King Pat Has Me on His List Again Song
There'due south naught like hearing a song come on the radio or flicker across a Spotify playlist that you haven't encountered in a while, and realizing, "Was this song always this offensive?"
The answer: Aye, it probably was. Standards take changed quite a chip in terms of what references the civilization at large deems offensive in its striking songs, from coincidental homophobia in pop songs from Katy Perry and Taylor Swift to the jaw-dropping lyrical content of some Rolling Stones classics.
Beneath, find a listing of songs that, if released today, would almost certainly ignite a scandal.
Song: Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas, 1974
Choice lyric: "At that place was funky Baton Chin and little Sammy Chung / He said 'Here comes the big boss, let'south go information technology on.' "
Why information technology wouldn't wing today: Perchance the song was just trying to celebrate the ancient art of kung fu. Just its lyrics nearly "funky Chinamen from funky Chinatown" with stereotypically Asian-sounding last names isn't exactly a nuanced appreciation of the culture.
Vocal: Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones, 1971
Choice lyric: "Gold coast slave ship leap for cotton fields / Sold in the market down in New Orleans / Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright / Hear him whip the women but around midnight."
Why it wouldn't fly today: Even Mick Jagger knows these lyrics aged incredibly poorly; in recent years, he's changed the words when he performs the song alive. Beyond the song'southward opening stanzas, the racism, misogyny and outright references to raping slaves make this a low point in the Stones' discography.
Song: Under My Thumb by the Rolling Stones, 1966
Selection lyric: "Under my thumb, the squirmin' dog who'south just had her twenty-four hours / Under my thumb, a girl who has just changed her ways."
Why it wouldn't fly today: Another disgusting entry in the Stones' songbook, the song about a woman who'due south been molded to "talk when she's spoken to" is an embarrassment for fifty-fifty existing.
Vocal: Ur So Gay by Katy Perry, 2007
Choice lyric: "I tin't believe I savage in beloved with someone that wears more than makeup and / You're so gay and you don't even like boys"
Why it wouldn't wing today: If Perry's I Kissed A Daughter was borderline gross for its exploitative take on aforementioned-sex experimentation, Ur So Gay crosses the line with its deeply young rattling-off of gay stereotypes, driven home past the use of the give-and-take as a slur.
Vocal: Moving-picture show to Burn down by Taylor Swift, 2008
Choice lyric: "And then go and tell your friends that I'g obsessive and crazy / That's fine, I'll tell mine that you're gay."
Why it wouldn't wing today: Perry'due south frenemy Taylor Swift wasn't immune to the same kind of sophomoric homophobia, with Flick To Burn subscribing to the aforementioned astern view that the worst thing you could phone call a teenage boy is "gay."
Vocal: Do They Know It'south Christmas? past the Band Aid choir, 1984
Choice lyric: "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time / The greatest souvenir they'll get this year is life / Where null ever grows, no rain or rivers period / Exercise they know it's Christmas time at all?"
Why it wouldn't fly today: Possibly the most culturally insensitive Christmas song of all fourth dimension, the Band Help supergroup may have raised money to alleviate an Ethiopian famine with the proceeds from Do They Know It'southward Christmas. Merely they did it with a vocal that declares the entire continent of Africa is bereft of water, trees or joy.
Song: Turning Japanese past The Vapors, 1980
Selection lyric: "I'm turning Japanese, I think I'yard turning Japanese"
Why it wouldn't wing today: No, Turning Japanese isn't literally about turning Japanese. Withal, it wouldn't be acceptable today to hear a group of white guys assuming the identity of Asian people.
Vocal: I'grand an Indian Outlaw by Tim McGraw, 1994
Choice lyric: "You tin can find me in my wigwam / I'll exist chirapsia on my tom-tom / Pull out the pipe and smoke you lot some / Hey and pass it effectually."
Why it wouldn't fly today: McGraw is certainly non "an Indian outlaw, half Cherokee and Choctaw" equally he claims in the vocal. And even if he were, that wouldn't excuse the hilariously lazy Native American tropes he employs.
Vocal: Island Girl by Elton John, 1975
Option lyric: "Island daughter, what yous wanting with the white man'southward globe / Island girl, black boy want you in his island world"
Why it wouldn't wing today: The borderline fetishization in John'due south nautical chart-topping ode to a New York Urban center prostitute who'southward "black as coal but she burn like a fire" is cringeworthy.
Song: Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, 1982
Choice lyric: "Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my pianoforte keyboard / Oh lord, why don't nosotros?"
Why it wouldn't fly today: McCartney and Wonder meant well with their hyper-literal estimation of race relations. But their message of "people are the same, at that place'due south good and bad in anybody, so permit'due south just become along" would be interpreted every bit hilariously naïve past the more woke factions of today'southward cultural soapbox.
Song: Rape Me by Nirvana, 1993
Selection lyric: "Rape me / Rape me, my friend"
Why it wouldn't fly today: We get it. Kurt Cobain was a deeply tortured soul. He probably, in retrospect, could've expressed this 1 better.
Vocal:Tonight'southward the Dark (Gonna Be Alright) by Rod Stewart, 1976
Choice lyric: "Don't say a word, my virgin child, just let your inhibitions run wild"
Why it wouldn't fly today: In example the lyrics to this No. 1 hit weren't blench-inducing enough, try not feeling disgusting watching its video. In it, Stewart woos a faceless young woman and leads her upward to his bedroom before she says in French, "I'm a niggling scared. What is my mother going to say?"
Song:I in a Million past Guns N' Roses, 1988
Option lyric: "Immigrants and f****ts, they brand no sense to me / They come up to our country and retrieve they'll do as they delight"
Why it wouldn't fly today: Axl Rose attempts to win our sympathy with his story of a "pocket-sized-boondocks white boy" feeling lost when he moves to Los Angeles. But using derogatory language for gay and black men certainly doesn't assistance his case, nor do his wildly xenophobic lyrics about immigrants. ("They talk then many (expletive) ways / it's all Greek to me.")
Vocal: Kissin' Cousins by Elvis Presley, 1964
Pick lyric: "Well I've got a gal, she'due south as cute equally she can exist / She'due south a distant cousin but she's non too afar with me"
Why it wouldn't fly today: Nix similar a picayune casual incest to get the crowd up and dancing. This seemingly innocent only actually creepy doo-wop tune is taken from the King's 1964 picture musical, in which he plays an Air Forcefulness pilot whose ii cute cousins compete for his affections. Different times?
Song: Age Own't Nothing But a Number past Aaliyah, 1994
Choice lyric: "Age ain't aught but a number / throwing downward ain't zilch but a thang / This lovin' I have for y'all, it'll never alter"
Why it wouldn't wing today: No boldness to the late Princess of R&B, whose hypnotic vocals and idiosyncratic way remain timeless. Merely it's hard not to experience at least mildly uncomfortable listening to this vocal in retrospect: At the time she recorded it, a then-14-year-erstwhile Aaliyah was dating — and would soon illegally marry — her mentor/producer R. Kelly, who was 27.
Song: Illegal Alien past Genesis, 1983
Pick lyric:"It'due south no fun being an illegal conflicting"
Why it wouldn't fly today: Its message and story are seemingly well-intentioned, detailing a Mexican immigrant's struggle to cross the border in search of a better life. But the racist video puts the song in a whole dissimilar low-cal, with stereotypical imagery of mariachi horns, ponchos, sombreros and oversize mustaches.
Song: Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed, 1972
Pick lyric:"Holly came from Miami, F-L-A / Hitchhiked her mode across the USA / Plucked her eyebrows on the mode / Shaved her legs and and so he was a she"
Why it wouldn't fly today: In a vocal filled with racy anecdotes, this reference to Holly Woodlawn, a transgender actress who was bullied every bit a teenager and ran abroad from home, is alarmingly tone-deaf.
Vocal: Money for Naught by Dire Straits, 1985
Choice lyric: "Encounter the piddling f****t with the earring and the makeup? / Yeah buddy, that's his own hair / That picayune f****t got his ain jet airplane / That little f****t, he's a millionaire"
Why it wouldn't wing today: A slight at effeminate rock stars, again using "gay" as an insult. It's no wonder this homophobic slur was omitted from the band's greatest-hits album,Sultans of Swing.
Song: Dude (Looks Like a Lady) by Aerosmith, 1987
Choice lyric:"She had the body of a Venus / Lord, imagine my surprise / Dude looks like a lady"
Why it wouldn't wing today:Guy walks into a bar and realizes the stripper he's been ogling is actually a homo. Although the stone archetype was co-written past openly gay songwriter Desmond Kid, its questionable use in the media — by Fox News when reporting on Chelsea Manning, for instance — makes us remember that it's not the homage to the LGBTQ community that he intended.
Song: He Hit Me (It Felt Similar a Buss) by The Crystals, 1962
Choice lyric:"He hit me and it felt like a kiss / he striking me and I knew he loved me"
Why it wouldn't wing today:Gerry Goffin and Carole King were inspired to write the doo-wop ballad by the tragic true-life story of vocaliser Piddling Eva, who told them that her boyfriend's beatings were motivated by honey. But without context, lyrics such every bit "he striking me and I was glad" are an off-putting endorsement of domestic corruption.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/04/12/20-politically-incorrect-songs-thatd-wildly-controversial-today/465246002/
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