# Offensive Lyrics in Popular Radio Songs.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-lyrics-in-popular-radio-songs/181422>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 12, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-lyrics-in-popular-radio-songs/181422 "2003-06-12T19:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-lyrics-in-popular-radio-songs/181422/41 "2003-06-19T05:08:20Z")

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The great Leonard Cohen song “The Future” has these lines:

_Give me crack, anal sex,  
Take the only tree that’s left,  
Stuff it up the hole in your culture_

When Cohen performed on the PBS show “Austin City Limits”, he changed the line to “careless sex”. Of course, it’s still a profoundly disturbing song.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-lyrics-in-popular-radio-songs/181422/42 "2003-06-19T12:08:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by spoke- \*  
> \*\ ***Jonathan Chance** wrote:
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> Huh? How come? (I’m not sure I follow your meaning.) \*\*

Yeah, **Biffy** has it.

‘Paint it Black’ means paint that object black.

‘Paint it, Black’ means ‘you there with the extra melanin! Paint that object!’

Oops.

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**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-lyrics-in-popular-radio-songs/181422/43 "2003-06-19T13:05:49Z")

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What if a song is offensively stupid, like the “Fever for the Flavor of the Coochie” song that I hear far, far too much of?

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