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Let's Talk About Controversial Songs I remember years ago "Soul on Ice" by Meshell Ndegeocello made a friend ask me to switch CDs while driving. Right at the line about Brooks Brothers suits. She was like 'I can't listen to this she is being so unfair!' Stevie Wonder's "Front Line" and "Living For The City" were both so candid and honest about war trauma. Salt N Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex" was a big to-do in general when it came out, I feel like it took a lot of the stigma off of the word sex for at least one generation. . My brother was grounded for playing Divynl's "I Touch Myself" my parents were so shocked by that chorus, running in to turn it off all red faced and frustrated. I was shocked when 2Pac straight up said 'I fucked your wife' on that track that sounded like BIG's Get Money. . Do you have any stories of a song lyric causing real life upset or genuinely shocking you? if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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Also a friend of mine liked to tell a story about getting sent home and suspended for wearing a tshirt that said I Wanna Sex You Up to middle school. if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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There was a big fuss in the media about One In A Million by Guns n Roses. Someone in a record store was arrested for selling 2 Live Crew albums and group members were also arrested after a concert. The group was mentioned on TV a lot about free speech. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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My dad refused to buy me The Hits / B-Sdes as a kid because a little song called "Scarlet Pussy" was on it. He said, "you're too young for that!!!"
I had to wait another year to dub it from my mom's boyfriend who had the tape to hear it LOL Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Strange, how about that Me'chelle line: "The white man betta have one eye open." In person she is as sweet as taffy. She admitted she was posin. All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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Angry Samoans, They Saved Hitler's Cock:
"They saved Hitler's cock, They hid it under a rock.
Pure classic lyrics. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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Liz phair-HWC (heard the song once heavily edited back in 2003) Black Korea-Ice Cube (for that matter, a few songs from Death Certicate) Prince-Sexy MF (banned on MTV) Vanilla Ice/Ice Ice Baby-Moreso for his steadfast denial of sampling Queen's "Another one bites the dust" Lou Reed-Walk on the wild side ( at its time, it was for cutting edge, but I read something recently about a station pulling the song due to apparent transphobic lyrics) Body Count-Cop killer NWA-F the police The Beatles-Helter Skelter (supposed inspiration for The Manson Family) Many others,but these came to mind "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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Most controversial albums: In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew by Miles Davis (and Teo Macero, who probably did more work than Miles did). | |
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Really? 'Cause I saw it for the first time on MTV when they used to air it in Australia at the time. | |
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Really? 'Cause I saw it for the first time on MTV when they used to air it in Australia at the time. I may be wrong but I believe in America it was pulled, so my statement should have been clearer "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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Prince - Darling Nikki www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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Holy moley I had never heard of HWC by Liz Phair... She went there. Two mentions for GNR, any particular songs and stories? if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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2freaky4church1 said: Strange, how about that Me'chelle line: "The white man betta have one eye open." In person she is as sweet as taffy. She admitted she was posin. . I like the song a lot as there are some unspoken truths going on there and subconscious biases that people don't like to say out loud. Same with "Hot Night" being "the first to say this fuck the first bitch who ever asks me to buy her some dumb shit" she sorta crystal balled the rampant materialism that has become a mainstay in literal commercial pop music. if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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StrangeButTrue said: Holy moley I had never heard of HWC by Liz Phair... She went there. Two mentions for GNR, any particular songs and stories? HWC was/is still pretty explicit. The only song I remember from GnR being controversial is as One in a Million which I believed was deemed anti immigrant/racist due to the lyrics. "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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Holocaust aside...ohoh All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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I was recalling the lyrics to Aerosmith's Dude Looks Like A Lady with a friend the other day and the part about "she whipped out a gun and tried to blow me away" was pretty suggestive and controversial back in the day amirite? Same with the Love In The Elevator and all that talk about going down. I expected more racy stories about hearing crazy songs like Blowfly doing Shitting Off The Dock Of The Bay or Rap Nasty for instance. I remember NWA version of Automobile was dirty as hell too back when. I was like 11 listening to dudes beg for pussy   if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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"They Don't Care About Us"-Michael Jackson | |
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