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Wow, this article is seriously fucked up. "Fuck you" is a brilliant song, a social media phenomenon, and this absolutely shit article is clearly written by a f

• pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  >"Fuck you" is a brilliant song, a social media phenomenon Hmm. I found the article to be quite well written, clearly from a position of knowledge about several songs. Now so-called obscene words are not a day-to-day part of my vocabulary but I don't really find words offensive (though the meaning conveyed of course can be). I don't agree with their position entirely, but they made their case far more eloquently and with better support than you did. Indeed their points as regards the normalisation of profanity amongst the music fraternity and the racism applied to who can use the word nigger seemed good. No place on HN? Well they kinda hacked YouTube by recognising that a catchy tune with expletives would play well to the YouTube demographic. But, yeah, otherwise probably better placed elsewhere - I guess though you'd find it hard to find a place that would give a serious airing to the views expressed in the article. Brilliant? A social media phenomenon? It's a nice tune, the lyrics have a certain flow to them (I loved "Crazy" and this has a similar vibe for me); without the expletives I'd expect it to get close to a Number 1 anyway.