Rape video. Would you find this offensive?

[flobadob]

The story is that a man's sister had someone climb in her bedroom window and the brother chased him off. The first video is the actual news story and the second is a song someone made based on the news story. Would you find it offensive for this story to be made light of? http://www.theanswerb...k/Question934436.html

[andy-hughes]

Yes, I would. Anyone taking a crime and using it to make money - the only reason for making a 'song' out of the news clip - is offensive.

[jake-the-peg]

How about someone making a film about a real crime?

That's a crime being used to make money

Is that offensive?

The Krays film? Buster? "Let him have it"?

and one or two more

http://en.wikipedia.o...gory:True_crime_films

[rojash]

So andy-hughes, presumably you found the following songs offensive:
"Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke
"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
"Hardin Wouldn't Run" by Johnny Cash
"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats
"I Fought the Law" by Bobby Fuller Four and The Clash
"Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor
"I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley and the Wailers
"I've Got to Get a Message to You" by the Bee Gees
"Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley
"Mack the Knife", by Bobby Darin
"All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan
"Midnight Rambler" by The Rolling Stones
"Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson
"The Green, Green Grass of Home" by Tom Jones
"Delilah" by Tom Jones
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Gene Pitney

[flobadob]

I think the difference is that they are directly using the victims and in a way parodying them, rather than commenting on the case.

[andy-hughes]

Jake - I did not say the crime was being used to make money, i said the 'song' was being used to make money - that is what is offensive.

rojash - your analogy is flawed - a song about a fictional event, i.e. created by the composer, is a standard scenario for a song - no problem, a 'song' using newsreel footage of an incident barely days old - that is wrong.

flobadob - exactly my point - using newsreel footage of an assault on a young woman to make an 'entertainment' is offensive.

[rojash]

But andy, some of those songs are about real events - the most obvious one being "I Don't Like Mondays", based on the words of Brenda Ann Spencer after a shooting spree in which she killed two and injured nine.

[society]

Please excuse me flobadob while I have a word with Rojash

Rojash, can you please look at my question?
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question935782.html

Thanks

[rojash]

I've replied, society, but it may not be the answer you are looking for :-)

[andy-hughes]

I have no issue with the chronicling of historical events - even criminal ones - the entire folk music genre is built on such a premise.

But writing a song about an event, and taking a sound clip and setting it to music are a world apart.

There are dramas about crime, but no-one performs a crime, films it, and puts it out as entertainment.

[Ankou]

andy, aint you seen x factor then ?

[andy-hughes]

Yeah ... I hadn't thought of that! LOL!