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[[File:smokingisnotcool2 5619.jpg|link=Smoking Is Cool|frame|Just look at these ''losers''.<ref>Top row, left to right: [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Audrey Hepburn]], [[Paul McCartney]]. Second row: [[Bob Dylan]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[James Dean]]. Third row: [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Che Guevara]], [[John Wayne]], [[Edie Sedgwick]]. Fourth row: [[Kurt Cobain]], [[Robert De Niro]], [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Johnny Cash]]. Fifth row: [[Jim Morrison]], [[Ann Dvorak]], [[Sophia Loren]], [[David Bowie]]</ref>]]
{{quote|''"You're watching '''[[Futurama]]''', the show that does not advocate the '''cool''' crime of robbery!"''
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* [[Megadeth]]'s album ''Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?'' led to a rumor that the band members were Satanists or endorsed Satanism due to nearly half of the album being explicitly about Satanism. But all three songs detail horrific things happening to those who dabble in it. The songs stem from a bad experience that Dave Mustaine had with "black magic", where he put a hex on someone and was convinced it worked, plaguing him with guilt. After that incident, he tried to make songs warning against the dark arts, but they ended up so badass-sounding that the message was ignored.
* [[Slayer]]'s "Angel of Death" is often called a pro-Holocaust song, but guitarist Kerry King notes that the lyrics are as brutal as they are to reflect the real horror of the Holocaust, not to glorify it. The band is not trying to glorify the Holocaust—but they're not trying to dispel it, either. [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|They enjoy causing controversy]].
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*** When it reminds him to much of the worst parts of High School? There are arrogant officers that remind one of [[Sadist Teacher|sanctimonious, dictatorial teachers]], thugs that remind one of [[The Bully]], humiliation, the feeling that one's life belongs to someone else, and all sorts of things that are intermittent flaws in school multiplied by a government that considers those things ''virtues'' rather than administrative errors. There is plenty about The Holocaust besides the horror of it and one is the sheer [[Evil Is Petty|pettyness.]]
* [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s "Born In the USA" is about the issues faced by returning veterans of [[The Vietnam War]]. Because of the refrain, the subtle title, and it being one of the catchiest songs musically The Boss has ever done, it's constantly mistaken for an [[Eagle Land|American patriotic song]]. It is frequently played at 4 July events. US President [[Ronald Reagan]]—a president who had threatened Mutually Assured Destruction on the Russians—wanted to use it as his 1984 campaign theme.
** "Born to Run", similarly, was named New Jersey's "Unofficial Youth Rock Anthem" by the New Jersey State Legislature in 1979. [[Isn't It Ironic?|A song about leaving New Jersey because of how terrible it is]]. No, seriously:
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