# Is there any offensive music kids listen to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476 "2013-06-08T15:24:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476/41 "2013-06-09T06:26:04Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > Yeah, he’s a real prize. I do like some of his music though. I have a feeling that his lyrics are likely his own, but what “music” he produces is likely the work of another person or people. I’ll save my “people singing songs they didn’t write/people doing covers/people sampling famous songs/people sampling beats/melodies/etc” for another thread. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476/42 "2013-06-09T06:30:54Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Truthfully, if something like Columbine, or Sandy Hook for that matter, ever happened at an inner-city school and the victims were mostly black, Hispanic, or Muslim, it probably wouldn’t even make the local news. Why do you say that? ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476/43 "2013-06-09T13:02:11Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > My theory, that I have, follows the lines that I am about to relate. . . . I see what you did there. _cough_ I have to admit that I was kind of shocked to hear “Rude Boy” on the mainstream pop station one evening. Not that there hasn’t been a ton more offensive stuff produced, nor that thinly-veiled euphemisms haven’t been aired for decades. It just seemed so much more blatant than what I’m used to hearing on the radio. I don’t find it offensive, as such, but I have told my 9 year old she shouldn’t _sing along_ with such songs as “Last Friday Night,” even though it’s OK to listen to them. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476/44 "2013-06-09T13:06:59Z")
> [@panaccione](#): > > Why do you say that? Because kids killing kids was a huge problem all through the 80s and early 90s in the ghettos, and it barely registered outside of the ghetto as a problem. If anything, it only registered as a problem because people feared it would spread out and hit the rest of the country. It was only when middle class white kids started killing and dying that it became a national issue. Plus when white middle class kids go on a killing spree, they tend to focus on schools which people would like to think are safe havens. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476/45 "2013-06-09T16:43:24Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > I see what you did there. _cough_ I have another theory called my second theory, or my theory number 2, which I could expand, if I was asked. In the 1960s it was the man (The Grass Roots – “Let’s Live For Today”) who sang: > [@](#): > > Baby, I need to feel you inside of me > I got to feel you deep inside of me Now it’s the woman who wants to feel you deep inside of her. Metaphors are cool. And once they’re reversed you can never go back. And here’s an [apt lyric](http://www.metrolyrics.com/sex-yeah-lyrics-marina-and-the-diamonds.html): > [@](#): > > Nothing is provocative, anymore even for kids > > Chorus: Sex sex sex sex yeah > La da da (sex sex sex sex yeah) > La da da da dada da da (sex sex sex sex yeah) > La da da (sex sex sex sex yeah) > La da da da dada da da (sex sex sex sex) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476/46 "2013-06-20T01:59:10Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Woooo..I’m soooo scared. > > I can see how Foster the People would appeal to today’s youth. They just sort of look like a bunch of overprivileged, disaffected nerds who would go shoot up a school because of some perceived social slight. > > Seriously though, has the song generated a single bit of controversy? Even in spite of the recent rash of mass shootings? > > Compare that to Pearl Jam’s Jeremy. Or Marilyn Manson after the Columbine shootings (even though his songs have nothing to do with mass shootings). Or every gangsta’ rap song ever. I heard songs like this when I was young. I’d say I’m jaded, and ‘run run run from my gun’ isn’t too intimidating. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EjA1rG3YeTo/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHOBYAC4AOKAgwIABABGH8gJigdMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDwfeov6ZQLJiz1Rec16okeWhsWrg "Spice 1 Born II Die") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjA1rG3YeTo) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hHWHEtoqTF4/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgXihKMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCGCvlQsnVNhTew1_qY7T5UdfPgMQ "Eazy E - Nobody Move") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHWHEtoqTF4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-offensive-music-kids-listen-to/660476.md?page=2)