Immoral song

Mr Daniel Jones

Jul 20th 2012, 11:28

I think Vincent has a point. It is not the content but the time that it is aired.

Take for example some of the programmes shown on the cable channels. The content is inapropriate for daytime television when there is the chance that children can be watching.

In the UK there is the 'watershed' of 9pm. Where what is acceptable in terms of sexual or violent content to be broadcast before that time changes.

This is deemed an a time when reasonable parents have the young kids in bed.

I also agree that song lyrics have moved from the suggestive to the explicit. Probably a reflection of the lack of intellect of the song writers or the dumbing down of the listeners.

Franco Farrugia

Jul 20th 2012, 10:56

Mr Vincent Galea of Gharghur seems to have never followed the so-called 'lyrics' of the chants taking place during 'marci' in village feasts. I would rather go 'Dirty, dirty' than listening to these senselss, disgustingly-provocative chants.

joanne pace

Jul 19th 2012, 17:44

I cannot believe someone wrote this letter...

J Zammit

Jul 19th 2012, 17:18

Yes Mr. Vincent A. Galea you are a prude. If you think a song is inappropriate just switch it to a different station. Simple.

Songs with suggestive lyrics have been around for a long time and were and are played in all hours of the day so I don't know why you are astonished, as you said, about the fact that this song is written and sung by Maltese artists. Would you have been happy if the singers and songwriters were English or American?

Pule' Carmel

Jul 19th 2012, 16:10

Being so old ,in my time I knew people who
* associated "dirty" with soap or washing powder.
* associated " gay" with the state of being happy.
* I knew and Irishman who thought that sex was something you carry potatoes in.
* sticking a finger out was meant to point to a direction and no other conotations suggested.
* " a period" was the separation in time and it was used liberaly in converstion without anybody looking at you in a funny sort of way.
* Being politically correct and worrying what to say for fear of being misunderstood never entered my mind.
*Tghabbi lil xi hadd" was meant to give a lift to someone on your bike or home made ball bearing scooter.

But these days, without censorships, so many double means are used and even worse I believe is not the sound and the conotation beind it but it is the manner in which the sound is written in SMS language where it sounds the same , spelt differently, and meant to contain the same essence!

There are occassions where one has to be so careful about these conotations. I once knew a school in a foreign country who put out a tender for " a condenser" and what he got was a " condenser" but what he wanted was an electrical condenser which we normally call a capacitor and he got a condenser which is a heat exchanger for a power station.

Modern life is not longer so pure for our children.

Lucienne Dimech

Jul 19th 2012, 15:22

Maybe PBS should start transmitting mass or the rosary on a daily basis that our children will have holy hols.

Gaetano Mallia

Jul 19th 2012, 15:15

I suggest you listen to the track One Very Important Thought by The Boards of Canada which was written some 14 years ago.....how true!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6tQm5suf4

JIMMY ATANASIO

Jul 19th 2012, 13:57

just who told you that children don't listen to lyrics.i have a eight year old grand son that knows all the words to every song that he hears.don't go beleiving that they don't because you'll be the fool and not them.if you can hear them they can do better

Mr Andrew Camilleri

Jul 19th 2012, 13:09

I am not a racist, but .......". The latest contradictiry statement must be "I am not a prude but ...........". Yes, you are a prude.

Lucienne Dimech

Jul 19th 2012, 12:21

As usual. Holier than thou . Our chi.dren are exposed to blasphemy all the time in this cou try I bet you sticks more clearly in their mind . When i was young Donna summer has what was in those days a daring song I never really u derstood why then so it only bothered the adults of those days also does anyone remember je t' moi non plus? And all the sighing again as a young child I did not bother . I think that it is the adults that bother about these things because they can I aging what the kids cannot in the same dirty way .

Billy J McBee

Jul 19th 2012, 12:11

Get a life. This is the reason why the Maltese Music Industry doesn't move forward. Vincent A.Galea, why don't you ban every radio, internet, mp3 player, or any other media connection from your children then? Also why don't you write to every multi million record company/artist about it?. Be real, and snap out of it. 'Dirty' sounds, lyrics have been around since the Elvis Presly era and still is going on with censorships along the way, get updated, and put your kids in a confined aquarium. I wonder how shocked you'll be once your kids will attend Personal Sex Education classes...unless you'll avoid them to find out what you have already been practicing with your children's mother!

E Mamo

Jul 19th 2012, 12:10

Lol, Mentality of the 1800. Recognized the song as Burnin', sung by Malcolm Pisani and written by Billy J. Love the song :P

Franco Farrugia

Jul 19th 2012, 11:22

And you think that 'children' would listen to lyrics? Come on, get real. Many of the 'children''s singer-heros/heroines give us infinitely much worse than that! Madonna, anyone? Britney Spears, anyone??

Ramon Casha

Jul 19th 2012, 11:04

Maybe he was singing about the mudslinging that's going on in the political arena.

Monica Muscat

Jul 19th 2012, 10:49

I have never heard the song - and do not anticipate hearing it, because I never have time to stick around and listen to the radio. However, I do think that things like this happen because of the new acquired mentality that "censorship" is outmoded, undemocratic and therefore unacceptable in our Modern World!

I think the only choice we have is NOT to allow ourselves or OUR CHILDREN to be conteminated by this view. Let us teach them that WHAT was immoral years ago IS STILL immoral today.

Times change - by decent behavour does not.

Mr Duncan Scerri

Jul 19th 2012, 10:44

Change the channel.

Victor Pulis

Jul 19th 2012, 10:42

It's not very hard to get dirty in Malta at the moment. What with the heat, the dust from construction sites and our traditional hobby of throwing every kind of rubbish outside....!

Kenneth Cassar

Jul 19th 2012, 10:27

Only the people who wash children's clothes need complain. The point of the singer's not being explicit is precisely so that only adults would understand what he/she really means.