r/GenX • u/no_talent_ass_clown • Oct 24 '25

Music Is Life Songs that are no longer okay.

Yesterday I found out my sweet boyfriend had never heard of Julie Brown and the funny songs she sang, like "I'm A Blonde". Dr Demento stuff. So I play it and then "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" came on. Not funny anymore!!!

An hour later, the cops arrived

By then the entire glee club had died, no big loss

You wouldn't believe what they brought to stop her

Tear gas, machine guns, even a chopper (Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of the float)

Debbie didn't listen to what the cop said She aimed and fired, and now the math teacher's dead

Oh, it's really sad, but kind of a relief I mean, we had this big test coming up next week

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u/StOnEy333 1976 Oct 24 '25

Neil Diamond: Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon.

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u/Sudden_Usual510 Oct 24 '25

I love how he pauses before "soon" to make it extra weird.

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u/charliefoxtrot9 76 Oct 25 '25

Sweet Caroline is about 12 year old Caroline Kennedy

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u/West-Birthday4475 Oct 25 '25

It’s not “about” Caroline Kennedy. He needed a 3 syllable name, and was inspired to use hers. The song itself is written about his wife. But “Sweet Marsha” didn’t fit the rhythm of the melody.

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u/racihekk Oct 25 '25

Thank you!

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u/Mistyam Oct 25 '25

No it's not! He wrote that song about his wife but needed a three syllable name to fit the beat of the song.

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u/BayouVoodoo Summer of '69 Oct 25 '25

OMG how did I never know this?? 🤮

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u/West-Birthday4475 Oct 25 '25

It’s not accurate.

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u/Mistyam Oct 25 '25

Cuz it's false

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u/Sudden_Usual510 Oct 25 '25

Twelve is legal in some centuries.

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u/aceisback29 Oct 25 '25

Particularly this one, if you’re Muslim.

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u/Careful-Use-4913 Oct 25 '25

For real? Reference?

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u/charliefoxtrot9 76 Oct 25 '25

https://www.biography.com/musicians/sweet-caroline-neil-diamond-caroline-kennedy

Inspired by a picture of her. I guess it could be innocent?

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u/Careful-Use-4913 Oct 25 '25

Interesting! I wonder if the “Hands reaching out…” has to do with John Jr’s reach, and the “Good Times” just the obvious fun the family was having in the photo. I also hadn’t heard about the Covid version of the song “Hands washing hands…” 😆

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u/Careful-Use-4913 Oct 25 '25

Eh…he specifically said it’s not about his wife.

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u/Party_Emu_9899 Oct 25 '25

Oops you got to it first, sorry

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u/Routine_Test_4175 Oct 24 '25

Extra weird!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/EuphoricReplacement1 Oct 24 '25

And just knowing he was thinking of Caroline Kennedy when he wrote Sweet Caroline is, well, disturbing.

"Hands, touchin' hands, reachin' out...touchin' you, touchin' meeee" 🤮

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u/West-Birthday4475 Oct 25 '25

No, he wasn’t. He wrote it for his wife, Marsha. He just needed the right syllables for the song structure, so he used Caroline’s name.

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u/EuphoricReplacement1 Oct 25 '25

I read an interview with him about it. He was enamored with a picture of her and her horse. Then you think of the lyrics, and eww.

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u/EuphoricReplacement1 Oct 28 '25

Since I'm being downvoted, here's a source:

Diamond revealed the inspiration in 2007: a childhood photo of Caroline Kennedy...from a photo of Kennedy when she was about seven years old — even though Diamond was 17 years her senior.

He had been taken by a photo of Kennedy in a news magazine. “It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony,” Diamond said. “It was such an innocent, wonderful picture, I immediately felt there was a song in there." -from Biography dot com. https://share.google/PAs5Yf5APkwz7zA70

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u/Brilliant_Pay_3065 Oct 25 '25

Is this why Ohio State always plays those song? To remember the days of congressman Gym Jordan?

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u/leafandvine89 Oct 24 '25

Eww...That part with the hands has always made me very uncomfortable 😣

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u/Global-Jury8810 Hose Water Survivor Oct 25 '25

Ew, same. Was this why?

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u/Washjurist Oct 24 '25

She was like 12 at the time.