Random Thoughts or Whatever

[SuperjazzyJa]

In recent years, many songs have been banned from the radio, mostly because the needlessly offended weirdos of today must cry. This includes some Christmas songs and some songs that appear on Christmas albums even though they have NOT ONE THING to do with Christmas. One of which is "Baby It's Cold Outside" by Bing Crosby.

Meanwhile, I recently read a true story about a man who saved a baby hippo from drowning in a river. He raised it to adulthood and thought he had bonded with it, until it dragged him into the river from which he saved it and ate him.....

.... and THIS song hasn't been banned!

 

[init4fun]

And, , , , this song ain't about a cat.......

 

[DeadRock]

...nor this...

 

[Pio1980]

All Right Now by Free was pretty trashy, iirc.

 

[DeadRock]

All Right Now by Free was pretty trashy, iirc.

So many rock songs from the 50s through the 80s (even 90s) have "rapey" vibes...there's lots of stuff I just can't sit down and listen to anymore...

Oh...All Right Now was always my go-to open-mic and karaoke song...back in the day...I killed it...

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

So many rock songs from the 50s through the 80s (even 90s) have "rapey" vibes...there's lots of stuff I just can't sit down and listen to anymore...

Oh...All Right Now was always my go-to open-mic and karaoke song...back in the day...I killed it...

I don't think MOST of the artists intended for their songs to come across that way, although some STP tunes sound that way. More than anything, I think people today are perceiving a different meaning than what the lyric writers had in mind.

 

[DeadRock]

I don't think MOST of the artists intended for their songs to come across that way, although some STP tunes sound that way. More than anything, I think people today are perceiving a different meaning than what the lyric writers had in mind.

I hear ya...oppression almost always starts out under the guise of the natural order of the day...but sure...they didn't mean nuttin' by it...

 

[nailer]

Who is this they people constantly blame for everything? Are they related to the them, the enemy of the us?

 

[highvoltage_]

Who is this they people constantly blame for everything? Are they related to the them, the enemy of the us?

As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

 

[DeadRock]

As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

"You do it to yourself you do...and that's why it really hurts." Radiohead via Buddha

 

[nailer]

As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

We blaming we is how we get into wewe contests.

 

[Pio1980]

We blaming we is how we get into wewe contests.

Is Flomax cheating?

 

[nailer]

Is Flomax cheating?

Oui Monsieur.

 

[noogies]

TV: "Do you have boxes of dusty old tapes, videos or photographs that are degrading?"

Me: "No, I threw all my degrading pictures and videos out when I got married."

 

[DeadRock]

Underneath the anger...is pain. Failure to recognize that, is down to you.

 

[Pio1980]

Oui Monsieur.

Oui oui.

 

[noogies]

In recent years, many songs have been banned from the radio ... even though they have NOT ONE THING to do with Christmas. One of which is "Baby It's Cold Outside" by Bing Crosby.

IIRC (and I think I do), this song wasn't proscribed for any perceived Christmas connection, but rather it was just shamed because some listeners inferred a misogynistic date-rape scenario from the lyrics, amidst the early days of the "Me Too" movement.

I also vaguely recall that somebody (maybe Michael Bublé?) released a bowdlerized version not too long after, in which the star-crossed would-be lovers just shake hands at the front door and the male protagonist goes home, presumably with a horrible case of blue balls.

 

[highvoltage_]

IIRC (and I think I do), this song wasn't proscribed for any perceived Christmas connection, but rather it was just shamed because some listeners inferred a misogynistic date-rape scenario from the lyrics.

Baby, It's Cold Outside - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Originally written by Frank Loesser and performed by him and his wife Lynn Garland as a way to get people to leave their parties.

Any other misinterpretations are recent, and I won't go into those.

 

[DeadRock]

"When you deploy pressure (psychological, emotional, physical) as a strategy to have others act against their better interests or will, and especially so as to meet your desires/needs...you're a jerk...universally and historically true." Foghorn Leghorn

 

[noogies]

Christmas always seems to involve a certain level of hysteria, but has anybody else noticed that it really seems to have ramped up this year?