Use of the Word Baby In Song Lyrics

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‘Baby Baby Oh Whoa Baby Baby…’

I’ve always quite liked music of The Carpenters. Sure, they could be a bit cheesy, but my, that girl had a voice that was as effortlessly smooth as silk.

However there’s one song of theirs that I detest; I wonder if you can guess which it is? That’s right, it the one with the lines ‘don’t you remember you told me you loved me baby/ baby baby baby baby oh baby…’.

Yes, this is a cunting for the use of the word ‘baby’ by songwriters. It’s nothing new of course. Turn the clock back a hundred years or more and you’ll find the likes of ‘and I’d like to be your sister, brother, dad and mother too, pretty baby…’ **.

It’s such a useful little word for a songwriter. It can be fitted in very easily, and that’s the trouble I suspect. It’s usefulness is such that’s become ubiquitous over the years, the lyricist’s cliché of clichés. Even songwriting greats of the modern era such as Dylan and Lennon and McCartney couldn’t avoid falling into the ‘baby’ trap at some point.

Okay, maybe I’m being a bit idiosyncratic with this one. It’s just that the funny thing is, in all my years on this mortal coil, I can honestly say that I can’t recall ever hearing a person use the term when speaking to another. Neither can the wife, or any friend I’ve mentioned this to whenever we’ve been discussing music. Yet it comes up time after time in so many songs that it really gets on my bloody nerves.

I guess I could put up with one or two ‘baby’s in a song, but too many and it just becomes intolerable. I give you exhibit one for the prosecution, that tuneless little nerk Justin Bieber, who seems to be going for an entry into The Guinness Book of Records for use of the word ‘baby’ in his song entitled, er, ‘Baby’…

YouTube.

Of course, Bieber really knows how to gild the lily. Throw some ‘oh oh whoa oh oh oh’s and plenty of ‘uh huh’s into the mix, and round it all off with some baseball capped buffoons jigging away like demented gay ferrets, and you’ve got pubescent girls by the thousand moistening their panties and parting with their cash. So perhaps it’s simply the case that ‘baby’ pays.

Oh baby baby oh baby baby oh yeah yeah hit me baby one more time. Classic.

** I say steady on; you can get done for that.

Nominated by : Ron ‘baby’ Knee

119 thoughts on “Use of the Word Baby In Song Lyrics”

    • The Motörhead / Girlschool link up (Headgirl) did “Please Don’t Touch” which is littered with the word baby. From memory I’m sure Lemmy grunted a few out.

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  4. The man who wrote Young Girl died recently “You’d better run girl, you’re much too young girl”. If only Dirty Ange had taken that advice when she was 15 she might not have become the old slapper she is today.

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    • This has always been one of my pet hates, not just in songs either. I was watching a yank film recently and if they’d edited out all the times people called each other ‘baby’ the whole thing would have lasted twenty seven minutes.

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    • A fine notion indeed, Cuntus.
      Although a similar substitution word game is `wank` for `dance`.
      Songs, films, TV, whatever – there`s a rich harvest to be reaped.
      Here`s a starter for 10: “Strictly Come Wanking” – instantly improved I think you will agree. Or perhaps the Bowie classic, “Let`s Wank”.
      Over to you cunters …
      🕺🏿

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      • W@nking in the Moonlight – Thin Lizzy
        W@nking on the Ceiling – Lionel Ritchie
        W@nk to the Music – Sly & the family Stone
        Come W@nking – The Kinks

        Endless possibilities.

      • The Drifters; ‘Save the Last Wank For Me’
        The Shadows; ‘Wank On’
        Genesis; ‘I Can’t Wank’
        Whitney Houston; ‘I Want To Wank With Somebody’
        The Motors; ‘Wank the Night Away’
        Lionel Ritchie; ‘Wanking On the Ceiling’

      • There’s some fun to be had with this.

        Films:

        Wanks with Wolves.
        Dirty Wanking
        Flashwank
        Save the last wank
        Wank Marathon

      • Born to Wank – Bruce Springsteen
        We Don’t Wank Anymore – Cliff Richard
        Wank Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
        A Hard Day’s Wank – The Beatles

      • You`re getting a bit carried away, LL. It`s `wank` for `dance` only, or we`ll be here forever.
        Tina Charles` “My Baby Just Loves To Wank”, for example.

      • Private W@nker – Tina Turner
        Tiny W@nker – Elton John
        W@nking in the Street – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.

        All this talk of dancers reminds me, do we still not know where Miserable is?

      • Let’s W@nk – David Bowie.

        Everbody W@nk – Chic.

        W@nking On The Valentine EP – Duran Duran.

        Mustapha W@nk – The Clash.

        You Make Me Feel Like W@nking – Leo Sayer

      • Mary Jane’s last w@nk – Tom Petty
        W@nk M0nkey – Tones and I
        Everybody W@nk now – C&C Music Factory

        Ron wins with his Whitney Houston and Drifters contributions.

    • Afternoon CM…a brilliant letter from ‘Viz’ years ago:
      How come Dr Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg can use the ‘N’ word as much as they like, yet when I shouted it at my son’s under 12’s football match, I was escorted from the ground?
      Sets up such an amusing mental image, doesn’t it?!
      Someone should’ve shouted it at Anthony Joshua Tree (swinger).

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  12. I think Leon Russell wrote ‘Superstar’ for Carpneters.

    Karen was a wonderful singer. She was also quite tasty, when she had a bit of meat on her.

    Brother Richard, however, was a goggle eyed cousin marrying weirdo.

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  15. A couple worth mentioning here;
    Babe I’m gonna leave you, by Led Zep. Babe not baby, but still a great song,
    & the Babys, a great rock group featuring John Waite.

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  17. Bon Scott and the splendid 70s version of AC/DC belted out “Baby please don’t go”…with the irreplaceable Bon dressed as a schoolgirl..

    So it’s acceptable to me,at least in this instance.

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  18. It’s not just the inclusion of this word in songs that’s cringe: it’s also the inclusion of this word in everyday lingo between men and women that’s cringe.

    I recently sat with my Mum and watched a 2003 episode of Columbo (right at the tail-end of the second incarnation of the show) and there was some British character who kept addressing this missus as “Baby” and “Babes” and it was just cringe. It was cringe in 2003 and it’s cringe now.

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    • You beat me to it, TiTS.

      I hate hearing adults addressing each other as Babe or Babes.
      If you’ve forgotten their name, just say so, you vacuous cunt!

      It’s infantilising, reducing a person to a child, it’s careless faked affection, not to mention having all the emotional depth of the cats water bowl!

      If you have any regard for a person, use their name. Babe(s) is beyond chavtastic.

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      • My wife occasionally calls me baby. I’m too lazy to use two syllables so occasionally call her babes.

      • In Brum you get the truly gruesome revision ‘Bab’, as in ‘yoh alroit Bab?’. It truly makes my toenails curl.

        ‘Hun’ is another fingernails down the blackboard job for me.

      • @Ron Knee

        “Hun” is another one that annoys me but for other reasons. Chief reason being when some mardy woman posts a huge, ambiguous whine/vent as her status update on Facebook in order to garner sympathy/attention, this results in other simple-minded women inevitably responding with “Are you okay Hun?”

  19. OT, but has anyone else been interfered with by Harrods` former owner, Mohamed Al Fayed?
    I know I have.
    Please, I beg you, Go Fund Me – my waterhole is nearly dry.

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    • Yes. Erm, 20 years ago. Before the old cunt was dead. He fingered me in a broom cupboard, with no witnesses.

      Christmas is coming and I need money.

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      • Yep, Al Fathead groped my twig and berries in the ‘Arrods stockroom and told me that he wanted to bury his mummified tutankhamen button mushroom in my young and tender balloon knot.

        I feel SO degraded.

      • I remember that fat cunt Al Fayed and his ‘guest’ Michael Jackson in the directors box at Craven Cottage for a Manchester United visit to Fulham in th early 2000s.

        Jackson’s face was a picture, when us travelling Reds fans bellowed, ‘Hey Jacko! Leave them kids alone!’

      • Ohhhh, that’s so deliciously vicious Norman.

        I presume it was as in Pink Floyd’s ‘hey teacher leave them kids alone!’

    • Oh thank you God and thank you Norman.

      I fucking despise that song.

      It was released just as I was experiencing my first divorce. In Denmark. To a woman named Maria.

      They played it every third song on the radio. All day, every day for about 6 months.

      It was torture.

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      • No worries Odin.

        My first wife was fucking horrendous. A complete psycho. And her mother was just as bad. When I finally got rid of them, I de-aged about ten years.I was eleated by the feeling of freedom.

        Met the current Mrs Norman a year and a half later, and have been happily married for the past 14 years.

  25. And that cunt Austin Powers, played by that utter cunt Mike Myers.

    How unfunny and awful are those films now? A shite rip-off of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in, Connery era Bond and Thunderbirds, crammed with product placement.

    Powers/Myers going ‘Yeah, Baby, yeah!’ every other minute. Fucking rank.

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    • Great tune that Jack 👍

      Wayne/Jayne County tried to get off with a bloke I know at a gig 😆

      And Pete Shelley from the Buzzcocks tried it on with the same bloke!

      He should of took a few hits and got a book deal!

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