Better save copies of your 'problematic' music

[ArrozConLeche]

If SJWs had their way, tbey would have musicians rerecord their old songs sans offensive  lyrics. Unlikely  to happpen,  but yhese assholes did try to fuck with metal, so...

UPROXX: Paramore, Guns 'N' Roses, And How Musicians Fix Problematic Lyrics.
https://uproxx.com/music/paramore-guns-n-roses-problematic-lyrics/

[Anon Adderlan]

So history is being rewritten by the artists themselves now, discarding anything of their past they're uncomfortable with.

[JeremyR]

This is pretty much the whole point of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451...funny how all these old books like that and 1984 are apparently being used as how to guides

[ArrozConLeche]

I can understand an artist making a personal decision to retire a song or change it up in their live sets. This notion of bowdlerizing past records to appease some imaginary "woke" fandom is crazy though:

Why not make other albums open for tweaks years, even decades, after their release? Sure, you can't really alter the physical copies that are already out there, but in the contemporary world where so much of music is listened to via streaming, that seems to matter less and less.

[Omega]

In d20 Gamma World part of the build up to the world ending war was various factions using super science to literally overwrite peoples wills to their cause.

Who knew you didnt need super science to do that? Just social engineering.

[jhkim]

I can understand an artist making a personal decision to retire a song or change it up in their live sets. This notion of bowdlerizing past records to appease some imaginary "woke" fandom is crazy though:

I also viscerally dislike bowdlerization. I don't know about many past examples in music, but it happens very regularly in books and film, though - enough that "bowdlerize" is a word.

[Mordred Pendragon]

We must oppose the censorship efforts of the SJW Far Left and stop these Neo-Bolsheviks from ruining music like they are doing with every other medium.

If the SJW's have it their way, it would all be shitty punk rock, pretentious hipster indie music, and other "woke" garbage.

Personally, I love problematic songs like this....

[video=youtube;0XxYwWg7F8I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxYwWg7F8I[/youtube]

Commie Punks Fuck Off!

[RPGPundit]

In d20 Gamma World part of the build up to the world ending war was various factions using super science to literally overwrite peoples wills to their cause.

Funny how Bruce Baugh, who made that game, is one of the biggest fucking SJWs around, and has proven himself to be perfectly fine with using slanderous lies to try to manipulate people to his agenda.

[Alathon]

This is pretty much the whole point of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451...funny how all these old books like that and 1984 are apparently being used as how to guides

Men such as Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut do seem to have predicted a lot of what is now coming to pass.   Harrison Bergeron was written in 1961, two years before Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique was published, yet described in cutting satirical form the anti-meritocratic direction feminism has taken over a span of decades.  Screens with cameras and microphones in every house, historical revisionism, rampant hedonism coupled with consumerism, penalizing the most able.. it's all happened.  I suppose the prediction of such outcomes was possible because they were the logical conclusions of the Marxist and egalitarian ideas that were advanced during their time.

[The Exploited.]

As an aging punk rocker I spurn the concept of amending anything I've said in the past. From my cold dead lungs...

If anything it makes me want to get my MIC out and start screaming about stuff those knob heads hate. Just for badness...

[Razor 007]

Men such as Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut do seem to have predicted a lot of what is now coming to pass.   Harrison Bergeron was written in 1961, two years before Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique was published, yet described in cutting satirical form the anti-meritocratic direction feminism has taken over a span of decades.  Screens with cameras and microphones in every house, historical revisionism, rampant hedonism coupled with consumerism, penalizing the most able.. it's all happened.  I suppose the prediction of such outcomes was possible because they were the logical conclusions of the Marxist and egalitarian ideas that were advanced during their time.

1984 was true Prophecy at work.  It is scary just how accurate 1984 was.  You'd think George Orwell had stepped into a time machine, and travelled to the present day.

[Pat]

1984 was true Prophecy at work.  It is scary just how accurate 1984 was.  You'd think George Orwell had stepped into a time machine, and travelled to the present day.

Orwell comes and goes, as the mainstream dallies with totalitarianism, and then comes to their senses.

Huxley is always topical.

[thedungeondelver]

Remember in the 1980s when everyone thought it'd be the fundies who took freedom of expression out and shot it, not the left?  And yet, here we are.

[moonsweeper]

Remember in the 1980s when everyone thought it'd be the fundies who took freedom of expression out and shot it, not the left?  And yet, here we are.

    "When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence"--Gary Lloyd

    In the US, These people are not in complete control of the government quite yet.
    But what about in another generation...

[TJS]

Remember in the 1980s when everyone thought it'd be the fundies who took freedom of expression out and shot it, not the left?  And yet, here we are.

I remember the 90s when the left were worried about the threat to free speech from corporations buying out media monopolies and the right were all "chill, it's not censorship unless the government does it".