Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netM to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agoTwitter radlibs out for blood to cancel Bradley Nowell of Sublime for the lyrics to Wrong Way he wrote when he was 16 years old.hexbear.netimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up138file-text
arrow-up138imageTwitter radlibs out for blood to cancel Bradley Nowell of Sublime for the lyrics to Wrong Way he wrote when he was 16 years old.hexbear.netNakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netM to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·3 months agoThe lyric in question “in two more she’ll be a whore” The entire song is about a well meaning guy being powerless to rescue a girl from an abusive family and a fucked up system. These motherfuckers are trying to slander him as a pedo.
minus-squarePraxinoscope@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·3 months agoNot to mention Sublime had the song Date Rape that’s specifically about the perils of creepy dudes.
minus-squareChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-23 months agoClose reading is dead. cw SA If anything is problematic it’s “dateremoved” but honestly, at least for the time it’s pretty mild.
The lyric in question “in two more she’ll be a whore”
The entire song is about a well meaning guy being powerless to rescue a girl from an abusive family and a fucked up system.
These motherfuckers are trying to slander him as a pedo.
Not to mention Sublime had the song Date Rape that’s specifically about the perils of creepy dudes.
Close reading is dead.
cw SA
If anything is problematic it’s “dateremoved” but honestly, at least for the time it’s pretty mild.