The soundtrack for Juno is a huge hit, currently holding the #2 spot on the Billboard 200 Chart (and the #1 spot on Amazon and the #1 spot on iTunes), and I’m just waiting patiently for the outcries that come afterward when some housewife in the Midwest gets turned on enough by Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches to buy the band’s first, self-titled album. You know, the one that already had enough troubles when it hit stores on September 11, 2001 with a track called “NYC’s Like a Graveyard”. The one that has lyrics about porn and crack and wondering “whose pussy hole needs filling.” Yes, it should go over well with the folks who think “Anyone Else But You” is just the cutest song ever.
Speaking of “Anyone Else But You,” the Moldy Peaches (Dawson and a very unenthusiastic Adam Green) performed the song on The View last week, and one of the lines in the song was altered. Of course, you’d expect that for daytime television a possibly offensive lyric would be changed, censored or deleted. But here the original words (”you shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants”) were substituted with something seemingly far less kosher (”you blew a little load out of the bottom of your pants”). Perhaps “load” is technically a safer word than “turd” but in the context it goes from being about poop to being about ejaculation. Can that be appropriate for ABC’s daytime audience?
I guess as I haven’t yet heard or read about any fuss regarding the Moldy Peaches’ more R-rated songs, I shouldn’t be bothering to speculate that there could be. But the whole matter made me think back to Karina’s post from a month ago about people (her sister, specifically) being turned on to bands courtesy of hit soundtracks. So, I’ll just sit here and wait for the backlash … any day now … (cough) …
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