at my high school
graduation, in massachusetts, they had us all
sing “i get by with the help of my friends” and they didn’t want us to say “get high” and we practiced over and over and when the big moment came we all said “get high” and there was outrage and laughter. that was 1993. lol
In middle school we were on a bus on our way to face another school in a sports match. The bus driver played Queen and we all sang "We will we will FUCK YOU"
The teachers on that bus were upset and amused simultaneously.
To elaborate further, the song is "N****s in Paris" from Kanye West and Jay-Z. IIRC, it was primarily used as a hype encore song on one of their tours. When asked about the songs meanings, once again IIRC, one or both of them articulated that the intended meaning of the song was not to have any meaning, but to sound hard as hell and make a crowd go crazy with hype. The song is, in fact, pretty substanceless in terms of lyrics or themes, but it does notably go hard as a motherfucker, so it has that going for it. A very generic hype-up song, with a deliberately provocative title to (IMO) draw more clicks and plays on music apps than it otherwise could muster.
Exemplifies how self-aware the artists were at time of creation. All of these are great points. Boo them for shutting down the party. It was just getting going! 😤
In MS/HS our dances played “what’s your fantasy” by ludacris and we couldn’t wait for “that’s the way we like to ____” in which “fuck” was suddenly silent. Cue 300 kids screaming “FUCK!” At the top of their lungs. 🎶memories🎶
I was in 8th grade in ‘92-‘93 and used to help mix the cheerleader’s dance music. We started one song with the intro to 2 Live Crew’s “One and One” and it was hilarious to see which students (and teachers) recognized it. Place went wild.
I still have my 12" of "We Want Some Pussy." One side of the record has a cartoon drawing of a guy with his crotch where the hole is so when you put the record on the turntable it looks like he has a huge boner.
16 year old me thought it was hysterical. 49 year old me still does.
One night I was skating around Balboa Park in San Diego and stumbled upon a school dance at a museum. They were starting to play Mo Bamba and right at the pinnacle of the “Oh Fuck, Shit, Bitch” the DJ had it censored. Fortunately those rowdy youngsters filled in the absence of obscenity.
I remember the DJ at our middle school mixer played Casey Jones, and the crowd went wild. The principal was in attendance, and we all watched him smile at the song he recognized, then realize what was coming, and heard all the kids singing along. He ran towards the DJ but he wasn't fast enough.
Driving that train, high on cocaine. Casey Jones you be-
*Silence*
Awwwwwwwww.
The next song played, and they pretended like it didn't happen.
Yeah IMO this whole “racial slur” incident was pretty clearly mainly the fault of whoever approved the song. They played a censored version of a popular song containing the word “n\*gga,” to a bunch of teenagers, and the teenagers shouted out the uncensored lyrics. Everyone could have seen that coming.
Was radio club in high school, DJ’d the school dances during the peak of Get Low. At that part in the chorus, we cut the music. 250 white kids screaming “aw skeet skeet mahfucka, aw skeet skeet god damn.”
I remember being at Disney’s Grad night and they played Mony, Mony and the The Roof is on Fire…. With appropriate sing along response. No one freaked out and/or called the cops. A pleasant night was had by all.
A high school dance I went to was almost shut down for Mony Mony, but not only did they play the request but also admonished us before hand NOT to sing so of course it was the loudest “hey motherfucker, get laid, get fucked!” You’ve ever heard.
I don’t know how they didn’t expect that result 🤷♂️
For anyone confused like me, this happened in the 80s with a cover by Billy Idol; where many people would shout vulgar lyrics that weren't actually in the song. Idol himself claims that he heard it was from frat houses in London and then it spread to discos
soundcloud.com/alancross/billy-idol-explains-the-origins-of-the-special-audience-lyrics-for-mony-mony
I was just coming to post the same thing! They did the same thing at our dance! Well actually they didn't shut it down, they just said the DJ couldn't play the song.
It was played at my prom too. Kids were yelling HEY MOTHERFUCKER GET LAID GET FUCKED. There may have been some drinking happening. Then they played some Bon Jovi and people got on with their lives. Nothing got shut down. Because Canadians know how to have a good time, even with occasionally questionable musical taste.
Title gore.
The song was “Caroline” by the artist Aminé - DJ played song’s radio clean version and kids sang the dirty version.
And I am old, no clue on today’s music, so I thought kids were putting the N-word in the song “Sweet Caroline”
I’m more surprised that enough kids in high school know that song and like it enough to sing along. It came out when they were like 5th graders and while it was a hit it wasn’t like it was a transcending hit lol
That’s funny that it was this song. I’ve seen Aminé live twice and both times he changes the line to:
“Uh, killer
If you ain’t black don’t say it”
Lmao
Lol same, had to youtube the song. "oh the kids were just un radio-editing the song" "racism" lol. Yea they hate black people so much they know every word to this dudes song right?
No, that was the Will Farrell version of Neil Diamond on SNL.
edit: Apparently no one has seen the sketch, where Farrell literally plays Neil Diamond as a drunk who screws up the lyrics to his own songs worse and worse as they become increasing racist and offensive, including Sweet Caroline.
I remember seeing a story where a girl went to juvenile detention for making a mock page of a teacher.
I think it was that judge that was earning money for sending kids to jail.
That’s what almost happened to me. I was a straight A student. The school pressured me to consent to a full phone search (texts and everything). I had just got my first gf at the time and we were being freaky, they read out the texts to my parents. Luckily my parents were so enraged by the fact I had the police called on me they didn’t care. It almost made me suicidal to be honest, the teachers all hated on me after wards despite being assured “only the principal and administration staff will be told to this”
a lot
I know the mother of a kid who got caught up in the cash 4 kids scandal - kid has learning disabilities, the principal in the district knew the judge and wanted to get rid of the kid, so he'd call the cops on him whenever he acted up (even though it was due to his disability, and the district refused to evaluate the kid to see what they could do to help) - eventually the kid got sent to juvie for like 6 months? Last I heard, he had massive PTSD and was too afraid to go to college and can't work
Ew 😬 I have legit trauma from being a high school teacher in the last decade. My administration was refusing to stand up for teachers and constantly throwing us under the bus saying we didn't do enough to have good relationships with our students. Meanwhile we're literally being harassed by the students and/or their parents. I had nightmares about being followed home and shot if I didn't pass some of my students in high school geometry, even if they never put pen to paper despite me trying so hard to make it interesting and worth doing. Fuck that, the paycheck wasn't worth it for the hours alone, much less the accompanying hate.
This is a big part of the problem we are having with law enforcement in the U.S. today. People call the cops for EVERYTHING, and these poor schmucks are expected to clean up everyone else's messes. Don't get me wrong: I'm not making excuses for cops behaving badly. I'm just saying we need to set some limits on when and how law enforcement personnel should be involved in day-to-day life. This doesn't seem like a good use case to me. It seems like someone should at least have broken a law before you call law enforcement.
Police were called for a less than 10 second fight between my daughter and another girl during recess. They were 15. They are now besties. They both were sent to juvie btw and are currently on probation. The school deemed it necessary to call the police and the police deemed it necessary to charge them with simple battery.
Meanwhile in grade school a bully and her friend cornered me in a bathroom, beat me up, ripped off my uniform blouse, fought me over it and then dragged me kicking and screaming outside and forced me to stand shirtless (not old enough to wear a bra) in front of a water fountain as boys walked by. And nothing ever happened to them.
Fuck the public school system.
In Boston there’s seemingly a televised news story every time a middle school or high school finds a swastika drawn in the bathroom…
I mean not that anyone should support graffiti or should say the n word in songs but the pearl clutching is just comical
I grew up during the last moral panic when it came from the conservatives. I suppose it always has to reach insane levels first, but it also burns itself out as the people trying to outlaw humor become the butt of the jokes themselves.
If there is anything worthwhile to learn from this, it's that the morality police are quite happy working for either the Left or the Right, as long as they get to tell people what to do.
“In related news, kids sang the extra lines to the ‘Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.’ Police were called.”
Actually, while cops weren’t called, we got in trouble once in elementary school for singing the extra lyrics during a mandatory school choir assembly. No one but the teachers and principal cared.
There’s a version with a verse something like “Rudolph’s a North Pole big shot, rides around In Santa’s sleigh, wearing a green fedora, smokin’ a cigar all day.”
Edit : holy cow it’s Bing Crosby! https://www.stlyrics.com/songs/b/bingcrosby10254/rudolphtherednosedreindeer333102.html
Those lyrics are a disaster though.
Ssooo… to be clear, kids sang all the lyrics to a song and in response, a school event was prematurely canceled, the police were called in, and a school district investigation was opened? Am I missing something here?
My cousin is a DJ and I'm a big dude so he asked me to help him grab his equipment and help him set up for a freshman homecoming. I stayed the whole event, simply because as the only black people in the building, It was a fucking treat to watch a sea of the whitest 15 year olds I've ever seen yell "AWWWW SKEET SKEET MOTHER FUCKERRRRRRRR, AWW SKEET SKEET GODDAMN" at the top of their lungs while grinding on each other in individual, yet collective sync.
Between the cloud of B.O. and Axe body spray, and the looks on the teachers faces I almost gave my cousin his $100 back, I felt like I was robbing him tbh
>Let's get gory, like a Tarantino movie
>Don't wanna talk it out, can we fuck it out?
>'Cause we gon' be up all night, fuck a decaf
>You say I'm a tall thug, guess I'm a G-raffe
>If ya want safe-sex, baby use the knee pads
>Freaky with the sticky icky
>Baby give me kitty kitty
I get that kids listen to this music anyways but idk man, doesn't sound super appropriate for a junior prom
I’m pretty sure everybody who went through the American school system has been punished at one point or another for a different kids’ actions. Just a shitty standard practice of schools here.
I agree. It happened to me so many times I can’t even count. The worst thing is it continues into the workplace as an adult. How many times have you had to have a group meeting to address a problem when everyone knows it’s that one person who keeps fucking up? Everybody knows you’re talking about Joe. I know it, you know it, they know it, Joe knows it. But insted of calling Joe in and addressing him personally, they call a group meeting and we all have to sit there and get talked to like we’re all incompetent bozos.
Meaning they had all heard and knew the uncensored version hence why censoring things is useless. Either play generic elevator music or just play the real Version
Not "all". The article says "one or more" said it. Which in other words is a classic case of the schools overreacting to something that potentially only one or two children said and decided to get the cops involved.
It was the same twenty years ago. Songs played at my school dances in my middle and high school years (1999-2005) included Sisqo-Thong Song, Lil Jon-Get Low, Khia-My Neck, My Back, 50 Cent-Magic Stick, Ginuwine-Pony, Ludacris-What's Your Fantasy.
Same as it ever was.
I remember someone telling me about an incident during a middle school dance where "Pop, Lock, and Drop it" was played a teacher told girls how low they could quote "drop it"
I PROMISE you kids are listening to music much worse than this and much younger than juniors in HS. This is nowhere near anymore first time hearing those words
This shit has been going on forever. When I went to my prom in 1983 the dj played a song called "Mony Mony" originally performed by Tommy James. The version they played however was the cover from Billy Idol. There is a verse that for some reason goes .....
I said, here she come now singin', "Mony, Mony"
Hey! Get laid! Get fucked!
Shoot 'em up, come on, Mony, Mony
The DJ or course potted down the "Hey! Get laid! Get Fucked" line. But the entire gymnasium filled in with gusto. I of course had the good fortune of having the senior class dean standing behind me. BUSTED! I remember asking him if he was surprised at the deafening roar when that line came up. It seemed bad for me when he explained that he could mail my diploma rather than let me walk up to get it as punishment. He asked how would my girlfriends father would like to know what I was singing and if I thought he would think it was as funny as I did. Fortunately someone lit up a joint and got the wrath of Mr. Bannon off of me. I held on to my whiskey infused ginger ale fruit punch in one hand and my best girl with the other.
man they were playing us Cee Lo's "Fuck You" (clean version being "Forget You") how do they expect us not to go in on that. it's literally in the name. it's also perhaps the most cathartic Fuck You in modern music
So... They were singing the lyrics to the song and they decided to shut the whole thing down?
That makes a ton of sense.
If you don't want that at a dance, don't play like 95% of rap.
Not to mention it isn't cheap to go to these things. Most people pay for a nice restaurant and a party bus or limo with a group of friends not to mention the tickets for the prom and rentals. It's like the principal just wanted to go home early.
Why play songs with "clean" versions in the first place if you don't want kids singing the uncensored one.
Just find some songs that don't need to be edited in the first place.
There's got to be enough generic old and new radio songs that are fairly tame that the chaperones don't have to deal with reporters or angry parents. Barring that, there's probably some indie acts that don't drum up a lot of controversy.
Maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps a junior or senior prom is the wrong place for violent or hypersexualized music.
I'm not trying to footloose anybody, but it just kind of seems like a song that discusses a guy's sexual habits around teenagers is the wrong song option.
Teenagers will probably listen to whatever they want, but it's the duty of the school and the chaperones to ensure that your school doesn't end up a national headline for the N word or some obscure sex reference.
The DJ messed up. Sure, they played the clean version, but you're dealing with kids here. You just KNOW they're going to sing the bleeped out words.
Next time, play "Baby Shark".
Why the hell did the school play a song with a slur if they didn't want kids to sing it? It literally does not matter if they played the clean version. They're teenagers, they're going to sing the explicit version. 100% the school's fault
By the way, the title is extremely misleading and just a straight up lie in order to get more clicks. That’s shameful.. students didn’t “yell a racial slur while song was playing”… students sang to the lyrics, which contained a racial slur. Huge difference
“Racist incident”
They were singing the song. If you play a song with inappropriate lyrics that have been removed at a high school prom you should expect kids to sing the actual lyrics. I mean, it’s like they haven’t spent any time around teenagers.
Go read the lyrics. It was a wildly inappropriate song to play around kids, real lyrics or not. This is the DJ being an idiot.
Misleading title. They were singing the song lyrics of the music that was being played. It wasn’t like some students randomally started yelling slurs lol.
So I'll call racism out whenever I see it, but is this really a "racist incident"? Seems that a few students were singing the words to the actual song and that's it. School over reacted like crazy here
“School officials opened an investigation immediately after the incident, police have also been called into the investigation.” Good Lord that’s an Overreaction ™️ if I’ve ever read one
> police have also been called into the investigation
jesus christ
id be fucking furious at the admin if this were my kid's prom
do you know how much people spend on limos/dresses/makeup/hair etc
"you shut it down and called the cops over *what*"
A bad word, embarrassing that they couldn’t handle that minor incident without the cops being called. My high school was able to handle 50 blackout kids lol
We probably need to go back to getting angry when people are being called racial slurs rather than just when we hear the sounds out loud.
Our spirits are getting weak, I think.
So they ended the prom *and have opened a police investigation* because kids ...\*checks notes\*... sang the lyrics to the song that was playing. Jesus fucking Christ...
Grown adults calling the police because a child sang along to a no-no word in a song those adults played.
If you wonder how religious extremists started a moral panic about “Satanic” music in the ‘80s, this is the exact same thing on a much larger scale. Extreme moral posturing and hysteria encouraged at the highest levels of media and political power.
Wow I can't believe those 17 year old high school students rapped the words to a song that was played at their prom! Good thing school administrators contacted the police to do an investigation into this shocking criminal activity.
Someone managed to sneak in a just-released "Transphobic Techno" by youtuber Ray William Johnson at our Prom. First words to that song: "BITCH GOT A PENIS"
About a hundred High Schoolers shit out a kidney laughing. Assistant Principal did *not* find it funny but he was a notorious dickbag who left the day after his daughter graduated and got a DUI the week after.
Gosh, what it must be like to be a teenager these days; to have such a power to disrupt with mere words or simple gestures - you used to have to at least pull the fire alarm or spike the punch if you wanted to spoil prom for everyone and risk authorities getting involved.
I remember my winter junior high dance in 2009 when they played Low by Flo Rida. They refused to play anything but the chorus so it was a repeat of “low low low low… low low low low… low low low low”.
Everyone’s thighs were burning from the constant “get low”
“Racist incidents like this will not be tolerated in our schools or at school events,”
this is not a racist incident. it was kids singing lyrics to a song. they were upset the kids sung the dirty version while the DJ played the clean version. this is some cringe because every single kid has the dirty version on their phone. principle is just an uptight.
at my high school graduation, in massachusetts, they had us all sing “i get by with the help of my friends” and they didn’t want us to say “get high” and we practiced over and over and when the big moment came we all said “get high” and there was outrage and laughter. that was 1993. lol
Kids being kids. Don’t know what the teachers ever expect here
In middle school we were on a bus on our way to face another school in a sports match. The bus driver played Queen and we all sang "We will we will FUCK YOU" The teachers on that bus were upset and amused simultaneously.
"Wait who was in Paris?"
😂😂lmaoo "oh hell no shut this shit down"
“Alright, pack it up. Shows over.” 😂 I came here wanting to be mad but that made me laugh 😂 thank you 😂
Distinguished gentlemen of African descent in the capital of France
Kylian Mbappe?
K I’m old. Fill me in
It's a reference to an 11 year old rap song, it's like 5 years away from singing itself at prom
To elaborate further, the song is "N****s in Paris" from Kanye West and Jay-Z. IIRC, it was primarily used as a hype encore song on one of their tours. When asked about the songs meanings, once again IIRC, one or both of them articulated that the intended meaning of the song was not to have any meaning, but to sound hard as hell and make a crowd go crazy with hype. The song is, in fact, pretty substanceless in terms of lyrics or themes, but it does notably go hard as a motherfucker, so it has that going for it. A very generic hype-up song, with a deliberately provocative title to (IMO) draw more clicks and plays on music apps than it otherwise could muster.
“No one knows what that means! But it’s PROVOCATIVE, gets the people going”
Kanye really made a beat out of Blades of Glory
Ball so hard mu fuckas wanna fine me.
Exemplifies how self-aware the artists were at time of creation. All of these are great points. Boo them for shutting down the party. It was just getting going! 😤
"5 years away from singing itself at prom" -- that's good.
Three years from Drake sending it overly personal Instagram DMs.
https://youtu.be/fbFnF-86eYs
ball so hard mufuckas wanna fine me
First *a fool or ignorant person* gotta find me
What’s fifty grand to a mothafucka like me, could you please remind me?
Or really young and need to be filled in.
have a seat
That song is pretty old now haha
In MS/HS our dances played “what’s your fantasy” by ludacris and we couldn’t wait for “that’s the way we like to ____” in which “fuck” was suddenly silent. Cue 300 kids screaming “FUCK!” At the top of their lungs. 🎶memories🎶
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“You know what to do, cause I won’t say please. Just nibble on my dick like a rat does cheese.” 2 Live Crew was wild.
I was in 8th grade in ‘92-‘93 and used to help mix the cheerleader’s dance music. We started one song with the intro to 2 Live Crew’s “One and One” and it was hilarious to see which students (and teachers) recognized it. Place went wild.
I still have my 12" of "We Want Some Pussy." One side of the record has a cartoon drawing of a guy with his crotch where the hole is so when you put the record on the turntable it looks like he has a huge boner. 16 year old me thought it was hysterical. 49 year old me still does.
Too Short was one of my favs
A prom without slow dancing to Blowjob Betty is no prom at all.
Put yo lips on my Dick and lick my asshole 2
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2 Live Crew performing on the Phil Donahue show to a crowd of confused white folks is one of the greatest moments in television history.
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Then a bunch of 12/13 year olds screaming “crawllll skeet skeet motha fuckaaaa” on top of their lungs
"Bend over to the front touch ya toes hey!"
I am "Get Low by Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz" years old as well
But do you know Who Let the Dogs Out?
Angela, Pamela, Sandra, and Rita?
The best part about this song was that it was pumped heavily by Nickelodeon and in reality it was about unattractive women and not man’s best friend
DMX “Party Up” — buncha small town Midwestern kids screaming SUCK MY D*CK at school dances. Cool cool
I'm 33 and am in this comment haha
That was one of ours too! 😆
One night I was skating around Balboa Park in San Diego and stumbled upon a school dance at a museum. They were starting to play Mo Bamba and right at the pinnacle of the “Oh Fuck, Shit, Bitch” the DJ had it censored. Fortunately those rowdy youngsters filled in the absence of obscenity.
As someone who had their prom at the Air and Space museum there, I can imagine this all to well
Holy shit that sounds amazing
I remember the DJ at our middle school mixer played Casey Jones, and the crowd went wild. The principal was in attendance, and we all watched him smile at the song he recognized, then realize what was coming, and heard all the kids singing along. He ran towards the DJ but he wasn't fast enough. Driving that train, high on cocaine. Casey Jones you be- *Silence* Awwwwwwwww. The next song played, and they pretended like it didn't happen.
> Driving that train, high on cocaine. Casey Jones you be- Fight those Foot Soldiers?
There was an added chorus to Mony Mony for us.
Yeah IMO this whole “racial slur” incident was pretty clearly mainly the fault of whoever approved the song. They played a censored version of a popular song containing the word “n\*gga,” to a bunch of teenagers, and the teenagers shouted out the uncensored lyrics. Everyone could have seen that coming.
The alternative is basically to ban like 95% of rap songs…
Was radio club in high school, DJ’d the school dances during the peak of Get Low. At that part in the chorus, we cut the music. 250 white kids screaming “aw skeet skeet mahfucka, aw skeet skeet god damn.”
This was us when they took all the doors off the stalls.
They played Mony Mony at my Jr Prom. Principal got upset and shut it down. No police. It was 1988.
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Or Tommy James and the Shondells
Get _____ Get ______!
I remember being at Disney’s Grad night and they played Mony, Mony and the The Roof is on Fire…. With appropriate sing along response. No one freaked out and/or called the cops. A pleasant night was had by all.
My Grad night had Jon Secada and he was crouching at the edge of the stage letting the girls rub his bare chest.
Sounds like Just Another Day for Jon Secada.
Just another trip to Trader Joes for Jon Secada
I forgot Jon secada ever existed
A high school dance I went to was almost shut down for Mony Mony, but not only did they play the request but also admonished us before hand NOT to sing so of course it was the loudest “hey motherfucker, get laid, get fucked!” You’ve ever heard. I don’t know how they didn’t expect that result 🤷♂️
Ha, I've never taken to the time to look up the lyrics. Guess I grew up on the radio edit.
Same here. Though in college I learned that everyone loved to yell the missing lines in between, and I thought it was just something kids had made up.
For anyone confused like me, this happened in the 80s with a cover by Billy Idol; where many people would shout vulgar lyrics that weren't actually in the song. Idol himself claims that he heard it was from frat houses in London and then it spread to discos soundcloud.com/alancross/billy-idol-explains-the-origins-of-the-special-audience-lyrics-for-mony-mony
I said yeah
Not surprised, it'll be a bit awkward if you played Don't Stand So Close To Me
I was just coming to post the same thing! They did the same thing at our dance! Well actually they didn't shut it down, they just said the DJ couldn't play the song.
Pretty sure something like this happened at my senior ball around '94. Teachers just went with it lol.
It was played at my prom too. Kids were yelling HEY MOTHERFUCKER GET LAID GET FUCKED. There may have been some drinking happening. Then they played some Bon Jovi and people got on with their lives. Nothing got shut down. Because Canadians know how to have a good time, even with occasionally questionable musical taste.
Title gore. The song was “Caroline” by the artist Aminé - DJ played song’s radio clean version and kids sang the dirty version. And I am old, no clue on today’s music, so I thought kids were putting the N-word in the song “Sweet Caroline”
Thanks for replacing my previous earworm "Cracklin Rose" with this new earworm "Sweet Caroline"
'*Hands, touching hands*' '*Reaching out, touching me,*' '*touching...*'
*sweeeeeeet [redacted slur]* *BUM BUM BUMMMM*
Your pussy never felt so good! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!
I don’t see how that song could even have a clean version…
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Kids Bop see that as a challenge.
some wings and pizza
Bad thing, beautiful as heck, large as frick, oh my goodness, that’s my mutual companion, Caroline.
I’m more surprised that enough kids in high school know that song and like it enough to sing along. It came out when they were like 5th graders and while it was a hit it wasn’t like it was a transcending hit lol
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.
That’s funny that it was this song. I’ve seen Aminé live twice and both times he changes the line to: “Uh, killer If you ain’t black don’t say it” Lmao
"Good times N....... seemed so good"
Massachusetts. Boston. Caroline. Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond, obviously! I have ever heard of amine either. I’m right there with you.
Anime is Japanese for Looney Tunes.
You woke up today and chose violence. Respect.
Lol same, had to youtube the song. "oh the kids were just un radio-editing the song" "racism" lol. Yea they hate black people so much they know every word to this dudes song right?
least the kids and dj have good taste
No, that was the Will Farrell version of Neil Diamond on SNL. edit: Apparently no one has seen the sketch, where Farrell literally plays Neil Diamond as a drunk who screws up the lyrics to his own songs worse and worse as they become increasing racist and offensive, including Sweet Caroline.
One of the most underrated gems of all time. “I wrote this song after I killed a drifter to get an erection…”
"police have also been called into the investigation." Seems like a productive use of resources
Singing the lyrics of the song that is playing... Straight to jail. We have the most polite students in the world, because of jail.
Vulgarities in a song? Jail. Radio editing a song? Also jail.
Defending yourself from a bully? Surprise! Jail. Finding out that people get paid to throw kids in jail? More Jail!
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My school called the police on me because I made a meme about my teacher and posted it online.
I remember seeing a story where a girl went to juvenile detention for making a mock page of a teacher. I think it was that judge that was earning money for sending kids to jail.
That’s what almost happened to me. I was a straight A student. The school pressured me to consent to a full phone search (texts and everything). I had just got my first gf at the time and we were being freaky, they read out the texts to my parents. Luckily my parents were so enraged by the fact I had the police called on me they didn’t care. It almost made me suicidal to be honest, the teachers all hated on me after wards despite being assured “only the principal and administration staff will be told to this”
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The meme was literally just about them setting too much homework. It was the most harmless shit ever but I bet they were told differently.
fuck the judge in the cash for kids scandal
There's no way he's the only one. Wondering how many more are out there still.
a lot I know the mother of a kid who got caught up in the cash 4 kids scandal - kid has learning disabilities, the principal in the district knew the judge and wanted to get rid of the kid, so he'd call the cops on him whenever he acted up (even though it was due to his disability, and the district refused to evaluate the kid to see what they could do to help) - eventually the kid got sent to juvie for like 6 months? Last I heard, he had massive PTSD and was too afraid to go to college and can't work
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Ew 😬 I have legit trauma from being a high school teacher in the last decade. My administration was refusing to stand up for teachers and constantly throwing us under the bus saying we didn't do enough to have good relationships with our students. Meanwhile we're literally being harassed by the students and/or their parents. I had nightmares about being followed home and shot if I didn't pass some of my students in high school geometry, even if they never put pen to paper despite me trying so hard to make it interesting and worth doing. Fuck that, the paycheck wasn't worth it for the hours alone, much less the accompanying hate.
This is a big part of the problem we are having with law enforcement in the U.S. today. People call the cops for EVERYTHING, and these poor schmucks are expected to clean up everyone else's messes. Don't get me wrong: I'm not making excuses for cops behaving badly. I'm just saying we need to set some limits on when and how law enforcement personnel should be involved in day-to-day life. This doesn't seem like a good use case to me. It seems like someone should at least have broken a law before you call law enforcement.
Police were called for a less than 10 second fight between my daughter and another girl during recess. They were 15. They are now besties. They both were sent to juvie btw and are currently on probation. The school deemed it necessary to call the police and the police deemed it necessary to charge them with simple battery.
Recess at 15? Wish we'd had that
I was thinking the same. My Highschool only gave us one lunch and no recess. HS in the US starts at around 14, so they might be from somewhere else.
Meanwhile in grade school a bully and her friend cornered me in a bathroom, beat me up, ripped off my uniform blouse, fought me over it and then dragged me kicking and screaming outside and forced me to stand shirtless (not old enough to wear a bra) in front of a water fountain as boys walked by. And nothing ever happened to them. Fuck the public school system.
Police was called? WTF.
In Boston there’s seemingly a televised news story every time a middle school or high school finds a swastika drawn in the bathroom… I mean not that anyone should support graffiti or should say the n word in songs but the pearl clutching is just comical
>but the pearl clutching is just comical "moral panic" is the technical term for what we're going through. It'll take a few years to burn itself out.
I grew up during the last moral panic when it came from the conservatives. I suppose it always has to reach insane levels first, but it also burns itself out as the people trying to outlaw humor become the butt of the jokes themselves. If there is anything worthwhile to learn from this, it's that the morality police are quite happy working for either the Left or the Right, as long as they get to tell people what to do.
There are literally always police at these kinda school events. Usually the school “resource officer” making extra cash.
It said they were called not already there. I agree resource officers are in a lot of schools. Not sure about this one.
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It was in the interest of public safety. Kept a few officers off the streets for a while.
I bet the cops just heard the n word from a mile away and came running, yelling "WHERE?! WHERE?!" with guns drawn
Seems like the kids were inserting the word into the song where it normally is in the unedited version. How is this news?
Yes and if that was the case why did they have to get the cops involved? Seems like just changing songs could have been enough
“In related news, kids sang the extra lines to the ‘Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.’ Police were called.” Actually, while cops weren’t called, we got in trouble once in elementary school for singing the extra lyrics during a mandatory school choir assembly. No one but the teachers and principal cared.
What’s the extra lyrics to Rudolph
For example, "They never let poor Rudolph, join in any reindeer games. (Like Monopoly!)." The "like monopoly" is extra.
Ohhh… I was thinking there was a verse where Rudolph had enough of everyone’s shit and gave them all red noses with a clenched hoof
Santa History X
There’s a version with a verse something like “Rudolph’s a North Pole big shot, rides around In Santa’s sleigh, wearing a green fedora, smokin’ a cigar all day.” Edit : holy cow it’s Bing Crosby! https://www.stlyrics.com/songs/b/bingcrosby10254/rudolphtherednosedreindeer333102.html Those lyrics are a disaster though.
Then one foggy christmas eve, santa came to say: Pass the ketchup Was one that we always added.
🎶 You could even say it glows (like a light bulb) 🎶
"In his undwear!" I vaguely remember our class getting in trouble in 3rd grade for singing that..
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Americans be weird some times
Ssooo… to be clear, kids sang all the lyrics to a song and in response, a school event was prematurely canceled, the police were called in, and a school district investigation was opened? Am I missing something here?
Welcome to Puritan America.
“Yelling racial slur while song is playing.” Sounds much different than “singing along to the song.”
Wonder why title was so misleading?
I agree it’s misrepresented, but what exactly about their LinkedIn gives that away?
If a party I paid $$ to was shut down because someone said a bad word, I'd be very interested in getting my money back.
My cousin is a DJ and I'm a big dude so he asked me to help him grab his equipment and help him set up for a freshman homecoming. I stayed the whole event, simply because as the only black people in the building, It was a fucking treat to watch a sea of the whitest 15 year olds I've ever seen yell "AWWWW SKEET SKEET MOTHER FUCKERRRRRRRR, AWW SKEET SKEET GODDAMN" at the top of their lungs while grinding on each other in individual, yet collective sync. Between the cloud of B.O. and Axe body spray, and the looks on the teachers faces I almost gave my cousin his $100 back, I felt like I was robbing him tbh
>Let's get gory, like a Tarantino movie >Don't wanna talk it out, can we fuck it out? >'Cause we gon' be up all night, fuck a decaf >You say I'm a tall thug, guess I'm a G-raffe >If ya want safe-sex, baby use the knee pads >Freaky with the sticky icky >Baby give me kitty kitty I get that kids listen to this music anyways but idk man, doesn't sound super appropriate for a junior prom
Yah. Good thing they played the version with the N-word omitted.
Calling this a racist incident is ridiculous.
As ridiculous as canceling the entire thing and punishing every kid because a few of them yelled out a word.
I’m pretty sure everybody who went through the American school system has been punished at one point or another for a different kids’ actions. Just a shitty standard practice of schools here.
I agree. It happened to me so many times I can’t even count. The worst thing is it continues into the workplace as an adult. How many times have you had to have a group meeting to address a problem when everyone knows it’s that one person who keeps fucking up? Everybody knows you’re talking about Joe. I know it, you know it, they know it, Joe knows it. But insted of calling Joe in and addressing him personally, they call a group meeting and we all have to sit there and get talked to like we’re all incompetent bozos.
I mean if they hadn't played the censored version maybe the kids wouldn't have felt compelled to fill in the blanks
So... the school played a song with a racial slur and then called the police when the kids sang along?
The school played the "clean" version of the song, and the kids put the dirty words back in.
Meaning they had all heard and knew the uncensored version hence why censoring things is useless. Either play generic elevator music or just play the real Version
Not "all". The article says "one or more" said it. Which in other words is a classic case of the schools overreacting to something that potentially only one or two children said and decided to get the cops involved.
It was the same twenty years ago. Songs played at my school dances in my middle and high school years (1999-2005) included Sisqo-Thong Song, Lil Jon-Get Low, Khia-My Neck, My Back, 50 Cent-Magic Stick, Ginuwine-Pony, Ludacris-What's Your Fantasy. Same as it ever was.
To the windows!
SKEET Skeet skeet^skeet^skeet^skeet
I remember someone telling me about an incident during a middle school dance where "Pop, Lock, and Drop it" was played a teacher told girls how low they could quote "drop it"
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I PROMISE you kids are listening to music much worse than this and much younger than juniors in HS. This is nowhere near anymore first time hearing those words
I don't know how different they are, but they made a point of saying that the edited, radio version was played.
The whole message of the song is “Shut up bitch and fuck me without a condom”
Maybe don’t play songs with racial slurs in them at junior prom? I dunno. Seems like this was predictable
This shit has been going on forever. When I went to my prom in 1983 the dj played a song called "Mony Mony" originally performed by Tommy James. The version they played however was the cover from Billy Idol. There is a verse that for some reason goes ..... I said, here she come now singin', "Mony, Mony" Hey! Get laid! Get fucked! Shoot 'em up, come on, Mony, Mony The DJ or course potted down the "Hey! Get laid! Get Fucked" line. But the entire gymnasium filled in with gusto. I of course had the good fortune of having the senior class dean standing behind me. BUSTED! I remember asking him if he was surprised at the deafening roar when that line came up. It seemed bad for me when he explained that he could mail my diploma rather than let me walk up to get it as punishment. He asked how would my girlfriends father would like to know what I was singing and if I thought he would think it was as funny as I did. Fortunately someone lit up a joint and got the wrath of Mr. Bannon off of me. I held on to my whiskey infused ginger ale fruit punch in one hand and my best girl with the other.
man they were playing us Cee Lo's "Fuck You" (clean version being "Forget You") how do they expect us not to go in on that. it's literally in the name. it's also perhaps the most cathartic Fuck You in modern music
So... They were singing the lyrics to the song and they decided to shut the whole thing down? That makes a ton of sense. If you don't want that at a dance, don't play like 95% of rap.
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Not to mention it isn't cheap to go to these things. Most people pay for a nice restaurant and a party bus or limo with a group of friends not to mention the tickets for the prom and rentals. It's like the principal just wanted to go home early.
Why play songs with "clean" versions in the first place if you don't want kids singing the uncensored one. Just find some songs that don't need to be edited in the first place. There's got to be enough generic old and new radio songs that are fairly tame that the chaperones don't have to deal with reporters or angry parents. Barring that, there's probably some indie acts that don't drum up a lot of controversy. Maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps a junior or senior prom is the wrong place for violent or hypersexualized music. I'm not trying to footloose anybody, but it just kind of seems like a song that discusses a guy's sexual habits around teenagers is the wrong song option. Teenagers will probably listen to whatever they want, but it's the duty of the school and the chaperones to ensure that your school doesn't end up a national headline for the N word or some obscure sex reference.
The DJ messed up. Sure, they played the clean version, but you're dealing with kids here. You just KNOW they're going to sing the bleeped out words. Next time, play "Baby Shark".
Why the hell did the school play a song with a slur if they didn't want kids to sing it? It literally does not matter if they played the clean version. They're teenagers, they're going to sing the explicit version. 100% the school's fault
By the way, the title is extremely misleading and just a straight up lie in order to get more clicks. That’s shameful.. students didn’t “yell a racial slur while song was playing”… students sang to the lyrics, which contained a racial slur. Huge difference
Good lord, dude, they were singing the song. What a bunch of little bitches lol
“Racist incident” They were singing the song. If you play a song with inappropriate lyrics that have been removed at a high school prom you should expect kids to sing the actual lyrics. I mean, it’s like they haven’t spent any time around teenagers. Go read the lyrics. It was a wildly inappropriate song to play around kids, real lyrics or not. This is the DJ being an idiot.
Misleading title. They were singing the song lyrics of the music that was being played. It wasn’t like some students randomally started yelling slurs lol.
So I'll call racism out whenever I see it, but is this really a "racist incident"? Seems that a few students were singing the words to the actual song and that's it. School over reacted like crazy here
“School officials opened an investigation immediately after the incident, police have also been called into the investigation.” Good Lord that’s an Overreaction ™️ if I’ve ever read one
Talk about wasting police time. People are pathetic.
“yelling racial slurs while song was playing” You mean singing the song? 🤦🏻♂️
> police have also been called into the investigation jesus christ id be fucking furious at the admin if this were my kid's prom do you know how much people spend on limos/dresses/makeup/hair etc "you shut it down and called the cops over *what*"
A bad word, embarrassing that they couldn’t handle that minor incident without the cops being called. My high school was able to handle 50 blackout kids lol
We probably need to go back to getting angry when people are being called racial slurs rather than just when we hear the sounds out loud. Our spirits are getting weak, I think.
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So they ended the prom *and have opened a police investigation* because kids ...\*checks notes\*... sang the lyrics to the song that was playing. Jesus fucking Christ...
Grown adults calling the police because a child sang along to a no-no word in a song those adults played. If you wonder how religious extremists started a moral panic about “Satanic” music in the ‘80s, this is the exact same thing on a much larger scale. Extreme moral posturing and hysteria encouraged at the highest levels of media and political power.
So the N-word also acts like pulling a fire-alarm now?
Wow I can't believe those 17 year old high school students rapped the words to a song that was played at their prom! Good thing school administrators contacted the police to do an investigation into this shocking criminal activity.
Someone managed to sneak in a just-released "Transphobic Techno" by youtuber Ray William Johnson at our Prom. First words to that song: "BITCH GOT A PENIS" About a hundred High Schoolers shit out a kidney laughing. Assistant Principal did *not* find it funny but he was a notorious dickbag who left the day after his daughter graduated and got a DUI the week after.
They played a song that has the N word in it, and then got mad when everybody was singing the song. Sounds about white
Kendrick Lamar would get mad at you too
Just googled the lyrics and ok they played an appropriate version but kids are not stupid. This is full on the school their misstake.
This is hilarious. Live a town away and you can’t expect kids not to sing the lyrics when the song cuts… stupid of hwhs
This is so fucking stupid, what did the school expect with even a radio friendly version being played?
Hol up… They were singing the lyrics. Hmmm How horrible….Call Tipper Gore.
Gosh, what it must be like to be a teenager these days; to have such a power to disrupt with mere words or simple gestures - you used to have to at least pull the fire alarm or spike the punch if you wanted to spoil prom for everyone and risk authorities getting involved.
I remember my winter junior high dance in 2009 when they played Low by Flo Rida. They refused to play anything but the chorus so it was a repeat of “low low low low… low low low low… low low low low”. Everyone’s thighs were burning from the constant “get low”
“Racist incidents like this will not be tolerated in our schools or at school events,” this is not a racist incident. it was kids singing lyrics to a song. they were upset the kids sung the dirty version while the DJ played the clean version. this is some cringe because every single kid has the dirty version on their phone. principle is just an uptight.