Pop songs that would be canceled today

The Police—Don’t Stand So Close To Me

Into the Night by Benny Mardones wouldn’t have made it past the opening lyrics.

Among others, Hot for Teacher

2 Live Crew—Pop That Coochie

Having My Baby

None of these songs are canceled- you still hear them on the radio.

OP is a Republican trying to spew "cancel culture" talking points

Tim McGraw—Indian Outlaw

That one where Ted Nugent talks about gang raping a 13 year old girl

Warrant - Cherry Pie 🍒

Racist.

Turning Japanese

Carl Douglas —Kung Fu Fighting

Without question, Jack Jones’s Wives and Lovers.

Genesis—Illegal Alien

The proper term is undocumented!

R13 great minds think alike! LOL

I’m turning this into a playlist —please continue to share!

The Crystals - He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap:

"Young Girl"

"This Girl is a Woman Now"

Rolling Stones —Brown Sugar

Katy Perry - Ur So Gay

[Quote] " While she looks at you so cooly And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea She comes in incense and patchouli So you take her, to find what's waiting inside "

Sexist pig! How dare he!

Canceled!

HOW DARE SHE! I'm mean he?

The Youtube comments say it all.

The lil faggot with earing...

"Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man You better keep your head, little girl Or I won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl Hide your head in the sand, little girl Catch you with another man That's the end, little girl"

Girl, you'll be a woman soon

Please, come take my hand

Girl, you'll be a woman soon

Soon, you'll need a man

I beg to differ, R2.

No shade to R24 but I’m so tired of Gen Z bitching about early rock ‘n’ roll songs like “You’re Sixteen,” not understanding that 16-year-old girls are who they were trying to sell records to.

“It’s ok, you’re 12!”

R14- NO

The proper term is ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Short People by Randy Newman

You never hear this one anymore....and it was a huge hit. I remember loving hearing it blare from the cassette player in my mother's Mustang.

Yes, I'm old.

"Hey well I'm a friendly stranger in the black Sedan Won't you hop inside my car? I got pictures, got candy I'm a lovable man And I can take you to the nearest star"

Those horns are incredible, though

Would this song be canceled? It makes me feel unsafe.

Also, R29, the songs about being 16 were typically sung from the point of view of a high school boy falling in love with his girl. These were the romantic songs that folks back then danced to at their damn high school proms. It's annoying that some folks can't find that context, it's like they do a Google search for '16', and assume the worst.

Ringo (or the writer Bobby Sherman) wasn't saying that he himself wanted to bang a minor.

This song implies stalking is ok. Canceled!

I thought this was a woman singing until I was an adult. Lol

Blurred Lines

"To Sir, With Lurve"

Ebony and Ivory aka Get Over It, Black Folks

If this song was released today the entire world would be outraged! Billions would protest!

Another Aerosmith song that is problematic.

Exclusionary and ableist to people without arms

R42 I don't think it's that problematic. Yes, there's child abuse, and using fire arms and all that jazz, but in the end is an old fashioned song about vengeance

Yeah, he had it comin’.

Lou Reed - I wanna be black

Check out the lyrics, song is complete with soul sisters singing the chorus

I wanna be black Have natural rhythm Shoot twenty feet of jism, too and fuck up Jews I wanna be black I wanna be a Panther Have a girlfriend named Samantha And have a stable of foxy whores Oh I wanna be black I don't wanna be a fucked up, middle class, college student anymore I just want to have a stable of foxy little whores Yeah, yeah I wanna be black

I wanna be black I wanna be like Martin Luther King and get myself shot in spring And lead a whole generation too And Fucked up the Jews

I wanna be black, I wanna be like Malcolm X and cast a hex over President Kennedy's tomb And have a big prick, too

I don't wanna be a fucked up, middle class, college student anymore

Every Breath You Take

Talk about a stalker's anthem!

Baby It's Cold Outside

Under My Thumb by the Rolling Stones

It's down to me

Yes it is

The way she does just what she's told down to me

The change has come

She's under my thumb

Ah, ah, say it's alright

The Rolling Stones discography is pretty sketchy nowadays.

Sexy + 17 by the Stray Cats

R47 I don't see the problem with a song about a stalker, they never pretended the song is any other thing. It's not their problem if some people think it's a love song.

But on the other hand, all Nick Cave's Murder ballads album ...

Dude, Looks Like a Lady.

I actually just heard it and was shocked they played it. Or was allowed to play it.

R37 that looks like the actress that played Angel in the 80's trashtastic B movie I used to watch over and over on HBO late night. A student by day, Hollywood hooker by night. The VHS cover even had her back to back dressed as both for effect.

“Man, I Feel Like a Woman”.

R55 And what's exactly the problem with that song?

The “cis”, R56.

And, Shania dressed up as a man in the video.

Marcie Blane - Bobby's Girl

When people ask of me "What would you like to be now that you're not a kid anymore?" I know just what to say I answer right away There's just one thing I've been wishing for I wanna be Bobby's girl I wanna be Bobby's girl That's the most important thing to me And if i was Bobby's girl If I was Bobby's girl What a faithful, thankful girl I'd be Each night I sit at home hoping that he will phone But, I know Bobby has someone else Still in my heart I pray there soon will come the day When I will have him all to myself

Dude Looks Like a Lady

[quote]“Man, I Feel Like a Woman”.

Literal.

Violence.

Young girl, get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line. Better run girl, you're much too young girl.

"When your body's had enough of me And I'm layin' flat out on the floor When you think I've loved you all I can I'm gonna love you a little bit more"

"Can't keep my hands to myself Think I'll dust 'em off, put 'em back up on the shelf In case my little baby girl is in need Am I coming out of left field?"

WWWWHHHHAAAAAAT!!!!!! Hands? Baby girl???? Aka Molestation?

"Got another mouth to feed Leave her with a baby sitter, mama, call the grave digger Gone with the fallen leaves Am I coming out of left field?"

WWWWHHHHAAAAAAT!!!!!! Baby sitter? Mamma? Graves? Aka Murder of women?

R26 even Lennon hated that song and regretted it.

Sooooooo “problematic” lol

Great song, even better video, could not be made today.

I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (teen suicide)

I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (Girl with a gun shoots students at a school across the street. Based on a true story)

Reading this thread and you’re all right. People these days being offended by the slightest thing is just becoming exhausting.

Stalking alert -invasion of privacy

Possible date rape/regret sex/misunderstanding of non-visual cues

Personal interaction/dating/sex. Why be friends or date someone nearby when I can interact with thousands online?

Sorry wrong thread

Shame, because the song's got a killer melody

Spinners - Ghetto Child

No wonder he's reduced to shilling for walk-in tubs.

Raped And Freezin’ by Chynna Phillips

OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! R71 WINS !!!!!!!! I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING !!!!!! THANK YOU, R71 !!!!!! YOU MADE MY DAY !!!!!

Valid lyric message, but now problematic messenger;

Indian Reservation - Paul Revere & the Raiders

China girl is actually about heroin.

[quote] [R42] I don't think it's that problematic. Yes, there's child abuse, and using fire arms and all that jazz, but in the end is an old fashioned song about vengeance

Uh, isn't this thread dedicated to OLD FASHIONED values that could get you canceled, like gun violence? Nowadays, you use social media and social media memes to take revenge.

Speaking of stalking almost threatening. Every Breath You Take

The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb

A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash

Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman

R79 but the video would not be allowed today.

Every Breath You Take is just a bland love song. Sting tried to make it “edgy” by pretending it was about stalking his ex wife, except he dumped her for his thirsty neighbor! Clearly, he wasn’t interested in his first wife anymore.

Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man

R84, how on earth would Oh Pretty Woman get canceled??

I have to keep looking up lyrics to some of the submissions here, and this one has zero trace of "problematic". It's the simplest song ever. He thinks a woman is pretty and wants to have a date with her. There are no lyrics to suggest he's touching her, or forcing her to do anything. Is this an issue because it sounds like 'catcalling' to you?

Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy

Blurred Lines by Robin Thick

Ask HR about complimenting someone’s appearance in any way these days.

Another future regret sex/date rape allegation song

R88, can you explain this one.

Stevie is talking about going to her favorite vintage store on Haight Street, to shop there again like she did in the old times, when she was more wayward and unfocused, before she became a grownup successful artist making money. She's reminiscing about how she used to be supposedly free, and yet how she had to transform in order to love herself, and be truly free, unlike the memory, which is captured in time forever. It's a perfect and personal song, that many can relate to.

What on earth about that would someone try to cancel? The song is still played a lot on nostalgia radio.

Yes - Gypsy is far from cancel worthy.

Anything and everything by Rihanna. Not because it's somehow socially unacceptable, but because it sucks, and she's a FUCKING CUNT.

Ching Chong

I love Peggy

R87 It's about a creepy, shallow stranger chasing a woman down a street. It can be terrifying for some women.

It's about men judging women by their looks only...a sure fire way to a lasting and meaningful relationship.

"So caught up in you little girl"

38 Special? Idk heard it on an oldies station yesterday.

Cher

Was just talking about this the other day

Not really a pop song, but the Rolling Stones "Some Girls" has the following lyric:

[italic] French girls they want Cartier, Italian girls want cars

American girls want everything in the world you can possibly imagine

English girls they're so prissy, I can't stand them on the telephone

Sometimes I take the receiver off the hook, I don't want them to ever call at all

White girls they're pretty funny, sometimes they drive me mad

Black girls just wanna get fucked all night, I just don't have that much jam

Chinese girls are so gentle, they're really such a tease

You never know quite what they're cookin', inside those silky sleeves [/italic]

Twitter would literally have a meltdown over all the "literal violence" in those lyrics.

What about this one?

An endless list.

I Like Big Butts

I love this song.

So you just ASSUMED my dugout is nappy?

Would this song have to be retitled “Women 18 Years & Older”?

I always thought that song at R106 was one of the stupidest dudebro try hard songs imaginable. I had a roommate who played this non stop and was a huge slut. Always talking about getting laid and being horny. He did hook up a lot but never got in relationships. He would also randomly walk up to girls in public and tell them they were beautiful and offer up the creepiest compliments. Then one month we got this crazy ass phone bill so I looked to see where all the charges were from. It was a weird ass 999 number or some shit like that so I dialed it and it turned out to be a chat line for bi curious guys. He had spent 55 minutes one time and another 36 mins a second time. I didn't want to bust him since I wasn't out myself then and he acted like he didn't know anything about it. Only two of us lived there and it wasn't me so... I always wondered what that was all about. Anyway it got longwinded but anytime I hear that song it reminds of that guy who was the worst douche dudebro before dudebros were a thing.

R93, I disagree

R5 That one even made me cringe back in the day.. Having MY baby, not OUR? I realize that was just an expression, but it was a paternalistic expression that was waaaaay past it’s prime when this song came out.

They’d all be cancelled by those snowflakes! They’re coming for all of us!!!

How 'bout "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"?

I think there were always people who were upset with The Cure's song, "Killing An Arab," because they never took the time to learn what it was actually about.

[quote] The Police—Don’t Stand So Close To Me

That was my ex-boyfriend's favorite song! he said it reminded him of me.

Got me cancelled. God Bless America.

It's a good thing all of these songs have been cancelled. Otherwise we might not have the incredibly talented pop stars of today.

Honey. Bobby Goldsboro. Dumb misogynistic song.

The way it described the dingbat wife reminded me of Edith Bunker.

[quote]Baby It's Cold Outside

I believe that song IS cancelled today, unfortunately.

"Creepy uncles", please rise for your national anthem:

This promotes infidelity!

“Japanese Boy” by Aneka.

It’s hilariously egregious.

And of course "Turning Japanese" which is actually about masturbation (Brit slang based on your O-face)

That awful Butterfly Kisses always gave me the creeps. And should be cancelled

Sexual harassment case

It should be Cisgender Female Curvature

Prostitution / Human trafficking / Women in danger

Queen - "Fat Bottomed Girls"

Oh Loretta

Paul Anka - "Having My Baby"

Fire - Pointer Sisters

No really means yes

You're pullin' me close I just say 'no' / I say I don't like it / But you know I'm a liar / 'Cause when we kiss/ Ooooh, fire.

Stalking / Women in danger

The Move, Chinatown

"...I can find a goodtime girl in Chinatown, dancing in my shoes..."

Can you imagine.....

Blondie - Kung Fu Girls

Kidnapping / Rape

Yes we can, R132.

It's alright, I'm not dangerous When you're mine, I'll be generous You're irreplaceable A collectible, (Just like) Just like fine china

My Girl Bill !

CB Savage !!!!

I Wanna Sex You Up -- Color Me Badd

Spin Doctors - "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"

It's been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town / It's been a whole lot happier without her face around

In the UK especially, where it's become an unofficial Christmas standard, some people have tried to cancel The Pogues' Fairytale of New York, mostly for the line "You cheap lousy faggot". But apparently they have no problems with "You're an old slut on junk".

Beastie Boys' "Girls" ("Girls, to do the dishes, to clean up my room, to do the laundry, and in the bathroom")

[quote]Every Breath You Take is just a bland love song. Sting tried to make it “edgy” by pretending it was about stalking his ex wife, except he dumped her for his thirsty neighbor! Clearly, he wasn’t interested in his first wife anymore.

All this information is totally inaccurate.

Sting actually said in an interview, he wrote the music as a romantic pop song, then specifically wrote the stalker lyrics to see if EBYT would be misinterpreted as a love song and it was! It’s hilarious when couples choose this for a song to be played at their weddings!

I remember Marilyn McCoo and the late Andy Gibb, then the hosts of ‘Solid Gold’, gazing into each others eyes while singing this song. Way too may thought EBYT was a love song. It’s about a stalker, end of story.

No, Sting didn’t write this for his ex-wife Irish actress Frances Tomelty. The ‘thirsty neighbor' you are referring to is Trudie Styler, his current wife. Trudie was actually best friends with Frances, this was before Trudie became their London neighbor.

Frances and Trudie were both in The Royal Shakespeare Company, where they met and became friends. At that point, Frances was already married to Sting. When they married Frances was a bit older than Sting and more established in her acting career, Sting was nowhere near famous when they married.

While hanging with Frances, Trudie set her eyes on Sting, she also saw dollar signs. At that point, Sting was already quite rich and famous when she starting pursuing him. Trudie, then went to the extent of getting an apartment near Sting and Frances' London apartment. Trudie basically stalked Sting.

Before becoming an actress, Trudie was an escort, her clients were mostly rich Mid-Eastern men. In interviews, she simply mentioned working at London 'gentlemen's club', that's not the truth. Trudie's background is rather sordid. She lies about most of it. Trudie grew up quite poor, in a home without an inside toilet. She also claims to have grown up in Italy, on a vineyard, she claims Italy is her home country, she's not Italian and she wasn't born there. Her father was a factory worker and a farmer, she was born and raised in Worcestershire.

This delusional woman must pinch herself everyday, she probably cannot believe her good fortune. Financially Trudie has faired much better than Frances, Sting didn't give Frances much in their divorce settlement. Isn't that always the case with the first wife, or partner, who stands by a partner with showbiz aspirations, they financially support them for years, they then get dumped for some airhead.

R143 It’s incredible the way straight men have no standards.

Creepy uncles, please stay standing for your finale!

R80 Yes, i'm pretty sure child abusers are really scared of memes.

That girl put a bullet on her bastard father abuser and made justice, runaway, ruuunaway from the pain

Pumped up kicks on the other hand is about a high school shooting. The curious thing is that the lyrics are obscure enough to not being canceled even when there were several shootings while the song was a surprise top 10 radio hit

R137’s song should be canceled just for having Savile in the thumbnail!

Oh. My!

Not exactly the song, but the video looks pretty offensive the guys with huge afros can have that "native" look.

There's also Bananarama in blackface, a nod to Diana Ross and The Supremes and those black girl groups of the '60s

it is clear that many of you do not listen to any music that has been recorded in the last couple of decades. Smh.

(I Love It When You) Call Me Names - Joan Armatrading (1983)

Bel Div Devoe- Do Me! This lyric would get them in trouble today. "Back stage, underage, adolescent, how you doing?'

R150, that's because this is the music we feel would be canceled today. The music of the last couple decades has already been sanitized for your convenience, dear.

I don't think there's such cancelations.

Reaggeton and hip hop are full of songs with very questionable lyrics and nobody is cancelling them

These aren't pop songs, R154. Do try to keep up.

I think it's already been cancelled, but "Blurred Lines" is so rapey it's hard to believe it was made not so long ago.

And not only made, it was a huge hit (with 11 or 12 weeks at number one of the billboard hot 100)

Lots of attention to lyrics here, when most people really don't pay much attention to them

As they said in my day, It has a good beat and I can dance to it

Cousin Dupree - Steely Dan

..Now I've come back home to plan my next move from the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch

When I see my little cousin Janine walk in , all I could say was ow-ow-ouch

Honey how you've grown like a rose

Well we used to play when we were three - how about a kiss for your cousin Dupree

She turned my life into a living hell, in those little tops and tight capris

I pretended to be readin' the National Probe, as I was watchin' her wax her skis

On Saturday night she walked in with her date, and backs him up against the wall

I tumbled off the couch and heard myself sing, in a voice I never knew I had before...

Didn’t Robin Thicke get sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate over Blurred Lines?

R153 Well, no. I think he's referring to the music of today having the most obscene, offensive, scurrilous language imaginable. Whatever the opposite of "sanitized" that's the description of a lot of music today.... not to pick on rap and hip hop, but there are most obvious examples there.

[quote]"I let him hit it 'cause he slang cocaine / He toss my salad like his name Romaine."

A very mild example from Nicki Minaj

R156 that Emily Rataksojski or whatever her name has such a annoying expression. A decade on this video and her being nude in it remains her claim to fame but still gets her a story in the Daily Mail every day.

R161, that's still approved language, though isn't it? We're talking about POP songs of the PAST that wouldn't pass the muster today.

The whole point of this thread is to underline how the old pop music had a lot of themes like incest, rape, dating minors, lusting after minors, abusing your wife, and generally showing male dominance. Songs about cocaine and drinking, and general sexuality existed back then and do today. That's not being canceled nor would it be today....as is evidenced by your post.

R163 Songs about bitches and hoes and wet ass pussy (objectification of women! cancel!)

Songs about hitting women to let them know who's boss! (male dominance and abuse! cancel!)

Songs about fags (homophobia! cancel!)

And don't make me give you examples, these are pretty common elements

By the standards you are asserting, these examples have not been "sanitized" by any measure (the poster's point). These songs contain elements of "songs from the past" that posters are suggesting would be canceled today. Pretty simple point, really.

R67

That was long a misheard lyrics thing for me (mondegreen), where I wondered how lyrics "F*ck the cashbox!" got on the airwaves?

[quote] Didn’t Robin Thicke get sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate over Blurred Lines?

Yes, and Marvin Gaye's estate won.

Everybody, run! The homecoming queen's got a gun.

Funky Cold Medina by Tone Loc for a couple problematic verses alluding to putting things in womens' drinks so they'll consent to sex, and then a very transphobic passage of lyrics.

[quote]This brother told me a secret on how to get more chicks/Put a little Medina in your glass and the girls'll come real quick/It's better than any alcohol or aphrodisiac/A couple of sips of this love potion and she'll be on your lap

[quote]So, I took her to my crib and everything went well as planned/But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man/So, I threw him out, I don't fool around with no Oscar Meyer wiener/You must be sure that the girl is pure for the Funky Cold Medina/You know, ain't no plans with a man/This is the 80's and I'm down with the ladies/Break it down

Sweet Little Sixteen

You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine

R167, that is indeed a perfect example. It was just a funny novelty song in the 80s, but that was before school shootings was a thing.

Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson

Michael Jackson, "Pretty (Really, Really, REALLY) Young Thing"

Honey, he was never talking about a female. He was being bitchy about Dirty Diana and letting us know there was no way Billie Jean's kid was not his because he would never fuck her. You know being a woman and all.

R29, I'm sick of elderly Republicans complaining about all these songs being "canceled" when every single one is still played on the radio

I literally just heard P.Y.T

Who are you talking about R174? Are there elderly GOPs complaining about these songs being canceled?

China Girl is about heroin. This is one of my favorite tunes by Bowie. Another one gone too soon.

R176, not quite.

Paul Trynka, the author of the David Bowie biography, Starman, explains the song [for Iggy Pop's 1977 album The Idiot] was inspired by Iggy Pop's infatuation with Kuelan Nguyen, a Vietnamese woman, as a metaphor for his Stooges career. It was written by Iggy, with collaboration from Bowie at the time.

When Nile Rodgers' was producing Bowie's 1983 remake, he offered an alternative explanation to Bowie; it's about speed balling coke and heroin. China (white) was the heroin, girl was the coke, and Bowie was down with the multiple salacious meanings in a pop song, so they went for it.

Always thought this was a great catchy song, but I never paid much attention to the lyrics, The Sir Douglas Quintet's "Mendocino".

Teeny bopper, my teenage lover

I caught your wave last night

It sent my mind a-wonderin'

You're such a groove, please don't move

Please stay in my love house by the river

Fast-talkin' guys with strange red eyes

Have put things in your head

And start your mind a-wonderin'

I love you so, please don't go

Please stay here with me in Mendocino

Mendocino, Mendocino

Where life's such a groove

You'll blow your mind in the mornin'

We used to walk through the park

Make love along the way in Mendocino

Like I told you, can you dig it?

If you wanna groove

I'll be glad to have you

Ah, 'cause I love you so, please don't go

Please stay here with me in Mendocino

Probably this one. The drumming style probably would also be scandalous today, as “cultural appropriation.”

[quote] it is clear that many of you do not listen to any music that has been recorded in the last couple of decades.

I would rather use my ability to hear on music that is worth listening to.

I fucking LOVED this one when it started popping up on MTV. These ladies were having SO much fun with this very silly video, with their coordinated tribal dancing, plastic outfits, and singing about eating cannibals. WTF? Awesome.

I'm sure that would tick off a few woke boxes, if released today. LOL.

R159, I thought Cousin Dupree was clearly meant to be a joke about cousin lovin in the South.

It's Hey Nineteen from Steely Dan that would absolutely be cancelled today. You can interpret it as a song about a much older guy who ultimately uses alcohol and weed to get a 19-year-old girl to sleep with him. "The Cuervo gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing."

When Steely Dan plays that song in concert these days, they no longer sing the phrase, Hey Nineteen, but rather let the audience sing it

[quote]Songs about hitting women to let them know who's boss! (male dominance and abuse! cancel!)

Can we extend this to TV sitcoms as well?

"I-I-I love little girls. They make me feel so good. I love little girls. They make me feel so bad."

Pretty Girls by Melissa Manchester (1979)

Hot Child In The City by Nick Glider (1978)

R185 I'm pretty sure that song was controversial when it first came out too.

When this was initially released, it didn't get much flak in the UK but did receive some when played on US college/alt-rock radio stations especially in the South. Can only imagine would the reaction would be if it was released today, especially if heard by the "guns and bibles" crowd.

Angie Baby - Helen Ready.

Murder?

I wonder how "I Am Woman" would be interpreted if released today? I suspect it would be dragged through the mud for not being inclusive.

Falco's "Jeanny." It was a big hit in much of Europe (as big as or even bigger than "Rock Me Amadeus"). It didn't chart in the US, although the video did get some airplay on MTV. It was controversial back then, but probably wouldn't even be released today.

I am a person of non specific gender, hear me roar….

Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch"

Eldergay fave Babs Streisand should of been canceled for her Come To The Supermarket In Old Peking song. That song is racist as shit and this ho should of had her career shut down.

Empress Aretha's "U Makes Me Feel Like A Natural Woman" was always problematic. Its pretty obvious that "Natural" is code for "Cis". This song goes out off it's way to exclude trans women and is transphobic as fuck.

'You've Got To Be A Hustler' for so many reasons.

Whitney's I'm Every Woman video would get her canceled today. How can she claim to be every woman and not include a single trans woman or NB in her video? That whole video is just LITERAL VIOLENCE.

Bonnie Raitt's single "Bonnie Raitt Is For The Thang Called Love" contains the hateful lyric, "I Ain't No Ameba". Say what, bitch? She is a privileged cis white woman who has NO right to compare herself to other organisms. Ameba have feelings too, Miss Bonnie.

This would be retitled “Shim”

You Make Me Feel (Like I Have a Front Hole) is more inclusive and will be released as a remix to celebrate Pride this month.

For The Love Of Him - Bobbi Martin

I wonder what r102 looks like? Old and swishy queen, perhaps??

I was at a Five Guys a few weeks ago and they played that r25, no editing of the "faggot" line, I was kind of surprised.

"Island Girl" by Elton John was bad even for the time.

A few years ago there was a huge Twitter outrage fest about "One Way or Another" being evil.

Sister Sledge should be canceled. Their name sounds too much like 'Cis-ter', is deliberately exclusionary and transphobic.

R207 LMAO

Closer - Nine Inch Nails

Man wearing make-up.

Nudism & miscegenation.

This one by Patti Smith.

I Know What Boys Like.

An anthem of cisgender privilege. Check, please!!

Cancelled due to being disrespectful to the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

“I Thought This Chink Was Retarded But The Faggot Was Just A Jew” — Celine Dion

Lemon Incest - Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg

Aerosmith, "Dude looks like a lady"

R215 but she sung that in Québécois so the lyrics were lost on most people

Why would the Police song be canceled? It’s pretty bland: Student has crush on teacher, teacher and student bang, teacher gets fired. Not really controversial.

I’m sure these have been mentioned but I’m to lazy to check lol:

Turning Japanese by the Vapors Little Girls by Danny “I made Bridget Fonda fat” Elfman

The Elfman song is intended as a grotesque parody but Gen Z was on the whole not blessed with the powers of nuance.

This. Masturbating and thinking about a playground with kids.

I always thought that Michael's kid voice was creepy.

No songs have been "canceled"

Republicans like OP can't tell the difference between criticism and cancelation