Don't Hurt My Little Sister

In its lyrics, the narrator appears to conflate fraternal and romantic feelings for his younger sister, as he chides her male suitor, "Why don't you love her like her big brother?

Wilson originally wrote "Don't Hurt My Little Sister" for the Ronettes, modelling the chords and melodies after the hits of their producer Phil Spector.

"[6] Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that the subject matter "recounts Diane Rovell's pointed advice from the early (and surreptitious) days of Brian and Marilyn's affair, only with an uncomfortable fraternal ardor: 'Why don’t you love her like her big brother?

'"[7] Music journalist Alice Bolin referred to it as one of the "creepier" songs on Today!, "in which the narrator chides a boy who has done his little sister wrong.

'Why don’t you kiss her,' he says a little too insistently ... As far as vaguely incestuous pop songs go, 'Don’t Hurt My Little Sister' was probably composed with innocent intentions.

Following the structure set up in Spector’s 'Be My Baby', the verses of 'Don’t Hurt My Little Sister' are simple and straightforward, while the pre-choruses are harmonically adventurous.

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