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Fart song amongst 120 songs banned by Chinese government
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 12 August 2015
The Chinese government has published a new blacklist of songs that it wants off the internet with immediate effect. It includes the Chang Csun Yuk classic ‘Fart’ and its line “there are some people in the world who like farting while doing nothing”. Which will be a blow to Zayn Malik who was planning on launching his international solo career with a cover of the song. Maybe.
According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the 120 blacklisted tunes “trumpeted obscenity, violence, crime or harmed social morality”, and in doing so broke ‘cultural management rules’. Websites receiving the notice are obliged to remove the listed songs or face “severe punishment”.
Such backlists are not uncommon in China, of course, a list back in June targeted an assortment of Japanese manga cartoons and other online content that, it said, “encouraged juvenile delinquency, glorify violence and include sexual content”.
I’d have a little rant about outrageous censorship here, though I am about to go on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe and argue that British radio should have banned ‘Blurred Lines’. And the follow up show next year is set to call for an outlawing of all cultural references to farting.
