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dead [he/him]@hexbear.net to Pop Culture@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 days ago

[cw Zionism] 80s pop group 'Culture Club' singer Boy George released a pro-Israel song which denies the genocide in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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[cw Zionism] 80s pop group 'Culture Club' singer Boy George released a pro-Israel song which denies the genocide in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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‘You say genocide, I say war’: Boy George releases pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again
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Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attack

song https://xcancel.com/BoyGeorge/status/2081514648835162582#m

lyrics https://genius.com/Boy-george-we-will-dance-again-lyrics

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  • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Hey anyone remember when Boy George did a year in prison for kidnapping a male sex worker? (cw: sexual abuse).

    Also apparently weirdly high number of young gay dudes have ODed while hanging with him, like weirdly high even for an 80s rock star.

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      Peter Thiel: those are rookie numbers.

    • SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      He didn’t do a year in prison, he was sentenced to 15 months, got out on probation after 4 months and immediately filed a request to go on Celebrity Big Brother while still wearing his ankle monitor.

      • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        Celebrity Big Brother while still wearing his ankle monitor.

        HAHAHAHA! Did the topic of why he had a fucking ankle monitor on ever come up on the show?

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          His parole officer didn’t let him go on the show, they were afraid it would make look the parole office look bad if you goof around on national TV while you’re technically still serving a sentence for abusing a sex worker.

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      Holy fuck that’s revolting (unsurprising from an Israel supporter though). Has he also been outed as a pedophile at some point? Or did I just vaguely hear about this and think “British media figure did some horrific sex shit, must be a pedo”?

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    Boy Genocide

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Boy-Murdering George

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    Joining the list of once iconoclastic Br*tish musicians that became fascist bootlicking Zionists- Morrissey, Nick Cave, Radiohead (the entire band), Johnny Rotten, and on and on.

    • Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      “Became” fascist

      “Reggae, for example, is to me the most racist music in the entire world. It’s an absolute total glorification of black supremacy… I don’t have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful. I hate all those records in the Top 40 – Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston. I think they’re vile in the extreme… Obviously to get on Top Of The Pops these days, one has to be, by law, black” -Morrissey, 1986

      Nick Cave mostly sings about sexual violence, killing women, treating them as sex objects. There’s also his weird lyrics about “homos” and that one song where the narrator murders an f-slur because it was so shameful to do drugs and fuck a man.

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        Yeah, obviously in hindsight they always were, but they could maintain plausible deniability by hiding behind their public personas as liberal darlings in an age before social media. I can’t believe the shit Morrissey used to get away with saying back then. Just an absolutely vile bigot who got a pass because of his “quirky, depressed gay man” image.

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          Yeah Morrissey was wild. That man called Chinese people a “subspecies,” like pure white supremacism, and people still mostly just talked about the vegan thing.

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      Radiohead (the entire band)

      Now wait a sec - even Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway? They at least use the genocide label and repost social media stuff… okay maybe that doesn’t beat playing in Israel.

      Nick Cave

      Damn, I didn’t even know about his views, super disappointing.

      At least Roger Waters is consistent on this issue. (Though he did just appear on Tucker Carlson…)

      Okay, I give up with the old guys. All hail King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard!

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        Can’t see the King Gizz post without logging in.

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      Wait, what’s Nick Cave’s issue? I thought he was cool…

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    Karma Killmillions :kelly:

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    Well known awful person keeps beong awful. Culture Club had some sick tunes and are on the lower rung of 80s new wave one hit wonders who have some better stuff than their hits but the guy is a monster so they don’t get recommended to people when an 80s Playlist comes on at work. The best one hit wonder new wave bands are 1) Soft Cell. Thwir second biggest song is called Sex Dwarf and is closer to what they normally did 2) A Flock of Seagulls (seriously listen to their first album, it is wall to wall perfect synthpop hits, I Ran is the weakest one), 3) Ah-Ha

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      Soft Cell’s second album (The Art of Falling Apart) is one of the best Synthpop albums ever made.

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      A Flock of Seagulls

      Space Age Love Song should have been their big hit

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        It was their second biggest. Messages, Telecommunications and Dont Ask Me as well ask the sorta hit Modern Love is Automatic hit so fucking hard too.

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        The Edgelord from U2 literally ripped off his guitar effects layering from them, too. Paul Reynolds was massively influential on the synthpop scene for stacking the ever-loving shit out of modulation effects, and as a result, he’s kind of the missing link between the post-punk/shoegaze sound and what we normally associate with New Wave.

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    Boy-Murdering George is welcome to burn alive like Shaban al-Dalou did after the zionists dropped incendiaries on the tent he was recuperating in outside an already-bombed hospital

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    George Michael is still the best George, the best Michael, and the best boy

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    That hat makes me think of that Jamiroquai song Virtual Insanity.

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      So far, Jamiroquai hasn’t come out as a Zionist pig-dog, so you know what?

      Better musician

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        In 2018 Jamiroquai performed in Tel Aviv (for the first time) despite fans urging them not to. At the same time that Jamiroquai was performing, the ‘Great March of Return’ protests were occurring in Gaza. Israel murdered 223 Palestinians during the Great March of Return protests, mostly killed by snipers.

        https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/watch-jamiroquai-insists-coming-to-tel-aviv-despite-bds-552679

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          Well, then they can fuck off too

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          Aw man when he said “I think I need a new religion” I didn’t think he meant Zionism

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        They both have one good song and Virtual Insanity is better than Karma Chameleon

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          This is Canned Heat erasure

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            🎵I got canned beans for my meal tonight🎵 sicko-jammin

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          Emergency on planet earth is a banger album front to back. How dare you

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        nerd Actually, Jamiroquai is the name of a band, not a musician.

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    Who?

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      Guy who handcuffs dudes to radiators against their will for days while he’s fucked on coke

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    First line is explicit genocide denial. Cool cool

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    KKKulture KKKlub creates anthems of the bourgeoisie I’ve said that for years anyone will tell you so

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    Georgists in shambles.

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    Kabbakabbakabbalah chameleon.

    Shame, I liked culture club.

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    Bronski Beat clears once again

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    The song itself being the worst canned white reggae is pretty funny. It would not surprise me if the backing track is entirely AI generated.

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      Last month, Boy George launched a new company called Artist Included, which will use AI to allow artists to create new versions of earlier songs which resemble the originals, as a way of wresting back control of master recordings. It launched with a new version of Karma Chameleon, which Boy George recorded then de-aged. “When I heard it, I was absolutely gobsmacked,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “It sounds like another take from that original session.”

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        surprised-pika-messed-up

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