Ever wonder what those teenagers are listening to while wearing those iPod earphones? Maybe you'd rather not know. You will be horrified.
Those iPod earphones and those phat pants and them hayrides and hula hoops and soy milk! Teenagers today. Fiddlesticks.
Anyhow, go ahead and horrify me, Brent Bozell, you great big hairy man.
The Culture and Media Institute recently reviewed the top pop songs from May through July. To say that hedonism is in the air is an understatement.
Hedonism is also in the underpants, the very underpants of America.
Of the 22 songs on the charts, a whopping 64 percent made at least one reference to sex, drugs or alcohol, or contained profanity.
Gosh. That's pretty fucked up.
All 22 songs had music videos
No way.
and 68 percent of them featured sexualized dancing, alcohol, violence, or partying scenes.
Shudders.
Anyway, it goes on like this. One of the fun things about the history of censorship is that it's always the censors who end up accumulating the most impressive quantities of dirty stuff; vide Archbishop MqQuaid, and so forth. I myself think you have a pretty dirty mind if you're going to bother counting all the tit references in Rihanna songs, as Mssrs. Bozell et. al. have desperately enumerated.
Rihanna is another princess of pop. Her song challenges a boy to make a move: "Come here, rude boy, boy / Can you get it up? / Come here, rude boy, boy / Is you big enough?" She also promises to "give it to you harder" and "turn your body out." The video matches the theme, with Rihanna holding one breast, putting her finger in her mouth and constantly rotating her hips as she asks her beau to "take it, take it, take it." Is this woman a singer or a stripper?
Just one version of this song's video has 90 million plays on YouTube -- just in case you'd think no one really pays attention to these things.
I think you're weird, professionally counting Rihanna sex references. I mean, good for whoever Brent Bozell is paying to do this. It's a tough economy, and there are worse gigs. But still, "I monitor Lady Gaga songs to make America safe for Jesus!" The hell? Have you been helped?
Politically, I'd sort of hope that when I express my opinion, it has the effect of creating fewer stupid wars. If not, at least I should hope I have encouraged young people to at least get laid before they get shot at in a stupid war.
Also, Brent Bozell seems pretty sure about the science Proving that if you listen to raunchy music, you go to jail. As a general proposition I doubt if the science on this is anywhere near as solid in that about human caused climate change. But, you know.