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Thread #172634   Message #4180201
Posted By: Backwoodsman
29-Aug-23 - 02:24 AM
Thread Name: Putin songs
Subject: RE: Putin songs
”First of all, I've got to admit as a songwriter for just over 50 years I would have loved to have written Hitler -he's only got one ball. In a way a song like that renders criticism of Hitler superfluous. It doesn't need to say 'your ambitions for a thousand year reich are absurd, your cruelty and ignorance is repulsive, and you have failed on every level as a human being.' THe juxtaposition of the Nazi grandiosity with the abusive doggerel that expresses our contempt - it’s part of the songwriters magic.”

Absolutely Nail/Head, Al.