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USA Today lists the most politically incorrect songs of all time, includes ‘Ebony and Ivory’ because… “their message of ‘people are the same, there’s good and bad in everyone,’ so let’s just get along would be interpreted as hilariously naive by the more woke factions of today’s cultural discourse.”

Because, today, of course, being ‘woke’ means believing that people of different races and cultures need to be at each other’s throats constantly in a zero-sum game of rabid identity politics.

What was the epitome of woke in 1982 is now “cringeworthy,” because political correctness is such fleeting thing. Most of the songs on the list are terrible. Some are kind of fun (“Kung-Fu Fighting”). But it is typical of the social left that these songs are deemed bad not because they are bad songs, but because they reflect what the social left views as “Bad Politics.” Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady” make the cut not because they say anything mean about transgendereds, but because the author thinks they don’t cheerlead transgendereds enough.

Here’s one I am surprised they missed. Maybe too obscure for the editors. It would probably make their teeny socially conscious heads explode. And what about this one (going out to you, Senator Elizabeth Warren.)

Would you ever let a leftist choose your playlist? I know I wouldn’t. Gawd, it would be mostly the Decemberists and Macklemore.

Here’s a Korean band doing a funk song called ‘Sugar Daddy.’ Is that ‘problematic’? Deal with it.

Comments

  1. And what about this one (going out to you, Senator Elizabeth Warren.)

    That would have to be “One One Hundred Twenty-eighth Breed,” much harder to rhyme.

    They also left out Lola. I’m not sure why it would offensive but there must be something. Captain Kirk singing it should be enough.

  3. “Because, today, of course, being ‘woke’ means believing that people of different races and cultures need to be at each other’s throats constantly in a zero-sum game of rabid identity politics.”

    So, they’re saying that being ‘woke’ means necessarily being racist, sexist and culturist. And they don’t even realize that’s what they’re saying.

    Crazy people are so entertaining…in a sad way.

  9. I’m surprised ‘Having My Baby’ (Paul Anka) didn’t make the list. Or ‘Wives and Lovers’ (Jack Jones). Or ‘It Must Be Him’ (Vikki Carr). Tons of them.

  10. This is currently my ten year old daughter’s favorite dance song. I laugh. She is so delightfully politically incorrect. The song has a catchy tune. Her favorite part is where they sing, “you better run run run outrun my gun”.

    Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People

    Robert’s got a quick hand
    He’ll look around the room, he won’t tell you his plan
    He’s got a rolled cigarette, hanging out his mouth he’s a cowboy kid
    Yeah found a six shooter gun
    In his dad’s closet hidden oh in a box of fun things, I don’t even know what
    But he’s coming for you, yeah he’s coming for you
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    Daddy works a long day
    He be coming home late, he’s coming home late
    And he’s bringing me a surprise
    ‘Cause dinner’s in the kitchen and it’s packed in ice
    I’ve waited for a long time
    Yeah the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger
    I reason with my cigarette
    And say your hair’s on fire, you must have lost your wits, yeah
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, out run my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet

  14. “It just occurred to me that there was no hip-hop on the list. Why would that be?”

    Not even Eminem’s Democrat-approved tirades against women and gay men?

  16. “But I been done seen ’bout ev’rythin’, when I seen a elephant fly.”

    (From what I understand, several of the Black Crows were actually voiced by African-American singers, but the lead singer was the same white guy who voiced Jiminy Cricket. But he sang in “black dialect” — oh, the horror!)

  17. Here’s Ella Fitzgerald’s delightful cover of “Hawaiian War Chant” — not at all acceptable today, because of the insensitive and appropriating references to “hula-hula maidens” and “little natives.” But boy, does Ella rock it.

  18. “But I been done seen ’bout ev’rythin’, when I seen a elephant fly.”

    (From what I understand, several of the Black Crows were actually voiced by African-American singers, but the lead singer was the same white guy who voiced Jiminy Cricket. But he sang in “black dialect” — oh, the horror!)”

    Yet all the br’ers in SONG OF THE SOUTH were voiced by black actors. Which one does Disney still sell today?