Media Research Failure/Music: Difference between revisions

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by [[Pink Floyd]] in the song, "Have a Cigar"'. "The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, [[I Am Not Shazam|oh, by the way, which one's Pink?]]"

** According to David Gilmour, this was actually something that producer-types frequently asked.

* 2 Live Crew's album ''As Nasty as They Wanna Be'' raised a big controversy because of their infamous song "Me So Horny" which apparently had a 'graphic description of the destruction of a woman's vagina' in it. The line in question was "I know he'll be disgusted if he sees your pussy busted", ''i.e.'', deflowering a girl, not mutilating her privates. However, conservative groups, including Focus on the Family, failed to recognize it as a slang term, even though it's clear in the lyrics that the girl is consenting to all this and is just doing naughty things like many teenagers will do. In the end, this actually helped raise the group's popularity.

* "We're Not Gonna Take It" by [[Twisted Sister]] was also a victim of the [[Moral Guardians]] where supposedly a boy was calling his father a 'disgusting slob' who was 'worthless and weak' and then blasting him out of the window. In the video, the FATHER was berating his son (a [[Shout-Out]] to the actor's [[The Neidermeyer|previous role]] in ''[[Animal House|National Lampoon's Animal House]]''), and his [[Shout-Out|SON blasts the father out by playing a loud note on his guitar]]. Nothing really violent there unless you think all those old Bugs Bunny or Popeye cartoons were violent. Then the boy [[Everything's Better with Spinning|spins around and turns into frontman Dee Snider]]. The rest of the family (besides the parents) turn into the other band members, and what follows is just a bunch of cartoon-ish hijinks where the father tries to get into the house and subdue Twisted Sister, only to either crash or fall out the window. No blood or anything - pretty tame compared to a lot of violent movies. The song itself isn't about violence at all either, but freedom and enjoying life without others dictating every aspect of it without reason. Focus on the Family, The PMRC and these other conservative groups really needed to do more research before protesting something that they deem wrong or evil. While they're at it, they should probably look up the definition of irony.

* Although you can't really blame anyone, Gnarls Barkley is a ''duo'', not an actual person.

* [[Chris Brown]] has been known for his R&B music and singing. After he had [[Would Hit a Girl|that incident with Rihanna]], news reporters kept referring to him as a [[Unfortunate Implications|"rapper"]].

* Lupe Fiasco planned to retire with ''LupE.N.D'',. However, his contract required that he make 3 more albums before doing so. Fiasco has stated that he plans on releasing three albums, and then ''LupE.N.D.'' However...

** Despite this, ''to this day'', there are people who think that he's retiring after LASERS.