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:

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I guess they’ll still be able to play “Lola”.

[Palio di Siena]

“That little faggots’ got his own jet airplane
That little faggot is a millionaire “

[kosciusko51]

That verse is removed on the XM stations.

[FreedomPoster]

I am a proud member of the LGBFJB community.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The left is the cultural Taliban.

[ronnie raygun]

start with rap music and call me when your done

[rlmorel]

It was an old song I believe...I used to be in a CYO band, and we did that song for a concert once...funny. I loved it, but didn’t know it was an old song until I saw this thread.

I had a cassette recording of that concert our band did, and that song was on it.

[rlmorel]

OOPS, wrong song! I was talking about another song on another thread that was an old one!

[rlmorel]

Got the threads mixed up...:)

[Cboldt]

-- Most of today's leftists have morphed into fascists. --

Control freaks to be sure. Taliban.

[xp38]

Already chopped so they're on a roll

[bert]

America voted and the results of the poll were that the New York Times is a dangerous domestic enemy and must be destroyed post haste.

Polling was by the Sullivan Agency of 5,490 cell phone users across the country

The data said 56% favored complete and total destruction while 38% thought the paper should merely be closed.

[VastRWCon]

Love Pat Travers. He still plays here locally (Stuart, FL) from time to time and usually at a small venue.

[Triple]

I would like to see the reaction to cancelling ted nugent, kid rock, and The Rolling Stones.

Really, why wait until they die to cancel them?

[TomServo]

PT rocks.

[Fresh Wind]

What about Cher (/spit)?

[Scrambler Bob]

Are they vinyl?

Are they Black?

[Michael.SF.]

Yes to both

[rlmorel]

Heh, I remember being in a raucous crowd on a dance floor and hearing a band play a good cover of that...the crowd was all yelling along and everything!

[Rummyfan]

“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.

In that world there would be no art, literature, or music.