Delilah

[Guinness]

BBC News - We need to drop Delilah song for being too violent, says singer

The claim is that the lyrics glorify domestic violence.

My opinion..its more PC gone mad stuff...

First, its music...it's catchy, it's singable by anyone in the bath/shower or drunk on a karaoke night

Second, to me it's about a guy who catches his missus being unfaithful, kills her and regrets it while waiting for the police to break in and arrest him..it's a cautionary tale.

but I have NEVER, EVER seen this as a glorification or acceptance that its ok to hit a woman..then again I like to consider myself as being able to distinguish between a piece of art and actual realism. Should we destroy some of the works of Botticelli, Picasso or Rubens, smash the Venus De Milo perhaps

Strange how modern pulp crap like Fifty Shades of Grey with its objectification of women with heavy overtones of sado-masochism has been purchased by mainly women...yet thats ok

Oh and it works both ways..

[cashman]

Agree completely its totally gone nuts, utter bollocks imho.

[Eric]

It's a song for chrissake ... A song is just a song ... well maybe not the "Horst Wessel" thing ... and a black lab called "Nigger" is just a black lab called "Nigger." Merry Christmas y'all ... Or should I say "Happy Holiday."

[Guinness]

Originally Posted by Eric

It's a song for chrissake ... A song is just a song ... well maybe not the "Horst Wessel" thing ... and a black lab called "Nigger" is just a black lab called "Nigger." Merry Christmas y'all ... Or should I say "Happy Holiday."

20 years from now......How dare you use the word 'Happy'..this is a clear derogatory reference to people of challenged height. After the destruction of all copies of the distasteful Disney film 'Snow White' in 2032, the words 'dopey', 'sleepy', 'doc', 'grumpy', 'bashful', 'happy' and 'sneezy' were removed from the pan galactic version of the O.E.D., world legislation decreed that use of these words were an anathema in polite society and anyone using them would be summarily executed under the 'sword is mightier than the pen' legislation of 2030

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Guinness

use of these words were an anathema in polite society and anyone using them would be summarily executed under the 'sword is mightier than the pen' legislation of 2030

That sounds real doubleplusungood.

[Sunflower49]

If this is going to happen with 'Delilah' what about all the other zillions of songs representing a supposed violent scenario?

Is it just 'domestic' violence but other violence is okay?

Is it just violence against women, but violence against a man is acceptable?

I too see Delilah as more a cautionary tale than anything else.

[kestrelx]

I have always sensed that conflict in the song - happy chorus about stabbing someone.

Like wise - there are no "blue birds over the white cliffs of dover!"

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[accyman]

i suppose these same people think wig wam bam promotes rape and agadoo promotes armed robbery

in that video when teh woman was attacking the man another woman joined in at beating the man lol

imagine how that would go down if a man was beating a woman up and another man joined in and helped beat her up

[DaveinGermany]

Again here we see some clown who's hard of thinking wishing to apply their moral sensibilities upon the masses. Most folk are smart enough to form their own opinions without having to have their views given to them via a third party, or at least I'd of thought so.

And as to the quote :- "Sir Tom Jones' classic and Welsh rugby anthem Delilah has been labelled inappropriate for rugby crowds over claims it promotes domestic violence." seems a bit far fetched, especially when the main attraction of Rugby is that of 30 Fellas inflicting controlled violence upon one another quite gratuitously for a fixed period of time, mind boggling.

[accyman]

tom jones's face is an offensive shade of orange but you can hardly say his music is offensive

well ok teh recent stuff has been pretty crap but his classics arnt too bad


didnt he sing burning down the house

promoting arson as well

[gpick24]

Did he also promote incest with "mama told me not to come", seems to be a right bad en that Tom Jones.

[accyman]

someone should send these morons a macc lads album from the 80's period of their carreer

tom jones will be the last thing they think of ever again lol

[US Angel]

Sad thing is most DV cases where the man is the victim go unreported

[Restless]

EyUp were da maclads n were not effin queer we lyk chips n gravy n suppin lots of beer