I really hate to be the arbiter of morality.
Anybody who's ever met me knows that I don't have any significant objections to what my grandmother used to call "strong language." Anybody who's read my stuff, or walked near me, or sat next to me in church...
A very wise man once said "sometimes, you just have to say 'what the fuck'," and I've always tried to live by those words.
That being said, Pink's latest hit bothers me just a little.
There's a difference between "some inappropriate language," and the carefully calculated insertion of cuss-words, specifically to make your song appeal to 13 year olds (when the radio-edits are specifically built in to the phrasing, that can often be a giveaway).
I'm not the biggest Pink fan, but I like her well enough. And several of her previous hits had a "bitch" here or a "damn" there, and I had no problem with that. But with this, it's like she decided that part of her popularity was due to the prurient value of her language.
(That's your new vocabulary word of the day, folks.)
I don't know anybody who says "I had a shit day." Maybe that's local slang from someplace; as an adjective, the word should be "shitty." But then she goes and conjugates it (or, you know, would have, if first-person, second-person and plural had different forms in English).
I'm not likely to clutch my pearls and swoon about this being Hollywood having an agenda and trying to destroy civilization as we know it. This isn't some Satanic influence over a singer, this is just a musician trying to make money with some carefully-inserted controversy.
But that's kind of fucked.
Love the music. Great beat, easy to dance to. Language? Well, I guess I agree. Fucked up.
ReplyDelete" this is just a musician trying to make money with some carefully-inserted controversy."
ReplyDeleteWho would do such a thing? This is America! Certainly not our politicians, our media, our religious leaders! Shit no!
Unfortunately, although I never listen to pop music and don't have a clue who this person is, I hear "shit day" all the time. It's not local. Shit job, shit time -- shitty is just too long and what the telegram failed to condense, the text message did and that's the shit.
That's genius. It's a "genius" idea. . . aaaaargghhhh. And just to make certain that our speech is the child of anarchy -- 'cause the rule is we don't like no rules -- it's OK to say "sucky" but not "shitty" and don't ask why, or you're just too old.
Pop culture: something adults get rich from by selling to adolescents.
Adult: people who wish they were thirteen.