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== Music ==

* [[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.

* 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.

* A number of songs gained notoriety for this due to their purported backwards messages. An often-cited example of this was [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "Stairway to Heaven" and more recently "Asereje" by Las Ketchup, both being alleged by conservative Christian groups to have sinister 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 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.

* Discussion of [[Michael Jackson]]'s life and career wouldn't be complete without the tabloid headlines ascribed to him such as his eccentric habits like his pet chimpanzee Bubbles, unfounded rumours of him sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber, and of course the [[Paedo Hunt|child molestation]] accusations peppered towards him. Perception of him softened when he died in 2009, with the ''very same media'' who made a [[Butt Monkey]] of him now revering Jackson as a pop icon and trendsetter. The 2019 documentary ''Leaving Neverland'' brought back the paedophiliac accusations against him however, though this was arguably overshadowed with the likes of R. Kelly.

* [[Milli Vanilli]] became better known for the lip-syncing scandal they got caught up with, which utterly destroyed any and all hope for them to make a comeback. The ensuing controversy took its toll on Rob Pilatus, who turned to drugs and crime as a result of mounting pressure from all the negative press they got after they were exposed as frauds and their Grammy was withdrawn.

* [[R. Kelly]]'s career was wiped out overnight after reports surfaced of him running a sex cult and engaging in inappropriate affairs with underage girls. Many of Kelly's collaborators such as [[Lady Gaga]], [[Jay-Z]] and [[Céline Dion]] wanted nothing to do with him, and RCA Records dropped him publicly.

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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.]]

== New Media ==