Eminem and Australia

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

david schrieb:


> http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,517779,00.html
>
> The imminent arrival of the controversial US rapper has sent many Australian 
> politicians into an apoplectic moral panic, writes Patrick Barkham
>
> Friday July 6, 2001
>
> "This guy is mentally sick," said Queensland Liberal MP Peter Slipper 
> recently.

               "schizophrenia: how many years you got it?/
               how many motherfuckers can say they're psychotic? ..."

 ... raps eminem on this new d12 record ("devil's night") ... kai


> "Anyone who writes lyrics speculating about raping his mother, anyone who 
> writes lyrics talking about having his pregnant girlfriend killed, has to be 
> on the wrong side of mental balance.
>
> "What we should do or what someone should do is lock him up in a mental 
> institution and throw away the key."
>
> [...]
>
> Australian states boast some of the toughest legislation in the western 
> world for preventing children accessing explicit material.
>
> Theoretically, Eminem's two albums and his latest collaboration with D12 
> cannot be legally sold to under-18s (although most 14-year-olds don't appear 
> to have any problems obtaining his album).
>
> Australian law also forbids the printing of Eminem's lyrics in his albums' 
> packaging (which doesn't stop kids printing his lyrics off internet sites).
>
> Eminem's two concert videos are also banned to sale for under-18s, but 
> anyone over 14 has been able to buy tickets for his two concerts in 
> Melbourne and Sydney.
>
>
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