Why i do not like I Saw Her Standing There
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steven ambrozat:
Scarlett14:
Sadly, one day you'll be saying "She was just 87...and I don't even remember what I mean."
Maybe the nurses at the Home For Aged Beatlemaniacs will be kind enough to remind me.
Look for me there. I'll be the one in the corner of the lobby rattling on about whether Paul is saying mountain or minin' in the first line of Rocky Raccoon.
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Scarlett14:
steven ambrozat:
Scarlett14:
Sadly, one day you'll be saying "She was just 87...and I don't even remember what I mean."
Maybe the nurses at the Home For Aged Beatlemaniacs will be kind enough to remind me.
Look for me there. I'll be the one in the corner of the lobby rattling on about whether Paul is saying mountain or minin' in the first line of Rocky Raccoon.
And I'll be the old codger outfitted in the best all-Velcro outfit money can buy. From the top of my collar down to my orthopedic shoes.
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
melaniehiscock:
There's a girl band whose premise is taking songs written by men and singing the lyrics without changing them for the different gender of the singers. They use this to point out that a lot of male singers and songwriters have poor attitudes towards women. "I Saw Her Standing There" which is sung by 22 year old Paul McCartney about a 17 year old teenage girl who is young, beautiful and freshly at the legal age of consent. It's damn creepy coming out of a grown man like Macca was.
You're waaaay over-thinking this and making waaaay too much out of it. Let it go!!! It's not creepy. Wasn't then and isn't now. People can listen to Paul sing it now and think about back then. And it rocks. That's what they hear and think. It isn't about a 70-year-old man singing about a 17-year-old girl. That doesn't enter into it. I mean if they can play it at football stadiums....and they do....and people sing along, does that make it creepy since it's people way older than 17 who are singing it?? :
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paulfan11:
Beatles4Ever&Ever:
melaniehiscock:
There's a girl band whose premise is taking songs written by men and singing the lyrics without changing them for the different gender of the singers. They use this to point out that a lot of male singers and songwriters have poor attitudes towards women. "I Saw Her Standing There" which is sung by 22 year old Paul McCartney about a 17 year old teenage girl who is young, beautiful and freshly at the legal age of consent. It's damn creepy coming out of a grown man like Macca was.
You're waaaay over-thinking this and making waaaay too much out of it. Let it go!!! It's not creepy. Wasn't then and isn't now. People can listen to Paul sing it now and think about back then. And it rocks. That's what they hear and think. It isn't about a 70-year-old man singing about a 17-year-old girl. That doesn't enter into it. I mean if they can play it at football stadiums....and they do....and people sing along, does that make it creepy since it's people way older than 17 who are singing it?? :
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oobu24:
Beatles4Ever&Ever:
melaniehiscock:
There's a girl band whose premise is taking songs written by men and singing the lyrics without changing them for the different gender of the singers. They use this to point out that a lot of male singers and songwriters have poor attitudes towards women. "I Saw Her Standing There" which is sung by 22 year old Paul McCartney about a 17 year old teenage girl who is young, beautiful and freshly at the legal age of consent. It's damn creepy coming out of a grown man like Macca was.
You're waaaay over-thinking this and making waaaay too much out of it. Let it go!!! It's not creepy. Wasn't then and isn't now. People can listen to Paul sing it now and think about back then. And it rocks. That's what they hear and think. It isn't about a 70-year-old man singing about a 17-year-old girl. That doesn't enter into it. I mean if they can play it at football stadiums....and they do....and people sing along, does that make it creepy since it's people way older than 17 who are singing it?? :
really.
I was 15 and going steady with a 16 year old girl when this song was in the first years of it's popularity. She always seemed like an older woman to me. But, she was very pretty and very sweet and worked as a waitress in a local cafe and would buy me these cute 'love you' cards all the time out of her tip money. My teen years mirrored the years that The Beatles were together at the height of their popularity. What a beautiful time it was!
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Lots of people fantasize about falling in love with a pretty girl at a dance. Even a 17 year old girl. They might even be over 18. That doesn't mean there's anything perverted or sinister about it. And if you think that then it's your problem, not anyone else's! Sheesh! :
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beatlesfanrandy:
Lots of people fantasize about falling in love with a pretty girl at a dance. Even a 17 year old girl. They might even be over 18. That doesn't mean there's anything perverted or sinister about it. And if you think that then it's your problem, not anyone else's! Sheesh! :
I married that person that I met at the dance!
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Forget about the lyrics, Paul should be more worried about the music. He pinched the bass riff note for note from a Chuck Berry tune.
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And Les Paul was critical in developing the electric guitar for Chuck and Paul to play on...which came first...the chicken or the egg?
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
melaniehiscock:
There's a girl band whose premise is taking songs written by men and singing the lyrics without changing them for the different gender of the singers. They use this to point out that a lot of male singers and songwriters have poor attitudes towards women. "I Saw Her Standing There" which is sung by 22 year old Paul McCartney about a 17 year old teenage girl who is young, beautiful and freshly at the legal age of consent. It's damn creepy coming out of a grown man like Macca was.
You're waaaay over-thinking this and making waaaay too much out of it. Let it go!!! It's not creepy. Wasn't then and isn't now. People can listen to Paul sing it now and think about back then. And it rocks. That's what they hear and think. It isn't about a 70-year-old man singing about a 17-year-old girl. That doesn't enter into it. I mean if they can play it at football stadiums....and they do....and people sing along, does that make it creepy since it's people way older than 17 who are singing it?? :
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steven ambrozat:
Scarlett14:
Sadly, one day you'll be saying "She was just 87...and I don't even remember what I mean."
Maybe the nurses at the Home For Aged Beatlemaniacs will be kind enough to remind me.
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JoeySmith:
Forget about the lyrics, Paul should be more worried about the music. He pinched the bass riff note for note from a Chuck Berry tune.
I doubt he's gonna worry about that either! Whatever he nicked he got away with!
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It's just a great song !
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EDIT: Inappropriate comment given current events. I wasn't thinking, and I send my apologies to Mick Jagger, to the band and to anyone who may have been offended by my references. Best wishes.
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How about "My Old Man's A Dustman"? Or should it be "Refuge Collection Officer"?
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original (Paul's) lyric was "She was just seventeen she was a beauty queen" but John Lennon corrected that, and it became the legendary "She was just seventeen you know what I mean" This song is one of the first McCartney ever wrote, I believe it was around 1960, when he himself was 17 or 18.
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Pawel:
original (Paul's) lyric was "She was just seventeen she was a beauty queen" but John Lennon corrected that, and it became the legendary "She was just seventeen you know what I mean" This song is one of the first McCartney ever wrote, I believe it was around 1960, when he himself was 17 or 18.
Actually Pawel, it was: "She was just seventeen She'd never been a beauty queen."
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Melanie, do you know this Ringo song "You're Sixteen" (written by Sherman/Sherman) You come on like a dream, peaches and cream, Lips like strawberry wine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine. (mine, all mine) You're all ribbons and curls, ooh, what a girl, Eyes that sparkle and shine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine. (mine, all mine, mine, mine) You're my baby, you're my pet, We fell in love on the night we met. You touched my hand, my heart went pop, Ooh, when we kissed, i could not stop. You walked out of my dreams, into my arms, Now you're my angel divine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine. You're my baby, you're my pet, We fell in love on the night we met. You touched my hand, my heart went pop, Ooh, when we kissed, i could not stop. You walked out of my dreams, into my car, Now you're my angel divine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine. All mine, all mine, all mine. All mine, all mine, all mine. All mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, but i do. You are mine! What shall we do with the drunken sailor? What shall we do with the drunken sailor? and how about another song, "Sweet Little Sixteen" also played by The Beatles (though not written by them) Sweet little sixteen She's got the grown up blues Tight dresses and lipstick She's sportin' high heel shoes Oh, but tomorrow morning She'll have to change her trend And be sweet sixteen And back in class again Well they'll be rockin' Boston Pittsburgh, P. A. Deep in the heart of Texas And 'round the Frisco Bay Way out in St. Louis Way down to New Orleans All the cats want to dance with Sweet little sixteen
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It's enough to make you think ALL rockers are pedophiles! Singing about underaged women! Seriously, I think this is a really stupid topic!
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This thread is at three pages... ...and nobody could spot such an obvious troll?