Posted on 08/15/2016 3:08:14 PM PDT by Enchante
For some reason, playing a song in which 50 percent of the lyrics are the exact phrase “smack my bitch up” for an accused domestic abuser didn’t quite sit right with people, leading the Cubs to issue the following formal apology:
"The selection of this track showed a lack of judgment and sensitivity to an important issue. We have terminated our relationship with the employee responsible for making the selection and will be implementing stronger controls to review and approve music before public broadcast during our games."
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Back in 1974, Elton John’s “The Bitch is Back” only made it to #4, largely because the use of the word kept airplay down. A year later, he used the word with Neil Sedaka for the #1 song “Bad Blood” (it only used the word twice, and didn’t emphasize it.) Still, when Sedaka sang the song on the kiddie show “Wonderama” he substituted witches for bitches, and included that section in the teaser for the show. For those f us who have thought of a day at the baseball park, particularly Wrigley, this is a sad turn of events. I blame the lights.
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Smack my bitch up is truly tame by today’s standards
Something along the lines of i choked her tonsils till she cried like a baby and blew snot or worse out her nose all with love for that Louie bag she wanted is more like it today
It’s truly incredible the crap this inferior DNA types peddle
Pardon my American negro candor reference
I got off this bus at Me So Horny
I actually knew Luther Campbell a little
He was a vulgar hoot to be honest and pretty old school sensible
Frank Sinatra: You bet I am. Next issue: this crap with M-TV. With the nudity and all. What is this crap? Sinbad O'Connor.
Sinead O'Connor: Well, I think it's bloody awful. But it's typical of entertainment in a male-dominated society.
Frank Sinatra: Boo-hoo! You had me, and then you lost me! Billy Idol.
Billy Idol: I think it's great.
Frank Sinatra: Shut up! Luther Campbell.
Luther Campbell: Well, that's my bread and butter, man.
Frank Sinatra: Once more around, pal. Sounds like pops and buzzes from here.
Luther Campbell: I said, that's my bread and butter, man.
Frank Sinatra: No, you're wrong, schoolboy. You don't need to work blue! You'll never play the big rooms with that crap. Ask Redd Foxx. You don't need the blue stuff, kid, you got talent!
Luther Campbell: But I don't have talent.
Frank Sinatra: You've got it, kid. You listen to me - you've got a Ben Vereen quality, I can't put my finger on it. Take the high road, baby!
Luther Campbell: I swear, man, I don't have any talent. None! This is all I got. [ to Billy Idol ] Tell him, man.
Billy Idol: Yeah, he sucks!
Sinead O'Connor: He's not talented.
Frank Sinatra: No, Bob Goulet - that's not talented! You got talent! You got a Dionne Warwick/Falana kind of thing going. Steve and Eydie?
Eydie Gorme: Oh, you're right, Frank.
Steve Lawrence: Absolutely. He's great!
Frank Sinatra: Of course he is, you brownnoses. Look at you, you're just swimming in my wake.
“I can’t believe the Cubs put this player on their roster”
Dominant closer who throws 104 mph. The Cubs want to win a World Series. What this guy did is not uncommon for many black athletes (lots of celebrated thugs in the NBA and NFL).
Can’t hold the Cubs responsible for the culture. Real bonehead move to play the song.
Marching bands at football games will soon go the way of the stadium organist at baseball games. Nearly every college football game that I have been to in recent years has featured loud disco, rap and heavy metal. However, I once went to a UCLA home game and was pleasantly surprised to hear the music of Vera Lynn, of all people.
Did Bing Crosby sing that?
Yep. I’m with you. I remember when sports were supposed to be fun.
It’s actually not rap, it’s a pretty heavy industrial song by “Prodigy”. They have been around since the early 90s (95 I recall?)
They have other songs than this.
Never heard of this group, but how can you consider the “lyrics” referenced here as anything but garbage?
Exactly, why is this song anywhere in the public domain passing itself off as “art”?
Most of rap is this garbage level.
Factoid: smack my bitch up has 24 million plays on Spotify.
My comment was a sarcastic comment on culture, in case you missed it. To be fair, I did leave off the obligatory /s tag.
Completely missed it. Maybe you'll explain it sometime to someone so dense as I.
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It may not be appropriate to play it at a Cubs game, and people who are not “into” certain types of music might not appreciate it, but artistically speaking, ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ is actually a tour de force in its genre. As others have noted, it’s not rap at all.
Because, à chacun son goût, and all that...
What kind of “bitch” would it be acceptable to smack up, regardless of how clever the music was?
Should the ASPCA be concerned here?
I think Bing did the original and Andy Williams did a cover a few years later.
Ouch, when you put the first line of my comment by itself, it reads a little mean. Not my intention.
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