Yes, in the latest example of PC insanity, the Daily News suggested five artists that should be banned from SPOTIFY along with R. Kelly. Robert Kelly, an illiterate accused of sex with underage girls, pissing on women, making them zombies in some way or another, was the recent subject of a mighty "mute R. Kelly" Twitter campaign. Ooh, it's working, sort of.
Let's remember, this is not coming from a "fake news" site or somebody's blog. It's coming from the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, which means that an editor, if not an entire editorial board, thought that million should be reading this.
Here are the five artists the Daily News thinks should NOT be heard by SPOTIFY subscribers:
The case against R. Kelly is fairly logical. The guy abuses women. Should be be condoned for it? Allowed to get royalties for his songs which don't overtly suggest women be pissed on or abused while underage? SPOTIFY feels that he is violating their "Terms of Service." Which is easy to do. Just say "you're violating our Terms of Service..." and find some clause or other such as, "we reserve the right to do what we please for any reason at all."
The other five?
CHRIS BROWN has had scuffles with the law. Hurting him financially on Spotify might send a message to him. Like, "Be happy you're selling on Amazon with Jeff Bezos, and that you don't have Judd Apatow screaming that venues shouldn't ever book you."
TED NUGENT is an asshole but he's entitled to his opinions, and his fantasies. He wants to sing about sex with "jailbait?" There's a difference between singing about it and doing it, and in these wonderful United States, age of consent varies wildly, as does the age in which a girl can marry. Which brings us to...
JERRY LEE LEWIS. The Daily News is pissed off that Jerry Lee Lewis married a 13 year-old. The marriage lasted quite a long time. There are many states in America where it's legal to marry a girl that young. There are states where you can marry a boy that young or a tree or a piece of lawn furniture. Where's the legal justification for knocking him off Spotify? Because he had great balls of fire?
PHIL SPECTOR was convicted of shooting a woman in the mouth. He claimed it was suicide, but the jury thought he wigged out. A producer, the Daily News would be happy if you never heard The Beatles' "Let it Be" album on Spotify ever again. Well, Paul McCartney might be happy about it, but I doubt Macca would agree with the reason for such a ban. Do this, and a vast amount of famous "Wall of Sound" singles would be gone, and the artists deprived of their royalties. Why punish them for what their producer did? What's next, ban Spade Cooley records?
Spade Cooley was a killer. And do you draw the line at killers, or do you add rapists, and then perhaps drunk drivers or robbers? How about celebrity suicides? That's illegal, you know. Kill yourself and you are technically a killer.
RICHARD WAGNER, whose music is banned in Israel is suggested for a SPOTIFY ban because he was an anti-Semite. We're a bit late on this one. Do we ban every racist who, in unenlightened times, had cracked views on genetics? The point might be to spurn people who are alive and need to understand their idiocy. Like Roger Waters.
ROGER WATERS is an anti-Semite and a hater. So is PETER GABRIEL. They both want sanctions against Israel, and NO other country, because they believe Israel, and ONLY Israel, is an apartheid nation. Which it isn't. Waters is one of the Top 10 money-earners in rock. He tours the world and anti-Semites cheer him and his Nazi-esque outfits and flying pig balloons. To have his stuff banned by SPOTIFY might send an economic sanctions message. See how HE likes it.
Claiming a woman is a witch, or a man is a Communist, is ancient stupid and lethal non-thinking. Now it's claiming everyone is a racist, or a misogynist, or a pedophile. The bony finger points to...Al Franken for touching a tush. OUT he goes. To Jeffrey Tambor for being a big dumb celebrity who thought he could put the make on a co-worker. OUT he goes. And...JERRY LEE LEWIS is a pedophile? And we should check the list of convicts and go from Phil Spector to Spade Cooley on down the line, preventing people from having the choice of listening to their work or not?
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