Art shouldn't be censored because of a fashion, even by the work's creator
David Lister
Saturday 01 March 2003 01:00

"Where does this pop lyric come from: "And the colored girls say doo do oo do doo do do doo"? Dead easy; it's Lou Reed's classic song "Walk on the Wild Side". One doesn't have to be of a certain age to know the line and its subsequent, erotic female chant. The song has never gone out of fashion in three decades; and you can still hear the coloured girls sing on most radio stations and in most people's record collections.

The one place you won't hear the coloured girls say anything is at a Lou Reed concert. Reed, it has been reported in the pop press, now sings "And the girls say...". His original lyric, he has decided, might offend.

I had to rub my eyes at this. A song about a male prostitute and transvestite in a drug-crazed section of New York is a curious place to introduce political correctness. Perhaps it's a sign that the former wild man of Velvet Underground has turned 60 and become very literally censorious. Perhaps he is just another victim of the political correctness epidemic in America. Either way, there is something that makes me feel uncomfortable when a work of art is censored because of a fashion, even if that work of art is a pop song, and even if the censor is the work's creator."

https://www.independent.co.uk/...lou-reed-120832.html

Because most 'woke' idiots are still teens/early 20s with no sense of history. I remember when Friends first came out is was very progressive with positive gay representation. And recently it has drawn the ire of the woke because it doesn't fit what they see as PC in today's eyes.

But yeah, some of those old songs were a lot of fun back then, but don't hold up well now. Sugarhill Gang's Apache is a fun disco era song, but some of those lyrics today would not fly.

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Originally posted by IrishWind:
Because most 'woke' idiots are still teens/early 20s with no sense of history. I remember when Friends first came out is was very progressive with positive gay representation. And recently it has drawn the ire of the woke because it doesn't fit what they see as PC in today's eyes.

But yeah, some of those old songs were a lot of fun back then, but don't hold up well now. Sugarhill Gang's Apache is a fun disco era song, but some of those lyrics today would not fly.

I would love to see their reaction to Eddie Murphy Raw when he is talking about the gays. Is Eddie Murphy canceled yet?

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
I would love to see their reaction to Eddie Murphy Raw when he is talking about the gays. Is Eddie Murphy canceled yet?

Buy my candy.

Some Girls- The Rolling Stones

White girls they're pretty funny
Sometimes they drive me mad
Black girls just wanna get fucked all night
I just don't have that much jam
Chinese girls are so gentle
They're really such a tease
You never know quite what they're cooking
Inside those silky sleeves

And of course they took out the lyrics because they're woke posers.

Does Knopfler still sing about faggots in Money for Nothing? I'm guessing no.

I won't second guess anybody that decides on their own to change the lyrics to a song they are singing. I'm not about compelling speech.

But at the same time, anybody should be able to take a piece of art and present it in it's original form. For example: if an artist decides to use the n-word in their song, no one should criticize the use of the word when it is sung no matter who sings it.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Does Knopfler still sing about faggots in Money for Nothing? I'm guessing no.

Nope.

They changed that a few years ago.

They changed the lyrics of the Commonwealth of Kentucky song My Old Kentucky Home.

“My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight,” as it was originally titled, was written by Foster in the 1850s as an anti-slavery song, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and following the same story arc as Stowe's title character.

His initial working title was “Poor Uncle Tom, Goodnight.” it became My Old Kentucky Home and it was written in 1853, times were of course way different in the 1800's, what was acceptable then, isn't today. It was adopted by KY in 1928, the lyrics adapted to modern thinking in 1986 to reflect "people" not "darkies"

Song was originally an anti slavery song imagine that...



The original lyrics

Verse 1:
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
‘Tis summer, the darkies are gay;
The corn-top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.

is now

Oh, the sun shines bright
On my old Kentucky home
'Tis summer, The people are gay
The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom
While the birds make music all the day

AB "Happy" Chandler former governor singing it he was in his 80's pretty good rendition,