Jimmy Pop, lead singer of the Bloodhound Gang, recently wrote a story for British gay porn mag Homosex. This seems like a radical increase in sensitivity to sexual orientation from a man whose video for "Bad Touch" (the "do it like the Discovery Channel" song) featured apparently gay French men attacked by monkeys. But don't be fooled. In his let's-trade-one-offensive-stereotype-for-the-other defense of the video, Pop (presumably no relation to Iggy) claimed to Britain's NME that it wasn't an attack on gay men. "They weren't gay men, they were French men." Ah, so it was merely an attack on nationality. That makes it all better then.
But then the Bloodhound Gang hasn't exactly been a model of ethnic sensitivity. To quote "Yellow Fever," off the One Fierce Beer Coaster album, "Cause I ride my slant-eyed slope like a brand new Kawasaki/Oh me chinky she's so kinky got me hot like Nagasaki." Best form of protest for a group that seems to like controversy? Don't write letters, just leave the dance floor every time you hear any of their songs. And pull your friends off.
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