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[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 230 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For context, original lyrics:

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Super tame.

In the New Year's show, they changed "a redneck agenda" to "the MAGA agenda". Okay, little bit more explicitly partisan, but basically the same thing.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Have they changed the removed part yet? It's uh, pretty not great.

[-] AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Its usage in the song is not derogatory. It's meant to highlight the offensiveness of it and to cast the speaker as one of the disenfranchised of America.

It's controversial, I suppose, but it's meant to make a point. Changing it would just diminish it.

[-] freebread@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Also, notable that the songwriter/singer has been out as bi since the early 90's

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