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[theweaselking]

Michigan school board bans eighth grade band from performing "Louie Louie" - because the unintelligible lyrics, which the band don't sing, are allegedly "raunchy".

Comments

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Raunchy? (http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/louielouielyrics.html) Oh brother.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, there's nothing else to do except *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* repeatedly.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

If they're unintelligible, how can they be raunchy? Isn't that a little like saying "this book is in a language I don't know how to read, so it must be some kind of smut"?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Yes, it is.

That was, in fact, the driving force behind all the attempts to ban that song, when it was new.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

The saddest part is that I'm not the least bit surprised. Stupid morons.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

*eye twitch*

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

... and some people wonder why I want the fuck out of this damn country. I love the American ideal, but the goddamned idiot fundamentalists are fucking it all up.