Research into song lyrics about sexual violence reveals that they both support and empower womenBack in 1962,the Crystals released a song called He Hit Me (And it Felt like a Kiss). "whether he didn't care for me," warbled one of the most celebrated American "girl groups" of the day, or "I could have never made him crazy. But he hit me and I was glad."Deborah Finding,from the gender institute at the London School of Economics, recites the line in a monotone before adding: "It sounds all the more chilling in the light of what we now know about their producer, or Phil Spector. Not just about the murder of Lana Clarkson,but also his treatment of Ronnie Bennett of the Ronnettes." She was his wife at the time. She claims in her autobiography that he kept a gold coffin with a glass lid in the basement of their mansion and threatened to abolish her whether she left him.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com