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* [[Sex Pistols|The Sex Pistols]] are mostly known for trying to play "God Save The Queen" from a barge during the Queen's Jubilee after being prohibited from playing the song on land. Much of the [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|bad press was intentional.]]
* The 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was initially a Christmas staple due to its winter setting, only for some modern audiences to view it as [[Values Dissonance|trivialising date rape]]. Said negative reaction was however criticised as an example of [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]], and public consensus has it that the song shouldn't be banned for its (alleged) content.
* [[Marilyn Manson]] is arguably one of the most controversial artists of all time, largely due to his no-holds-barred, shock rocker stage persona. Manson, born Brian Hugh Warner, gained notoriety for what advocacy groups called as anti-religious, satanic and/or sexually explicit music, as well as the Manson band's outlandish behaviour on- and off-stage. These concerns crystallised in the late 90s when Manson and his band was implicated in the [[Columbine]] massacre, where conservatives blamed the band and their music as a corrupting influence on the youth and accused them of inciting youths to hate and discord, and sensationalist news outlets cashed in on the tragedy through headlines such as "Killers Worshipped Rock Freak Manson" and "Devil-Worshipping Maniac Told Kids To Kill". Mounting pressure from said groups forced Manson to cancel their tours during the time, though he maintained that music, movies, books or video games were not to blame. He later wrote an op-ed piece on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called "Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?", accusing the mainstream media of being irresponsible for giving undue weight to coverage of violent events while overlooking genuine societal issues, and condemning America's gun obsession as well as the National Rifle Association's influence on the government.
* A number of songs gained notoriety for this due to their [[Backmasking|purported backwards messages]]. An often-cited example of this was [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "Stairway to Heaven" and [[The Eagles]]' "Hotel California", alleged by conservative Christian groups to have sinister satanic messages when played backwards. Some artists actually do this deliberately either to satirise the moral panic as in the case of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], or as an [[Easter Egg]].
** An early example of the latter comes from [[Styx]]'s 1983 album ''[[Kilroy Was Here (album)|Kilroy Was Here]]'', which advertised that it had back-masked "messages" in its songs -- things like the motto off the Great Seal of the United States.
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