Alright, children, gather around, and let me regale you with a tale of the 80’s.
See, back then we still had a sense of humor about things that, today, would get you shut down REAL fast. Sure, we were in the beginning phases of the end of western civilization, what with “Stranger Danger” and “Satanic Panic” and the paradoxical responses to AIDS (“Kids! Panic! If you touch a girl, yer gonna diiiiiiiiieeeee!!!!!” but then also “Actually do something like shutting down bath houses and quarantining the infected? Pshaw!“), coupled with whacko laws like House Amendment 777 to H.R. 4332 and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, but at the time we didn’t really *know* that we were on a steep decline to cultural oblivion, and we certainly hadn’t ceded control of culture entirely over to the panicmongers, fear merchants and the mentally ill. Consequently, we could still laugh at things without having roaming packs of screeching harpies try to destroy our lives over wrongthink.
A case in point: “Homecoming Queen’s Got A Gun.” This has several features that would make it stand out today:
1: It’s a “novelty song.” Today “novelty” is pretty much dead, and “songs” have been replaced by talent-free autotuned a-melodious crap written by low-end AI algorithms with all the soul of solar powered Casio digital watches
2: The comedian here is a woman who:
2A: Is actually funny
2B: Isn’t focusing her “humor” on raging against the patriarchy
3: The subject matter is distinctly non-P.C.
You kids will never know the struggle of trying to listen to the Dr. Demento Show when it came on long after your bedtime.