New York Times Thought Police Ask: Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?

Breitbart ^ | 4 Nov 2021 | DAVID NG

[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.

Listen below:

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Let’s go, Jennifer Finney Boylan!

[simpson96]

These people are lunatics. Maniacs.

[Billthedrill]

Look for the keyword “inclusive”. It always means excluding someone.

[FreedomPoster]

I don’t care what some puke dude in a dress has to say about much of anything, and especially this.

[setter]

Johnny Cash Cocaine Blues

“I can’t forget the day I shot that fat b**ch down”

Official lyrics was “bad b**ch” but during concerts he would commonly sing fat instead of bad.

[Captainpaintball]

The whole point is to REPLACE white culture. But whites are not supposed to defend themselves, and half of them are the enemy.

So tell me...How are they supposed to win?

[frank ballenger]

I knew when the smarmy little sh#ts the young people of America started stealing online music and disdaining CDs that I had better keep all my CDs and DVDs. Now privately owned (not subscription streamed) music is nearly extinct.

The selfish little morons are ruining everything and
I——— hate -—— them.

Now their woke thought police are out for more.

Well my answer is still

....but Anderson again refused. In response Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter shortly after 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.

I take music seriously.

[HereInTheHeartland]

This is GREAT!
What a gift to use in the 2022 elections.
Leftists want to ban American Pie!

Bring it on!

[Larry Lucido]

When are they going to replace Hendrix? You know he shot his old lady (or at least Joe shot her).

[rlmorel]

I guess Pat Travers “Boom Boom Out Go The Lights” is out...

No kiddin’
I’m ready to fight
I’ve been lookin’ for my baby all night
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom, right here, out go the lights

No kiddin’
I’m ready to go
When I find her boy don’t you know
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom, what is it, out go the lights

I thought I treat my baby fair
I just found out she don’t want me here
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom, come on, out go the lights

I never felt this mad before
When I just found out she don’t want me no more
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom, come on, out go the lights

No kiddin’
I’m ready to fight
I’ve been lookin’ for my baby all night
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom, one more, out go the lights

Take it home

[Carry me back]

Satan’s children are full of deceit.

[the OlLine Rebel]

‘“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.’

I agree.

I despise loving music while hating the artist who has to shove their nose into politics and tell us all how great commies are and how America is evil.

[glorgau]

“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,”

How about "I like the song, the artist was a jerk"? For instance Michael Jackson was quite arguably a pedophile, but I still think a bunch of his songs were great.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I dunno. Isn’t time to get rid of newspapers that defended communist massacres of millions?

[the OlLine Rebel]

The bad word was left in.

Who really cares about “fat” vs “bad”?

[frank ballenger]

There was a WKRP episode where Johnny Fever and the rest had to have song playlists gone over by a minister to cut down on vulgarity and immorality so sponsors would be happy.

Finally the Gordon Jump character said he was getting off that train. The socialist leaning John Lennon song Imagine (which we don’t like here, either) was canned because it was “man centered and not God centered.”

Where would the woke s.o.b.s stop their censorship? I don’t want to find out.

[eyedigress]

Going after Elvis eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FT3SmZ_zx0

Crank it up! I would sing this in bars in my day.

You need some pipes!

[Tennessee Nana]

Bye Bye NYT

[goodnesswins]

I’m kinda like you about books. But, I sit here looking at a Kenwood stereo system cabinet full of CD’S that I was going to throw away...but I keep thinking I’ll keep them.