and breakups. There are just as many songs about abusive relationships. Since they're all pretty depressing, it's time to listen to some music that'll motivate you to find the perfect man. Here are a few songs that describe the perfect relationships that we all dream about having one ...
Gacy had an abusive father and suffered a head injury during his childhood. As an adult, he would dress as Pogo the Clown for parties at the same time he was carrying out the murders. Stevens puts a twist on the narrative by comparing his own secrets to Gacy's, while managing not to...
I’m fed up with [other] female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorize abuse when in reality I’m just a glamorous personsingingabout the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world. ...
Modern pop’s other great divorced-mother song. Unlike Xtina’s song, the marriage here isn’t abusive – it’s just gone south, and now the mom holds out for a love that isn’t being returned. She decided she’s had enough, off goes the ring and daughter Beyoncé celebrates with a ...
At first listen, "Independence Day" might sound like a good old fashioned patriotic country song, but listen closer: It's actually about a mother and daughter who get out from under the thumb of an abusive patriarch, in a pretty grisly way. ...
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" has been one of country music's best-loved heartbreak ballads ever since its release in 1968. It's a story song about a marriage ending, and the young child caught in the middle of his parents' breakup. No. 2: Faron Young, "Hello Walls" YouTube No. 2: Faron...
John Travolta(Tony Manero) Barry Miller Saturday Night Feverfollows Tony Manero (played by Travolta), a cocky, 19-year-old Italian American man living inBrooklyn,New York, with his abusive and unemployed father, Frank, Sr. (Val Bisoglio); his overbearing mother, Flo (Julie Bovasso); his im...
A murder ballad with a modern, feminist twist, this jaunty song about poisoning an abusive husband spawned disparate reactions. Some stations banned it, apparently concerned that it would spawn a rash of hubby offings; others shared the number for domestic-abuse hotlines. When the label reps lis...
At first listen, "Independence Day" might sound like a good old fashioned patriotic country song, but listen closer: It's actually about a mother and daughter who get out from under the thumb of an abusive patriarch, in a pretty grisly way. ...
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" has been one of country music's best-loved heartbreak ballads ever since its release in 1968. It's a story song about a marriage ending, and the young child caught in the middle of his parents' breakup. No. 2: Faron Young, "Hello Walls" YouTube No. 2: Faron...