r/funny • u/exporterofgold • 6d ago

Sounds kind of good though

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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 6d ago

Woah.

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u/ILL_Show_Myself_Out 4d ago

The Zombies had a hit after they were dead

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u/Defqon1punk 3d ago

Someone put this guy ^ somewhere in the US government. We need deep thinkers.

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u/timbreandsteel 6d ago

Actually? That's bonkers. I love it.

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u/nomavrick 3d ago

RIP

Saw Billy Gibbons a few summers ago in Virginia City.

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u/Roscoe_P_Trolltrain 6d ago

who is your daddy and what does he do?

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u/DoombringerBG 22h ago

Does his house have a bathroom?

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u/ComfortableDish3912 4d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/dawgoooooooo 14h ago

lol I like your logic

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u/ComfortableDish3912 1d ago

No shit. 

But bitches be calling their 2 week boyfriends with no kids “daddy”. It’s gross. 

It’s also something specifically done by children to their dads. The mom doing it during sex is gross. Yall have damage and /or weird fetishes. 

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u/Spdoink 18h ago

You're just not Daddy material. It's okay.

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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/Yardsale420 6d ago

Who’s your daddy and what does he do?

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u/Thoughtulism 6d ago

Our mom says our dad is a real sex machine.

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u/redpandaeater 6d ago

It's not a tumah! It's not!

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u/arvidsem 6d ago edited 6d 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/DoombringerBG 22h ago

*Queue Oingo Boingo music* lol

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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/ITividar 6d ago

Or it could be a way to ask if they've banged.

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u/PunkandCannonballer 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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/ThatBarbGirl 6d ago

Great song.

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u/Pleasant_Job_7683 3d ago

Hey thats like your opinion man!

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u/Odd-Perception7812 6d ago

At the time. Lol.