The poster features the phrase “even great songs can normalize sexual harassment” and the lyric of the song that the group has a problem with: “I must have called 1,000 times.”
Now, maybe I have just a little too much faith in humanity, but I kind of feel like anyone who is not completely stupid would realize that the line is meant to be a hyperbole and that no one is actually calling her ex 1,000 times.
And, as the Media Research Center points out, even if she was calling her ex literally 1,000 times, it would really just constitute regular harassment and not sexual harassment. (Unless, of course, she was also leaving pornographic voicemails, which I’ve gotta say would be a pretty doggone weird thing for a heartbroken person to do.)
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So extrapolated sexual assault based on pop lyrics is a problem now?
It's too easy to be a victim in the sad t*t nation.
is extrapolated the correct word? I don't know.
Literally everything is problematic.
Ha ha. Word.
I read the remark differently.
Redacted: "I disliked this song the fist time I heard it, and look, now I have a SJ reason to dislike it too. LOL."
Her other songs are a bit like this too.
ex:
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.
Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Visualize this. There is a perfect way to say "I have an aversion to" + "pop up out of the floorboards." Every single interpretation will use that way of going about it because it is perfect.
But when you get to. "nothing but the best for you too."
Can just as easily be "nothing but the best for you two."
Because she IS singing about her resentment about the guy settling with another person. It's stronger and more pathetic and more insistent if you say "two" instead of "too" when you show what you're hearing.
Yet the lyrics are printed. But how do I know for certain the lyrics are not printed incorrectly? This is all online after all. I'll have it my way. It's better. More sexually harass-y.
OMG, Adele sang she would "Make you feel my love"! That's sexual harassment right there. Heck, it is borderline rape! I blame Dylan.
She scares me, not as much as Alanis Morissette, who I think wants to kill me, but still scary.
It's a boring song. I like some of her stuff quite well. Skyfall is on my playlist.
But as for being sex harassing-ish... the "awesome mix" from Guardians of the Galaxy has the biggest bunch of rapiest songs ever and at one time they weren't considered bad at all. These days any break up that isn't immediately accepted and forgotten as if it didn't matter is somehow wrong... and real people just don't work that way. In music, the heartache and longing and watching, went on and on. I loved you, I *really* loved you. Right? So here's my song about how I'm still suffering and thinking of you. How that gets to be the same thing as stalking and restraining orders I sure don't know.
Maybe all moral people are supposed to have the depth of attachment of a pick up artist in order to be "good" anymore.
Chip, I always thought that was "two"... it makes the song way more interesting.
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