Toby Keith - Advocate of lynching?

[Alex]

I don't know. Again there is the question of where the line is between simply showing characters/ideas that are repulsive and actually advocating for those ideas.

I think we have a higher allowance for the former in novels and movies but not so much in representational art or music. I recently ran into this with Wanted. I watch violent movies about assassins and vigilantiism all the time and have no issues but I felt Wanted went a step too far and was trying to convince the audience there was something noble about the motivations (if not the actions) of what had just been shown. Another movie that triggered this response was Four Brothers. But I can watch The Transporter and not be bothered that a criminal life is shown without any opprobrium.

Can such allowances be found in music or is the assumption that all lyrics are autobiographical?