He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) by The Crystals (Lyrics)

[dana0800]

Thumbs up if you brought yourself here.

[johnbleroy]

The three girls at 1:01 are The Ronettes, not the Crystals. FYI.

[dwinnera]

the brilliant Adam Curtis film It felt Like A Kiss takes its title from this song.

[arianabcarter]

Thumbs up if Hole brought you here.

[nolegsShay]

Women are stupid. So is everyone else though.

[joebstarsurfer]

thats the madest song ive heard and it felt like kiss.

[nealadams70]

my aunt loubelle got hit by a boyfriend ONCE in 1972....after she put rat poison in his coffee the abuse STOPPED immmediately

[hght]

@nealadams70 LOL i bet it did :)

[SilentMelody04]

He Hit Me........then he just disappeared...I don't know what happened to him

[glitterstar89]

I'm not in an abusive relationship, but I understand the song. My guy doesn't really show any emotions so I'd be glad he showed ANY emotion or reaction.

[carmencapel69]

@glitterstar89 and when you're laying there on the floor, bleeding, bruised and broken, I hope you still appreciate his reaction.

[glitterstar89]

@carmencapel69.... I'm guessing you didn't understand my post.

[nickthelick]

I think I personally prefer the Hole version out of all the ones I heard... in fact, I too had no idea Amy Winehouse, Motels, Grizzly Bears did it either until I came here... And yeh, the song's meaning is pretty damn obvious really...

[waainee]

@rizofuckYou she did baby

[nomedoicrerubbish]

It's so obvious if you listen to the words what this song really means- he found out she had kissed someone else and hit her, which showed that he was jealous so proving that he loved her, twisted logic, but some people are so insecure they never believe they're loved and they see jealousy as some kind of proof, I can see now why Amy Winehouse understood what it meant...

[TheSqueakyLizard]

Had no idea that Amy Winehouse, Hole, the Motels, or Grizzly Bears sang this song - and really don't care. Came here because I heard the Crystals sing it the other day on XM radio GARAGE station.

[redfordforpresident]

No, it's a kiss of death and the song is about animal abuse. The soldiers for Animal Planet.

[redfordforpresident]

@redfordforpresident Hit Me is code for Hitler killing the Hymies -- they say their Jew God insists they kosher slaughter animals, allowing them to bleed slowly to death after their throats are slit.

[charlenemonique1]

I understand why some women may feel that when a man hits her.She thinks that it's rmantic in some way it's not. That's not love. Ihad a freind tell me about how romantic it felt after her boyfreind hit her.That was not love but she did'nt listen. These women are lacking something.I wonder why they decided to write these lyrics?I'd rather be held not hit but to each her own

[sexylover1906]

what an annoying song.

[cb90222]

@sexylover1906 , if you listen to it by "The Motels" it's not annoying but pretty rock'n roll col.

[nileyfan1998]

TMI lol too much infomation i mean...............whi wuld sing a song like this itz just wrong "he hit me and it felt like a kiss" i mean WTF!!!!!111111

[antoniamiquel89]

1:03 Amy winehouse's hairstyle inspiration (=

[Jewelsinthesnow]

what an odd song

[evangiepandy]

i actually really like this song, love what amy said about it

[RizoFuckYou]

thumbs up if Amy Winehouse brought you here.

[TEETEE0000001]

@RizoFuckYou meeee!!!!!!!!!!! RIP Amy!

[Supergungun]

@RizoFuckYou Stop mentioning her she ripped off 60s girl bands

[jodiep626]

@RizoFuckYou omg yeaa!

[hollytyler39]

@RizoFuckYou i loved what she said about this song

[20jessa09]

@hollytyler39 me too, loveee Amy

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

The girl doesn't feel this way. The boy imagines that

she feels this way. It's a classic case of complete misunderstanding and stereotyping. I can imagine James Dean playing the character in a movie. Smacking some poor ponytailed girl. Then he drives off in his car imagining her singing this song. Probably got the idea because his dad beat his mother & she stayed anyway. How many men think women prefer abusive men? I hear men tell of this mistaken notion too often.

[TwoTube2]

@EmpressOfWyoming58 Most women would rather not be in an abusive relationship, you're right. Some people though are drawn into them, almost like a destructive addiction. You know it's wrong for you, it hurts you, that you should just walk out the door and not turn back, but for some people they want the love from that other enough to put up with violence. Some people have a warped perspective and actually see the violence as an expression of passion, of love...

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

@TwoTube2 Usually a person like this has either been mistreated or seen a mother mistreated and they don't know this is abnormal behavior.

[TwoTube2]

@EmpressOfWyoming58 ...believe me, it's not a delusion amongst only men. Some women genuinely feel this way. It's a cliché, but it's like a moth to a flame. They are drawn in, despite the danger, sometimes because of the danger. Those are the type of women who find themselves in abusive relationships again and again, because the object of their affection is always the same dangerous, destructive flame. They will accept and forgive a hit, because to them, it's as passionate as a kiss...

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

@TwoTube2 They accept it because they don't understand that normal people don't behave like this. Listen to the song, read the lyrics. Think about what person's perspective the song is coming from.

[MsDimplecheeks]

@EmpressOfWyoming58 It's about preferring abusive men you idiot. Some women have such low level of confidence that any attention from a man is good attention, even when they are abusive! If you think shit like that doesn't exist then you don't live in the real world.

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

@MsDimplecheeks You need to listen to the song AGAIN and read the lyrics. Think about whose perspective the song is coming from. A woman may find herself drawn to men who are messed up, but generally, they don't figure out the guys are messed up until they are already involved. You think a woman sees some guy beating up on another woman & thinks to herself, "God that's hot. I want him"? It's more complex than you're asserting. Unless the woman is truly masochistic...then we are talking fetish.

[bxfinestladiie]

OMG! -______-

[Shashan1977]

it didn't hit and Phil Spector got pissed.

[madlyderanged]

I love it.

[garysaddleback]

Well, folks . . . speaking of music that some thin-skinned people get overly sensitive about . . . some of you may be aware of the late Lowell Fulsom, a great R&B singer and guitarist . . . he cut a tune that contains the line, "No need to go to the dentist tomorrow darlin', 'cause I'm gonna knock your teeth out tonight!"

Can anybody give me the title of this song?

Gary in Arizona

[allierzeznik95]

Some people take things WAY too seriously.

[jasonpp1973]

did'nt Carole King write this?

[shmuli9]

The Motels also did a version of this...

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Aside from comments about this being a song about abuse, this is one of 60's girl group classics.

[livinglegend1187]

A lot of women like bad boys. A lot of women like being abused.

This is a FACT.

[onlyinmydreams06]

@livinglegend1187 WHAT? no one "likes" to be abused, unless they're psychopaths , there are different sides to it, don't analyse things like a child...a lot of women ARE abused if thats what you want to say, but its almost like you're blaming them and not men.

[MusikAndLuv]

@uliseslag The song was written about real life, and many people in this world cannot handle it, like the protagonist in this song, and yourself.

[TheCounslor]

this is abuse. no way a song like this could make it today.

[Squitchtweak]

@TheCounslor It has 'made it today' - many cover versions have been sung. Also, it did attract controversy at the time.

Personally I think the lyrics are fine. I think it's a about a woman who feels so guilty that she cheated on her husband that even when he hits her for it she feels she deserves it and that he does it because he loves her - maybe its a perspective she's taken to to cope with abuse.

I think you can sing about violence without saying it's right.

[Khultan]

@Squitchtweak  Ha ha ha...you've sparked my curiousity where do you get the part about 'a woman who feels so guilty that she cheated on her husband...etc.', hmm?

[Squitchtweak]

@Khultan It says in the song he hits her when she tells him she's 'been untrue', and that she's glad he hit her and 'if he didn't love [her], [she] could have never made him mad'. So I think she cheated, and feels so bad that she feels she deserves to be hit, and is just so thankful he hasn't left her for it. Reminds me of stories of women who are abused by their husbands, and then fall for someone who doesn't treat them like that, but feel terrible for it.

[rjmt1201]

I can totally feel the emotions of the lyrics

[ohsocrazy]

It was never meant to be a hit. The writers wrote it after discovering that Little Eva, known for her song "The Locomotion" was being abused by a bf. When they asked why she never left, she stated that the abuse was his was of showing her he loved her....so I guess it was supposed to be a way of telling her to leave or something.

[jacobbielarski]

@ohsocrazy It was a hit, alright. ZZZZZZZZZING!

[luvyourhippiefriend]

i heard this song by coutrney love and im like oh okay but by these girls? abuse anyone?