I’m just a hobbyist wannabee musician but I can tell you from the musician boards I frequent, songs like this are about two things. Notoriety and the cash it brings. Always has been, always will be.
As an 80s kid I grew up as a metalhead. Judas Priest, Dio, Motley Crue etc. Back then sex was the big thing. HBO and ‘Skinemax” were relatively new and sex was still taboo over the airwaves. Before that it was the drug stuff of the era. Before that Elvis was banned from places and edited on Sullavan due to his ‘hip movements.
In the 90s Iced T freaked the world out with “Cop Killer”
In 2008 Katy Perry kissed a girl and liked it.
You will notice that each and every one of these ‘events’ drew on the social taboo of the era to profit from.
It ‘shocks’ the sensibilities of parents that by now should have figured all this out. ‘We” had our era of sleaze rock and today, all that is passe. Now ‘Bullying’ is the buzz word and topic of vast ink and media attention. So poof! a bunch of songs the ‘artist’ will tell you, “deal with this veru sensitive issue...we are a mirror of society...we are change agents out to speak truth to our generation...blagh...blagh...blagh...”
It’s all about building hype and selling downloads. No more, no less.
Except for the unstable souls on the edge who are "validated" by the hype and act on it.
And their victims.
We need to start holding record company executives personally liable (financially and by imprisonment) for any crimes instigated by this stuff.
Freedom of speech does not include the right to shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater; nor "KILL" in a crowded group of unstable fatherless teenagers with access to weapons and no base of morality.
And if someone retorts in reply "you can't PROVE ANYTHING and start autofellating over 'censorship' " -- look how the left reacts to anything promulgating traditional morality, or rejecting gay marriage, etc. etc. Censorship exponentiated, with a helping of supercilious self-righteousness on the side.
Cheers!
True true true. My dad had to hear little me singing to some pretty raunchy lyrics that I didn’t fully understand too.