Something That Really Grates On My Nerves Even Though I Have No Room To Talk On The Subject
March 29, 2008
When you find a new band that you love love love and you can’t listen to it around your spawn because the f-bomb is in it.
Jenorama recommended Vampire Weekend to me on Twitter and I bought a bunch of their songs off iTunes, courtesy of Kimberly @ Petroville. Thanks Kimberly! (Do you know how awesome Kimberly is? Of course you do.)
Anyway, I put my shiny new iPod into the cool ipod radio thingy I won at my cousin’s Jack and Jill and fired up a little Vampire Weekend as Daren and I were making dinner. We were dancing in the kitchen, laughing, cutting up veggies for baked nachos and grilling chicken. Mmmm grilled chicken…
The next song came on and the first line is “Who gives a fuck about acts of Karma?”
Ugh.
Fast forward to the next song. Which also included the phrase “fucked some women.”
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
They are a great band. A talented band. I’m not saying that artists shouldn’t swear because the Great Bagel In The Sky KNOWS that I swear on a regular fucking basis. I mostly curb it around my kids though.
It’s just the old man in my husband comes out and wags his finger at me when I introduce him to a new band and they say fuck. Don’t the Gods of Music know I’m trying to teach my loving man that there is music beyond Country?
I wish Willie Nelson would come out with a song where he says fuck so I can say “See? See? It’s an artist thing, not just my fucking taste in fucking music, fucker.”
March 29th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Doesn’t WalMart get clean versions of these songs? Not that I know that to be true, but I heard a rumor. I don’t go to WalMart…we broke up.
Hilly’s last blog post..A Little More Bite And A Little Less Bark….
March 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
March 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Yeah, WM does carry the CENSORED versions of the songs. I don’t agree with it, but they do. (I don’t go there anymore, but I was born and bred in Arkansas, aka WalMart-land.)
My DH never seems to like the same stuff I do. It’s really frustrating.
Christy’s last blog post..I guess it’s better than pollen.
March 29th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Go get Bruce Robison’s “What Would Willie Do.”
Course then, your hubby will be hooked on country all over again, but it’s an awesome fucking song.
Ben’s last blog post..Times three
March 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I have a whole playlist of songs that say fuck, just because it makes me feel good.
Whit’s last blog post..Alarm Clocks and Wedding Bells
March 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I want to leave a comment just so I can say fuck in someones comments.
I fucking loved the last line of the post the most.
Mrs. F’s last blog post..Adventures with Scissors for a 4-Year Old
March 29th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Babe, my kids know all the words to Blister in the Sun by the Violent Femmes. Sooooo not appropriate. But at least there’s no F bomb for them to repeat in preschool!
Lawyer Mama’s last blog post..For Jenny, The Bloggess
March 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I say fuck that, listen to it now, explain later.
What? Bad parenting on my part? Yeah you’re probably right. Shame on me!
I heard Dawson say shit the other day and I giggled like a maniac.
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March 29th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Thanks for mentioning Vampire Weekend! I hopped over to their site and listened to the two songs they have up. Instant. Love.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
heh - good luck with that - even Charlie Daniels changed son of a bitch to son of a gun for country radio. The only time you can swear in country music, apparently, is when you are being patriotic and “putting a boot in someone’s ass” (and don’t get me wrong, I LIKE country.
And another vote for “what would Willie do”
I go through the same thing with my son, though. He likes Nickelback and their songs are all full of drug use and sex. I hate the walmart censorship, though, so I let him listen to some and talk to him about what he hears. but “fuck” would be off limits, regardless of how many times a day I say it outside the kids’ hearing (approximately thirty thousand, for the record).
March 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Good news–there are clean versions (sometimes called “radio” mixes out on ITunes as well. Just go out and download the clean ones of the songs you like! I had to do that with some Kanye, Pink and Gwen Stefani songs after I was shocked to actually hear the real versions. My son’s obsessed with listening to my ipod right now, so I decided better safe than sorry!
Thanks for the tip on the new band!
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March 30th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I buy the clean versions on itunes too, just in case the kiddies are listening in. But not everything is clean enought, which sucks because my kids love music and sometimes they miss out on some pretty great stuff.
March 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
“See? See? It’s an artist thing, not just my fucking taste in fucking music, fucker.”
YES!
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April 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Make Daren listen to “Never Smoke Weed With Willie” by Tobey Keith (I think). It’s all about smoking weed with Willie Nelson! Willie is so totally NOT innocent. I’ve smoked weed with Willie.