Oingo Boingo - Little Girls

Only a Lad is the full-length debut album by Oingo Boingo, following their self-titled EP. The album's musical arrangements, by vocalist Danny Elfman and guitarist Steve Bartek, complete the group's switch from cabaret act to New Wave band (see Oingo Boingo - The Mystic Knights Years). Only a Lad features complex and frequently changing time signatures and keys, often incorporating harmonies borrowed from jazz and 20-century classical music, all hallmarks of Elfman's songwriting.
The album's success was somewhat limited, but, largely due to the backing of Los Angeles radio station KROQ, the album established Oingo Boingo as a permanent fixture in the Southern California music scene.
The National Review Online called "Capitalism" one of the "50 greatest conservative rock songs."[1]
"Only a Lad" is a playable track on the PlayStation 2 video game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.
On the cover of the album, if one looks closely at Johnny's (the "Lad's") shirt, one would see the image of the cat drawn by Louis Wain that appeared on the cover of the Oingo Boingo EP. [info courtesy: wikipedia.org]

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[Maximum80s2]

Read through the comments... From Despina83: "Danny based it on these middle aged guys in the music business who were riding around town with 18 and 19 year old gold digger girlfriends. It wasn't meant to actually be about pedophilia."

[Despina83]

Danny based it on these middle aged guys in the music buissiness who were riding around town with 18 and 19 year old gold digger girlfriends. It wasn't meant to actually be about pedophilia.

[sshatchell]

This song was created because Danny read about this kind of stuff going on, and decided to make the song tongue in cheek. If you watch the video and listen to all of the song, it would give you the strong inclination that it is tongue in cheek. No one in their right mind would make a song condoning a grown man dating a little girl. And we all no Danny is lovably mad for doing a song tongue in cheek. However I don't suppose that would stop a pervert from glorifying this song.

[BhagwandinMafia]

Does it make me a pedophile because i love this song?

[davidvollmar]

I AGREE - DANNY ELFMAN WENT ONTO MEGA STARDOM IN MOVIES!!!!

[gothichyppie]

Does he STEAL the cookies/chocolate at the end?! What a creep!

[sabbathfreak1]

BOINGO WAS THE BEST GROUP IN THE 80'S PERIOD!

[meeces13]

@Maximum80s2 cuz middle aged women are sooo much fun....

[bereaux94]

@BubbleT1ger so do I lol and I don't know if 16 counts as being lil but, its so weird how I like this song but,its so sick.

[trimanx123]

does anybody else see the Hall & Oates version of Peter Dinklage?

[pokachunk]

pedobear ftw.

[bluejeckett]

@sshatchell Actually David Bowie already wrote a song about a pedophile in his early days so its hardly a new topic lol Nothing is beyond art.

[Beeba1]

He said little not young? Its kinda like the anthem for no fat chicks! Or is it just a song from oh say 30 years ago when kids could play outside without having to have security?