I think H. would have appreciated the spirit. Lots of his songs were edgy–given the time and genre he was writing for. Officer krupke in West side story, for example.

Game would have respected game. H. Probably would have had more trouble understanding how mon-u-fucking-mentally stupid a world driven by greed could have become. He would have been much less concerned with animated movie song lyrics.

I just had to explain to my kid that there was a band that existed before “that Shrek song all-star” was made

Just post the video instead of explaining it; we’re apparently out of the “cultural reference that will generally land” after 25 years. Plus then these poor folk who haven’t seen it can appreciate the wonder. It was nominated for an academy award for cripes sake!

The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 72nd Academy Awards (1999). This created controversy because all nominated songs are traditionally performed during the Oscar broadcast, but the song contained the word fuck, which the FCC prohibits using in prime time broadcasts. At the awards ceremony, comedian Robin Williams performed the song with a chorus that gasped when the word was to be sung (Williams turned around at the crucial moment and did not actually sing it…