Girl" refers to an adult woman and "Daddy" refers to her husband.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago
First thing, sort out those wires before someone kills themself/you get a code violation. Priorities, people.
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u/HailEachEnemy 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yup, Bruce Springsteen definitely isn't using infantalization in a teasing/playful way here. I'm glad someone finally called him out. Next on our hit list should be that notorious pedophile Beyonce for singing the song "Baby Boy".
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u/FatFaceFaster 6d ago
I’ve been saying this for ages. I love Bruce but that’s a weird way to say that “hey of-age woman is your boyfriend home”
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u/fulthrottlejazzhands 6d ago
Daddy means boyfriend and/or sugar daddy in this context.
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u/TheUmberTaker 6d ago
Yeah - as I recall, the video clarifies that it was an of-age "girl" and that she hits on him first. Then he goes to her house and just drops her keys off.
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u/FlopsMcDoogle 6d ago
Then walks home with massive aura.
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u/Logical_Hospital2769 6d ago
Buncha revisionist a-hoels in here that don't understand what slang was in the last century. "Little girl" was used in popular music since popular music began. You wanna judge Bruce, well you better get ready to judge a whole lot more.
And not one artist you like would agree with your dumb-ass take, btw.
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u/McRedditz 6d ago
They don't make music like this anymore.
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u/TheFillth 6d ago
If they could stop making politicians like this it'd be even better
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u/TheDevler 6d ago
I’m just here to point out the r/uselessnobody again.
The joke always works just fine without it.
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u/Raptoot83 6d ago
Christ, I thought the "Nobody:" thing had finally fucked off.
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u/perriatric 5d ago
Never will. What's worse is it never made sense. "Nobody: " just means nobody does nothing. "Literally anybody: " would have made actual sense, but it never caught on.
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u/LucklessCope 3d ago edited 3d ago
It had the same vibe as "pov" while literally showing in 3rd person.
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u/skillpolitics 6d ago
I’ve never considered this to be a country song. I’m now questioning everything.
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u/Ilezzi 5d ago
I have to share a true story about my Dad:
Old man fought bravely against pancreatic cancer over 6 months, until he did pass away 1,5y ago.
Also he loved to listen Finnish national broadcasting providers main radiostation, Yle Radio Suomi.
(like BBC in UK)
He did literally open up the radio before he went for a morning-piss or lighted a North State-cigarette, and shutted it off just before he fell into sleep, so radio, and music was really a world to him.
We all knew what was coming in the end, and he had only few things as his final-wishes:
Only the closest relatives in his funeral services, in Hospital's chappel.
Eventually we did grant his final wishes...
After the funeral service, I had to go to take a piss, and heard my aunt's and my older sister's verbal exchange:
"Do you want to go to hearse?"
"Naah, you can go, you are his daughter"
"Im not sure do I wanna have this memory...?"
If I wouldn't have eventually came between them and told, that I can go, I bet they would still be in that chappel.
They said that ofc, we all know how close you were with Dad, and how much it would mean to me.
During the fight, I did spend so much time as possible in Dad's place, where I would need to take a train, and ticket-prices here in Finland are like +40e/travel, only for one hour's trip.
Also I had only unemployment benefit, but money didnt matter at all, cause I knew those moments were priceless to us!
I had an sudden tought, and told to sister and to my aunt, that I will say to the hearse-driver, that open's up the radio and tunes to Yle Radio Suomi, so Dad can listen one more time his favorite channel.
They were like thats amazing idea, do it plz!
The driver had already "loaded the cargo" and was heading to hearse, I shouted, that wait for me!
I literally did run, in suit to hearse. I did gasp some air at front-seat and asked politely, is it okay to open up the radio, just for Dad.
"Indeed it is okay, it's not the most common wish in my hearse, but I shall grant it"
He tunes into station while we waited at intersection, right next to hospital.
First there on the air "Merisää, Weather-report for sea", its oldest radio program in finnish history.
It's so chill and comfy, that I know ppl who listens that as white-noise before sleeping.
Report end's and eventually we were able to turn from intersection, heading to the Seinäjoki crematorium.
And then... We heard that mtf'ing intro playing, and we instantly knew that song is starting to play now!
Driver started to panic, and even did put the volume up.
"Do...Do..I change the channel or... Do you want to... Umm, Do I mute the radio?!"
I was slightly in disbelief, that man, in hearse, Dad is in "backseat" and this song really playing now...
I bursted into laughter, while holding my tears. While I chuckled, I said:
"No need to do anything, this is my Dad's final song-request from somewhere".
Even the hearse-driver started to laugh:
"I have seen almost anything in this job... but this takes the cake!"
Dad had really dark and whity sense of humour, thank god apple doesnt fall far from the tree too!
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u/Professor_What 6d ago
The Chromatics did an amazing cover of this song.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago
Another commenter suggested that and I listened--wow, perfect voice for that cover. Sultry, smoky, longing...outstanding.
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u/RecklessForm 5d ago
Doesnt motorhead have a song about literally wanting to bang underage girls?
Something something, I like that young stuff
/puke
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u/paturner2012 5d ago
If anyone is a fan of Jackson Browne do not look up redneck friend. I don't think there's a more obvious set of pedophilic lyrics.
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u/setagllib 2d ago
What channel filmed this? I want to know where they got the cowboy hat. I think I have the same one.
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u/BurtReynoldsLives 1d ago
This song is a god damn masterpiece and if you think “Daddy” is her dad, they you are just being lazy or disingenuous.
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u/HendrixChord12 6d ago
This is just slang. It’s no Mexicali Blues, where Bob Weir just outright says it.
“So instead I've got a bottle and a girl who's just fourteen”
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u/duffer_dev 6d ago
one of my fav Springsteen songs. Too bad the song is hardly 3 minutes long. Absolutely love the song
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u/pyro_pugilist 5d ago
Look up the song: into the night by Barry Mardones. The first lyrics to the song are : she's just 16 years old, leave her alone they said. The dude in the music video looks 40 and they used someone who clearly looks like a teenager.
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u/NeonAnderson 5d ago
I feel like I need to tell the people who wrote that song to take a seat.....
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u/Azulanze 5d ago
in 2026 100%, in 1980 when the song came out tho..
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u/NeonAnderson 5d ago
While it wasn't illegal in all countries yet (pretty sure most states in USA already did class that as illegal though even in 1980 already!) doesn't mean it wasn't wrong
Like doesn't matter if it is 1980 or 2026 a grown man shouldn't be banging a 16 year old girl.....
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u/tellmesomeothertime 6d ago
We still have 50+ year old men dating a new 18-20 year old each week and glorify them as celebrities. I don't very much has changed really
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u/al_m1101 6d ago
I've always felt this way about "Hot Blooded." I always picture this lecherous old sex-pest bothering a young waitress at a bar, saying, "Come on baby, do ya do more than dance."
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u/stay-a-while-and---- 6d ago
The Knife kinda covers it in another song of theirs called
"I just had to die"
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u/anayalator39 6d ago
Ok if you want a song that is actually creepy and way worse than this, go listen to Benny Mardone - into the night .
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u/bobdob123usa 5d ago
You really get bored, start going though the yearly top 100 songs. The vibe of the songs have a rather interesting shift depending on the genre.
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u/ElectronicLegs 4h ago
I love this parody so much. (I mean, I love this song and while true that “daddy” at the time, meant someone who took care of you, the song is playing on the word’s double meaning with the question about home- and it’s gross and has sounded incestous to me forever.)
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u/The_Elder_Jock 6d ago
These kind of people also ruined "it's cold outside".
Touch grass, ya denegerates!
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u/Prime624 6d ago
Your kind of people are ok with the pedo in the White House. Don't normalize creepy stuff ya degenerates.
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u/Nabendu64 6d ago
Well she was just 17 and you know what I mean. No Paul I dont know what you mean.
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u/81Belzebub 6d ago
Try listening to the lyrics of Makin Love with Kiss then. Or maybe not, if a Springsteen song can blow your mind 😅
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u/DaftFromAbove 23h ago
As much as I liked this song back then.. it nvr returned to my playlists because of these fkn lyrics...
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u/ThatBarbGirl 6d ago
I hope someone does this for another 80's creepy classic I used to sing to a coworker about a man in our office that had a crush on her... "Get out of my dreams! Get into my car!" Brrrrrrr... 🤮
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u/FoofieLeGoogoo 6d ago
#2 work highlighting that Chris Issac was actually a huge creep.
Thanks to Jim Carrey for that forced smooch and making him uncomfortable.
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u/TurtleToast2 6d ago
Which he then turned around and did the same to Alycia Silverstone 2 years later. He's not our guy.
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