[blueerica]

Hey folks,

I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing here... but... I'm pretty sure you could look at a great number of popular lyrics and find stuff that's pretty distasteful. It's all just sensationalism... both sides of it. ZOMG so-and-so wants to bring back the days of lynching! ZOMG there's a terrorist plot playing music in our commercials!


The songs are clearly meant to arouse the listener in whatever way - that's what music is supposed to do, I guess. And, as this media-intense, hyper-aware blogging and entertainment community has done, they've honed in on some message they think something is promoting and are pushing it. And yeah, I can see where some might think "Beer for My Horses" advocates lynching in the historical, anti-African American sort of way - I could see where others might not. I can also see where others might see M.I.A.'s lyrics could be seen as terrorist-and-or-politically-inpsired - or seen as someone who is talking about a rise 'to the top'.


But like I said, these are hardly first examples, but with a movie coming out, it's the perfect time to pull out a 5-year old song and make a big deal of it.

I love the M.I.A. song, and though I don't generally listen to country, I rather liked the Keith song. I saw Pineapple Express... and FREAKING LOVED IT... (No, I'm not a pot smoker... but there was so much geniunity... is that a word. Well, I mean... it was what it would be like if... crazy, but realistically so...). I've been trying to figure out where Beer for My Horses the film is playing, but haven't seen it locally, thus far. It's supposed to be a comedy.