Posted on 11/04/2021 7:17:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Hide your classic rock LP’s. The thought police at the New York Times are coming for them.
The New York Times opinion section has run a column advocating for classic rock songs like Don McLean’s “American Pie” to be reconsidered and maybe even “toppled” like historic Confederate statues, arguing that reevaluating beloved songs will help create a world that is “inclusive and more just.”
Other rock singers ripe for cancellation include Eric Clapton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and even Elvis Presley.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, who is a male-to-female transgender, laid out the case in the op-ed titled “Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?”
“As we take another look at the sins of our historical figures, we’ve also had to take a hard look at our more immediate past and present, including the behavior of the creators of pop culture,” Boylan wrote. “That reassessment extends now to the people who wrote some of our best-loved songs.”
Chief among the candidates for cancellation is “American Pie,” the 1971 classic song by Don McLean. Boylan cited past allegations of domestic violence made against McLean as justification for the song’s cancellation.
“I want to live in a world where I can be moved by art and music and literature without having to come up with elaborate apologies for that work or for its creators,” the columnist wrote.
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That's a man, baby!
We are about at the end of this phase, I imagine.
Good. Keep it up.
Repudiation of your sick, lefty agenda is exactly how Republicans were voted into office in the recent election.
This will help in the lead-up to the 2022 mid-terms.
That is the world that the globalists desire for their slaves. A world without beauty or ideas or inspiration. The uplifting, encouraging music of a republican like Beethoven is squarely in their sights, not just "good ol' boys drinking whiskey and rye."
Commie’s and their toadies in the press suck... now, then, and forever.
We are. Look at all the historical statues they’ve torn down. Next come the Churches and Synagogues, then the libraries etc etc etc.
We're slipping, people.
Elvis Presley’s “You Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog” should be banned—it insults dogs.
That was the premise of the very beautiful Italian-language movie Cinema Paradiso (set in WW2 immediate-postwar era), where a boy who would grow up to be a famous movie director assisted the the small town's only movie projectionist. The town's priest would instruct the projectionist where to cut out the kissing scenes. I think the film, with its gorgeous music by Ennio Morricone, may be available with subtitles.
The other best president of my lifetime, Dwight Eisenhower, already did that, and it helped for a long time:
It has been chipped away at, but I'm not sure it has ever been completely overturned by law, even if it has been ignored in practice.
I don’t care what some puke dude in a dress has to say about much of anything
I’ve seen those magazine ads for small devices to transfer the digital content from dozens of cds you own and store them on the device.
Don’t know anyone who has one to inform me better.
My luck, the device would later say “No content in folders.”
Full disclosure: I am a Luddite (as I type this on FR). Do not own a cell phone (grounds for locking me up these days).
Have a minute Tracphone (formerly known as ghetto phones until millions of Obamaphones with top smartphone premium annual plans went out to the cities).
Senate Commission to convene to find out who put the bomp in the “bomp-bom-bomp-bom-bomp”
Someone tell them eating was invented by rapists so they have no choice but to starve themselves.
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