My sister got lucky married a yuppie

Tom Petty Lyrics

"Yer So Bad"

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
Took him for all he was worth
Now she's a swinger dating a singer
I can't decide which is worse

But not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin'
Walks around dog-faced and hurt
Now he's got nothin', head in the oven
I can't decide which is worse

But not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

Oh, but not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

Writer(s): Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty

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album: "Full Moon Fever" (1989)

My sister got lucky married a yuppie

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My sister got lucky married a yuppie

About Yer So Bad

"Yer So Bad" is a song co-written and recorded by Tom Petty. It was released in 1990 as the fifth single from his first solo album Full Moon Fever.


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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
Took him for all he was worth
Now she's a swinger dating a singer
I can't decide which is worse

But not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin'
Walks around dog-faced and hurt
Now he's got nothin', head in the oven
I can't decide which is worse

But not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

Ah but not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

Oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

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My sister got lucky married a yuppie

Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He had also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury. more »

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Written by: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne

Lyrics © Gone Gator Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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"Yer So Bad"
My sister got lucky married a yuppie
Single by Tom Petty
from the album Full Moon Fever
B-side"A Mind With a Heart of Its Own"
ReleasedApril 23, 1990
Genre

  • Folk[1]
  • rockabilly[2]
  • skiffle[3]

Length3:05
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne
Producer(s)Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
Tom Petty singles chronology
"A Face in the Crowd"
(1990)
"Yer So Bad"
(1990)
"Learning to Fly"
(1991)

"Yer So Bad" is a song co-written and recorded by Tom Petty. It was released in 1990 as the fifth single from his first solo album Full Moon Fever.

Content[edit]

It tells from the singer's viewpoint about his greedy sister being lucky enough to marry a yuppie, then got divorced and took the yuppie for all he was worth in the proceedings and is now a swinger dating another singer while her ex-husband is unable to find a new partner, is possibly bankrupt and is contemplating suicide ("head in the oven"). In both verses, the singing brother of the sister cannot decide which is worse but is sure what happened to his ex-brother in law will not ever happen to him because the singer has "you to save me" and that "in a world gone mad, yer so bad".

Music video[edit]

In the music video for this song, the sister and yuppie (played by Charles Rocket) are shown at their wedding reception with Petty as the photographer, then dissolves to two Los Angeles County (?) sheriff deputies hauling the resisting husband out of their marital house while he tries unsuccessfully to take as many possessions that he can to his car that he drives off in and dissolves to a National Enquirer-type newspaper with a front-page article about it in bold print block letters called "CHEATING HUSBAND'S HEAD EXPLODES", then later dissolves to a bar where the wife, apparently a singer herself, is laughing and flirting with the band's drummer, who later goes home with her to the former yuppie couple's luxurious spacious house. The expelled husband, after driving down the Los Angeles (?) freeway, checks into a cheap motel across town where he opens a metal briefcase revealing a blow up doll that he is inflating as his new artificial "companion". A construction scene appears with a new house being built and a construction worker wearing a T-shirt that says "DIE YUPPIE SCUM" while sumo-like men are shown dancing on the house's construction site, each carrying a 12-inch LaserDisc in their hands. The video later dissolves to the ex-husband driving in his convertible with his blow-up doll next to him in the front seat, trying to keep it seated in heavy traffic, and ends by showing him walking down the street carrying the doll in public.

Reception[edit]

"Yer So Bad" was named one of Petty's 50 best songs by Rolling Stone magazine, calling it "Petty at his most caustically hilarious".[4]

Charts[edit]

Chart (1990) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles 44
US Billboard Album Rock Tracks 5

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty". Classic Rock Review. April 29, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  3. ^ Greenwald, Matthew. "Yer So Bad - Tom Petty | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  4. ^ "Tom Petty's 50 Greatest Songs". Rolling Stone. October 2, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.

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