Many great songs would not be able to exist today.
1) Miss You (Rolling Stores) - Part where Mick talks about the Puerto Rican Girls who are just dying to meet you
2) Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) - Would get canceled for cultural appropriation
3) Money for Nothing (Dire Straits) - The little f****t with the earing and the makeup; it's import to note he was quoting a guy he overheard in Best Buy
4) Gallows Pole (Zep) - more cultural appropriation; basically they took an old blues song Lead belly wrote about lynching and turned it into a fantastical medieval song about a white guy getting hung. Also, trying to pay off the hangman with your sister's body. Great song though
5) The End (The Doors) - Father I want to kill you. Mother, I want to F**k you
6) Peace Frog (The Doors) - The Indians scattered on Dawn's Highway bleeding
7) Alabama Song (The Doors) - This is a cover but I don't know who wrote it originally. "Show me the way to the next little girl"
8) Gloria (Jim Morrison's cover) - Vivid description of a BJ would bother some modern listeners
9) Rock n Roll Suicide (David Bowie) - Someone would say they're triggered
10) Hey (The Pixies) - Wh*res in my head, Wh*res in my bed
11) Rockstar (Nickelback) - We'll all stay skinny because we just won't eat will trigger someone, most likely Kara12) Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones) - Whole song would get cancelled. I kind of agree with this one. Great song, maybe just change the lyrics altogether
A humorous murder ballad, Izzy wrote it after he heard a song on the radio about a guy who’s girlfriend bothered him. It is actually about Axl’s dog, originally recorded in an
Rock N Roll Ni**er" by Patty Smith. Only because a white girl sang it. It would still be made today because that is what is on so much rap songs and young black men still call themselves that word. In fact music is more offensive now than its ever been.
Sorry to hijack with a movie theme but I mentioned this on another thread...are we aware that in Fast Times, there is a line where Phoebe Cates points out that Stacy will be TURNING 15? Turning 15! She is 14 in the movie dating that bad ol' Ron Johnson. This went right over my head for decades and hundreds of viewings.
And they have her lying naked on the coach after getting it on with Senior Demone!
There has already been a lot of talk about "cancelling" the classic "Baby It's Cold Outside". The song is a duet in which the female singer is wanting to leave and the male singer continues to make advances even after the female singer explicitly rejects the advances.
You should probably do some research on the song and who wrote it if you think that's what it is really about.
I'm not talking about the kind of clothes she wears Look at that stupid girl I'm not talking about the way she combs her hair Look at that stupid girl The way she powders her nose Her vanity shows and it shows She's the worst thing in this world Well, look at that stupid girl I'm not talking about the way she digs for gold Look at that stupid girl Well, I'm talking about the way she grabs and holds Look at that stupid girl The way she talks about someone else That she don't even know herself She's the sickest thing in this world Well, look at that stupid girl Well, I'm sick and tired And I really have my doubts I've tried and tried But it never really works out Like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen Look at that stupid girl She bitches 'bout things that she's never seen Look at that stupid girl It doesn't matter if she dyes her hair Or the color of the shoes she wears She's the worst thing in this world Well, look at that stupid girl Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up Shut up, shut up, shut up Like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen Look at that stupid girl She bitches 'bout things that she's never seen Look at that stupid girl She purrs like a pussycat Then she turns 'round and hisses back She's the sickest thing in this world Look at that stupid girl
Under my thumb The girl who once had me down Under my thumb The girl who once pushed me around It's down to me The difference in the clothes she wears Down to me, the change has come She's under my thumb And ain't it the truth babe? Under my thumb It's a squirmin' dog who's just had her day Under my thumb A girl who has just changed her ways It's down to me Yes it is The way she does just what she's told down to me The change has come She's under my thumb Ah, ah, say it's alright Under my thumb Is a Siamese cat of a girl Under my thumb She's the sweetest, hm, pet in the world It's down to me The way she talks when she's spoken to Down to me, the change has come She's under my thumb Ah, take it easy babe Yeah It's down to me, oh yeah The way she talks when she's spoken to Down to me, the change has come She's under my thumb Yeah, it feels alright Under my thumb Her eyes are just kept to herself Under my thumb, well I I can still look at someone else It's down to me, oh, that's what I said The way she talks when she's spoken to Down to me, the change has come She's under my thumb Say, it's alright Say it's all Say it's all Take it easy babe Take it easy babe Feels alright Take it, take it easy babe
Many great songs would not be able to exist today.
1) Miss You (Rolling Stores) - Part where Mick talks about the Puerto Rican Girls who are just dying to meet you
2) Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) - Would get canceled for cultural appropriation
3) Money for Nothing (Dire Straits) - The little f****t with the earing and the makeup; it's import to note he was quoting a guy he overheard in Best Buy
4) Gallows Pole (Zep) - more cultural appropriation; basically they took an old blues song Lead belly wrote about lynching and turned it into a fantastical medieval song about a white guy getting hung. Also, trying to pay off the hangman with your sister's body. Great song though
5) The End (The Doors) - Father I want to kill you. Mother, I want to F**k you
6) Peace Frog (The Doors) - The Indians scattered on Dawn's Highway bleeding
7) Alabama Song (The Doors) - This is a cover but I don't know who wrote it originally. "Show me the way to the next little girl"
8) Gloria (Jim Morrison's cover) - Vivid description of a BJ would bother some modern listeners
9) Rock n Roll Suicide (David Bowie) - Someone would say they're triggered
10) Hey (The Pixies) - Wh*res in my head, Wh*res in my bed
11) Rockstar (Nickelback) - We'll all stay skinny because we just won't eat will trigger someone, most likely Kara12) Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones) - Whole song would get cancelled. I kind of agree with this one. Great song, maybe just change the lyrics altogether
I think most of these songs should be allowed to be written today, but there would need to be something like a censored version which could be played on public airwaves. Music is an art form and many of these songs are trying to depict the fringes. They need to be allowed to explore that, but care needs to be taken as to how it gets disseminated.
It's not an easy topic, but art is often times not supposed to be easy.
"Ain't there a man who can say no more? (All night) And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?"
Bowie was repeatedly pushing the sexual boundaries. I don't think it was wrong at all. He was asking a question that was intended to be counter-intuitive.
Granted, it borders on a sensitive cultural issue. But that's ok, imo.
Money for Nothing by Dire Straights is incredible aside from the lyric about the person who wears an earring and makeup
Yes it is, but it's important to understand that the lyric was supposed to make fun of people who think like that - to make fun of people who use homophobic slurs and think being a rock star is easy. The song is putting down people who use terms like that.
There was a log thread here once where many people were claiming Brown Sugar by the Stones was racist and that anyone who listens to the Stones must be racist too.
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