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Youth Culture Killed My Dog Lyrics
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture killed my dog
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And his suicide can be justified
By the tastemakers, how they cried and cried and so
Bacharach and David used to write his favorite songs
Never, never, never would he worry, he'd just run and fetch the ball
But the night lights and my dog's life aren't exactly one and the same
Youth culture killed my dog
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And the judgement made in the city of hate
Just broke his spirit so
Bacharach and David used to write his favorite songs
Never, never, never would he worry, he'd just run and fetch the ball
But the hiphop and the white funk just blew away my puppy's mind
I don't understand what you did to my dog
And I don't understand what you did to my dog
I don't understand what you did to my dog
I don't understand what you did to my dog
Youth culture killed my dog (Youth culture killed my dog)
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And his suicide can be justified
By the tastemakers, how they cried and cried and so
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Broke his spirit so (broke his spirit so)
Broke his spirit so
Youth culture (youth culture)
(youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
(youth culture)
Broke his spirit so (broke his spirit so)
Broke his spirit so
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And his suicide can be justified
By the tastemakers, how they cried and cried and so
Never, never, never would he worry, he'd just run and fetch the ball
But the night lights and my dog's life aren't exactly one and the same
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And the judgement made in the city of hate
Just broke his spirit so
Never, never, never would he worry, he'd just run and fetch the ball
But the hiphop and the white funk just blew away my puppy's mind
And I don't understand what you did to my dog
I don't understand what you did to my dog
I don't understand what you did to my dog
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And his suicide can be justified
By the tastemakers, how they cried and cried and so
Youth culture (youth culture)
Broke his spirit so (broke his spirit so)
Broke his spirit so
Youth culture (youth culture)
(youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
(youth culture)
Broke his spirit so (broke his spirit so)
Broke his spirit so
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You have to remember this song was released in 1986, when "Hip-Hop" and "White Funk" represented relatively radical realignments of our pop-culture paradigm. The dog seems a very powerful metaphor, someone with a very simple mind who can't process all this new input, and apparently drops dead because of it.
Could the doggie be a symbol for the conservative backlash against the music industry? 1986 was, if I remember correctly, the year that the Dead Kennedys were sued by the government for "distribution of pornography" over the H. R. Giger insert in "Frankenchrist." It was around this time that 2 Live Crew went on trial, although that may have been later.
I always thought the song was ironic. I figured it was poking fun at people who blame teenagers and hip hop for all the world's problems. I don't know.
i always thought that his dog just couldn't handle youth culture. so he killed himself. or overdosed.
I agree with imveryboring.
"Like its politicians and its wars, society gets the teenagers it deserves."
:D :D :D @ they might be giants!!!!!!!
Yeah! Eat this white boy angst, you wigger poop-eaters! And I agree. Hip-hop is terrible, and white funk is just sad.