# "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by Scorpions now 'insensitive' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988 "2017-09-10T08:12:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/1 "2017-09-10T08:12:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Braves Apologize for playing ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’ during Marlins game > The Braves offered free tickets to out-of-state residents that fled Hurricane Irma > [Braves apologize for playing 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' during Marlins game - CBSSports.com](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/braves-apologize-for-playing-rock-you-like-a-hurricane-during-marlins-game/) What’s next? Can’t play Crazy Train after a rail crash? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/2 "2017-09-10T08:37:07Z")
Well, when Katrina hit, I remember reading “When The Levy Breaks” was the most popular song played on (on line) juke boxes in the south. Ya’ never can tell with some people. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/3 "2017-09-10T08:38:04Z")
It does seem to be a particularly _poor_ choice of music for this occasion… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/4 "2017-09-10T09:52:08Z")
Am I being overly sensitive to the irony of a team still called The Braves worried about meteorological delicacy? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/5 "2017-09-10T11:36:36Z")
It _was_ insensitive and disrespectful for a non-Florida team facing a Miami team to play that song. If it was the other way round, and the Miami team had played it, it would have been okay. Jews can make Jewish jokes, Blacks can call each other ‘nigger’, people facing a hurricane can play hurricane songs - others can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/6 "2017-09-10T12:24:32Z")
Yeah, it’s insensitive _right this moment_, but weather is changeable, and this too shall pass. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/7 "2017-09-10T12:27:10Z")
“Braves Apologize for playing ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’ during Marlins game…” As a giant hurricane has caused evacuations statewide and is about to make landfall. An insensitive thing at this particular time. Obviously. Sorry for your struggle coming to terms with this, OP. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/8 "2017-09-10T13:10:44Z")
Just heard on the radio: first death attributed to the storm reported. I’m reminded of the words of Bob Dole, who said, “There is such a thing, you know, as compassion.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/9 "2017-09-10T13:22:41Z")
Perhaps they should poll the fans for their relationship status’ before playing ‘50 Ways To Leave Your Lover’. Compassion, ya know. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/10 "2017-09-10T14:38:08Z")
“Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey: Insensitive towards atheists. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/11 "2017-09-10T14:59:56Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Jews can make Jewish jokes, Blacks can call each other ‘nigger’, people facing a hurricane can play hurricane songs - others can’t. > [@Grrr](#): > > Well, when Katrina hit, I remember reading “When The Levy Breaks” was the most popular song played on (on line) juke boxes in the south. “When the Levy Breaks”? Totally offensive. If you’re not Jewish, you can’t make that joke. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/12 "2017-09-10T17:34:05Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Well, when Katrina hit, I remember reading “When The Levy Breaks” was the most popular song played on (on line) juke boxes in the south. > Ya’ never can tell with some people. Years ago, we had a season of massive rainfall here in Sacramento, and there were legitimate fears that the rivers would overflow and cause devastating flooding. I recall listening to one of the local rock stations; they were having an ‘all request hour’, and at one point the DJ came on between songs to announce “OK people, we’re \*not \*going to play ‘When the Levee Breaks’, so please stop asking for it”. ---
**Author:** ![Murderface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Murderface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murderface)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/13 "2017-09-10T17:46:07Z")
Oh, you know people these days. Don’t do things their way and they’ll blindly call you a fascist, misogynist, racist, xenophobic a-hole. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/14 "2017-09-10T17:54:27Z")
In the aftermath of an earthquake, then, let’s hope we don’t hear Elvis’s “I’m All Shook Up” at an A’s game, or FM’s “Landslide” at a Dodgers game, say, last Jan. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/15 "2017-09-10T17:55:08Z")
Th’fuck is going on in this thread? A home team made a boneheaded move that was really unkind towards the away team, and got called on it. The response is a reflexive “Waaaah PC ruinin’ my fun!” If your response to me saying, “We had to evacuate our homes at short notice. I seriously hope there’s something left of our house when we get back,” is to pull up a song that mocks the disaster that forced me to flee, I’m probably going to call you a tool and unfriend you you, because that is a _dick move_. It’s not about “PC” in any meaningful sense, it’s about not being an asshole. What the hell, guys? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/16 "2017-09-10T19:15:49Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey: Insensitive towards atheists. “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” : Insensitive to those with peanut allergies. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/17 "2017-09-10T19:28:14Z")
Count me among those who are puzzled by why you think this might be perfectly fine _when a hurricane is actually bearing down on the opponents’ home town._ > [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > What’s next? Can’t play Crazy Train after a rail crash? Well, if the Boston Red Sox played it when hosting a Yankees game immediately after [a major train crash in New York](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/04/508200568/more-than-100-people-injured-in-new-york-train-crash), I would think it would be seen as pretty assholish. It’s context that’s important. I don’t know why you don’t understand that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/18 "2017-09-10T19:29:45Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Perhaps they should poll the fans for their relationship status’ before playing ‘50 Ways To Leave Your Lover’. > [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey: Insensitive towards atheists. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” : Insensitive to those with peanut allergies. Of course, none of those examples are comparable to that in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/19 "2017-09-10T19:35:28Z")
The song was in the Braves’ playlist. If they had been playing the Cubs or the Cardinals totally cool, nobody would have said a word. Somebody had a brain fart and didn’t consider they were playing a Florida team. The Braves apologized and won’t play the song for the rest of the homestand. No biggie. I’m sure by the time they play the Nats, it’ll be old news. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988/20 "2017-09-10T21:34:22Z")
I’m siding with **BPC** and **Colibri** on this issue, but those damn Floridians will only take my copy of Neil Young’s _American Stars n’ Bars_ from my cold, dead hands. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-you-like-a-hurricane-by-scorpions-now-insensitive/795988.md?page=2)