@flypizzapop Stop being so fucking literal. Often songs are sung from a character's perspective. Do you go around bashing screenwriters for writing villains? Go tell Stephen King what a sick fuck he is for writing all these legendary monsters and freaks we love to hate. I am in no way okay with pedophilia and was once a little girl myself, but you don't see me making asinine accusations.
Also, this version of this song is not so great. The one from "Slender Sherbet" is much better.
Love the song in general, amazing meaning, but Steven Wilson covered it and made it sound a bit better than the original to me. No offense to any Momus fans :P
@PostcardKittenMeow - I wonder why you even bother; people had 22 years to understand this song - those who didn't (or even couldn't grasp the depths of a character) should be left in their own idleness. Anyway, it's a number to be felt (or experienced) rather than to be deemed a confessional pedophile abomination. But anyway, old Nick wasn't the 1st- from time to time I still spot re-stocks of Lolita and Ballad of Melody Nelson, on stalls at my local Tesco-equivalent. Cautionary tales sell.
@PostcardKittenMeow It doesn't matter what this is referencing. It's a first person graphic account of child sexual abuse paired with kiddy porn images. What is wrong with you people?
@erinmerle Yes. I agree; it's not right at all - though I think there's something a little more complex than that going on in this song - see, for example, Germaine Greer's The Boy. It's off an album full of dubious characters doing, often, very dubious things but, they are characters, NOT Nick Currie.
@PennyDreadful1 Yeah, I'm sure from the point of view of the abuser it wasn't abuse. Nothing wrong with "touching the place where her breasts will be". Fucking disgusting.
@erinmerle Why is this a top comment? Anyway pedophila seems to be the final frontier of shock lyrics in music. It sure seemed to have worked on you.
Satanism and violence and sex is so everyday isnt it? But mention kids and youll get a reaction sure as clockwork. There are so much more terrible things in the world than a song about creepy sexual perversion sung in character. Just keep it in fiction. Hmmph kind off liked girls when I was twelve actually but I digress.
I prefer space jews didnt expect that .
joebstarsurfer 3 weeks ago
@flypizzapop Stop being so fucking literal. Often songs are sung from a character's perspective. Do you go around bashing screenwriters for writing villains? Go tell Stephen King what a sick fuck he is for writing all these legendary monsters and freaks we love to hate. I am in no way okay with pedophilia and was once a little girl myself, but you don't see me making asinine accusations.
Also, this version of this song is not so great. The one from "Slender Sherbet" is much better.
thatgoesinthere 1 month ago
Love the song in general, amazing meaning, but Steven Wilson covered it and made it sound a bit better than the original to me. No offense to any Momus fans :P
ThirdLunarRising 5 months ago
Momus thinks he's a provocateur but he's just a gross old pedophile.
erinmerle 9 months ago
@erinmerle You did not even listen to the story in this song, did you?
RoronoaZor0 8 months ago
@RoronoaZor0 This bit of literary child porn is not much of a story but you go ahead and tell me what you think I missed.
erinmerle 8 months ago
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PostcardKittenMeow 8 months ago
@erinmerle Maybe you missed the Balthus ref. and Death in a French Garden ref.? This is a character not Momus.
PostcardKittenMeow 8 months ago
@PostcardKittenMeow - I wonder why you even bother; people had 22 years to understand this song - those who didn't (or even couldn't grasp the depths of a character) should be left in their own idleness. Anyway, it's a number to be felt (or experienced) rather than to be deemed a confessional pedophile abomination. But anyway, old Nick wasn't the 1st- from time to time I still spot re-stocks of Lolita and Ballad of Melody Nelson, on stalls at my local Tesco-equivalent. Cautionary tales sell.
jocksilver7 5 months ago
@PostcardKittenMeow It doesn't matter what this is referencing. It's a first person graphic account of child sexual abuse paired with kiddy porn images. What is wrong with you people?
erinmerle 4 months ago
@erinmerle Yes. I agree; it's not right at all - though I think there's something a little more complex than that going on in this song - see, for example, Germaine Greer's The Boy. It's off an album full of dubious characters doing, often, very dubious things but, they are characters, NOT Nick Currie.
PostcardKittenMeow 4 months ago
@erinmerle What is abuse here? Sounds more like statutory rape. Which is wrong but not abusive.
PennyDreadful1 3 months ago
@PennyDreadful1 Yeah, I'm sure from the point of view of the abuser it wasn't abuse. Nothing wrong with "touching the place where her breasts will be". Fucking disgusting.
flypizzapop 3 months ago
@erinmerle Why is this a top comment? Anyway pedophila seems to be the final frontier of shock lyrics in music. It sure seemed to have worked on you.
Satanism and violence and sex is so everyday isnt it? But mention kids and youll get a reaction sure as clockwork. There are so much more terrible things in the world than a song about creepy sexual perversion sung in character. Just keep it in fiction. Hmmph kind off liked girls when I was twelve actually but I digress.
PennyDreadful1 3 months ago
MAJESTIC
shrew972 10 months ago
Really good and creepy song. I like Steven Wilsons version more though.
PrickyKorv 1 year ago 7
@PrickyKorv Steven's version is much better. very sweet but creepy too
vjosanas 3 months ago
This is a great song.
Pstephen 1 year ago