The Most Offensive Love Songs of All Time

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Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby"
"What a lovely way of saying how much you love me." Does it seem like Anka's missing the gravity of impending parenthood? The 1974 hit was lambasted for trivializing a women's choice to have a child. Anka's bizarre thank you note to a young pregnant lover earned a satiric "Keep Her in Her Place" award from the National Organization for Women and a top

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Photo by: Hullabaloo Archive/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

 

Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby"
"What a lovely way of saying how much you love me." Does it seem like Anka's missing the gravity of impending parenthood? The 1974 hit was lambasted for trivializing a women's choice to have a child. Anka's bizarre thank you note to a young pregnant lover earned a satiric "Keep Her in Her Place" award from the National Organization for Women and a top spot on Ms. Magazine's male chauvinist list. Anka then proceeded to only make it worse by saying in an interview "the libbers will get on me; I can't help that." Hoo boy.

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