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You don't get many songs advocating infidelity, do you?

DanielKelly [Edit] [Delete] 77 replies 08:30 March 5th, 2013

Loads and LOADS of songs complaining about it. There was some shitty pop song on the radio this morning with someone whining about their lover hoping on the good foot and doing the bad thing with someone else and it got me thinking- what are some pro-infidelity songs? There must be some.

I can't think of any but I listen exclusively to American Football and the Drive soundtrack.

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Wherever I lay my hat, that's my home - Marvin Gaye/Paul Young

Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 08:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
- also
  
  slightly tangential but you've reminded me of how much I love Jilted John by Jilted John
  
  Body_In_The_Thames @Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 08:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
It Wasn't Me

johnwiddop | 5 Mar '13, 08:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Shaggy's a bit of an infidelity denier in that though.
  
  Almost like he's ashamed of infidelity.
  
  I want to know if there are any songs with lyrics that what their balls out and say 'yeah, I cheated. And what?'.
  
  DanielKelly @johnwiddop | 5 Mar '13, 08:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
cliff richard and the shadows - a girl in every port & more
lou bega - I got a girl
tony ferrino - stuttering sadie from Stuttgart

Matt_was_taken | 5 Mar '13, 08:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
- + The Wanderer - Status Quo
  
  & I get around - The Beach Boys
  
  but these are not really about infidelity, more just promiscuity
  
  Wherever I Lay My Hat is similar but is actually addressed to a girlfriend in a kind of 'I told you I was gonna shag around' kind of thing
  
  Body_In_The_Thames @Matt_was_taken | 5 Mar '13, 08:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - but these are not really about infidelity, more just promiscuity
    
    true^
    
    Matt_was_taken @Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 08:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I've thought about it and my response to It Wasn't Me and have decided
    
    I'll allow anything that isn't explicitly or tacitly anti-infidelity, while still being rooted somewhere in monogamous romance. Seems only fair.
    
    DanielKelly @Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 08:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bad Penny by Big Black (maybe)

JGJug | 5 Mar '13, 08:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Not that it advocates it as such...
  
  JGJug @JGJug | 5 Mar '13, 08:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
Area Codes by Ludacris

AfraidOfOwls | 5 Mar '13, 08:45 | X | ^ This | Reply

emmettcruddas and Anthonyc this'd this
Boyfriend by Avril Lavigne?

AfraidOfOwls | 5 Mar '13, 08:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with?

MrBones | 5 Mar '13, 08:47 | X | ^ This | Reply

joeymahone this'd this
the pina coloda song

although he ends up cheating with the lady he loves...

Matt_was_taken | 5 Mar '13, 08:48 | X | ^ This | Reply

TheWza this'd this
Franz Ferdinand - Cheating on You

Gene Pitney - 24 Hours from Tulsa

ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 08:52 | X | ^ This | Reply

andyvine this'd this
- 24 hours from tulsa is such an arsehole of a song
  
  Musically it's great but the lyrics are just so harsh.
  
  Sorry babe, I'm leaving you for a girl I just met, literally JUST MET cos she's a hottie. I'M A SHIT.
  
  sophiacherryx @ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 10:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Try Dusty's version then
    
    ThirstyDog @sophiacherryx | 5 Mar '13, 14:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her

ma0sm | 5 Mar '13, 08:52 | X | ^ This | Reply

FrancescoNoir this'd this
The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha

ma0sm | 5 Mar '13, 08:53 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate this'd this
Pulp - Eye Spy

ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 08:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Pulp - Babies
  
  Pulp - Pencil Skirt
  Pulp - Sisters
  Pulp - Acrylic Afternoons
  
  Jarvis, you're a very naughty boy.
  
  ThirstyDog @ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 09:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Teepee_uk and sszdl this'd this
  - Pink Glove, 59 Lyndhurst Grove, probably loads more
    
    I've always assumed the majority of them are about the same affair.
    
    Royter-Hatfood @ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 10:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.

bozo | 5 Mar '13, 09:07 | X | ^ This | Reply

pheripheral, cheeseandbaconturnov, and Yvash this'd this
Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac

All of Rumours pretty much

lemonbrickcombo | 5 Mar '13, 09:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pretty sure there's a tonne of rap and hip hop too, let me have a think

lemonbrickcombo | 5 Mar '13, 09:15 | X | ^ This | Reply

Matt_was_taken this'd this
- there's this one
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC8j8-OCnoc
  
  and it's a classic
  
  Body_In_The_Thames @lemonbrickcombo | 5 Mar '13, 09:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  ThirstyDog this'd this
  - While you're riding your bike
    
    your girl is checking my mic
    
    Body_In_The_Thames @Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 09:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - While you on lockdown
      
      Ya girlie's takin' my cock down
      
      This album is an absolute all-time classic, it's criminal that so few people have actually heard it.
      
      ThirstyDog @Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 10:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - couldn't agree more
        
        Body_In_The_Thames @ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 10:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Grinderman - Kitchenette

SenorDingDong | 5 Mar '13, 09:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
- There MUST be more Nick Cave songs about this, surely?
  
  TheoGB @SenorDingDong | 5 Mar '13, 10:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I'm struggling to think of any.
    
    The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane is about bigamy though.
    
    SenorDingDong @TheoGB | 5 Mar '13, 10:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - John Finn's Wife is one I suppose.
    
    SenorDingDong @TheoGB | 5 Mar '13, 10:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Long Black Veil (though it's a cover to be fair)
      
      ThirstyDog @SenorDingDong | 5 Mar '13, 14:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease down the road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPEPdFowAM

Teepee_uk | 5 Mar '13, 09:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Maine Island Lovers by Okkervil River,

which is an absolutely incredible song and everyone should listen to it right now-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqSDJc_4Z0

nisaniop | 5 Mar '13, 09:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
yes, you do

Jordan_229_2 | 5 Mar '13, 10:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

Cementimental this'd this
- I maintain that, in relative terms, you don't
  
  DanielKelly @Jordan_229_2 | 5 Mar '13, 11:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Lots of raps, depends whether you class them as a song or not
    
    Cementimental @DanielKelly | 5 Mar '13, 12:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Rap makes up a relatively small percentage of all music
      
      DanielKelly @Cementimental | 5 Mar '13, 18:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Not sure they're advocating it, but these aren't entirely complaining about it either:

PJ Harvey - Oh My Lover
Josh T. Pearson - Honeymoon Is Great, I Wish You Were Her

lyserge | 5 Mar '13, 10:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Breakfats in Bed

by Dusty Springfield.

dawale | 5 Mar '13, 10:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
- great typo
  
  WhiteLightWhiteCity @dawale | 5 Mar '13, 13:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
If my interpretation of "Gotta Go" by Backstreet Boys is correct...

"Listen baby I'm sorry
Just wanna tell you don't worry
I will be late don't stay up and wait for me
I say again your dropping out
My battery is low
just so you know
We're going to a place nearby
Gotta go."

ThisTemporaryLife | 5 Mar '13, 11:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
John Legend - She Don't Have To Know

wisdom | 5 Mar '13, 12:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Also number one:
  
  You can't say I don't love you
  Just because I cheat on you
  
  Kitchmo @wisdom | 5 Mar '13, 18:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
Tom Waits

Martha. Kinda. He's definitely thinking about it.

crosseyedsniper | 5 Mar '13, 12:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I never thought that!
  
  I always felt like that was a song about a man who'd loved a woman, but moved on, and while he was in love with the notion of being with Martha, he was more in love with his present family.
  
  ThisTemporaryLife @crosseyedsniper | 5 Mar '13, 21:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - It's the....
    
    ... "I love you can't you see" at the end. Smoking gun, imo.
    
    crosseyedsniper @ThisTemporaryLife | 6 Mar '13, 20:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
Heart - All I Wanna Do

Woman bangs stranger, stranger bumps into woman a year later with the child looking just like him, awkwardness/hilarity ensues.

Thin Lizzy's Dancing In The Moonlight is from the bloke's perspective, "I had to say I stay with friends" but then opines "it's a habit worth forming, it's a means to justify the end".

amyblue | 5 Mar '13, 12:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
Me and Mrs Jones

by Billy Paul is a belter.

And as for anything by Big Black - I can't take it as advocating any form of infidelity if you compare it to the lyrical content of Canaveral by Shellac. Poor Albini :(

GaryEleven | 5 Mar '13, 12:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I was under the impression that Canaveral was about JFK
  
  but could be wrong
  
  darts_players_wives @GaryEleven | 5 Mar '13, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pale Blue Eyes by the Velvets

Trev | 5 Mar '13, 13:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home by Ann Peebles

Highly recommended.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3cAvnhLqs

bornin69 | 5 Mar '13, 13:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
Wedding Present

Most of the Seamonsters album, especially Lovenest & Dalliance.

ThirstyDog | 5 Mar '13, 15:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
Jeff Buckley - I Want Someone Badly

automatik | 5 Mar '13, 18:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
MAMBO NUMBER FIVE

georgiabeth | 5 Mar '13, 18:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Nah, he's just not exclusive.
  
  I think.
  
  DanielKelly @georgiabeth | 5 Mar '13, 18:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
Elvis Costello - I Want You

or maybe he was the one been cheated? Nevermind , great song

andres | 5 Mar '13, 19:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
TLC - Creep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZydtG3xqI

hello_dave | 5 Mar '13, 21:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
- <3
  
  theShipment @hello_dave | 5 Mar '13, 21:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  jopzorz this'd this
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird does this basically doesn't it?

Also Momus' Hairstyle of the Devil. And possibly Momus' entire back catalogue.

theguywithnousername | 5 Mar '13, 21:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
Love 'em and Leave 'em- KISS

Not sure if it's infidelity they had in mind though :)

dcnuman | 5 Mar '13, 21:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Soul Children - I'll Be the Other Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht44KrofGDE

Amazingly confused - "It's ok, I'm happy for you to cheat on your wife, as long as it's only with me..."

macleanalan | 5 Mar '13, 22:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
Dance with me, Dizzy rascal

MrBones | 5 Mar '13, 22:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-quXVftWw

Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 22:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
- actually
  
  watch this version instead
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8sQnPfDh0
  
  Body_In_The_Thames @Body_In_The_Thames | 5 Mar '13, 22:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
A couple from the perspective of the person being cheated on:

I've never really paid much attention to the verse lyrics, but I assume 'Cheat On Me' by The Cribs does.
And 'Come Pick Me Up' by Ryan Adams has the line "I wish you would... screw all my friends'.

Coja | 5 Mar '13, 22:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Come Pick Me Up
  
  I always saw as being a "despite you doing this I still want you back" thing.
  
  fidel_catstro @Coja | 7 Mar '13, 11:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
Dolly Parton - Jolene

More about pleading another woman to stop cheating with her husband

andres | 6 Mar '13, 20:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Montell Jordan - Get It On Tonite

jopzorz | 6 Mar '13, 21:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Cody Chestnutt - The Seed

I only want to fertilize another behind my lover's back
I sit and watch it grow standin' where I'm at
Fertilize another behind my lover's back
And I'm keepin' my secrets mine

...

Fertilize another against my lover's will
I lick the opposition 'cause she don't take no pill
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-no dear
You'll be keeping my legend alive

Kettledrum | 6 Mar '13, 22:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend

(although, technically, she asks the guy to break up with his current squeeze beforehand)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv644ipg2Ss

marckee | 7 Mar '13, 00:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Paul Simon - Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover

I suppose that's more a case of advocating divorce over continuing the infidelity, but his mistress is pretty unequivocal about carrying on with the infidelity rather than worry about working things out with his wife.

TheWza | 7 Mar '13, 09:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
- (that sentence contradicts itself, but you get the point: his future lies with his bit on the side rather than his wife)
  
  TheWza @TheWza | 7 Mar '13, 09:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Wayne "High School"

Cementimental | 7 Mar '13, 10:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Die Young - Ke$ha

fidel_catstro | 7 Mar '13, 11:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

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