Song lyrics

[Pogue]

Would you listen too or sing the lyrics of a song with lyrics which put across a message you didn't agree with - for example, a song which had lyrics opposed to abortion?

[Pirate Utopian]

Yes. It has it's limits, but if the song is good I'll still listen to it.

Sex Pistols with Bodies for example (wich you might have been aiming at?), good song love the guitar, but messed up politics.

[Faction2008]

I won't listen to certain songs.

[Pogue]

I was alluding to that song. I didn't want to mention the Sex Pistols though, I've gone right off of them since i heard Johnny Rotten is a racist thug.

[Pogue]

Well the real question is, does singing/listening to a song act as an endorsement of its message?

[Pirate Utopian]

I was alluding to that song. I didn't want to mention the Sex Pistols though, I've gone right off of them since i heard Johnny Rotten is a racist thug.
'lol? not true.

[RedAnarchist]

Of course not. Would you eat something that you hated the taste of, or read something you found dull?

[Pogue]

He said that the lead singer of Bloc Party had an 'black attitude', after acting aggresively towards him. He then let his mates beat the Bloc Party guy up.

[Pogue]

Of course not. Would you eat something that you hated the taste of, or read something you found dull?

Thats a stupid response. You might like the sound of the song, it might have a good rhythm, and the instruments might come together well, but the lyrics are putting forward a message you don't agree with.

[Pirate Utopian]

However John Lydon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon) has denied these accusations. On The One Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Show) said that anyone who thinks that he is a racist can bugger off. He also claims that his granddaughter is jamaican and anything racial that offends her, offends him.


Besides when he was in PiL he worked with black musicians quite often and often used influences from "black music" like dub, Rise has an anti-apartheid, anti-racist message.
He is also good friends with Don Letts.

[gla22]

I am a militant atheist but i still sing along to reggae which constantly talks about God. I enjoy music more however when it coincides with my political beliefs.

[More Fire for the People]

I will listen to "hustle" / gangster lyrics but I don't listen to overtly right-wing lyrics.

[Fawkes]

He then let his mates beat the Bloc Party guy up.
Good, Bloc Party fucking sucks. I don't know if I actually believe that happened though.

[Comrade B]

I said I don't listen to stuff I disagree with, but honestly, most topics in music bear no importance to my life that I disagree with.

[More Fire for the People]

:confused: :crying: I heart bloc party. Kele Okereke is amazing.

[Sharon den Adel]

Would you listen too or sing the lyrics of a song with lyrics which put across a message you didn't agree with - for example, a song which had lyrics opposed to abortion?

I wouldn't listen to any song that has lyrics opposed to abortion, and I wouldn't listen to a song that had lyrics opposed to homosexuality, eithor. Some songs I will flatly refuse to listen to.

[Fawkes]

I find it amusing that Bodies, a song calling a girl "a fucking disgrace" for having an abortion is followed immediately on Nevermind the Bollocks by No Feelings, a song which states "I have no emotions for anybody else". I still love the Pistols though.

[Dystisis]

I dislike this poll, because while I would usually choose option one it says "It's only music".

What I'd choose would be that it's music, it's far too important for it to be reduced so some mediocre way of letting out your mundane concerns... Then again something tells me a person with idiotic views usually makes conservative, boring music.


Of course not. Would you eat something that you hated the taste of, or read something you found dull?
Music does not equal lyrics.

[professorchaos]

It really doesn't matter. If it's good music, I'll listen to it. I care about art more than I care about politics.