#5 Most Disturbing Country Song: Dirty Old Man

Written by: Todd
On 04-17-2009
at 7:57 pm

Country Music has always been geared towards the bible belt. You would think that Christians would cringe at the thought of singing in explicit detail of deflowering a virgin. I am a Christian, and I feel as though I have been walking through Amsterdam’s Red Light district barefoot, each time I hear our #5 song. Conway Twitty never shied away from singing about sex. He is not above infidelity in “I See The Want To In Your Eyes,” and he just wants to get down to business in “Lay You Down.” However, the song that a select number of disc jockeys would not play because of its content was “I Can Tell You’ve Never Been This Far Before.” I have been dissecting this song, and I am puzzled as to its direction. Is he coaxing her into premarital sex or is she cheating. The lyric “I don’t know and I don’t care, What made you tell him you don’t love him” seems to point towards her infidelity. But the previous lyrics “I don’t know what I’m saying As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places bum bum bum I only know I’ve waited For so long for the chance that we are taking bum bum bum” suggests that they are both discovering new territory, so to speak.

From the previous songs that I have mentioned and our #5, I wonder if Conway had a PhD in adultery. Did Conway live out his songs? What if the songs were taken from Conway’s life? Perhaps I am ostensibly judging Conway. He was an adult. So I guess he wrote about adult things. No one can knock the man for being able to write or recognize a hit. He just understood the age old statement, “Sex Sells.” I still have to ask, why is this song so dirty?  Could one of the reasons have anything to do with his age? He was only 30 when he recorded it in 1973.  The issue could be me. I am a generation x kid. I heard it in the 1980′s. It never dawned on me that this was a much older song, and the face I attributed to it looked the part of a dirty old man. There is no history of Conway committing any act of sexual indiscretion. Should I take it as just a song, and get my mind out of the gutter. Or maybe, just maybe, I am not totally desensitized.

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2 Responses to “#5 Most Disturbing Country Song: Dirty Old Man”

  1. Posted by Todd on April 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Apparently, the only real thinking that I can get out of readers is pervasive language. I am not offended by any coarse language that is thrown my way, but please justify your name-calling. We are a free-thinking society not a shallow one.

  2. Posted by angela campbell on July 3rd, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    i’ll have you to know that conwaytwitty was NOT A DIRTY OLD MAN!
    i have a friend who knew conway personally she told me that conway became a christian three years before he died you need get your facts straight. BITCH

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