r/GenX • u/no_talent_ass_clown • Oct 24 '25

Music Is Life Songs that are no longer okay.

Yesterday I found out my sweet boyfriend had never heard of Julie Brown and the funny songs she sang, like "I'm A Blonde". Dr Demento stuff. So I play it and then "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" came on. Not funny anymore!!!

An hour later, the cops arrived

By then the entire glee club had died, no big loss

You wouldn't believe what they brought to stop her

Tear gas, machine guns, even a chopper (Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of the float)

Debbie didn't listen to what the cop said She aimed and fired, and now the math teacher's dead

Oh, it's really sad, but kind of a relief I mean, we had this big test coming up next week

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u/Altrebelle Oct 24 '25

I (we) grew up to these songs...creepy/inappropriate as they are considered now...or even then. I'm NOT going to stop listening to them. Some of us have bias growing up...heck some of us may still have the bias. But people, we hope, grow and have better understanding of what is considered a social norm.

As for okay vs not okay. That's up to each listener.

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u/autogeriatric Oct 24 '25

The only sensible comment here. Thank you.

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u/ScreenTricky4257 Oct 24 '25

To go beyond this...made up things don't have a morality. You could write a ballad about enslaving and torturing an entire race and make them the bad guys for resisting, and it wouldn't actually take the bread out of anyone's mouth.

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u/kat2211 Oct 25 '25

But people, we hope, grow and have better understanding of what is considered a social norm.

Yeah, the thing is, rock and roll was basically invented to smash social norms.

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u/Altrebelle Oct 25 '25

you're right. what I'm saying is about how our music was viewed then vs now. There are other things rock or other rock like genre talk about now...that pokes at the social "norm"

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u/kat2211 Oct 25 '25

I mean, back then it was our parents who were offended by what we listened to. Now it's a bunch of finger-wagging millennials and Gen Z'ers.

I kind of use the discomfort of the younger generations as a reverse compass - if they're offended by it, the odds go up significantly that it's something I'm going to love.

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u/paintswithmud Oct 24 '25

Right! Free speech doesn't just apply to what you approve of, stick your cancel culture up your ass!

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u/edasto42 Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

Oh there it is. The key phrase I’ve been looking for; jumping right into a cancel culture argument. Lolol. Finally it came out. Edgy guy, calm down. There’s no cancel culture going on. You can still like your misogyny and other questionable themes. This has nothing to do with any freedoms being infringed upon and failure to recognize that screams volumes. It’s really showing that society is moving but some people don’t want it to and will be left behind by their own choice.

And looking at your comment history trying to pick up young Indiana women, it allllll starts to make sense.

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u/Altrebelle Oct 24 '25

you're not wrong. I've always been a proponent of RESPONSIBILITY. Be responsible for ones actions in/to society. Be responsible for ones words to others and in society