[OT] The whole artists rights to poiticals views debate
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.
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Martin Bradbury