liking a song then realized "pumped up kicks" is really disturbing

[Anonymous]

Well, PP, I think the term, "douchebags," may be a bit much.

Obviously, you've never felt the feeling of the awesomeness of Pumped.Up.Kicks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. This is part of what makes good music, people. It is controversial. We can pretend Columbine didn't happen - but really, a song about it doesn't mean it "happened more" or "happened less".

"Mondays", PPs reference is very similar but didn't have everyone in an uproar because media was very different then (obviously). We had real time coverage of teens running to safety in CO.

The Smiths, different PPs reference paralells in that there is cheery music set to "Girlfriend in a Coma". Almost makes you wonder if the "right" lyrics are right.

Either way, like it or not, it is a catchy piece of music. If you don't like it, change the station. Hell, we probably won't even have mainstream radio or network t.v. for that matter, in a few years. Then you will have bigger matters to address. Right? Right?

Controversy does not make good music. Sorry.

So what should we sing about? rainbows and butterflies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. This is part of what makes good music, people. It is controversial. We can pretend Columbine didn't happen - but really, a song about it doesn't mean it "happened more" or "happened less".

"Mondays", PPs reference is very similar but didn't have everyone in an uproar because media was very different then (obviously). We had real time coverage of teens running to safety in CO.

The Smiths, different PPs reference paralells in that there is cheery music set to "Girlfriend in a Coma". Almost makes you wonder if the "right" lyrics are right.

Either way, like it or not, it is a catchy piece of music. If you don't like it, change the station. Hell, we probably won't even have mainstream radio or network t.v. for that matter, in a few years. Then you will have bigger matters to address. Right? Right?

Controversy does not make good music. Sorry.

So what should we sing about? rainbows and butterflies?

That would be James Taylor. Hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Please name a lyrically offensive Johnny Cash song?

And exactly what current country song is full of violent and abusive lyrics? I'm no countr fan, but seriously? Country is pretty sanitized considering their fan base is heavily located in the bible belt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Where you going with this? Johnny 99?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Please name a lyrically offensive Johnny Cash song?

And exactly what current country song is full of violent and abusive lyrics? I'm no countr fan, but seriously? Country is pretty sanitized considering their fan base is heavily located in the bible belt.

"Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun
And you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome son
Our necks are burnt, our roads are dirt and our trucks ain't clean
The dogs run lose, we smoke, we chew and fry everything
Out here, way out here"
- Josh Tompson, Way Out Here

"“I searched ’til I found them, and I cursed at the sight
“Of their sleeping shadows, in the cold neon light,
“In the dark morning silence, I placed the gun to her head.
“She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.”
- Dwight Yokum, She Wore Red Dresses

"I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight well now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slap my face and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man
I'm going to show him what a little girls made of
Gunpowder and lead"
- Miranda Lambert, Gunpodwer and Lead

If you really don't think that country music is just as violent, gun-laden, and misogynistic as rap and other constantly criticized genres, you are only listening to the puff crap played on top 40 stations. What sets country music apart is the racism and xenophobia that is unique to it among major commercial genres.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Please name a lyrically offensive Johnny Cash song?

And exactly what current country song is full of violent and abusive lyrics? I'm no countr fan, but seriously? Country is pretty sanitized considering their fan base is heavily located in the bible belt.

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico

Late in the hot joints takin' the pills in walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down
Said yes oh yes my name is Willy Lee if you've got the warrant just aread it to me
Shot her down because she made me slow
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more

When I was arrested I was dressed in black
They put me on a train and they took me back
Had no friend for to go my bail they slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail

Early next mornin' bout a half past nine I spied the sheriff coming down the line
Talked and he coughed as he cleared his throat
He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
Into the courtroom my trial began where I was handled by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out I saw the little judge commence to look about

In about five minutes in walked the man holding the verdict in his right hand
The verdict read in the first degree I hollered Lordy Lordy have a mercy on me

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pin 99 years in the Folsom pen
99 years underneath that ground I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
Come on you've gotta listen unto me lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Stand by your man.

The Martina McBride song 4th of July

Dixie Chicks - Earl

There is an entire Country genre about domestic violence. If you don't listen to country please do not insist there isn't violent country music. http://www.law.uoregon.edu/org/olr/archives/82/ORE404.pdf

Not to mention Toby Keith who sings about bar fights and what not.

[Anonymous]

They are playing this song on Powderpuff top40....think that is the point?

[Anonymous]

But WHITE folks since country music. It's totally different when white people do it!

[Anonymous]

Where's Tipper when we need her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But WHITE folks since country music. It's totally different when white people do it!

What? What you wrote made no sense. White folds since country music. What is that suppose to mean?

[Anonymous]

Violent Femmes, Country Death Song

[Anonymous]

Anyone recognize these lyrics? (I forgot about the "more women than a passenger train can haul" lyric, I was thinking of the "I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma" lyric.)

'T' for Texas,.... 'T' for Tennessee
'T' for Texas, 'T' for Tennes-see
'T' for Thelma, that gal that made a wreck out of me.
O...la ..ee..oo la..ee..a la ..ee

If you don't want me mama,.... you sure don't have to stall
If you don't want me mama,.... you sure don't have to stall
'Cause I can get more women than a passenger train can haul
O...la ..ee..oo la..ee..a la ..ee

I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm tall
I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm tall
I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma, just to see her jump and fall
O...la ..ee..a la..ee..oo la ..ee

Well, I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
'Cause this Georgia water tastes like turpentine
O...la ..ee..a la..ee..oo la ..ee

I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a big long shinny barrel
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a big long shinny barrel
I'm gonna shoot that rounder that stole away my gal
O...la ..ee..a la..ee..oo la ..ee

I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
Than to be here in Atlanta, and get treated like a dirty dog
O...la ..ee..a la..ee..oo la ..ee