Snack curation
Today we remember Ringo Starr’s deeply non-U hit, “You’re Sixteen”. Appalling then, actionable now. Here’s the video.
Today we remember Ringo Starr’s deeply non-U hit, “You’re Sixteen”. Appalling then, actionable now. Here’s the video.
A 100% benign entity in a church of Satan… She’s not 16, but she sure is naive. A big, ingenue, young and cute butterfly ♡.
Is that the sound of Deep Foreboding I hear?
I…I guess Ringo finally heard “Only Sixteen,” realized it wasn’t about what everyone assumes it’s about, and, rather than laugh in relief like most people do when they realize this, said, “Oh, so that isn’t a song yet? I’ve found an unmet demand in the artistic marketplace!”
I have literally been spending the evening listening to old Gordon Lightfoot songs. I’m not sure how that’s relevant, but I thought I’d share.
Mate, those songs never get old.
Actually, Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie” is right in there with the squick factor, but Bob Seger felt in necessary to change it from “She’s too cute to be a minute over seventeen” to “Too damn cute to be a minute over thirteen.”
https://youtu.be/a-b0BtCSUXM
https://youtu.be/bP7bPSRPNks
I always thought the point of the song was to educate us on the fact that, as opposed to the USA, the UK age of consent is 16? You know, for the kids! Like when Ringo was the host on Shining Time Station.
Now I think about it this whole thing settles a question I had in my mind about whether Steeple exists in the extended SGR universe. If that were the case it would of course be the *other* Ringo Starr.
The splintered Beatles/Beetles versions are a feature, not a bug that will be addressed further very soon:
https://twitter.com/badmachinery/status/1255122859300716546?s=20
Steeple does exist in the SGR universe! So does By Night!
And here I was, trying not to mention the whole Beatles/Beetles thing, so as not to inadvertently put continuity pressure on you.
Believe me, I don’t give a monkey’s about continuity!
But… the timelines!
But but last year you drew Tim and Sarah in a remake strip in the exact outfits you drew them in *twenty years previously*
I think this probably counts as a failure of continuity in my personally held position day to day!!!
ZOMG
This was a Johnny Burnette song (long before Ringo) just about the time I was swearing fealty to the U.S. Army. Weren’t those some amazing days? Never ever volunteer.
In the Navy, it’s “Never Again Volunteer Yourself” (or N.A.V.Y. for short)!
How far back do you want to go? “Hey Little Schoolgirl” by the Marquees is HI-lariously un-PC. “Hey little schoolgirl, I’m gonna mess up your mind…”
Hey little girl in the high school sweater…
Isn’t non-u Mitfordese for ‘not upper class’.
I just made up some ersatz Don’t Pass Me By lyrics!!
Even more recent songs have their issues – “Hey little girl is your Daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone?”. I imagine most can pick the performer for this one…
I’m sure there are plenty of people suggesting it all relates to the video, and Daddy is about a Sugar Daddy, but if you place it in the context of its time, I don’t think the literal meaning would have been considered too far out of the ordinary by many.
Even more sinister when covered by Johnny Cash.
I was something under 10 years old when that song came out… 16 seemed pretty old to me then.
That Ringo Starr video features Carrie Fisher — weird!
No way! I will look that up. I just recently saw her in in Shampoo. She played quite the scandalous young lady. She was a youngster who was all about “do what thou wilt.”
Good for the satanist church ladies! So I guess their motto should be “Do what thou wilt, as long as you are respecting the law and good sense on the power differences and resulting vulnerability between a a juvenile and an adult.”
From the Rotating Rocks:
Ya I can see that you’re just fifteen years old
But I don’t want your I.D.
I liked the comic book issues of Steeple quite a lot, and the versions of Billie and Maggie in the Silvery Moon are now SO much more interesting to me. Seeing how they act now that they have swapped allegiances has really fun, and the characters feel more ‘real’ (even though the situations are totally mad).
Thanks! That was what I was aiming for. I was given five issues to do the Dark Horse series, so I tried to do as much as possible plot-wise within the space allowed, inevitably at the expense of more subtle character development. Plot eats pages. Hindsight’s always 20/20 though, it can take me 100+ pages to see what I’m getting right and wrong.
“Given 5 issues”? How does that work?
“I need 300 issues – Steeple will be the next Cerebus! Except, you know, me going mad after issue 200.”
“No way, Mac. One-off special, three-colour-press with hot metal lettering – take it or leave it!”
“Goddamn your eyes. 5 issues, fullish colour, with alternate covers.”
“Done!”
It’s like how a lot of Marvel Comics start (or used to start) with “limited series”. You sign up to do 4, 5 or 6 to see if it works then perhaps you get asked to do more. There are flaws in the way monthly comics are ordered and sold that make it hard to launch series this way and keep them going. Issue 1 tends to be ordered high, then orders for issue 2 & 3 will be half that, probably less than half for issue 3 – before issue 1 has gone on the shelves in order to gauge its popularity. You have to smash issue 1 in preorders to make it past 5. This is the reason that a lot of comics will have arcs numbered 1-5, then go back to issue 1 with a subtitle.