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When I first heard the UK’s number one, ‘Fuck it’ by Eamon, I was shocked and appalled. Mostly by how bad a song it is, but also by the spectre of violence towards women that seems to lurk just below the surface of the song. However, the Guardian suggests that it’s so bad it’s good, and I’m beginning to think they have a point. Eamonn’s impotent outrage, combined with his tale of being cuckolded and his silly whiney voice, completely emasculate him. He’s bitching about this woman because she fucked someone else and he can’t do anything about it. That’s really funny (in a laughing at, not laughing with, sort of a way). Best of all, of course, is the radio edit, where even the verbal echoes of his potency are systematically and mechanically erased. Ha ha.
On a related note, my copy of Kanye West’s The College Dropout (which is generally great; I may have more to say about it later) has some, but not all or even most, of the swearing blanked out. It doesn’t seem to be based on content: ‘nigga’ and ‘motherfucker’ are allowed most of the time, which you’ld imagine pretty much any actual censorship would remove. It’s rather puzzling.
A detailed dissection of the Eamon song makes me think I may have spoken too soon. In particular, the idea that “it sounds like a parody of a slow jam that nevertheless works as a slow jam,� suggests that it’s rather more self-aware than I had originally thought. I also like the description of Eamon’s genre as “ho wop�.
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