Opining on popular music again

[sabotabby]

Having now seen it as opposed to reading about it on the intertubes, I have to say that I...kind of like Rihanna's "Man Down." It's pretty catchy and musically interesting as far as pop goes.

But content-wise? It differs mainly from "Janie's Got a Gun" (which was in constant rotation when I was a little younger than my kids are now, and my generation did not grow up to be gun-toting killers for the most part) in that it's written in the voice of the rape survivor herself, who just so happens to be a woman of colour, instead of in the third person sung by a white man. And this, I believe, is the reason why the arbiters of moral propriety are having such a hard time with it, calling for the video to be banned not because it depicts a rape, but because it depicts the woman killing her rapist.

Hmm. Kids these days.

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On a totally unrelated note, if you haven't played Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure, you are missing 15 of the most adorable minutes of your life.

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[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Finally got around to watching/listening to "Man Down". Really, I can't see why someone would find it objectionable. Yes, she kills her rapist. But, the video doesn't glorify it, and from my listening, she is mostly regretting doing it.

And before "Janey's Got a Gun", there was "Renegade" (Styx), or "I Shot the Sheriff" (Marley then Clapton), etc.

For stupid arbitration of "moral propriety" -- "Money for Nothing" being banned from Canadian radio. *sigh*