Prompt: "A song with a title that features two of the following words: 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' (not including 'the'!!!!)"
Selected by Sara
"Dog & a Fox"
Foxy Brown ft. DMX
Chyna Doll, 1999
This song is NSFW, wear your headphones if you're at work or if you attempt to censor language around the kiddos.
Censorship has always been a hot button issue in American media. My first memory of censorship was probably from the I Love the 80s show where they went into the censorship case from 1985 that had Dee Snider in the center of it all. Tipper Gore that thought the vulgar language and themes in the music would corrupt children. Little did she know her husband would lead the charge nine years later to grant internet access to all underage persons, giving them unlimited access to pornography and even more disturbing spaces. Next major censorship memory of mine was in the aftermath of the Columbine shootings. New outlets swore that it was the violent video games the shooters played that caused them to slaughter thirteen students and take their own lives. Most recently, the uproar of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP," leading millions to explain to their boomer parents what a WAP is.
In general, a lot of censorship is rooted in some puritanical bullshit, continually blurring that church and state line that has never been crisp. People also love a scapegoat, and it might as well be profanity in music. When really the root of the issue is how people are raised and how they react to it. How parents will ignore these conversations because they are too hard. How there is abysmal mental health care in the US for adults and even worse for children. This doesn't mean that there shouldn't be consequences for the words used, but you cannot pretend that listening to "WAP" is going to wholly change a person into how they conduct themselves.
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