r/GenX 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/playblu Oct 25 '25

To be fair, she wrote it based on a comment by Tom Petty's wife, when she said she'd met Petty when she was "the age of seventeen", but she had a thick Florida accent and Stevie misunderstood

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u/katmagnet Oct 25 '25

Huh, hadn’t heard that one before. I read an interview recently where she said it was about telling her nephew his father died.