Walking through the mall today I stopped in a woman’s clothing store and could not believe what I heard coming through the speakers. This isn’t exactly how the song goes but in a nutshell what I heard in a rap style song was *“Fuck her from behind - lick my dick all around with your tongue ring - give it to me bitch your young, fresh pussy” * and stuff like that. I basically was standing there, clothes in hand, with my mouth wide open wondering how in the world a Mall would allow a store to play this!! I mean there were kids in that store with their parents and I couldn’t believe they were just shopping around like it’s just a normal day at the mall!! At that point an employee ran down the aisle saying “Oh, this song is a bad one” and I happily assumed she was going to change the CD, so I went on shopping and decided to try on a few articles of clothing. Inside my little room as I was trying on a pair of jeans I heard the music start again. It was the same CD! She just skipped over that one song! It was like a porn movie playing in my head!!! I started sweating and shaking, telling myself I had to get out of there!! Not that I’ve never heard that kind of music before and I’m all for free speech and everything, but just not in the mall on a nice Sunday afternoon while I’m trying on clothes!!! Needless to say it wasn’t a nice shopping experience and I did tell the manager and mall security that it was completely inappropriate music and needs to be turned off now!! I still can’t believe the two young girls who were working there did not care that their choice of music was totally offensive and crude and not at all right to play in that store!!!
The manager was THERE? :eek:
well, its better than “I want to Fuck you like an Animal” by Nine Inch Nails.
That would be “Closer”, Twist.
Ugh. I would have left on the spot. And I would have told the manager why.
Politely, of course. My aunt flipped out on some Kmart employees about them NOT playing Christmas music once. But this is completely different.
I wonder if she was playing her own cd?
In which case, you may want to remind the manager that that is, technically, against the law.
Bet you that will get them to change the disk ASAP.
Music played in public places, IIRC, must be paid for, royalty-wise.
This is why many stores use a satelite system or Musak.
That reminds me of a even more offensive song that tells children that pedophilia is OK, as long as it doesn’t involve interracial sex. THAT song is called…
…“I Want to Fuck You Like A Garanimal”
Oh MAN!!! heresiarch, dude, that is too fucking sick!
I love it!
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I love the song “Closer”
Anyway I’d have definitely spoken with someone in charge at the mall. I think they’d have wanted to talk to the manager.
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Yeah, she was the one who ran back to change the song, and I do think it was their own CD because it seemed to be the same artist on each song and I heard them singing along to it. All of the women working there were asian (and that means nothing to me) but I wonder if that is allowed maybe somewhere they have lived or worked before?
She did turn it off immediately after I said something but who knows if she turned it back on after I left, I had no desire to go back and find out.
If this was a chain store, not an independent, you should call the district manager with your complaint. Since the manager was playing the music, you are not going to effect any change by complaining to her. Call another nearby location of the same store Monday morning and ask for the district manager’s name and phone number. You don’t have to say why you want it. If there is no other location listed in the phone book, call that location to get the information…you don’t need to explain why you want the district manager. Then make the call, leave a voice mail, and include any names you may have noticed from namebadges. Please leave your name and number so she or he can call you back. Companies need to know what their employees are doing in the stores. Don’t worry about costing someone their job…most likely she’ll get a verbal or written reprimand…unless she’s had a lot of complaints. If you don’t let someone higher-up know, the store staff will assume that no one cares, and they will continue playing the offensive stuff.
Absolutely amazing! I don’t know what some people are thinking…What? Are these people raised by wolves? I think kittenblue has the right idea. No one wants these people to be fired, but the message must be sent.
On the other hand, I remember at an old job that my manager was bound and determined to prevent me from playing the (shudder) CLASSICAL station at work. (Horrors!) My manager made sure I never was in charge of choosing the radio station, as soon as she figured out that I prefered Classical. Much better to have the teeny-boppers pick out their dreadful stations instead. Much better. Because, you know, the ladies shopping for fabric in a fabric store will be terribly offended by Bach and Mozart! :rolleyes: Some people are just clueless.
Good grief!
The store I work at usually plays the “Lite” station, or the “Mix” station. When I’m getting ready to open in the morning, I usually put on the rock station but change when I open because some women are offended by the condom comercials they play.
I think I would complain to the district manager (if there is one).
I just think that a lot of people don’t realize that it is against the law.
believe it or not, but even playing the radio is not legal, royaltywise, in a place of business.
It’s funny that Yosemitebabe’s boss hated classical music. It is probably one of the few types of music you can play legally in a store as it is royaltyfree.
I wish some store would play my favorite genre: Viennese music. Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, Josef Lanner . . .
Makes me wish the Austro-Hungarian empire had never died.
(Plus it’s public domain and devoid of objectionable lyrics into the bargain )
And let’s not forget about the morally objectionable song that talks about having sex with the lead character of a bad 80’s TV show about a lycanthropic crime-fighter that only lasted three months and starred a guy actually named “Simon McCorkindale”:
“I Want To Fuck You Like a Manimal”