[EMAIL PROTECTED], quoting Janis Ian, writes:
<< They call and say 'Come dance with me'
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
At seventeen >>
I wonder if Janis really felt this way, or if she was just writing about
geeks in general. I always thought she was kinda cute! Besides, how many of
the other kids with whom she interacted at that age could say they had
experienced fame and had had a major hit ("Society's Child") long before they
were 17 years old?
I wonder -- what are her lyrics like these days? I don't think I ever really
paid much attention to her after her "Society's Child" album came out. I do
remember one song from that long-lost album, and I'm not going to even guess
at the title, that had the lyrics that went something like this:
Don't talk about sex
You might get hexed
God will punish you
For your dirty mind
It's no sin to enjoy a raping
Just to find out the facts of life
So you make it with your mind
Pretty provocative stuff for a (I think) 13 year old in the 1960s. Is her
current stuff worth checking out?
--Bob (whose name was never called when choosing sides for basketball,
hastily making Saturday night plans so he won't feel like a geek)
