"If You Wanna Be Happy," Jimmy Soul (1963)
A jumpy little ode to ugly people
Peak: #1 on the Hot 100
Streams: 12 million
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We could be mad at this song. Furious, even. It’s explicitly sexist. It says that ugly women willy never demand too much from their husbands, because it’s implied they’ll be…
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