The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #76250   Message #2701629
Posted By: Stringsinger
16-Aug-09 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: Songs that offend you
Subject: RE: Songs that offend you
Woody used to say "I hate a song that makes a man feel small, no 'count"
(I'm paraphrasing. Someone can send the right quote.)

In context, I am not offended by any song. Each song holds a point-of-view which
I'm not obliged with which to agree.

I will however not promote any song that I believe is disagreeable to me unless it
is in context with a performance wherein I can express my distaste or disagreement
with it.

I am not easily offended because I have been on the upside of the see-saw.

Langston Hughes said, "Cheap little rhyme to cheap little tune is sometimes
as dangerous as the sliver of a moon. Cheap little tune to cheap little
rhyme will cut a man's throat sometime". (Wisdom, there).

Frank Hamilton