“It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde and really sexist. And I hate it… It’s so deeply misogynistic, which would be fine if you owned that, but it pretends like it’s sweet.”
– St. Vincent, on her least-favourite song ever written.
@5:00pm, thinking very same thing.
TheLiberalLinestepper…excellent post.
I don’t remember any outrage by women when the song came out and from the very article this piece was pulled from: “The song earned Mayer a Grammy Award for song of the year in 2005, beating out the likes of Alicia Keys and Kanye West. It also topped Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay chart and reached No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.”
So that means women loved the song right along with men.
MOTHER has spoken and she ain’t lying
On today’s episode of white woman victimhood….
There are songs out right now that literally discuss the actual m*rders committed by the rappers in drill, dancehall music that calls for the m*rder of gays, songs that suggest r*pe and p*do behavior, racist anthems… the list goes on. Yet somehow a dated song about fathers being present for their daughters with gender roles that aren’t current to 2024 is the worst song in history? Do we not consider this song is 20 years old and the writer might think of it differently today? Where is the grace? We liberals are our own worst enemy sometimes. St. Vincent should be aware that the pendulum swings the other way and everybody gets their shot at cancellation.
I can’t cancel her; Never even heard of her!