Aaarrrr ... get off my lawn!!! Young whippersnappers!!

No, seriously, do we need to unfurl the Cobra Starship at a family event?

Song lyrics as played at Peden tonight:
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I make them good girls go bad
I make them good girls go
Good girls go bad
(Good girls go bad)

I know your type
(Your type)
You're daddy's little girl
Just take a bite
(One bite)
Let me shake up your world
'Cause just one night couldn't be so wrong
I'm gonna make you lose control

She was so shy
Till I drove her wild
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Now this would be great at a bar or a house party (except for the song being crappy), but cranking the decibels for hundreds of kids to hear? Gameday experience details .. I know ...

Just for humor's sake: DigitalSpy gave the song one star out of five, saying it is "one of the most boorish, witless singles in recent memory.The music is bad enough, its sub-GaGa production bearing all the class of a street-bought 'Romex' watch. Somehow though, the lyrics manage to take the song into a whole new world of awful, reading like a passion-free imbecile manifesto." According to the review, the song is likely to be the "emotionally and artistically most bankrupt pop song" of 2009."

That's nothing compared to the mother****** dropped by Eminem over the PA system at the Arkansas State basketball game.  

Really?  Have you put the call into Schaus asking for more Sinatra or Perry Como?  I figured someone would find a fault with the game last night, I just didn't think this would be it. 

Check out the lyrics to Party Rock Anthem.  That song had the 110 all over the media.  Should we put a stop to this immediately, too?

Hypocrite much?







Unless I'm mistaken, the 110 doesn't sing the lyrics. It's an instrumental version.

THAT was completely inexcusable. I could see a good number of folks cringing in the rows around me. I don't mind them playing bad music (so long as it's clean)...but playing unedited stuff is completely bush league. This has happened way too much this year, especially at basketball and volleyball.

There's another song that's dropped the f-bomb at several volleyball games. No idea who it's by, but needs to get off the playlist ASAP. Again, this stuff is just inexcuseable....

I'm genuinely surprised people still get offended by profanity as though it's not commonplace or something they're liable to hear during the game anyway.

I think most of us can tolerate the music choices, even if it's not something we'd be listening to in the car. But I think most of us can also agree that profanity is crossing the line. There's a big difference between "suggestive" lyrics and having "mother f*****" blast over the sound system at Peden or the Convo.

the lyrics to Good Girls Go Bad are so vague that they could just as easily be describing the plot to Footloose, but somehow all you hear is xxx porn? I think the problem is that you're a pervert. We're all watching a Dairy Queen comercial and you're telling us its 2 girls 1 cup.

as for the songs with actual expletives, I agree those shouldn't be played over the PA.

After canceling my holiday plans to spend yesterday carefully considering perimeterpost's airtight logic and persuasive prose (and discussing it with tribal elders), I've come to the conclusion that I was wrong.

Of the estimated 15 million songs commercially produced in the U.S. during the modern era, we should by all means choose one to play at football games that teaches kids about the random hookup.

What was I thinking?

Also, having been duly criticized as both a moralist and a pervert by Brad Lohaus (aka perimeterpost), I've decided that my New Year's resolution is to be less like Pastor Ted Haggard.

However, neither I nor any of the tribal elders have any idea what "2 girls 1 cup" means, so this might be a case of the pot and the kettle with perimeterpost needing some remediation too..

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the pros and cons for mild censorship in this thread split roughly along the lines of those who have had the pleasure of explaing *($F$WF to their 6 year old and those who haven't.  That was kind of the dividing line in my tendency to more puritanical thinking.

No one should be subjected to X rated anything in any public venue when there is no reason to expect same beforehand and I sure don't expect it at a college basketball game.  If I was to buy tickets to an Eminem show, that would be different.  I'm willing to bet I could even tolerate "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" at my next Beatles reunion.

And we're a party school?