A new candidate for the worst song in history has emerged!
A fan of quasi-Nazi pickup guru and prose-abuser Heartiste has put out a rough version of a song he calls “The Sh*tlib Zone,” a grotesque ripoff — Heartiste euphemistically calls it a “reinterpretation” — of Golden Earring’s 80s classic “Twilight Zone.”
This abomination replaces the original’s enigmatic lyrics with what amounts to a bizarre rant filled with racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and probably a few other sorts of bigotry I’m forgetting.
Adding to the horribleness of it all, the song is littered with the weird racist slang that’s become ubiquitous in certain corners of the far-right today, making portions of the song all but incomprehensible for anyone who’s not a Nazi, a channer and/or a regular reader of Heartiste’s blog. Here’s one of the choruses, to give you just a taste of this horror:
Help, I’m cuckin’ into the shitlib zone
Place is a bathhouse, can’t stop being prone
My manhood’s been moved, under Jenner’s dress
How far am I to bend when they call me racist?
That’s actually one of the more comprehensible bits of the song. Other lines from the song aren’t quite so clear:
Yeah, my daughter’s burning coal, dindu in my bed
As a regular hate-reader of Heartiste’s hate site, I actually understand this nonsense, so let me translate. “Coal-burning” means interracial sex between a white woman and a black man (the term may also mean sex between a white man and a black woman, but I’ve never seen it used that way). “Dindu” is a lovely new derogatory term for black people, based on the notion that black “thugs” (and/or their families) always say that they “dindu nuffin” when they’re accused of crimes that racist white dudes think they’ve committed.
So evidently the “sh*tlib cuck” who is the song’s narrator is being “cucked” by his wife and a black man; meanwhile, his daughter is also dating a black man.
You can read the rest of the lyrics in Heartiste’s post if you feel like putting yourself through that particular ordeal.
Speaking of ordeals, here’s the actual song. I tried, but was unable to make it all the way through; it wasn’t a technical issue but a “goddamn it what the hell am I doing with my life that I’m actually listening to this horrendous crap” issue. You may have a similar problem.
Here’s Golden Earring’s original. You might want to listen to it instead, as it will not make you continually cringe from start to finish.
Gee THANKS David, now I’m forced to spend the rest of the day playing 80’s music, dancing to it, and annoying the s/o by making him do both too!
We’re really not mad at you, but *pretends to make mean face* 😛
Like anyone would want to scream it from the highest mountain that they or their daughter ever dated someone like him. Ew.
Next up….Burning down the house, Talking Heads.
Take that however one wishes. 😉
How can such an untalented fool think he is superior to anyone?
Thanks for putting the Golden Earring track up. A real blast from the past.
Not a fan of the projectile vomit rip off version, though.
Amazing that someone would spend so much time dwelling on and wallowing in psycho-sexual hate like that. Hate and jealousy. Again with the projection.
In his world view, he is like super duper talented, its just the world is filled with delusional idiots, who can’t recognise a true artist like him.
You’re nearly there. Just reverse it and you’re golden!
Well, in any case, “dress/racist” is the worst attempted rhyme I’ve heard in a while. Possibly since the Black Eyed Peas tried to make “popular/flock to us” work.
… Do I dare click on it?
msexceptiontotherule:
Let’s see you put some energy into that!
Damn, is it really 32 years since I saw Stop Making Sense?
So I’m going to try interpreting the main chorus because there is no way I’m going to listing to this song in its entirety.
“Help, I’m cuckin’ into the shitlib zone”
So this is relatively straightforward he’s taking on the role of a white man who isn’t a complete piece of shit and mocking him because he hates non awful white men almost as much as he hates anyone who isn’t white male able bodied and cis.
“Place is a bathhouse, can’t stop being prone”
Okay….I’m going to guess he’s bad at taking baths? ether that or its some kind of homophobic insult I guess?
“My manhood’s been moved, under Jenner’s dress”
He’s mocking the man for having sexual fantasy about trans women. Transphobic as hell and really strangely stated but straightforward.
“How far am I to bend when they call me racist?”
So the idea here is the classic racist argument that people call them racist to win arguments and that only beta males give in to this. Most of the time its accompanied by the person saying there not really racist so its weird that an outright white supremacist would bother making this argument, since everyone already knows there racist.
Well that was relativity easy maybe I can look at some of the other lyrics and see what they mean….
“And he says, “Help, I’m swishin’ into the shitlib zone
Place is a cookhouse, feels like Mexico
My nation’s been sold to Mark Fuckersperg
Where am I to go when the white vote’s submerged?”
….I regret everything.
Love Golden Earring!
And not just because I’ve successfully used “Sorry officer, I was listening to Radar Love” to get out of a speeding ticket.
(I was actually listening to Pendulum, but thought that might go down better. Radar Love genuinely is one of my staying awake at 3am on the motorway songs though)
I’m assuming he means gay bathhouses, which are venues where gay men can go to have sex. So yeah, definitely homophobic.
Here’s a good mind cleanser after that awfulness: Ovarian Psycos: A bicycle gang that rides for feminism.
I wonder if anyone’s going to alert the band’s lawyers to this. I’m pretty sure they take a dim view of talentless assclowns taking a good song and turning it into rubbish with incomprehensible jargonese for lyrics, no?
@Bina
Unfortunately shitty parodies don’t require permission.
@Miss Andry,
They can, however, be prosecuted for libel and/or slander in some cases. The album Rated X-Mas by Matt Rogers became the subject of a lawsuit because of the pornographic parodies of various copyrighted Christmas songs featured on it. (For instance, there was a “Frosty The Snowman” parody that depicted the snowman as a pedophile). The lawsuit was successful and all copies of the album were destroyed.
While parody is ordinarily protected under the First Amendment, obscene parodies are sometimes an exception.
It’s like someone tried to set #TheTriggering to music, only even stupider than that sounds.
The proffered brain-bleaches are fab as always.
@Jamesworkshop – Ed + Ein (with weird mushrooms) is one of my favourite Cowboy Bebop scenes 🙂
About the actual ‘song’ I have nothing to say that has not already been said by previous commenters. Ugh.
@Tragedy of the Commas
Link goes to a broken BBC page.
I really really REALLY hope its not a bunch of white women wearing what they see as “gang clothes” and riding through low income areas. I can see the sentiment but…I can also see the White Feminism™.
@ booburry
Huh. Maybe try this link? If that doesn’t work, I found some other articles on the group.
They describe why they’re deliberately an all women of color space to The Austin Chronicle. So, to answer your concerns, no, they’re not “a bunch of white women” being well-intentioned but privilege-blind or similar to that.
I also found Fusion and Good.is interviews with the OPs, both of which have a lot of the same information as the BBC article.
Worry not. I saw the trailer clip; they’re definitely Latinas. And more power to them.
You didn’t get the joke. White women and not men are coal burners because “burning coal” means “filling yourself up with something black.” Heterosexual white men generally prefer to “stick it in something black,” making them not coal-burners but oil-drillers in internet Nazi parlance.
I’m with Gollum on this one. I think I’ll pass.