But no, Riskay’s tender ballad about her ingenious method of detecting infidelity turned out to be 100 percent for real, which… well, there are no words, really. The first time we heard this, we were convinced that it had to be a parody. Otherwise it’d be all grindcore, though.) (Note: as with our gruesome songs feature a while back, this is essentially a light-hearted list, so there’s no Cannibal Corpse, etc. We’ve put together a collection of some of the best and/or most noteworthy, both genuinely offensive and unfairly maligned.
According to Stewart, the song is a song about a friend who “had an abortion out of love,” and is also “a big fuck you to the right wing in America.” We’re sure it’ll make for endless talk-radio fodder should Rush Limbaugh et al get hold of it, and that got us thinking about some of the other songs that have outraged middle America - and various other groups - over the years. The ever-reliable Jamie Stewart has outdone himself on the new Xiu Xiu album, Always (out this week), by including a song called “I Luv Abortion.” Bless.