Why isn't music as controversial anymore?
In '77, British punk powerhouse released their second single "God Save the Queen". This one song was buried beneath a mountain of controversy stemming from the lyrics to the album cover and even the release date (The Queen's Silver Jubilee). At the time the BBC refused to play the track, even with the ban on radio play; the song charted at No.1 on the NME charts and suspiciously in No.2 on the BBC Singles Chart.
On this day in 1980, the french police arrested all four members of the band The Stranglers on the charge that they incited a riot. The Stranglers were quite notorious for their actions. Band member JJ had allegedly kidnapped a journalist and taped a French writer to the Eiffel tower without his trousers
In '92, Body Count's self titled album faced major controversy over their song "Cop Killer", so much controversy that George H W Bush got involved. This issue later forced Ice-T to remove the track from the album (and give it away as a free single).
Drowning Pool's song "Bodies" was plagued with controversy ever since its release. "Bodies" was released in May of '01 and later that year the song was compared to the September 11th attacks. If that wasn't bad enough, in '03 it arose that the song was used inside the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camps to torture prisoners (which I don't understand because Bodies was and still is a phenomenal track). More recently the song was linked to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 6 others in Arizona in '11.
Today music is just accepted for what it is. A sign that music is more widely accepted is Behemoth. A band from Poland who were introduced to a list of bands that promote Satanism and murder. This list was never enacted and they are allowed to play in Poland freely. In addition to this, Behemoth won a Golden God in 2014 for best album (Ironically called "The Satanist").
Is music still controversial? Tell me in the comments below.
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