I will often sit and surf through the various music channels on offer on the telly while my daughter plays the DS further down the settee.So it was yesterday that we both enjoyed this before I skipped merrily over a few offerings from the 70s and 80s when my daughter pipes up with, "leave this on."
Having sat through Lady GaGa's big budget slave fantasy flesh fest, we then encountered this. I nearly spat my coffee out before sitting back perplexed when I noticed that the line, "There were times when I could have strangled her" had been censored to "There were times when I could have". Why?
Here we have a Smith's song, delivered in Morrisseys usual sardonic wit, set in, I believe, a hospital. Our hero is fighting himself and wrestling with his emotions as he deals with the shock of his girlfriend's predicament - which is why the line, "There were times when I could have strangled her," is followed up with, "But you know I would hate anything to happen to her." Within the context of the song I just can not understand the logic of removing it. I defy anyone to state that they have not had a similar thought with or without there being any real weight behind it. So Is it the threat of female violence or something else? As Beefy Bert would say, "I dunno."
Anyway, I noted that the "freak bitch" bits of Ms Gaga's song were removed on the telly but this kind of became insignificant under the sheer onslaught of the remaining audio and visual sexual imagery. Including a good long look at her arse. Brilliant.
Our society is so fucked up with this. We are subjected to a barrage of 'sexy' in adverts and music videos and thanks to our celebrities, all whipped up nicely by a press and media that know it sells copy. Children are marketed to as though they are adults and then we comment on how children are growing older before they're ready and the fear-of-paedophiles-ometer is hovering between 'terror' and 'lynching'! It's nuts.
As unconscious influences on my daughter go I confess I would prefer Morrissey to Lady Gaga.
3 comments:
I'm still waiting for a Borat-style punchline RE: Lady Gaga's rise to fame.
Well the whole furore over GTA3 showed what a fucked up society the US is at least. OK we have a game which is slapping up hookers, shooting people, running them over ramming cars, driving like maniacs, killing policemen I mean thats all fine. But someone produces a mod which adds some fake nipples and fur to a fake girl and its suddenly a problem!
@ bitterandrew - There are so many overnight famers these days that it seems almost churlish to single out one for ridicule. Much rather decry the system that produces them, you know that. ;)
@ FordPrefect - Not being (any sort of) a gamer that just went completely over my head, but I get the gist.... I think.
Post a Comment