Rock and Rolls, Fame to Blame? (revising)

"well, it used to be a vulgarism back in the dead old days"

Theses:
Music is always changing content wise on what is considered appropriate to say. Parental advisories have been established to help inform people of what kind of music they are buying. At the beginning of rock and roll music Buddy Holly was considered devilish but compared to modern day music could only be looked at as innocent lyrics. The standard for what is considered an advisory is also changing label to label.

“Oh, how my heart yearns for you. Oh, Peggy, my Peggy sue.”
These lyrics are from Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue”. The lyrics simply mean that Buddy Holly feels sad when Peggy is not around. The original song was named “Cindy Lou” after Buddy’s niece but then later was changed to Peggy Sue after a band member’s girl friend. That means that the music wasn’t even talking about a girlfriend. However in the 1950’s this was considered the devil’s music. When speaking openly about kissing a girl, and to conservatives in the “bible belt” of America this was inappropriate. Enough to have Buddy’s dad disown him.

“I got my brain on hype. Tonight'll be your night .I got this long-a**ed knife, and your neck looks just right.”

This song is referring to killing police officers. This song brought up so much controversy that the song ended up taking off the song off the album.


Three: Both of these songs had consequences for their songs. Between the two, “Cop Killer” is most certainly worse in topic however Buddy Holly got similar treatment when his music came out. Local radio stations were told not to play his music. How are the lyrics different but both given the name by people of "devilish". Why is this?

Conclusion: with Americans freedom of speech right protected, we could say whatever we want with the only downside being people's approval at risk.