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Willie Nelson's Lost Highway
Lynne:
--- Quote from: milomorris on November 06, 2009, 10:43:53 pm ---I'm not selling it...Willie is. I'm just saying that, IMO, there's nothing in this song that's any "worse" than the BBM jokes made by Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, Kimmel, or any other on-air personality has made over the years.
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Of course it's worse, Milo, because Willie profited from Brokeback Mountain. Do you not recognize the hypocrisy?
And I don't recall any late night talk-show jokes endorsing gay bashing, just ones about the gay cowboy movie, sheep, getting it on in tents or with the sheep, etc...not gay-supportive, but definitely not promoting violence against gays in the way this does.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Lynne on November 06, 2009, 11:14:12 pm ---Of course it's worse, Milo, because Willie profited from Brokeback Mountain. Do you not recognize the hypocrisy?
And I don't recall any late night talk-show jokes endorsing gay bashing, just ones about the gay cowboy movie, sheep, getting it on in tents or with the sheep, etc...not gay-supportive, but definitely not promoting violence against gays in the way this does.
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Lynne, what violence are you talking about?? I don't hear a single violent lyric in the whole song. All I hear is cornball phrases, and whimsical instrumental tracks.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: garycottle on November 06, 2009, 11:22:46 pm ---They'll see it as an endorsement of their hatred of gay men. It doesn't matter what other kinds of messages Willie Nelson has put out there, or will put out there in the future. If the crowd I'm talking about hears this song, they will take it at face value. Nelson has been around long enough to know that, so if this was meant as a joke, he should have remembered who his audience might be.
Yeah, there's a whole lot of people out there who will see this as a joke -- a joke on gay people. I can hear the chuckles now.
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There was a time when people thought that Picasso should have known better than to paint images like this...
...because some men ("simpler"men) might think its OK to beat on women. They were worried about the distortions of the face & body.
bailey1205:
--- Quote from: garycottle on November 06, 2009, 11:22:46 pm ---I'm with you, Paul. Being from the south, I know just how the rednecks, homophobes, and the Bible thumpers will take this crap. They'll see it as an endorsement of their hatred of gay men. It doesn't matter what other kinds of messages Willie Nelson has put out there, or will put out there in the future. If the crowd I'm talking about hears this song, they will take it at face value. Nelson has been around long enough to know that, so if this was meant as a joke, he should have remembered who his audience might be.
Yeah, there's a whole lot of people out there who will see this as a joke -- a joke on gay people. I can hear the chuckles now.
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Yep !
He knows who his audience is on this.
He ain't no dummy.
Willie has been smoking too much weed. It's screwed up his mind.
;D
Monika:
--- Quote from: garycottle on November 06, 2009, 11:22:46 pm ---I'm with you, Paul. Being from the south, I know just how the rednecks, homophobes, and the Bible thumpers will take this crap. They'll see it as an endorsement of their hatred of gay men.
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Yeah, I have read some of the comments people have left to this video on youtube. That´s exactly how it is.
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