To wonder why this song is still ok to play on the radio

[CoedynSbageti]

Jealous Guy

Written and performed by a man who admitted he was violent towards women.

Just that really.

There's lots of stuff on the radio that probably shouldn't be there ...I give you "My Sharona"...."I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind".

John Lennon? Was he?

@lavender It's very well known that John Lennon was violent to woman, particularly his first wife Cynthia. A lot of Beatles songs are uncomfortable listening - "Run For Your Life", for example

broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ypa9b5/you-dont-have-to-imagine-john-lennon-beat-women-and-childrenits-just-a-fact

I expect there's plenty of musicians who have been violent to people and committed other crimes too

Do we need to remove everyone's music then? Or just those who have committed crimes towards women?

What an odd question
It's a song
It's not a confession
Or a statement to a court

I agree that lots of musicians will have committed crimes. That wasn't my point. It is that the song seems to be excusing domestic violence because it wasn't his fault, he was just jealous, poor guy, AND was written and performed by a man who admitted being violent to women.

It's the combination iyswim.

Let's all be offended. Such fun!
I wish to complain about the words in xxxxx song because of yyyyy. I am so upset, and my life is ruined.

What about all the songs sung by people who take drugs/have a criminal record?

I can see the point in them not being played on the radio, I wouldn't want scum like the former lead singer of the Lost Prophets to get a penny. It's tough on the other band members assuming that, as they said, they genuinely knew nothing but I doubt they would be making a living as musicians and would have moved on to other jobs by now anyway.

I just choose to turn over or avoid listening if the artist creeps me out.

One of my favourite bands as a teenager is now a now go zone, after if came out that the lead singer was a pedo and was planning to rape a baby.

Ah snap brizzledrizzle

What about Delilah?

Murdered by a man.

They use this song as an example of hot violence is normalised by music on the Freedom Programme.

I think you need to relax. You know where the off switch is.

I'm pretty sure Ghandi and Mandela are not snow white in that department either! I'm not going to stop listening to it.

Can't remember writing that I'm offended or that my life is ruined. Seems like some people want to argue so much that they completely miss the point.

My fault, I should have been clearer in my op and my second post has been overlooked.

Funny... why not include the explicitly nasty more recent songs.

My favourite/most hated twattish song is Candy by Paolo Nuttini. But nobody ever seems to believe me! It is explicitly about stalking and refusing to leave without a last hug and fuck... and even then he'll be hanging around.

There are lots of them. Songs have always been like that, like poetry, they explore the human condition.

They can't all be Kumbaya!

Every breath you take

That was one of the previous holders of my "Creepy Fucker" award Bluedoglead

Brilliant song sung by a genius and working class hero. If you dont like hit the mute or off button.

The song was written about when Lennon first met Yoko Ono and he made her write a list of every person she’d slept with which is pretty dark stuff!! However the Roxy Music version is one of my favourite songs ever. Sometimes a good song trumps the hideous subject matter.

Sting has a bit of a theme, Roxanne?

Coedyn I do get it, it is the combination of Creepy Fucker writing and performing a Creepy Fucker song.

But I think that some of the very best pieces of music have very dark sides... classical music is full of it, folk music is ALL about misogyny if you listen closely enough (I say that as an ex folk singer too!) - many of the writers would have been as disagreeable as their music!

Some stars when they fall from grave people don’t want to hear their songs/see their movies anymore. (Anyone listened to Gary Glitter for a while?) Others seem to skate over it somehow. I didn’t even know that about Lennon he has a saintlike peace loving image doesn’t he?

I dont think you should expect censorship on the grounds of morality if someone is not being harmed in the act of making art/songs etc

Why should you get to decide what I am allowed to listen to? And what are you trying to protect me from? Liking John Lennon? I think I’m perfectly capable of deciding whether I want to listen to his songs or not. And I am perfectly capable of deciding how I feel about his personal life - I don’t need someone to decide for me.

Fall from grace not grave. Hard to fall from a grave.