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Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

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by Mike Diver
Artists: Evanescence
Super-sized supermarket chain Wal-Mart (them what own ASDA, y'know) are getting their collective ass sued by the parents of a 13-year-old girl. Why? Because said girl was stupid enough to ask for an Evanescence record.

But wait! That's not the whole reason why (although if my daughter* ever requested such a record she'd be staying with gran for the rest of her childhood). The girl's parents took offence to the fruity language on Anywhere But Home, and to the fact that Wal-Mart was selling a record that the chain itself had previously stated it wouldn't - a record with BAD LANGUAGE. Make sense? You need me to tell you about Tipper Gore? No? Good.

The album wasn't stickered with one of those 'Warning - this'll make your kids call you a c*nt and steal your booze and money out of your wallet etc etc' labels, so righteous daddy Trevin Skeens is now demanding a whopping $74,500 in damages from the chain, the band's label Wind Up and its parent label BMG. Apparently the bad words were censored on the supermarket's website, which he says means they were aware of the bad language, but sold the record to him regardless. What c*nts.

We say: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET A GRIP.


Wal-Mart sued over Evanescene's potty mouths

I just can't get my head around Americans at the mo - they've either got itchy triggerfingers or stupidly high morals
Just such a shame they produce top-notch bands (not all of them) or else i'd be calling for a nice bit of napalm to be heading their way for xmas - with a nice sparkly bow on top of course, i'm not that cold-hearted.

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I can't deal with this. Apart from the litiginous bollocks, do the parents of said kiddy REALLY believe that when she goes to school nobody ever swears or talks about shagging? Or is this some case of sueing somebody because the parents are unable to cope with their child going through adolescence? Fruity language, sex etc. happen just the same in the middle of the bible belt as anywhere else. I wish that said Bible belters realised that looking down on things like sex as 'dirty' was something tacked onto the church by ancient greek philosophy, which revered spirit over body. Perhaps they've forgotten that the same ancient greek philosophers revered platonic (in practise homosexual) love as the purest kind.

I didn't particularly have a problem with the 'Parental Advisory' sticker scheme... a great way to indicate to teenagers that this is a record they REALLY want! As to any legal liability...depends who's decision it was to sticker/not sticker the album.

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do the parents of said kiddy REALLY believe that when she goes to school nobody ever swears or talks about shagging?


no, of course they don't. but it's a nice opportunity to make some money, isn't it?

america, the land of opportunity.

xxx

Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescene's potty mouths

It's the $74,500 bit that got me. Is that the price to have swear words surgically removed from a 13 year old's mind?

If the case hasn't already been judged, I just hope the judge uses some kind of common sense and tells these fucktards to cunt off. In those words. After all, this is the culture that requires 'contains nuts' to be applied to jars of peanut butter. I'd just love to be in the courtroom when someone tries to sue Sunpat for not informing them that their product contains nuts and as such their little Billy has died of a nut allergy. The judge would just laugh in their face.

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

It is a worrying thing when people can easily, say, buy a gun and take it to a gig, but swear and it's the end of the world. Dear oh dear. PRIORITIES!

I'm waiting for the lawsuit following the Damageplan gig - not because the guy could easily get a gun, but because Pantera once wrote a song called 'F***ing Hostile'... I mean that has to be the reason it happened, surely?

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

This reminds me of when Wal-Mart refused to stock In Utero because "Rape Me" was deemed too offensive for a family-friendly store ("Waif me" as an alternative? Genius). I also like the one when they pulled a Sheryl Crow album after discovering a single line that criticised Wal-Mart. You gotta love these corporations, suppressing artistic freedom so we have nice and safe entertainment products for mass consumption..

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

Wait a minute, does this mean ASDA are going to stop selling bad-languaged CDs as well now?

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

Perhaps they should introduce a swearing tax - so like smokers, people have to pay a premium for the damage such excess will have on them?
The next stage of this super tax will be for people to donate body parts and give blood in exchange for records featuring sexual content.
And don't let it stop there, why not make people buying records by sell out chav bands play a game of russian roulette?

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And anyone voting in X Factor has to have their brain removed... Oh, hang on a minute...

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

I think the dad's right. Shocking? No.

1) His daughter shouldn't be allowed to listen to Evanescence records.
2) He's going to take $71,500 out of a multinational corporation. What's wrong with that? To paraphrase Fletcher out of Porridge, we cannot defeat capitalism, but we can claim 'little victories', like not paying on trains.

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Think of all the great records that won't be sold there because of Swears etc

Fuck Censorship.

Insanity is here!

And what, may I ask, is wrong with Evanescence? Sure they cuss, but EVERY-FUCKING-BODY does. See, I just did? Are ya gonna sue me now? Fuckfuckityfuckfuckfuck.


Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

but if the government are taking tax off us and using the fare money to make train transport better aren't you making train transport worse by not paying? Your not sticking anything to corporations if anything all your doing is making life for the ordinary joe harder, you complete turdmuncher

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

on a sidenote, did anyone see 'putting the fun in fundamentalism' on c4? now that's some quality programming. and diver, what's the * doing after daughter?

they should run one of those holocausts through america. ask a simple question - 'would you ever sue?' if yes, burn baby. burn.

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Oh yeah, sorry.

*I don't have a daughter.

There you go.

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

America. Tuh. Please someone, nuke the damn country will you? Never mind doing national service or whatever -every American should spend a few years without reason in Camp "X-ray". That'll teach them.

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

I got some funny looks from the people at work when I read this, I was laughing so hard. This kind of thing is a joke, and I hope someone tells that self righeous money grabbing dickhead where to stick it. Preferably the judge.

Re: Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

hey, dis-integration, cool name.

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths


There's one thing further with this case. As the lawsuit launched by Skeens (the parent) is a class-action suit, if this lawsuit hits court and goes all the way, anyone who bought the CD from Wal-Mart, can prove it in a court of law and who claims that they were morally outraged by the use of the word 'fuck', they too can claim a nice round sum of money too, potentially the same amount of money that Skeen is seeking. That could cost Wal-Mart a shitload of money through the opportunistic types.

Taking money out of a multinational like Wal-Mart through suits like this doesn't hurt Wal-Mart because they'll end up sacking 'home' workers and employing more 'illegal aliens' who work for a shit-awful wage. Wal-Mart only does things ot make it money, hence the decision to allow workers unions in its operations in China. China applied the pressure and Wal-Mart couldn't take the chance of being blacklisted by a country that is so integral to its 'cheap goods for you, the Yank consumer=big profits for us fat cunts up top' modus operandi. Workers in the US have no chance of a union and frankly get shat upon daily. That's the wonderful double-standard of Wal-Mart, your friendly shopping experience. How do you like your morals served, toasted or irregular?

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence's potty mouths

Aww, damn. Asda do the best doughnuts as well.

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i used to make them doughnuts, i would advise you to cease consumption right about now.
Bad ju ju.





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