I'd rather have my kids listen to The Dead Kennedys or Sabaton or Iron Maiden or even Slayer than WAP. (To be fair, I love all those rock bands except for Slayer but you get the point.)
I'm glad someone posted this article and even a snippet of the lyrics. I hadn't heard about WAP but I just searched for the lyrics...wow..that might have made Zappa blush but Frank would NOT recommend censoring it - he'd want but the public to be fully informed. Thank you - I'm glad I know that this extreme kind of content is not just available but popular.
Funny thing about censorship...I have heard some of today’s “artists” talk about what they sing and how they have to tone it down (self-censor) once they’ve become a mom or a dad (”I’ve got a child to raise.”). I see more than a little bit of hypocrisy in this, as some entertainers come to realize the potentially deleterious effect of what they do on their own children, but don’t mind getting paid for adversely affecting yours.
Self-censoring used to be the practice of the day. We used to be able to count on adults not mentioning things “when the children are around,” not curse openly, etc. In a word, society used to conduct itself with more responsibility when it came to exercising their freedom to speak. Now, all filters have been removed. All speech is equal, “if you don’t like it, switch the channel, don’t buy the music, you don’t have to listen.” All the “responsibility” for your speech has fallen on me; I can’t count on you to be responsible any longer.
Tech-death like, well, Death would be good.