[Other Sport] Delilah OUT

[Is it PotG?]

The Welsh Rugby Union has banned 'Delilah' from being sung by a choir at the Principality Stadium.

I always thought the subject matter was iffy to say the least, and now a line has been drawn.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Presumably Swing Low will be next then?

 

[Icy Gull]

Presumably Swing Low will be next then?

There is absolutely no way trying to stop fans from singing a song has any chance whatsoever of working. In fact I suggest it would be sung even more often. So it should be too, how bloody precious is this country becoming. It’s not like it’s sung as anything vaguely racist.

As bad a Big Ears not being shown to sleep in the same bed as Noddy any more.

 

[Brian Fantana]

There is absolutely no way trying to fans from singing a song has any chance whatsoever of working. In fact I suggest it would be sung even more often. So it should be too, how bloody precious is this country becoming. It’s not like it’s sung as anything vaguely racist.

As bad a Big Ears not being allowed to sleep in the same bed as Noddy any more.

I agree. I'm just presuming the RFU will try and jump on the bandwagon of making a stand in this direction.

 

[Lenny Rider]

The Welsh Rugby Union has banned 'Delilah' from being sung by a choir at the Principality Stadium.

I always thought the subject matter was iffy to say the least, and now a line has been drawn.

'iffy'?

It's about a crime of passion, a woman cheats her lover, she taunts him and his emotions get the better of him.

There's a number of bible stories that cover the same, and related, subject matter.

Some would argue Romeo and Juliet advocates suicide, will that get pulled next?

 

[dazzer6666]

The Welsh Rugby Union has banned 'Delilah' from being sung by a choir at the Principality Stadium.

I always thought the subject matter was iffy to say the least, and now a line has been drawn.

Good luck making 75,000 arrests when its absolutely BELTED out at the next game

 

[Easy 10]

Always quite enjoy it when the Stoke fans belt it out. They are bloody loud.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Oh for simpler times when it was OK to sing about stabbing the mrs.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

I agree. I'd just presuming the RFU will try and jump on the bandwagon of making a stand in this direction.

Bit awkward if we ever play a game in Oklahoma. Do we demand that no one sings their state official gospel song whilst we are there?

 

[Bold Seagull]

The key to this story is that they have banned the official 'choir' from singing it, something they arrange and put on ahead of each game. It is their decision to make.

There is no indication or implication that they have any intention of banning fans or anyone out of their control singing it. Just the choir.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Oh for simpler times when it was OK to sing about stabbing the mrs.

She was laughing though...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

BBC interviewed a Welsh Rugby fossil yesterday who saw no problem in singing a song that celebrated murdering his ex girlfriend.

Prat.

 

[drew]

'iffy'?

It's about a crime of passion, a woman cheats her lover, she taunts him and his emotions get the better of him.

There's a number of bible stories that cover the same, and related, subject matter.

Some would argue Romeo and Juliet advocates suicide, will that get pulled next?

That's a good point. They should ban fans from singing the score from West Side Story.

 

[Bold Seagull]

BBC interviewed a Welsh Rugby fossil yesterday who saw no problem in singing a song that celebrated murdering his ex girlfriend.

Prat.

Well, she was still his girlfriend as he held the knife...

 

[Lenny Rider]

Is that right 'Perfect Day' is about taking heroin?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Why, why, why

 

[Bold Seagull]

Is that right 'Perfect Day' is about taking heroin?

Lou Reed stated it wasn't, he said it was far simpler, it really was genuinely about spending the day in the park with a beautiful girl drinking sangria then going home.

 

[sparkie]

Put the OP on Ignore and 90% of the tedious culture war threads on NSC will disappear.

Got to be worth it.

And ZAP goes the thread. Lol.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Put the OP on Ignore and 90% of the tedious culture war threads on NSC will disappear.

Got to be worth it.

And ZAP goes the thread. Lol.

Great response. I'll be singing it.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

'iffy'?

It's about a crime of passion, a woman cheats her lover, she taunts him and his emotions get the better of him.

There's a number of bible stories that cover the same, and related, subject matter.

Some would argue Romeo and Juliet advocates suicide, will that get pulled next?

Funnily enough, Delilah is actually originally very loosely inspired by the bible, Judges 16. The lyric "I was lost like a slave that no man could free" is a reference to Samson being tied up.

The writers left out the bit 'Lulling Samson to sleep in her lap, Delilah alerted the Philistine rulers who waited in the shadows to capture him. They sheared Samson's hair and, in his newly weakened state, bound him, gouged out his eyes, and forced him to grind grain in the prison at Gaza'. Can't imagine why!