Post #81 was made on 7-25-2010. Post #82 was made on 9-22-2016, over 6 years later. People on here like to call that a “zombie” since the thread has been “raised from the dead”. Hence, the posting of the song “Zombie” by The Cranberries was an attempt to make the “zombie joke” that some posters are fond of doing.
I imagine Love Potion #9 would be very problematic to certain types in 2016, even if in the song the titular potion backfires on the guy.
I started thinking recently that Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman wouldn’t go over as well today. It’s basically about accosting a woman on the street (the kind of “unwanted attention” that has made the news in recent years) … and the end of the song seems to indicate that it actually works.
But what does that have to do about the singer, or the poster, or anybody else for that matter, being arrested?
Nothing. The entire premise of anyone being arrested for any of these songs is a big overstatement.
Among songs which – “arrested”, or not – definitely would not “fly” today: the British music-hall song from about a hundred years ago, Old Johnny Bigger – the chorus of which runs:
“Old Johnny Bigger was a gay old n*****,
And a gay old n***** was he.”
Racism, homophobia and ageism, all in one… Oddly enough, the song itself is quite innocuous: just recounting rather tame antics on the part of Mr. Bigger and his lady wife, such as could very well have been enacted by anyone of any race.
If Body Count’s “Cop Killer” was released today, it would result in death threats from law enforcement officers, the President himself would call the record “obscene”, and…oh, wait.
“Edge of the World” by Faith No More is more of the same.
In 1985, Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus was well-known, but another song from the same album was Jeanny, about a stalker who kidnaps a 19-year-old girl and is thrown into an insane asylum when caught.
Sie kommen… sie kommen, dich zu holen.
Aber sie werden dich nicht finden! NIEMAND wird dich finden!
DU BIST BEI MIR!
They’re coming… they’re coming to get you.
But they won’t find you! NO ONE will find you!
YOU ARE WITH ME!
He hit me and it felt like a kiss is a line from the 1909 play Liliom by Ferenc Molnár, made into a Hollywood movie in 1930 and again in 1956 as the musical Carousel.
And that line is used in the play.