20 politically incorrect songs that'd be wildly controversial today

greengrocer

@Max23 said:

@JeffChasteen said:

@Max23 said:

@greengrocer said:
The Sweet - Little Willy

btw Sweet was a Glamrock band that also dressed up like women, used women make up but also used nazi symbols. It was probably a sign of the time they were great (early 70s) and a time were you could do everything and there was not really a big fuzz about it. In fact this imagery was much more shocking than even punkrock bands (if you think of it in retrospect) that did their acts in small places, while Glamrock was mainstream and broadcasted by the BBC.

all the glam rock guys dressed like that
btw. the sweet are fantastic


bowie in the 70s

btw. a man in a dress ist shocking anymore,
I was waiting for the tube, a woman and her little son where standing next to me,
the boy asked his mother why is that man wearing a dress and she said its a warm day, he is probably hot.

"Fox On The Run" is hands down the greatest power pop song ever.
Ever ever ever.

i was a sexual confused teenager in the 80s, thank god I discovered glam rock than, made me feel normal and not so out of it.

Velvet Goldmine is also a good movie about that

Talking about the Sweet, I can see people will be offended by songs about sugar in the (near) future.

AndyPlankton

I never did feel comfortable with this either

MikeyP

@ExAsperis99 said:
I don’t know. Sometimes it must feel that way, but I think it’s probably not very likely that human nature suddenly shifted within a generation.

I think more likely is the fact that people who once didn’t have a voice in media — gay people, immigrants, people of color, women — now, thanks to social media and online publications, DO have a voice. And they have some issues at how they have been portrayed in the past.

As a white male, I naturally have to deal with attacks that are generalized and seem unfair. But, oh well. Some are silly, but on the whole, valid. I try to keep in mind the phrase, “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality seems like oppression.”

This is a very astute and enlightened comment. Bravo.

ToMess

Chorus; "we want to be negros, hold hidden parties. Black hands clapping together, music will never stop. I want to find an authentic beat, pushing black train into moving" then in verses some stuff about eating tigres, not wanting to work in boring fields and black woman climbing into a tree and eating nuts like crazy, how bongas cant rest even for a moment etc.

But this is the late 70s. Maybe 10 black people lived in finland back then and people didnt realize that some might get offended by this sort of stuff, everyone just thought that this is the kindof stuff black people do..

Also nowadays people have started to think that saying negro(neekeri) is same as saying nigger(nekru), even tho "neekeri" has been the official term for black people since forever and there isnt any other proper official term..

greengrocer

@ToMess said:

Chorus; "we want to be negros, hold hidden parties. Black hands clapping together, music will never stop. I want to find an authentic beat, pushing black train into moving" then in verses some stuff about eating tigres, not wanting to work in boring fields and black woman climbing into a tree and eating nuts like crazy, how bongas cant rest even for a moment etc.

But this is the late 70s. Maybe 10 black people lived in finland back then and people didnt realize that some might get offended by this sort of stuff, everyone just thought that this is the kindof stuff black people do..

Also nowadays people have started to think that saying negro(neekeri) is same as saying nigger(nekru), even tho "neekeri" has been the official term for black people since forever and there isnt any other proper official term..

Weird somehow it sounds Hungarian