Think a lot of people are missing the haunting quality of this song. It's not promoting anything the violence, it's just an awesomely constructed record which juxtaposes the cheerful nature of a pop record with a tragic subject matter. It's stunning.
@themarvinbrown1 amy brought me here too but it was because i watched an Amy Winehouse docummentary called Amy Winehouse: What Really Happened and the guy who did the docummentary said that 'Amy said an important song for her was He Hit Me and It Felt Like A Kiss' and played a snippet of the song.
Goffin/King wrote this in horror after Little Eva (their babysitter at the time) told them that it was okay for her boyfriend to beat her because he "did it out of love"
the lyrics of this song make it sound like its ok for people to abuse each other because it shows they care, This is entirely untrue. Any man that loves you should have respect enough to not hit you. Jealously (not usually out of love) is not a good thing. and physical abuse is definitely not something to sing about in this manner.
@myzzio its no endorsing it, you have to see the subtext. They are talking about all the women who have this mentality and how its bad and awful thought process that too many women have.
According to Gerry Goffin, the song was inspired by a story told to he and Carole by their babysitter (Eva Boyd aka "Little Eva") when she showed by after being beaten by her jealous boyfriend. After telling about what happened, she ended with "he really loves me". They also wrote "Please Hurt Me" recorded by both The Crystals and Little Eva, and "Chains" for The Cookies.
Interestingly, this song was written by famous songwriting duo Goffin/King - consisting of Carole King and her then husband Gerry Goffin. I read that he wrote the lyrics, and she wrote the music - the part of the song that illustrates how fucked up the whole notion of the song's story is, hahah. Makes you wonder if Goffin realized how messed up it was when he wrote the words..? Ah, the '60s...way to go Carole King for bringing the twistedness of these lyrics out with her composing!
You know Jan sat down with her babysitter, and that is how this song came about. She made the mistake of asking this thirteen year old babysitter about her boyfriend, and this song is what she answered with~
I love having the History of Rock and Roll~ You learn so much messed up stuff
No idea that Amy Winehouse, Hole, or Grizzly Bears sang this song, and don't care. Came here because I heard The Crystals sing it on XM radio GARAGE station.
@TheSqueakyLizard Amy Winehouse never actually recorded the song, or sang it live BUT she did mention in interviews on more than one occasion that she loved the song and felt that it explained her attitude to relationships perfectly.
The beautiful Miss Winehouse sent me here. I think it's so sad that she could relate to this song. She had such a good soul and a wasted life. RIP Amy <3
Ms. Winehouse brought me to this song, she mentioned it in one of her interviews, thought I'd listen to it. Never heard this song from the Crystals, like it!
Ditto to which bit of my post? As you are a man, then I assume it's the bit about female violence in soaps. I find it quite disturbing that eg Shelley can punch Peter when so hard he falls to the floor with a nosebleed and he just says "guess I must have deserved that!" and she is the herione/victim. So many other storylines have a simliar theme, it's almost laughable. And this is coming from someone who was a battered wife in the 70's when domestic violence was seen as the woman's fault.
@sunflowersusiejo I completely understand where you're coming from. Even on TV shows like 'Loose Women' (UK); if men were to say the equivalent to some of the stuff those ladies come out with you wouldn't hear the end of it. Violence is violence, sexism is sexism.
@sunflowersusiejo I have a problem with "reversed domestic abuse" as well on TV. I watch a lot of King of Queens--not sure if you're familiar with the show?--and the wife is always slapping, hitting, punching her husband. Once she knocked him down a flight of stairs and the audience ate it up. Had it been the other way around it would have been wrong again. Go figure...
Yes it's poweful but real. I spent my teenage years dreaming of falling in love to songs such as "then he kissed me", not knowing this song existed, only to marry a violent man at 19. I He told me it was because he cared so much I could provoke such feelings in him. He was a policeman and "Life on Mars" was very real. People did not take domestic violence seriously then but do now. So why is it OK in soaps for a woman to hit a man if he upsets or cheats on her (Eg Corrie's Becky, Shelly)?
"because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" -- Jack Kerouac
@Teredelux Not really mate. There are no hidden meanings, Goffin & King were merely documenting what Little Eva told them about her boyfriend beating her, and her claiming - note the word claiming - that it showed that he cared about her, one of the oldest excuses in the book....
@ginesik0 I agree but I would substitute the word "who" with "because he". Sadly there are people who are addicted to this sort of behavior from others. The vast majority of victims of domestic violence don't fall into this category, thankfully
The fact is that Spector released it as a single to fulfill a contractual obligation and get out of it without producing too much profit for the co-signers, knowing the song would be a flop because of the subject matter. So, even though in my opinion the song is disturbing art with a fantastic sound, the creators' intent is questionable. then again, Michaelangelo produced some good shit under obligation and not for art.
@TheDianaJC Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote it after being appalled that the singer Little Eva was being beaten by her boyfriend and accepted it because "he loves me". Admittedly the arrangement doesn't indicate an ironic interpretation of the words, but it wasn't written as an endorsement of domestic violence. The cover by Hole is much more in the spirit in which it was written.
It's not a condemnation of abuse-- it's a disturbingly contemporary reflection about the fact that many women will take anything just to have a man in their lives. True in 1961... still true today. Sad! It's a disturbing song because it holds a mirror up to our society.
@Kikomel1951 You're telling the truth, some women go goo goo ga ga and stupidly crazy just because they have a man! Just as in the past, some women today still need to get. a. grip. No piece of sex or whatever will ever be THAT good to withstand your teeth getting knocked out of your head.
Some women will even let their kids put up with this crap, and then the next cycle begins! Good Lord!
Pushing around endlessly discussing the issues and rationale surrounding the lyrics of this record is like pushing around a piece of crap that your dog laid behind your couch in the front room. The thing has no value, no worth, and just because crap exists does not mean we should spend our time playing with it and rollng it around and thinking about it and evaluating it. You just acknowledge it for what it is, chastise the dog that laid it, and throw it in the trash.
@PaulDePace songs aren't made simply to portay happy thoughts and moments. A large nbr of music is about the negatives in life and society. Doesn't make it bad music or inappropriate. It's a great way to share your situations with the world and work through them, good or bad.
Freedom of Speech can be abused....I see no value in proliferating tastelessness just because we might be fortunate enough to live in a free society. By the same token, when raising my children, I had no desire to see them exposed to a relentless barrage of trashy society just so I could say..."I let my children grow up and be exposed to everything. I didn't want to guard them against all the crap. Because aren't disgusting things part of living in the world." That includes beating women.
Some of the psycho-babble responses on here are unreal. The song sucks. Never should have been written, or even conceived. Little Eva got abused. Sadly, she took it, like a lot of women. There is no postive way to listen or construe this song. The fact that the Crystals REFUSED to sing it live, were only pressured nto recording it by Phil Spector (need we go into his issues and why this song might appeal to him?) You folks give liberals a bad name with your lame rationale.
@PaulDePace This song is meant to shed light on the abuse of women and the mind set that women in abusive relationships have. Songs, poetry, books, TV, and other means of expression are able to reach out to a diverse audience and by presenting an issue with little to no inhibitions is able to shed light in a way that other forms of media can't. This IS important because it shows how many women in this situation feel. If we confront these feelings head on then we can change them.
It's cultural and iconic history in song form. I agree 100% with PaulDePace "BebeLeStrange" the song warrants posting: for one thing, the thinking represented within the song is still present today in many women. Used to have someone very violently place their fist against my cheek and tell me what they were going to do to me. Just like as a child. AND I THOUGHT HE LOVED ME BECAUSE HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY HIT ME. THE SONG IS RELEVANT TO A MENTALITY THAT STILL EXISTS AND NEEDS TO DISAPPEAR.A+++++
Forget the negative comments. A lot of us wouldn't have access to this song if you hadn't posted it - in fact, I was directed here from an article in The Guardian, a very prestigious brit newspaper. You do all of us a favour when you make these available. Thank you.
I find this song tragically beautiful. THe music is beautiful, and the lyrics are tragic. I have a friend who was in an abusive relationship for 3 years, and this was her mindset. I don't find the subject acceptable nor do I find it a satire. I find it a perfect illustration of someone who is trapped in a physically and mentally abusive relationship, and I think it helps others to understand what these people go through, and why they don't leave.
This song isn't a satire... it was based on Little Eva (Carole King's babysitter / locomotion singer)... she had a bruise on her face and told her and Goffin that her boyfriend hit her because she'd been out with another guy but it only told her that he loved her. That would have inspired me, too... Carole King's politics are a blight on her writing career...
I heard the Hole cover of this first and I must say I much prefer the Hole version. I don't particular like this version to be honest, I don't like the way it's sang. I also like that Courtney Love acknowledges that is song is twisted and then at the end sarcastically jokes that it's a feminist anthem. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad song, I think it's meant to show someone suffering rather than saying that domestic abuse is alright and why they might choose to be with that person.
Excuse me? The lyrics are "kind of disturbing"? And, by the way, how can something that is disgusting be "inportant"? And just because trash is laying around, do you need to show it to everyone just "because"? For what? I guess you let you children see a bunch of trashy shows on TV and the movies "just because"? Your arguments are stupid, and your kind of thinking is why the morality in our country is spiraling downward. I know, I am what? A Bible thumping, right winger?
this is the first time i've heard the original. i'm used to the cover version by Bedlam A.C. that was a hit on the dr. demento show in the 1970s. i think that one was better produced than spector's version. as for the subject matter, it's pretty tongue in cheek. anyone who takes it seriously hasn't got much of a sense of humor.
yall have to understand the times back then... A LOT OF WOMEN THOUGHT THIS WAY back then, and as sexist as it is, some women still think this way, its inda like if he sees me with another woman he will get jealous, the way women thought back then was if he gets mad enough to hit me then he must really love because why would he get that mad about someone he didnt love. from their point of view it was correct.
Bebel....haven't you got anything better to do than post this crap? The Crystals even refused to sing it live. It is the lone blemish on Carole King's writing career. It sucks, and is disgusting.
he hit me, and then I made him a sandwich.
tomleykisjr 1 week ago
@tomleykisjr HAHAHA! That's so effed up! :)
dogloverNV 1 week ago
adam curtis is king
lizardkingsajrs 1 week ago
53 people got hit...and it felt like a hit.
Flagg1991 1 month ago
@Flagg1991 funny as fuckkk
mattfnmaxwell 3 weeks ago
I loved the Courtney Love/Hole version
ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON 1 month ago
@ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON I also came here because of Hole
vinger79 1 month ago
@vinger79 IS REALLY AWESOME!!
ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON 2 weeks ago
@ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON Me three! :) Courtney's cover is amazing!
TylerMusicBoi 2 weeks ago
@TylerMusicBoi LOVE Courtney Love! and Nirvana too much!
ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON 2 weeks ago
@ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON I too as well! :D
TylerMusicBoi 2 weeks ago
Think a lot of people are missing the haunting quality of this song. It's not promoting anything the violence, it's just an awesomely constructed record which juxtaposes the cheerful nature of a pop record with a tragic subject matter. It's stunning.
grtas1 1 month ago
whos amy winehouse?
thrashdouche21 1 month ago
@thrashdouche21 lol yeah right
casseycatable 2 weeks ago
@themarvinbrown1 amy brought me here too but it was because i watched an Amy Winehouse docummentary called Amy Winehouse: What Really Happened and the guy who did the docummentary said that 'Amy said an important song for her was He Hit Me and It Felt Like A Kiss' and played a snippet of the song.
LoverWinehouse 1 month ago
everyone says amy whineshouse brought them here, i don't get it, did she cover this song or somethin? keith richards brought me here
themarvinbrown1 1 month ago
Goffin/King wrote this in horror after Little Eva (their babysitter at the time) told them that it was okay for her boyfriend to beat her because he "did it out of love"
Wamz1978 1 month ago
Amy Winehouse brought me here
ohhiimjennie 1 month ago
Shut the fuck up brought me here
madsketcher 1 month ago
@madsketcher AMY WINEHOUSE BROUGHT ME HERE. SUE ME.
thebelljarkid 1 month ago
this isnt a silly song fool .My new ebay purchase its warpted .Ideot women i dont get em .
joebstarsurfer 1 month ago
the lovely beautiful talented Mrs Winehouse sent me here
deesir023 1 month ago
spector at his best
psychedeli23m 1 month ago
It's just a silly love song. It does NOT promote domestic violence! C'mon.....
kitkatkrazy22 1 month ago
I never knew Ike Turner wrote for the crystals
mixer2 1 month ago
@mixer2 hehe!
madsketcher 1 month ago
the lyrics of this song make it sound like its ok for people to abuse each other because it shows they care, This is entirely untrue. Any man that loves you should have respect enough to not hit you. Jealously (not usually out of love) is not a good thing. and physical abuse is definitely not something to sing about in this manner.
myzzio 2 months ago
@myzzio its no endorsing it, you have to see the subtext. They are talking about all the women who have this mentality and how its bad and awful thought process that too many women have.
BlueBe7a 1 month ago
Lykke Li Hanging High.... its very similar <3
They both Great !!
tezaworld 2 months ago
amy brought me here.
phlarrdboi 2 months ago
@phlarrdboi Me too :)
DamaDeHierro004 2 months ago
Grizzly Bear brought me here...
TheForeverSoulless 2 months ago
According to Gerry Goffin, the song was inspired by a story told to he and Carole by their babysitter (Eva Boyd aka "Little Eva") when she showed by after being beaten by her jealous boyfriend. After telling about what happened, she ended with "he really loves me". They also wrote "Please Hurt Me" recorded by both The Crystals and Little Eva, and "Chains" for The Cookies.
CAgirl707 3 months ago
Interestingly, this song was written by famous songwriting duo Goffin/King - consisting of Carole King and her then husband Gerry Goffin. I read that he wrote the lyrics, and she wrote the music - the part of the song that illustrates how fucked up the whole notion of the song's story is, hahah. Makes you wonder if Goffin realized how messed up it was when he wrote the words..? Ah, the '60s...way to go Carole King for bringing the twistedness of these lyrics out with her composing!
sxserenade 3 months ago
I love the 60s Crystals version, but wasn't this written by Carole King as said by Courtney Love during Hole unplugged during the 90s?
Yeah Winehouse reminded me of it though recently. RIP beautiful girl. I get ya too.
edntif 3 months ago
@edntif King actually wrote the music, but not the lyrics. Others have said it, but I thought I'd give a direct reply.
zhimbo 3 months ago
The Crystals brought me here...
cassandrats 3 months ago
winehouse brang me here.,.
BornToSlayy 3 months ago
@BornToSlayy Love brought me here...
skinheadoriginal 3 months ago
Grizzly Bear brought ME here.
snakous 3 months ago
amy winehouse brought me here
yaayvideos 3 months ago
same here
@yaayvideos
mag22garcia 3 months ago
@yaayvideos
Same here!
The Crystals were great as were The Ronettes.
ZLUGGO 3 months ago
Maybe she likes masochism.
crop594 3 months ago
my kind of girl
iamsupergladys 4 months ago
amy winehouse brought me here haha
qhrhtlvdmstkfka 4 months ago
lol mee to
MiMiJigna 4 months ago
You know Jan sat down with her babysitter, and that is how this song came about. She made the mistake of asking this thirteen year old babysitter about her boyfriend, and this song is what she answered with~
I love having the History of Rock and Roll~ You learn so much messed up stuff
kurobarauchiha 4 months ago
My MUSC class took me here =(
Garielfok 4 months ago
Women who have to sing about something like that, like they know what it's like, is horrid.
BijouMind 4 months ago
definitely prefer the version of HOLE,
LOVE COURTNEY LOVE!
ISHOULDHAVEBEENASON 4 months ago
Thumbs up if Amy Winehouse brought you here :)
amywinehousefan30 4 months ago
@amywinehousefan30 nope.
budddees 4 months ago
@amywinehousefan30 Yes she did indeed.... I would of loved to of heard her sing this. x
cjacja21 4 months ago
PHIL SPECTOR brought me here
willyjak 5 months ago
Lady Bunny brought me here.
sethocopia 5 months ago
Amy brought me here
mariyacash 5 months ago
HOLE brought me here.
TheGrrrlRocker 5 months ago
watch?v=CMie1LZWdXg
and than 19:53
amywinehousefan30 5 months ago
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amywinehousefan30 5 months ago
@amywinehousefan30 Coincidently Amy brought me here too!
michael6mac 5 months ago
@michael6mac wow!I searched for this song bc of Amy
armndrm 5 months ago
@armndrm Haha I just watch Amy's interview and did the same thing.
collegeme2006 5 months ago
@collegeme2006 Thanks for this Amy!
cuppykinz 5 months ago
@cuppykinz same here lol
sarairicechannel 5 months ago
@armndrm Does this mean Amy liked to be hit by a man! She liked a slap???
"What is it about Men?" Amy Winehouse.
It's bricked up in my head, it's shoved under my bed
And I question myself again: what is it 'bout men?
My destructive side has grown a mile wide
And I question myself again: what is it 'bout men?
michael6mac 5 months ago
One of these ladies is the mother of rapper Prodigy (Mobb Deep)
CrazyIndividual 5 months ago
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sophisfukingfantasmo 5 months ago
No idea that Amy Winehouse, Hole, or Grizzly Bears sang this song, and don't care. Came here because I heard The Crystals sing it on XM radio GARAGE station.
TheSqueakyLizard 5 months ago
@TheSqueakyLizard Amy Winehouse never actually recorded the song, or sang it live BUT she did mention in interviews on more than one occasion that she loved the song and felt that it explained her attitude to relationships perfectly.
WinehouseLover19 5 months ago
@TheSqueakyLizard Aren't you cool
kurtywurty85 4 months ago
The beautiful Miss Winehouse sent me here. I think it's so sad that she could relate to this song. She had such a good soul and a wasted life. RIP Amy <3
harrispud 5 months ago
adam curtis
lizardkingsajrs 5 months ago
amy.......
princesayoleasa 5 months ago
im only here cause of amy :L
abcjmd100 5 months ago
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adam curtis bought me here
disformation1 5 months ago
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disformation1 5 months ago
Amy didn't bring me here. The fucking Crystals did.
freshhotvids 5 months ago
Ms. Winehouse brought me to this song, she mentioned it in one of her interviews, thought I'd listen to it. Never heard this song from the Crystals, like it!
Thanks Amy..... Miss You. (RIP)
laurlu62 5 months ago
@laurlu62 me too... Thank you Amy. I love this song :)
kusmet4eto 5 months ago
Amy bought me here
rstclairburke 6 months ago
RIP amy, you are already sorely missed
holymoloney 6 months ago
amys song, rip amy xx
lorlovesowen 6 months ago
Amy brought me here too. RIP Amy xx
radiomemories1 6 months ago
Ditto to which bit of my post? As you are a man, then I assume it's the bit about female violence in soaps. I find it quite disturbing that eg Shelley can punch Peter when so hard he falls to the floor with a nosebleed and he just says "guess I must have deserved that!" and she is the herione/victim. So many other storylines have a simliar theme, it's almost laughable. And this is coming from someone who was a battered wife in the 70's when domestic violence was seen as the woman's fault.
sunflowersusiejo 6 months ago
@sunflowersusiejo I completely understand where you're coming from. Even on TV shows like 'Loose Women' (UK); if men were to say the equivalent to some of the stuff those ladies come out with you wouldn't hear the end of it. Violence is violence, sexism is sexism.
javydavy543 5 months ago
@sunflowersusiejo I have a problem with "reversed domestic abuse" as well on TV. I watch a lot of King of Queens--not sure if you're familiar with the show?--and the wife is always slapping, hitting, punching her husband. Once she knocked him down a flight of stairs and the audience ate it up. Had it been the other way around it would have been wrong again. Go figure...
WannaJoinMyWolfpack 4 months ago
Yes it's poweful but real. I spent my teenage years dreaming of falling in love to songs such as "then he kissed me", not knowing this song existed, only to marry a violent man at 19. I He told me it was because he cared so much I could provoke such feelings in him. He was a policeman and "Life on Mars" was very real. People did not take domestic violence seriously then but do now. So why is it OK in soaps for a woman to hit a man if he upsets or cheats on her (Eg Corrie's Becky, Shelly)?
sunflowersusiejo 6 months ago
@sunflowersusiejo yeah susie i agree. it's always a double standard for men, you know?
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
this is too powerful
thegossspot 6 months ago
amy brought me here
Marcus80233 6 months ago
@Marcus80233 Ditto.
WinehouseLover19 6 months ago
When he walked me home that night, all the stars were shining bright and then he hit me
StayPuft90 6 months ago
Yes amy brought me here to.... God i loved her!! Miss her so much.. xx
calmcken82 6 months ago
Amy brought me here too, she will be missed :(
(courtney love covered this song acoustic as well it's amazing)
mm0918 6 months ago
Amy brought me here... RIP.
You were loved </3
blubearr 6 months ago
Your legend will live on....R.I.P. Amy x
halomammy 6 months ago
Rest in peace Amy Winehouse, you were so beautiful!
FayteKnightmare 6 months ago
Here because of Amy ... I knew I'm gonna love this song .. R.I.P.
urska91 6 months ago
Amy brought me here...
send2gogo2003 6 months ago
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Tmad85 6 months ago
Me too, rest in perfect peace Amy
Tmad85 6 months ago
flo ripping off this with her kiss fist. i get what amy saw in this. we've all had these moments.
fireupthequatrobolly 6 months ago
Amy brought me here too and to all the 60's songs she listened too R.I.P Miss Winehouse
dkreidk 6 months ago
"because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" -- Jack Kerouac
I love you Amy. Thank you for touching my soul.
corkkyle 6 months ago
I shouldn't have come here. TMI
gingerfacedoll 6 months ago
Amy brought me here... heard the first few bars and fell in love. amazing song!
paurichavlin 6 months ago
R.I.P Amy x
katell403 6 months ago
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Here cause of Amy too!!! :))
bellaymalvada 6 months ago
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bellaymalvada 6 months ago
here because Amy.
Mycrappygreenguitar 6 months ago
Amy understood this. Rest in peace pretty girl.
TheGhettoMuffin 6 months ago
Courtney covered this one
tmaherster 6 months ago in playlist cool stuff 2
Amy used to barhop on her binges and she would feed the coinslot of every jukebox, playing this song over and over.
28g34ajbsd 6 months ago
Amy Winehouse brought me here. RIP
bettyjoon3 6 months ago
@bettyjoon3 Innit! same
pinkmeercatpink 6 months ago
@bettyjoon3 same, the interview
ilovejayceon 6 months ago
@bettyjoon3 Me too..
hexthegreat25 6 months ago
Hole --- watch?v=QzF_bweZY4o <3
better version .... about me ...
DannyLoverBoy84 7 months ago
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DannyLoverBoy84 7 months ago
So many people misinterpret this song
whatamilike 9 months ago
@whatamilike How's that?
ScienceProjek 6 months ago
Is not about domestic violence, is about autodestructive love.
Teredelux 9 months ago
@Teredelux Not really mate. There are no hidden meanings, Goffin & King were merely documenting what Little Eva told them about her boyfriend beating her, and her claiming - note the word claiming - that it showed that he cared about her, one of the oldest excuses in the book....
SuperDoobrie 7 months ago
@SuperDoobrie Oh, it was my interpretation, maybe for my personal stories. Anyway, I prefer yours. Thanks.
Teredelux 6 months ago
@Teredelux YOU ARE SO RIGHT.......
madlyderanged 6 months ago
@Teredelux The two are inseparable in this case.
@whatamilike yeah. it's not about promoting domestic violence. it just romanticizes the sort of relationship that fosters it.
anvilheaded 6 months ago
art imitating life
MoneyBEATSsoul 9 months ago
this song is very sad... loving a man who treats you so bad is one of the worst situation that could happen.
ginesik0 10 months ago
@ginesik0 I agree but I would substitute the word "who" with "because he". Sadly there are people who are addicted to this sort of behavior from others. The vast majority of victims of domestic violence don't fall into this category, thankfully
heratus007 10 months ago
Questa canzone fa schifo
SealPrototype 11 months ago
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women are fucking stupid
terrasweet 1 year ago
A song by Ike and Tina Turner was suggested along the side. Too funny.
DeathBySitar 1 year ago
The fact is that Spector released it as a single to fulfill a contractual obligation and get out of it without producing too much profit for the co-signers, knowing the song would be a flop because of the subject matter. So, even though in my opinion the song is disturbing art with a fantastic sound, the creators' intent is questionable. then again, Michaelangelo produced some good shit under obligation and not for art.
bobbymoya 1 year ago
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bobbymoya 1 year ago
i think the sound is great, but how can some people not find this offensive?
TheDianaJC 1 year ago
@TheDianaJC Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote it after being appalled that the singer Little Eva was being beaten by her boyfriend and accepted it because "he loves me". Admittedly the arrangement doesn't indicate an ironic interpretation of the words, but it wasn't written as an endorsement of domestic violence. The cover by Hole is much more in the spirit in which it was written.
Steve7508 11 months ago
written by a masochist
gatoreloko1 1 year ago
Hey she herself said she was untrue...deal with it lol...
mulehead126 1 year ago
@mulehead126
But still she didn't deserve to be hit. *hits you btw*
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
Kikomel 1951 very true sad but true.
pel111 1 year ago
People who dislike this song because they find it somehow offensive deserve a slap
TYSONHAWKE 1 year ago
@TYSONHAWKE ... or to be murdered by Phil Spector
FreeBird1232 1 year ago
It's not a condemnation of abuse-- it's a disturbingly contemporary reflection about the fact that many women will take anything just to have a man in their lives. True in 1961... still true today. Sad! It's a disturbing song because it holds a mirror up to our society.
Kikomel1951 1 year ago
@Kikomel1951 You're telling the truth, some women go goo goo ga ga and stupidly crazy just because they have a man! Just as in the past, some women today still need to get. a. grip. No piece of sex or whatever will ever be THAT good to withstand your teeth getting knocked out of your head.
Some women will even let their kids put up with this crap, and then the next cycle begins! Good Lord!
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
AHAHAHAHA OMG
oler93 1 year ago
This is amazing. The strings like sad eyes, smiling through denial.
sofiadelockhart 1 year ago
Pushing around endlessly discussing the issues and rationale surrounding the lyrics of this record is like pushing around a piece of crap that your dog laid behind your couch in the front room. The thing has no value, no worth, and just because crap exists does not mean we should spend our time playing with it and rollng it around and thinking about it and evaluating it. You just acknowledge it for what it is, chastise the dog that laid it, and throw it in the trash.
PaulDePace 1 year ago
you idiots who think this song has not merit
if a song makes you feel something...then it is good art.
it can make you feel nice, shitty, or whatever...but if you FEEL something...
than it was meant to be.
too much music feels nothing.
go listen to some pop crap about nothing you morons
chriscontrol23 1 year ago
LOL Carol King, Gerry Coffin, and Phil Spector?!? They're all fucked up for this.
Khultan 1 year ago
@PaulDePace songs aren't made simply to portay happy thoughts and moments. A large nbr of music is about the negatives in life and society. Doesn't make it bad music or inappropriate. It's a great way to share your situations with the world and work through them, good or bad.
Stevenspaget 1 year ago
Horrible!!
rtms1988 1 year ago
Freedom of Speech can be abused....I see no value in proliferating tastelessness just because we might be fortunate enough to live in a free society. By the same token, when raising my children, I had no desire to see them exposed to a relentless barrage of trashy society just so I could say..."I let my children grow up and be exposed to everything. I didn't want to guard them against all the crap. Because aren't disgusting things part of living in the world." That includes beating women.
PaulDePace 1 year ago
Some of the psycho-babble responses on here are unreal. The song sucks. Never should have been written, or even conceived. Little Eva got abused. Sadly, she took it, like a lot of women. There is no postive way to listen or construe this song. The fact that the Crystals REFUSED to sing it live, were only pressured nto recording it by Phil Spector (need we go into his issues and why this song might appeal to him?) You folks give liberals a bad name with your lame rationale.
PaulDePace 1 year ago
@PaulDePace You're dead right, of course - unpleasant topics should never, ever be tackled in songs. Or films, or books.
LerafoLuap 1 year ago
@PaulDePace This song is meant to shed light on the abuse of women and the mind set that women in abusive relationships have. Songs, poetry, books, TV, and other means of expression are able to reach out to a diverse audience and by presenting an issue with little to no inhibitions is able to shed light in a way that other forms of media can't. This IS important because it shows how many women in this situation feel. If we confront these feelings head on then we can change them.
CharliGirl08 1 year ago
It's cultural and iconic history in song form. I agree 100% with PaulDePace "BebeLeStrange" the song warrants posting: for one thing, the thinking represented within the song is still present today in many women. Used to have someone very violently place their fist against my cheek and tell me what they were going to do to me. Just like as a child. AND I THOUGHT HE LOVED ME BECAUSE HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY HIT ME. THE SONG IS RELEVANT TO A MENTALITY THAT STILL EXISTS AND NEEDS TO DISAPPEAR.A+++++
cvsk12 1 year ago
Forget the negative comments. A lot of us wouldn't have access to this song if you hadn't posted it - in fact, I was directed here from an article in The Guardian, a very prestigious brit newspaper. You do all of us a favour when you make these available. Thank you.
sarahenany 1 year ago
@PAULDEPACE: DONT WATCH THE VIDEO STUPID!
SuperMeow75 1 year ago
I find this song tragically beautiful. THe music is beautiful, and the lyrics are tragic. I have a friend who was in an abusive relationship for 3 years, and this was her mindset. I don't find the subject acceptable nor do I find it a satire. I find it a perfect illustration of someone who is trapped in a physically and mentally abusive relationship, and I think it helps others to understand what these people go through, and why they don't leave.
ProstheticTeeth 1 year ago
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ProstheticTeeth 1 year ago
This is by far one of The Crystals best songs... Along with their first singer, Barbara Alston, also their best !!! Relax people !!!
sirlovemehard 1 year ago
grizzly bear cover may just rival the original
isaacbcanonico 1 year ago
This song isn't a satire... it was based on Little Eva (Carole King's babysitter / locomotion singer)... she had a bruise on her face and told her and Goffin that her boyfriend hit her because she'd been out with another guy but it only told her that he loved her. That would have inspired me, too... Carole King's politics are a blight on her writing career...
smileykermit 1 year ago
Grizzly bear did the best cover
EdwardMasochistic 1 year ago
I heard the Hole cover of this first and I must say I much prefer the Hole version. I don't particular like this version to be honest, I don't like the way it's sang. I also like that Courtney Love acknowledges that is song is twisted and then at the end sarcastically jokes that it's a feminist anthem. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad song, I think it's meant to show someone suffering rather than saying that domestic abuse is alright and why they might choose to be with that person.
SophiesInsanity 1 year ago
also this is an absolutely beautiful piece of music.
Korendian199 1 year ago
reminder that artists mean everything they say in the lyrics of their songs very literally and we must judge them based on this criterion
Korendian199 1 year ago
I was shocked to see the song title and then quickly checked wikipedia. Turns out this is satire. Beautiful, dangerous satire...
salazarifbb 1 year ago
Excuse me? The lyrics are "kind of disturbing"? And, by the way, how can something that is disgusting be "inportant"? And just because trash is laying around, do you need to show it to everyone just "because"? For what? I guess you let you children see a bunch of trashy shows on TV and the movies "just because"? Your arguments are stupid, and your kind of thinking is why the morality in our country is spiraling downward. I know, I am what? A Bible thumping, right winger?
PaulDePace 1 year ago
@PaulDePace cool story, bro.
shmoes 1 year ago
@PaulDePace You are a true artist.
batswbennett 1 year ago
this is the first time i've heard the original. i'm used to the cover version by Bedlam A.C. that was a hit on the dr. demento show in the 1970s. i think that one was better produced than spector's version. as for the subject matter, it's pretty tongue in cheek. anyone who takes it seriously hasn't got much of a sense of humor.
12161euclid 1 year ago
yall have to understand the times back then... A LOT OF WOMEN THOUGHT THIS WAY back then, and as sexist as it is, some women still think this way, its inda like if he sees me with another woman he will get jealous, the way women thought back then was if he gets mad enough to hit me then he must really love because why would he get that mad about someone he didnt love. from their point of view it was correct.
MsEmmalulu 1 year ago
Barbara Ann Alston the original lead singer is just the best, love her voice, thanks for posting, xxx
michellesvideosuk 1 year ago
Yes, the lyrics are kind of disturbing, BUT, it is an important piece of musical history, like the song or not.
Thanks for posting.
jaemel1 1 year ago
so what do think folks? is this the most politiclly inncorect song ever or is it tammy wynette's stand by your man?
TheBabyboomkidof53 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Bebel....haven't you got anything better to do than post this crap? The Crystals even refused to sing it live. It is the lone blemish on Carole King's writing career. It sucks, and is disgusting.
PaulDePace 1 year ago
@PaulDePace If your musical preferences are that different than mine, feel free to reference my username as an indication of videos you won't like.
BebeLeStrange 1 year ago
@BebeLeStrange
......"He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss"...is not a muscial preference? The song is trash and an afront.
PaulDePace 1 year ago