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mushroom25 | 19:57 Mon 23rd Jan 2023 | News
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well well. whatever were Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler and Carole King thinking when they wrote Aretha Franklin's 1967 classic?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/aretha-franklin-song-natural-woman-blasted-by-trans-group/

apparently offensive because "there is no such thing as a natural woman"

or..... is the organisation making the claims - as some on social media claim - just a hoax designed to enrage "gammons"?
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the "trans group" that complained about this is a parody account... and the press took it at face value because it justified their hatred of transgender people.

manufactured controversy
Togo - // Is that why they introduced the Sony Wokeman? //

That's gone straight into my 'I Wish I'd Posted That!' file!!!
♪ Lola by ♪ the Kinks ♫

♫ Song was banned in the USA for containing the words 'coca-cola'. ♫

♫ To comply with US product placement laws lyrics changed to ♪ ♪ 'cherry-cola' ♫
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// Song was banned in the USA for containing the words 'coca-cola'. //

don't know about that, but the BBC initially refused to play it for that reason....
mushroom >16.54

Happy to concede. Just relaying something a friend told me years ago.

Obviously I wasn't listening fully, since he is an aficionado when it comes to the Kinks.
Gordon is a moron and a puff
and Julie is a slag a slut and a ***
Angsty 'teenage' comment in song gets a pass, johnny.

Remember he was so upset at how unfair it all was. :-)
The excuse that it was "from a different time" doesn't make it any less offensive:

Some might see that as comment on good ol' boys and their abhorrent practises.

Gentlefolk they were not.
They're coming to take me away. Ha ha.
This mocked mental illness and seemed pretty tasteless even then when it was first issued.

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