Heres something new then. The point is, for years
artists of various kinds have not had the freedom
of
expression that they have now (its not completely
liberal now but more so than 10 years ago). In the
late 80's we had NWA's Fuck The Police thing and
the Public Enemy Professor Griff thing as well as
Pepsi pussying out of the Madonna deal. Then in
the 90's we had the 2 Live Crew case, Ice T's
Copkiller thing and the Bill Hicks' final Letterman
appearance being cut.
People still blame artists for all sorts of thing
but
the authorities havnt got the same power to censor
(or at least they dont do it so often) as they used
to.
The "Judas Priest Suicide" case wouldnt get the
time
of day in the year 2003. Apart from the attempted
censoring of Moore's "Stupid White Men" I cant
think of a recent one and in the end it still got
released, as did "Smack My Bitch Up", as did
Manson's and Eminem's new records.
So after all the shit over the last 40 years, I
think
artists should be allowed to say whatever they
want.