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Eminem song / sexualy inaapropriate lyrics you didn't notice the first time

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SueSylvesterforPM · 30/04/2011 17:15

I grew up with eminem so have a few cd's lying around my sis has aquired a few and had one on,and no joke one of the songs includes the chorus, 'its time for you to rape me again' Shock

I had to clarify with my sis , I never noticed that the first time round was pretty shocked it had gone under my radar.

any of you had this 'god I didnt notice that the first time ' wuth songs/ maybe even tv etc.

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msrisotto · 01/05/2011 09:40

Tongue in cheek bullshit. It promotes violence against women, desensitizes it's listeners and brings murderous shit into mainstream media. It's not ironic or tongue in cheek or or or or or I can't stand people standing up for this man.

InmaculadaConcepcion · 01/05/2011 09:35

I think Sue because around the globe women are routinely oppressed and are the targets of hate speech so it's not surprising we feel uncomfortable or angry if we hear an entertainment product glamourising and entrenching that attitude even further.
On the other hand, if you regard women as fighting that oppression, lyrics airing such grievances by women are more in the realm of protest songs.

Er...does that make sense?!!

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SueSylvesterforPM · 01/05/2011 09:26

He actually admitted in an old interview that after his wife & mother he views women negatively rightly or wrongly, not saying its right but at least he admits it. Alot of it is tongue and cheek if you really listen and its calmee down considerably since his daughter. People go through tar the with the same brush moments in life after trauma.

tbh noone of us would judge a woman for airing a dislike trauma for men after years of abuse why is it not okay the other way round and tbh its usually aimed at said wife/mother.

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msrisotto · 30/04/2011 21:47

lol at Eminem lyrics being tongue in cheek. I think you'll find vicious misogyny in probably every Eminem song he's made. I hate to write a whole genre off like this but yeah, rap and RnB....and most popular music is the same! And if the song doesn't sound it on the radio, just watch the video which makes it pretty clear.

peeriebear · 30/04/2011 21:45

I LOVE The Wildhearts, best band I've seen live yet, but their song 'Caffeine Bomb' contains the line
"Baby can't you see I'm shitting brown water"
It's never edited out on the radio :)

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SueSylvesterforPM · 30/04/2011 21:42

it was the repeated swear words!!!

yeah doesnt seem like it would be allowed in a shoe shop Confused

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nailak · 30/04/2011 21:36

it wasnt the lyrics that bothered me tbh i understand that and the kids cant, it was the repeated swear words!!!

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SueSylvesterforPM · 30/04/2011 21:23

Most of the time eminems lyrics are tongue and cheek and I do listen to him but in a shoe shop is not the appropriate forum,

Some of you probs dont agree with me I've been listening to Eminem since I was 9 though so I suppose I'm not phased apart from the above example.

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nailak · 30/04/2011 21:10

i was in priceless shoes and eminem was blarin out of the speakers the parental advisory explicit lyrics version, aibu to think this was u?
i just made a very loud comment to dd3 about the rude music and left.

InmaculadaConcepcion · 30/04/2011 21:08

Yep, same in Spain (re the swearing).
We avoid the problem by only listening to the mainly talk national station or BBC internet radio....

You're right about songs though.

I was interested in a new soul artist and did the Spotify thing on his album. I had to stop listening after the third song. Sexist shite. The tunes were pretty mediocre too.

RuthChan · 30/04/2011 20:17

Belgium. There is a lot of English music on the radio station I listen to, which is great, but the swearing does bother me. There are some really popular songs which apparently British people don't realise have swearing in them!

It was the same in Japan, but it bothered me less as I was childless or DD was only a baby.

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SueSylvesterforPM · 30/04/2011 19:59

Where do you live ruth?

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RuthChan · 30/04/2011 18:52

It's not so much that I didn't notice it before, it just never used to bother me.
Now that I'm getting older and especially now that I have small children, it REALLY bothers me.
I change channels on the radio when songs with swearing come on with my DCs in the car. (We live abroad so they don't bother with radio friendly edits of English songs.)

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