[Potentially NSFW] Is George Michael's "Father Figure" the creepiest song ever written?

Nope, “Don’t stand so close to me” by the police:

Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she’s waiting
His car is warm and dry

@Imadethisupwithnoforethought I read that five times and I’m not catching it. It must be going over my head. What does it mean?

The whole song Sting admitted was about how when he was a young teacher when he got out of college, the bad girls in High School used to compete to turn him on to have sex with him in order to prove they were the “Baddest Girl” in class, and how very tempted he was.

@livelaughlove21 eww!!! I can honestly say I never thought of it that way before but you are totally right! In light of some of Mr. Michael’s escapades it is really, really creepy! @Imadethisupwithnoforethought, even though I already knew the back story of the Police song, I still thing Michaels’ song is creepier.

Lola by The Kinks is creepy in a funny sort of way:

“I’m not dumb but I can’t understand
why she walks like a woman and talks like a man…
Oh my Lola”

Ray Davies wrote it about an encounter he had with a cross dresser in a club once upon a time.

@Imadethisupwithnoforethought Ah, gotcha. Call me crazy, but George Michael wanting to be some little boy’s “daddy” creeps me out way more than a 20-something guy having sex with a high schooler.

I read somewhere that the song by George Michael is about his homosexual lover. It was done before he “came out.”

@bkcunningham Yeah, but how old was this lover? I mean, put your tiny hand in mine, being a father figure/daddy, love being a crime?

@SuperMouse I realized what Lola was about only a very few years ago. I’m a bit slow.

Maybe his lover had tiny hands.

@bkcunningham Or like this. “Take my strong hand!” Damn, those movies were awful.

Okay. I just discovered a new diet aid. Thanks, @livelaughlove21. Whenever I feel the urge to eat…well, anything, I will watch that clip. LMAO

@bkcunningham My pleasure. ;)

It does sound creepy but how many women call their lovers ‘daddy’?

@LornaLove That’s creepy, too.

YES.  I’ve been citing this as the creepiest song for quite a while now.  But Lionel Ritchie’s Hello is up there too when you pay attention to how stalkery it is.

Whose your daddy?

Little Girls by Oingo Boingo is very iffy.

And how about Neil Diamond. “Girl. You’ll be a woman soon…

Father Figure has always kinda creeped me out.

Every Breath You Take by The Police. Total stalker song.

“Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you”

No Reply from The Beatles is pretty creeptastic as well or how about Run For Your Life also by The Beatles

I. Love. George. Michael.

Nothing he’s ever done can be creepy. Lol. However, I’ve thought about this song, and in a relationship, there’s often one person who takes a dominant role. I’ve likened it to that.

Rod Stewart’s “tonights the night” is kinda creepy. Not really sexy to me, kind of like a predator.

It was creepy! Once he came out my perspective changed and find it a little less icky. Now I see it as him reassuring and guiding his partner through coming out himself. Actually, I think he wrote it as his experience of someone being his ‘father figure’ but that, of course, is purely conjecture.

I think 16 Horsepower and Black Heart Procession have really creepy stuff! Interesting but the music itself sends shivers up one’s spine!

@livelaughlove21 I have ALWAYS been bothered by that song.
I’ve mention that to people too, I always get a blank stare and a “what?”.
Listen to the damn lyrics people!

On Lornas note I would like to note that guys who call their woman or women in general mama or lil mama also creepy.

What is up with referring to the man in a relationship as her old man. Someone did that to me about a guy I literally dated for three months. I asked him why and he ignored the question. He also continued to do it. It really offended me.

Two quick points on Sting, those geordie girls he taught weren’t in “high school” it was a secondary school & having a crush on sir was fairly normal back then.
As for Every Breath You Take, it’s about a bitter divorce Sting was going through at the time, nothing even remotely stalkerish.
The creepiest song ever is Do You Wanna Be in my Gang by Garry Glitter…the sick fuck!!

Haven’t heard that song, @livelaughlove21, but the lyrics are indeed creepy. Especially the “tiny hand” part O_O
But it’s not at all uncommon for gay relationships (men and women) to be between people of different ages, and to have a sort of tutorial dynamic. I’m not talking about child-adult here, but young adult-older adult.
Anyone know how old George Michaels’ boyfriend was?

His long standing boyfriend at the time was Kenny Goss who is 3yrs his senior, they split a few years ago as far as i’m aware.

Sting, George Michael, the Beatles, Rod Stewart…

Anyone else think creepy must be a trend of the Brits??

except @ucme, of course. ;-)

Take a long hard look at the vast majority of American C&W lyrics, now there’s some proper creepy shit, sung by elite weirdoes.

By the way, @livelaughlove21 I’ve had this awful song stuck in my head for hours now. Thank you for that. I hope to return the favor someday. lol

@ucme It may be about a bitter divorce but still ya don’t say half that shit to someone without coming off like a creeper…

Well, up until this thread I thought the lyrics were “I will be your bottom feeder…”, so it actually makes it a bit less creepy.

@Katniss Same here! I’ve been singing it in my head all day.

@uberbatman Depends on the sensitivity of the listener I guess. He was putting across his ex wife’s clingy/obsessive nature & her part in proceedings, she being the creepy one.

First off, high five @ZEPHYRA for 16 Horsepower. But I don’t think you, or you either @tinyfaery, should be putting songs by them, The Black Heart Procession or Oingo Boingo in the same class. All of those bands openly embrace a certain amount of gothic storytelling in their music. They are intentionally going there, and there’s a sort of we-know-you-know-this-is-messed-up understanding. But George Michael is a pop artist (as is Lionel Ritchie). There’s an assumption that they’re making music for general consumption and unless there is some sort of sign that they are subverting the pop genre it’s hard not to take it at face value.

That’s why Father Figure is so creepy. The character revealed by the song not only appears naive to it’s disturbing connotations, he is indistinguishable from the artist.

No matter what you say, the Oingo Boingo song and video creeps me out.

I admit, I haven’t seen the video.

PS I want there to be a Father Figure tag.