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.
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.