Music
10 Cornball Songs That Didn’t Age Well
That’s a bad look on you, Mr. Winger
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4 min readMar 15, 2023
Times change. I can remember the days when people could smoke in a hospital waiting room. Or a theater. Or on a plane. You could find a babysitter in a classified ad in the newspaper. And you could cohabitate with your friends’ underage daughter if you had her parents' permission.
Wait. What?
That seemed to be the thinking back in the day. If you need more evidence, here are 10 cornball songs that didn’t age well.
Cradle of Love Billy Idol
The director of the Cradle of Love video did a good job making a song about rocking the cradle of love seem whimsical and harmless, but the 15-year-old model coupled with Idol’s own lyrics makes it feel unseemly.
“Yeah, flesh for your Romeo
Ah yeah, baby
I hear you moan
It’s easy, y’know how to please me, yeah”
