Business Be Your Own Pet Sing Songs About Killing People; Songs Get Pulled from Be Your Own Pets’ New Record
posted by on March 24 at 13:00 PM
Via punknews.org:
Be Your Own Pet have seen three tracks from their new album, Get Awkward pulled from the US version due to “violent content.” The three tracks “Blow Yr Mind”, “Black Hole”, and “Becky” were on the original promos released by the label and are widely available in the UK and Europe.Lyrics in question include “We’ll wait with knives after class!” and “Eating pizza is really great / So is destroying everything you hate.” There are also some songs about zombies which may be offensive to bloodthirsty corpses hungering for brains.
Having heard the album (and the songs in question), they weren’t worth pulling. They were just raucous punk rock songs with fantasizing lyrics. Is a song about eating pizza and destroying things you hate really that threatening to America’s kids? Will that cause an uproar? Will Be Your Own Pet cause a spike in girls waiting with knives after class? Really? REALLY?
This is what life is like in the post-Columbine (and all those other school shootings) era… it’s a shame. That album, the full version of the album, is solid.
Truly, Be Your Own Pet are the new 2 Live Crew.
Do the idiots who are stirring up a brou-haha over Be Your Own Pet's lyrics know how much the band have to be loving all this press? Free publicity from the C.A.V.E. gang (citizens against virtually everything)!!!
Hold on, I have to go; class is almost over so I need to go get my knives and commence destroying everything I hate. What if I hate knives? How would that work?
Hmm...
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