Songs So Wrong: Favorite Tunes We Didn't Realize Were Creepy (and your random calls)

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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We begin with a short observation about pre-#MeToo songs that didn't age well, plus plenty of listener calls about whatever is on their minds.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we got standby.
0:02.0	Three, two, one.
0:05.0	The Thinking Atheist, it's not a person.
0:08.0	It's a symbol.
0:09.0	An idea.
0:10.0	The population of Atheist in this country is going through the room.
0:14.0	Rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred.
0:19.0	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth, not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.
0:25.0	And working together for a more rational world.
0:29.0	Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
0:31.0	Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
0:35.0	Assume nothing. Question everything and start thinking. This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews. Random thing to start the conversation today.
1:01.0	Have you ever been an adult and you heard a song from your youth, you were a teenager, or maybe even a young 20 something, and you heard a song that you didn't realize at the time was really kind of wrong.
1:15.0	I mean, listen to it. For the first time in your head you decode the lyrics and you're going,
1:22.0	wait, wait a minute, wait a minute.
1:23.8	And I'll tell you, I heard a song the other day
1:27.4	and I thought, I cannot believe I used to sing this song.
1:31.1	I used to sing this song all the time and it's just so freaking
1:35.1	creepy. So I got curious and I started doing some digging and I'm shocked at
1:41.7	how many of the songs that you and I have become accustomed to that are kind of sketch.
1:46.4	And I'm just going to roll down a little list that I made.
1:49.6	The Macarena is kind of a jacked up song. The song's about a woman named
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