Still sounds kinda good, though
I fear "daddy" doesn't mean father in the context of this songโฆ I guess that's a good thing, though.
Exactly. "What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me?" is clearly about her boyfriend, not her father. It was a common expression back then.
Fun story about The Zombies: they'd already broken up by the time "Time of the Season" became a hit in America. So since people here didn't know, a couple of fake Zombies bands toured as them โ and members of one of those fake bands were Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, who'd later form ZZ Top.
Yeah, so many of these posts about older songs completely fail to consider context. And they ignore relatively recent shifts in what society in general considers acceptable.
Keanu Leaves
I was driving the other day, singing along to every word of this song, and suddenly felt like a creep.
Benny Mardones opens "Into the Night" with "She's just 16 years old," and by the end he's yelling as they lead him to the police car.
I've been saying this for ages. I love Bruce, but that's a weird way to say "hey, adult woman, is your boyfriend home?"
Think: sugar daddy.
It's artistic license. Springsteen uses "little girl" as a metaphor for the innocence of young love. It isn't meant literally. Just like there's no actual "freight train" running through his head or "knife" cutting through his skull. Nobody was actually "on fire." It's not a "Christine Sixteen" or "Seventeen" situation. Springsteen wrote a song about the pain of being young and in unrequited love with someone, while trying to capture the grit and spirit of the band he was writing it for โ the Ramones. I'd guess he wrote it in about an hour and never once imagined that 50 years later someone would get hung up on the phrase "little girl." It fit his vision.. and maybe more importantly, the lyrical flow of the song.
Comments 0
Please log into write a comment.