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What great song was "ruined" once you really listened to the lyrics?

08.06.2025 03:53

What great song was "ruined" once you really listened to the lyrics?

All across the factory, people stopped and looked around at one another. The song is about a mother who turns out her daughter to be a prostitute. They’re so poor that the mother can’t afford food to feed all her children. So she buys the daughter a sexy dress and tells her to “just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, and they’ll be nice to you.”

It didn’t ruin it for me, but I have a funny story about a song that was ruined for someone else.

The DJ played something else for the daughter.

Ive been pretending to be okay and acting as normal as possible, but Im actually completely heartbroken after a recent breakup. Its painful and really affecting me, to the point where I cant concentrate at work, Ive lost my appetite, I cant sleep, and It feels as if my whole world has been turned upside down. I loved him so much. He said so many cruel things to me and it made me realize he must not have loved me the way I loved him, or he wouldnt have said such horrible things. How do I handle the heartbreak and why cant I accept that he didnt love me and just forget about him?

The DJ had to explain to this woman over the air what the song was about. She was like, “Oh, I didn’t realize that. I just liked the song. Well, that’s not good at all!”

Many years ago, (mid-90s), I worked in a factory, and we’d play country radio one day and rock the next over the floor’s main speakers. It was a country day, and a woman called in wanting to dedicate the Reba McIntire cover of Bobbie Gentry’s “Fancy” to her 13-year-old daughter on her birthday. The DJ got quiet and asked why. The woman replied that it was an inspiring song for young girls and hoped her daughter would grow up to be just like Fancy in the song.