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Old 01-06-2011, 08:52 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Acey View Post
I'm willing to bet there's plenty of songs out there based on actual crimes that were attempted or committed, making this a non-issue. I found it odd that they played it only because it's not a very good song musically, considering it's morphed from a guy talking.
I think it is a good parody of the state of a lot of popular music today. You can take someone with no talent and who can't sing, run their voice through an autotuner, add a beat, and voila - you've got a hit.

As for sex and violence sprouting up in popular music - it's been there all along. Does anyone think that Mick Jagger was talking about a car in "Start me Up"? Or he was baking gingerbread with "Brown Sugar"? Even Robert Johnson sang the blues about banging and beating his lady.

If a parody song about a funny, odd, and charismatic guy's interview on TV is off limits, so should most of the music played. The fact that this guy was talking that way about a serious subject in the attempted(?) rape of his sister makes the song/joke/meme even more funny because reality is often funnier than fiction.
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