Another Offensive Song?

[mushroom25]

well well. whatever were Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler and Carole King thinking when they wrote Aretha Franklin's 1967 classic?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/aretha-franklin-song-natural-woman-blasted-by-trans-group/

apparently offensive because "there is no such thing as a natural woman"

or..... is the organisation making the claims - as some on social media claim - just a hoax designed to enrage "gammons"?

[Untitled]

the "trans group" that complained about this is a parody account... and the press took it at face value because it justified their hatred of transgender people.

manufactured controversy

[andy-hughes]

Togo - // Is that why they introduced the Sony Wokeman? //

That's gone straight into my 'I Wish I'd Posted That!' file!!!

[ZebuSanctuary]

♪ Lola by ♪ the Kinks ♫

♫ Song was banned in the USA for containing the words 'coca-cola'. ♫

♫ To comply with US product placement laws lyrics changed to ♪ ♪ 'cherry-cola' ♫

[mushroom25]

// Song was banned in the USA for containing the words 'coca-cola'. //

don't know about that, but the BBC initially refused to play it for that reason....

[ZebuSanctuary]

mushroom >16.54

Happy to concede. Just relaying something a friend told me years ago.

Obviously I wasn't listening fully, since he is an aficionado when it comes to the Kinks.

[johnny.5]

Gordon is a moron and a puff
and Julie is a slag a slut and a ***

[douglas9401]

Angsty 'teenage' comment in song gets a pass, johnny.

Remember he was so upset at how unfair it all was. :-)

[JimF]

The excuse that it was "from a different time" doesn't make it any less offensive:

[douglas9401]

Some might see that as comment on good ol' boys and their abhorrent practises.

Gentlefolk they were not.

[sandyRoe]

They're coming to take me away. Ha ha.
This mocked mental illness and seemed pretty tasteless even then when it was first issued.