Reply To: [TW: rape] Helping Sea Monkeys with triggers (at karaoke and otherwise), was: JCCC4 Post-Mortem
By that logic, Paul and Storm’s song about breaking into someone’s home and watching them sleep and them screaming in fear and horror should never exist.
Now that it has been discussed, I know that someone specifically reacts to that song, it is easy to avoid, but it would never have occurred to me otherwise. Nor would other songs that were originally listed. Why? because that is not my frame of reference and it is not how I interpret the songs so there is not a way for me to anticipate that it would be triggering.
Specifically mentioned by the OP were: Brown Sugar, Father Figure, Young Girl, and Don’t Stand So Close To Me. I don’t know all those songs well, but some of them are very popular and common and catchy, despite their questionable lyrics. I would not publicly call someone out for singing “don’t stand so close to me”, because it would never occur to me that it would be a trigger.
It comes down to how people are interpreting the songs, and you are slyly calling those who do not interpret the music in the same way as callous, unempathetic people. I really like some of Kanye West’s music. Some of it can be very offensive, but also very thoughtful.