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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"Satan's children" gives them too much credit. They're just the kind of clueless, uneducated snowflakes the New York Times likes to give a platform to.
They’ve already done it.
See the 2008 Universal Music Group storage fire.
If we are to exclude the works of any artist who was not flawed, was not a jackass, did not have some nasty character traits or indeed bad character, we’re going to have to eliminate a whole lot of art.
What an idiot
Fascists are Leftists. They always were.
Great cover of the version by Little Walter...
fixed it
Let's go, Boylan!!
I’m sure they’ll get around to banning old TV shows as well. Too many white people. Women in stereotypical roles. No black starts. On and on and on.
Soon we won’t be able to listen to any music prior to about 2010. No old movies or TV shows (old meaning anything before 2015)
I bet that the author of the NYT piece hayted hearing all the music of the Vietnam War, because he was too much of a pussy!!
I bet that the author scrubbed outt of military basic training, because he was too weak to do one pushup.
Should this author suggest a removal of any American music from 1965 to 1974, I would not cry if HE were removed from American history, by any fashion necessary!!
Didn’t Obama just complain that Republicans are trumping up culture war issues? Getting people mad at the left. The next day some random NYT trans says that Johnny Cash should be canceled. And they expect us to be OK with that? Not me.
Jennifer Finney Boylan GFY!!
Voodoo Chile has his back.
That was a cover version.
Can’t remember offhand who did it originally, but it is a blues song.
The narrative today is that lgbtqwhatever groups are the moral high ground, while everyone else is inferior. And they expect everyone to accept that, or they will destroy you.
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“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,”
IOW, she wants to be the sole judge of what “art” is?
The whole beauty of art is it’s individuality.
Jennifer Finney Taliboylan
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