Clearly, the answer's '
No. Not even classic songs.'...
Ex-Radio 1 DJ Mike Read added: ‘Rock ’n’ roll was founded on young love and you can’t rewrite history.
But you can see why people have started looking at songs and asked, “Should we still be playing that?” ’
Sure. These days, snowflakes are
everywhere. And will increase exponentially, if everyone keeps giving in to them.
Ulvaeus said last night that the teacher was made female so she could sing a response without needing a ‘horrible’ key change.
He said: ‘She had to be a woman. Simple as that. And why wouldn’t the vice-chancellor be a woman?’
Because the song was written in the early Seventies?
Though the composer said it was his favourite composition, I only discovered that song, "When I kissed the teacher" a few months ago. The DT described it as "an homage to low level sexual harassment." I might be reading too much into the lyrics, but I've always regarded many of Abba's lyrics as deliciously dodgy by today's standards.
ReplyDeleteYoung and sweet, only seventeen
You're a teaser, you turn 'em on
Leave them burning and then your gone
My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
My, my, I tried to hold you back, but you were stronger
Oh yeah, and now it seem my only chance is giving up the fight
So if you don't like history, you can re-write it.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens when these snowflakes collide with reality? Hopefully they'll be annihilated, or disappear up their own nether orifice in a fit of apoplexy, whilst those of us of a normal nature enjoy the schadenfreudefest.
Saw a BBC Mark Kermode programme on Heist movies last night in which he contractually has to bemoan the fact that for most of their history such films featured gangs full of men.
ReplyDeleteNow Kermode isn't stupid and must know that the vast majority of actual heists in the real world had all-male gangs.
If he was 15 there might be some excuse for him being brainwashed into thinking that armed robbers were equal opportunity thugs, but he's old enough to know that's bollocks.
He could have said that for most of their history heist movies reflected the actuality but now they have to perpetuate a new fiction, and he would have seemed all the more perceptive and brave - but sadly he didn't.
From recollection Mike Read has a career long history of objecting to songs and trying to get them banned. Frankly I wondered why he ever became a DJ; his paternalistic and sensitive attitude to the boundaries of modern music would be better suited to the Mary Whitehouse retirement home.
ReplyDelete"...I've always regarded many of Abba's lyrics as deliciously dodgy by today's standards."
ReplyDeleteOh, indeed! And I'd never heard of that song either.
"What happens when these snowflakes collide with reality?"
They seem intent on creating a world where they won't have to...
"...in which he contractually has to bemoan the fact that for most of their history such films featured gangs full of men. "
/facepalm
"From recollection Mike Read has a career long history of objecting to songs and trying to get them banned. "
I didn't know he was still DJing!