Thursday, 23 October 2014

#14: One Music Video that is Over (or close) to the Line

I think that Green Day's "Kill the DJ" is most definitely over the line, with regards to violence, profanity, and general controversial nature.  Although the video itself is not brutal for graphic images, the video does include the band's bass player giving the camera the finger, as well as people making out in a club, a violent fight between two women during which one of them had a glass bottle broken over them, and the conclusion, during which blood ran down the face of nearly everyone in the club.  The lyrical content is what really stands out.  The lyrics themselves contain 18 swear words (that's an average of like one every ten seconds), all of which are the "f" word.  While that is offensive to some people, it is mostly the content, which gives the listener not one but two ways to kill the DJ: you could "shoot the f**r down" or "hold him underwater till the m********r drowns".  There are also two sets of religiously charged lyrics: "Sodom and Gomorrah in the century of thrills" and "In the holiest of holes,  onward Christian soldiers filled with jive and mind control".  Finally, as if that weren't enough, there is also a reference to drug use: "a pocket full of pills".  All in all, the song promotes violence, drug use, profanity, and you could go so far as to say anti-religious messages.  I think this together certainly qualifies as "over the line".

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