Jessie Murph’s new song 1965 goes viral after major backlash to its ‘trad wife’ lyrics

Heard of Jessie Murph? Me neither, not until yesterday – and now I cannot escape her. I think I usually have the ear to the ground with the pop girlies, but she slipped through the net until I saw intense backlash and controversy regarding the new Jessie Murph song 1965. On first glance, this song looks very controversial – but you look deeper, and there’s more under the surface. When I first saw the performance that’s now gone viral of Jessie Murph performing 1965 from her Sex Hysteria album – I saw it tweeted with the caption “The nation yearns for Cher Lloyd” and I laughed aloud. And then I saw a viral tweet highlighting the controversial nature of the lyrics. Here’s everything going down with the viral Jessie Murph backlash to 1965 right now, to cut through the outrage and explain what’s going on.

‘I’d give up a few rights’

“I think id give up a few rights if you would just love me like it’s 1965” SORRY????? https://t.co/Wk8nhKQk74

— Lady Harlow 🍉 (@Maddie_Vals) July 23, 2025

Earlier this week, Jessie Murph made her Fallon debut singing 1965 from her new album. Now this song has instantly pushed buttons and caused chaos because of its music video, which contains a full on sex scene and violence. The irony however is that the backlash to Jessie Murph and 1965 isn’t necessarily to do with this, but the misinterpretation that the song is earnest. 1965 and its lyrics and the entire aesthetic of this Jessie Murph era is criticising the glamorisation of the 60s in media as well as the rise in conservatism and prude attitudes in the culture recently.

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This is being lost on some people, who perhaps not maliciously are thinking this white girl from the American deep south is being earnest in her “trad wife” aesthetics and lyricism. When clearly it’s satirical.

The lyrics to 1965 include “I might get a little slap slap, but you wouldn’t hit me on Snapchat” and “I think I’d give up a few rights if you would just love me like it’s 1965”

i think it’s funny that people tried to cancel sabrina carpenter for her album cover “setting back feminism” but jessie murph (the same artist people say they’re raising their kids on instead of taylor swift) can glamorize the misogyny and abuse of 1965?? right… pic.twitter.com/dpIrqTQQsQ

— 🦢kayla (taylor’s version)💋 (@sharpestpoet) July 19, 2025

The issue here also, which is perhaps the most interesting, is that people are saying they’re well aware that this song is satire but they think that because it’s so bad – in their opinion – that the song is damaging.

Jessie Murph has spoken out saying she stands for women’s rights and has implied on TikTok that those who don’t get the satire are “dumb” – but some have questioned if the current climate politically and culturally is the right time for hamfisted satire that people aren’t getting. People also strongly feel like the violence and sex in the video is too explicit for YouTube.

What do you think? Satire or satire so bad that it’s actually harmful? I watched the music video and it is explicit – but the reaction online makes me think how sensitive the world has got to sex over recent years. I find Jessie Murph’s music a bit irritating but I don’t think the album or the aesthetic is anything more than a deliberately provocative choice.

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