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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Wives and Lovers (page 1/1) ------ performed by Burt Bacharach Old Fashioned somewhat revised | Reviewer: Christina | 11/6/09 I LOVE this song, melody and words. I am 50 years old this month and Female. My husband and I have been married 32 years and walk around holding hands. I'm here to say we as women have alot of power over our men and I intend to keep it that way. Not take advantage of him or manipulate him with favors but to please and BE PLEASED by him. I work just as many hours as he does, we run a hardware store/garden center. He does the books I run the garden center (hard work) and yes I get cleaned up and spray a little perfume on, so what, I havent seen him all day. And by the way he does the same for me HE PUTS ON COLOGNE and tidies himself up to look nice for me. He helps me with the house chores. I cook dinner he washes dishes. After working 12 to 14 hour days, 6 days aweek, we are really tired and we still love seeing each other at the end of the day. OLD FASHIONED? ABSOLUTELY!!! BUT WE BOTH LOVE TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES. And we do it to keep that spark. Yes there has been a few days we havent spiffed ourselves up but its probably because we're doing housework and yard work all day. Anyway SOMEWHAT REVISED we both get ready for each other, it's always been that way..... It makes me sick | Reviewer: barbara belanger | 9/22/09 There was a conversation at the office today about old chauvinistic songs. This one came to mind for me as I am now 57 years old and remember when it was current. I was just a kid at that time. I was a "housewife" for many years and after cleaning and cooking all day and trying to be the best mother and wife I knew how to be I did not always look attractive when my husband arrived home. When we we went out to any social occasions or had guests I always looked my best. I was never over weight or terribly unkept in any way. As i said I am currently 57 years old - divorced for 10 years (I initiated the divorce) and have for the past ten years looked better than I ever did. This song has got to be the absolute worst! As even a guy put it, it is absolutely horrible. What a lot of damage this putrid song did to so many women at the time. It was about sex and control - it had nothing to do with love. I don't know if Burt Bacharach is still alive but if he is, he should be ashamed. It's disgusting. If anyone disagrees with me, you are an idiot. I don't give a damn about the melody - it sent a terrible message. A song of its' time | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/8/09 The usual way of things when the song was written was that the man went out to work & the woman stayed home. Given that she probably had some time on her hands, it is a request from the songwriter for her to put down the caramels, stop watching Peyton Place & get changed out of the nasty house coat she lounged about in all day & into something a little more presentable. Of course things have changed radically these day...haven't they? Wife and Lover | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/13/09 I had forgotten some of the lyrics of this song until I looked them up. But, dear ladies, this song has always been like a 'bible' to me. I practiced it all the days of my marriage, and let me tell you, it works! My marriage ended on May 1 of last year when my husband died of the affects of Parkinsons. We had been very happily married for fifty-four and a half years. I always tried to look nice for him, someone for him to be proud of, even when there was no one else around. Don't think, girls, that I am June Cleaver. I'm a very independent, successful woman who has had at least two careers. But don't you want him to look forward to coming home to you? This is not a sexist song at all--just some excellent advice! I may be old enough to be your grandmother, but men's expectations haven't, nor will they ever change. They're wired that way. They'll always be attracted to a pretty woman. Make sure it's you! PLEASE.... someone redo this song for today! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/10/08 I'm 48 years old. Was driving home listening to Sirius Satellite radio... Seriously Sinatra station. This song came on. The melody jumped back in my head from listening to it as a little girl when my mom would have the stereo on. But today, listening to the lyrics on the way home, I almost got road rage! Pigs! Men! The way they thought back then. I've never been a Feminazi, but now I completely see the reason the women's movement came along! Someone, PLEASE redo this song. It has a great haunting melody. It should be done as a duet, leaving the original voice of the man in there... but with breaks for the women to pretty much tell the guy to get his meal himself. And by the way, pick up your own cleaning and laundry.... and yes... there may be girls at the office, but baby, there are some fine men out there in suits in our office! And just because he has a ring on HIS finger, doesn't mean that male chauvanist pig has to quit "trying" either. Too bad this song has such a great melody.... otherwise, it should be trashed! Zenith of Sexism | Reviewer: First A. Lastname | 7/22/08 Pieces of this song were coursing through my head this morning, memories of my mother playing the "hi-fi" during my youth. A few seconds and Google found me the "who did it" (and the rest of the lyrics). My, how times - or at least attitudes we present - have changed. What a horrible, chauvinistic song. (And, for the record, I'm a straight male.) Amazing song! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/1/07 Wish someone wrote something near as good as this these days... song is before my time.. but, wow.. brilliant music & lyrics. :) Add Your New Review About The Song