http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2001/09/17/3ba5895e0014d
For those who don’t want to click the link, Tiffani Taylor, nutrition sophomore, wrote a letter-to-the-editor criticizing a song played on the UT carillon on Wednesday. As she phrases it, instead of a patriotic song, she heard a song that more resembled a death march! (Exclamation point hers.) She has mostly heard it in movies where a prisoner was being marched off to the gallows. She wrote to express her discontent and outrage with the choice of song “UT played to their 50,000 students.”
This is one of the dumbest letters I have ever read in the Daily Texan’s Firing Line. God forbid a solemn song should be played the day after a national tragedy. By all means, the carillonier should have checked with this woman before he elected not to play “God Bless America.”
I didn’t plan on ranting about this, but this letter cries out for mocking. Is it possible this song is used in movies because it’s solemn? That a song resembling a death march might not actually be one? That one should do a little fact-checking before bitching about it in the newspaper?
:rolleyes:
I don’t recall any objectionable songs played last Wednesday. I hope her letter generates a reply, because I would love to find out what she considers so offensive. In light of thousands of Americans being killed, how can someone be this pissed about a song?