Reply To: Your Vote for the Worst Rock / Pop Lyric of All Time

[peter]

On MagicRuss said

A huge chunk of the Black Eyed Peas catalog qualifies.  Which is not surprising when you consider the original title of “Let’s Get It Started” (replace “It Started” with a rhyming slur for mentally disabled people which the forum won’t let me post here).

Good point. I forgot about that one. That is a profoundly good selection. I admit, I was just thinking of silly, dumb lyrics. That one was truly rotten. I’m not a fan of censorship, but I am a fan of decency, consideration, empathy, and kindness to others — especially society’s most vulnerable members. The band and the record company really failed on that one. And I won’t say too much, but my employer — my department, the  marketing dept (I wasn’t the CMO) — at the time was actually working with the Blacked Eyed Peas back then and I was pretty sickened when I learned the original lyric of that song. There’s even more to the story, but I’ll stop there. I’ve already overshared too many times!

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