Delilah Is the Latest Victim of the Woke Brigade
As you’ll have probably heard by now if you tend to stay up to date with the nonsense spewed out by this asinine culture, the Tom Jones song ‘Delilah’, highly popular amongst Welsh rugby fans, will no longer be performed at matches.
The song has been banned by the Welsh Rugby Union on the grounds that its murderous theme will leave Welsh sports fans with no other option but to go on a wild killing spree directly after the game. And if Wales lose it will be even worse.
Halfwit Labour politician Chris Bryant has applauded the decision, an almost cast-iron guarantee that it’s a bad idea.
Quarter-wit Chief Constable Dr. Richard Lewis also weighed in with the following tweet:
To which I couldn’t help but reply with a tweet of my own:
This, then, is the latest development in the the war against context. Previous skirmishes include Zara Sultana bizarrely claiming that famous professional comedian Jimmy Carr’s famous professional joke was in fact a mere ‘joke’. The deadly inverted commas intended to condemn Carr to the role of racist commentator rather than comedian.
Jeremy Clarkson suffered a similar fate, when we were all supposed to be believe his crude Game of Thrones joke about Meghan was an incitement to violence – and not just against Meghan, but women in general.
In this same depressing vein, ’Delilah’ is assumed to be a terrorist manifesto for murdering wayward Welsh women.
Aside from the mind-numbing stupidity, and the unfathomable implications of choosing to take all art literally, one also detects, in this grim policing of community spirit, a suspicion of the organic bonds that naturally develop between the good people of Britain during national pastimes like rugby matches.
The same thing happened recently in football, with the Mirror claiming: “The start of 2023 has seen an explosion in homophobic incidents throughout the game.”
What seemed an unlikely assertion about the least homophobic year on record turned out to be simply a new level of concern over a song fans have been singing for decades, regarding Chelsea players and their mythical affection for male prostitutes. Perhaps not the most edifying of fan songs, but the goalposts had clearly moved.
I tend to put such cases down to the woke middle class sneering at working class culture. A culture depicted with mournful beauty by Morrissey in his song ‘We’ll Let You Know’. “And the songs we sing, they’re not supposed to mean a thing,” Moz reminds us. And in this case we actually can take his song at face value, even as he implores us not to do the same when it comes to terrace chants.
With rugby union it’s a bit more complicated, as it’s a sport mainly played by large posh men whose ancestors hogged all the nutritional resources. But essentially it is the same thing.
These songs, whether ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ or ‘Delilah’, both of which have now failed to meet woke purity standards, take on new meanings when sung in a sporting context.
Rather than a proclamation by rugby fans that they’re going to murder their cheating girlfriends somewhere in Wales, ‘Delilah’ is an anthem of togetherness, shared values, and ancient bonds. As well as a conduit for the benign playing out of rivalries, so that we no longer have to poke each other to death with swords.
Ultimately, the conflict over these harmless songs is the same one we see happening across global politics. On one side the quirks of a nation – what a friend of mine calls our “tribal gods” – that strange, unrepeatable, yet undeniable communal magic that emerges over generations. On the other, the ‘Davos man’. The rationalist top-down planner in his Maoist tunic, banning all the weird little things you like, because they don’t fit into his utopian schemes.
“Why, why, why, Delilah?” the central planner asks.
Because we like singing it, we reply. And that is enough.
Stop Press: Welsh rugby supporters sent a clear message to the Welsh Rugby Union on Saturday, belting out ‘Delilah’ as Wales took on Ireland in Cardiff. The Telegraph has more.
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Why why why?
I truly hope the fans belt out ‘Delilah’ at full revs. It could be a lot worse. John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Chicken Town’ springs to mind.
I have a feeling that the fans will 😀
Here’s to a good match & the hope that Wales will win.
@10navigator wrote <I truly hope the fans belt out ‘Delilah’ at full revs. It could be a lot worse. John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Chicken Town’ springs to mind.>
I’d say that is a foregone conclusion. Hahaha. They are bound to for the nobble. 🙂
I reckon “Ring-a-ring-a rosies” should be banned myself. It must be evil to teach young children about the horrible Black Death!!!
Soft “melts”
If you took away every song, book , movie, great works of art, poetry and all the rest of human creativity that was based on strong human emotions throughout history, you’d be left with “my lovely horse” by father Ted and Dougle!
Father Ted was co-created by Graham Linehan who is according to Wokepedia a “transphobe”.
Typical wokery!
Are the Welsh Rugby fans really going to stop singing Delilah? Somehow I doubt it …… but if they’re tempted to comply, I recommend they listen into Millwall fans singing “Nobody likes us; we don’t care.”
““Why, why, why, Delilah?” the central planner asks.
Because we like singing it, we reply. And that is enough.”
And that’s the real and sole reason why they are banning it.
Reminds me of social distancing and closing pubs&co, where the real and sole reason for it was the suppression of conversations and ultimately dissent.
https://twitter.com/Fantom01010/status/1568232297215807492
Chief constable Dr Richard Lewis is a monumental imbecile! Is this why he joined up? to make a difference? what, to the songs that people sing? Just stick to policing and keep the hell out of politics! BTW how’s your crime solving rate coming along? 6/7%, care to publish your crime solving efficiency? When you live in a dilapidated old greenhouse with hardly any glass left, stop throwing stones! Twat
Must be this weeks peak woke. But on a more serious note; just how much longer has this evil cult got to run?
The way this wokeshittery is going I think even Mary Whitehouse would have been converted to a campaigner for free speech!😲
Its just the intense moralising. Actually the song is about a female betraying the trust of her partner first and foremost. If she remains faithful to him, presumably while he was out working hard to provide a good standard of living for her, then the final reckoning wouldn’t need to take place. Therefore it is about the lack of respect, empathy and the way that men and their feelings have become disposable in our female dominated society. If you think its a ‘Mans World’, as James Brown sang and is often quoted, out of context without the second line, then you really don’t understand how the whole thing works.
You maybe over thinking it a bit there Neil🤣
Hardly…thats the story of the song, and the man is remorseful and accepts his punishment too.
Yes I do understand, just a little tongue in cheek there, sorry
BINGO Neil 👍
Halfwit Labour politician Chris Bryant, Quarter-wit Chief Constable Dr. Richard Lewis and then some numpty no wit at all on the ‘today’ programme.
What do these awful people all have in common?
They are all politicians of one sort or another………
Belgium showed us the way:
‘…the longest period in which a country has been without an elected government, at 589 days’
Sing to Delilah
🎼 🎵 “Wales lost today so I went home to murder my wife” 🎶
Rugby & football have supporters. Pop & film stars have fans.
Language matters.
I don’t think the message of the song is that it’s OK to kill a woman who’s been unfaithful. The song is about his grief and his sorrow that he lost control. He is begging for forgiveness and it’s clear that he’s expecting punishment for a terrible crime. My parents used to say that sometimes women ‘drove’ men to do ‘terrible things’, ie as if the men weren’t really to blame, and I found that abhorrent, at quite a young age. But I’ve never felt that about this song.
My parents used to say that sometimes women ‘drove’ men to do ‘terrible things’, ie as if the men weren’t really to blame, and I found that abhorrent, at quite a young age.
Another real-world story (read in the news): Woman married to man being an avid Star Wars figurine collector. To make a point in some argument, she destroyed them all while he was away. He then strangled here to death and fled crying to his mother.
Humans are complex beings and so are their interactions.
‘Delilah’ is a tragic story of a woman being murdered, so I think the song should definitely be banned. We can’t allow people to sing about the murder of a fictional woman. It might upset or offend her fictional relatives. Any song telling a tragic story of a woman being murdered should be banned. ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, on the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, is another song about women being murdered which should therefore also be banned for the same reasons: “But when she turns her back on the boy He creeps up from behind Bang, bang, Maxwell’s silver hammer Came down upon her head Bang, bang, Maxwell’s silver hammer Made sure that she was dead.” And why be sexist about it, why not ban all songs about murder, whether it’s the murder of men or women? The government should issue a list of banned songs including, obviously, Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Bob Marley’s ‘I Shot The Sheriff’. And not so obviously, it shouldn’t be overlooked that Benny Hill’s UK Number One hit record, ‘Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West’, graphically describes a scene in which a man is murdered: “…Now Sue she ran between them And tried to keep them apart And… Read more »
He nails it in the opening.
It’s central planners wanting to plan not just our economy but our culture.
It’s all based on the same fundamental idea. People can’t ve trusted. They need to be told how to live their lives. And a handful of self anointed guardians of what is right are going to tell you what’s good for you and what isn’t.
And if we let them treat us that way, badically like children, we’ll be confirming their assumption
We need to tell them forcefully and without hesitation to go f*ck themselves.
For sometext, approx 2 women a week are murdered by a partner or ex-partner. After spending about 30 years with observing the absurdity of human mating rites, that doesn’t surprise me in the least. But how is banning old Tom Jones songs going to entice women to make less obviously stupid choices? Story which has to be told here: A couple of years ago, I had the mispleasure of watching one of ‘our’ ultra-emancipated and superwoke female students with her then-bedwarmer-of-choice, category Schaumschläger. They were both dead drunk and sitting on the pavement in front of a pub, eating separately packaged bits of chocolate-somethings out of a plastic bag. Whenever the guy had eaten one, he’d throw the packaging over his shoulder onto the pavement with a really grand gesture. When they were through with the pack, both got up and started to walk down the street. After a few meters, the woman turned round, went back to the place they had been sitting in and duly collected all the rubbish her male hero had thrown behind him. Watching that made me angry but there’s no use trying to help such people. They’ll always end up in the bonds they… Read more »
One has to appreciate this logic: Because people do get murdered by jealous partners, the chief constable of Dyfed-Powys Police tries to order people he has no authority over to stop singing songs about this topic: Some people commit crimes. Therefore I – chief-constable Dr Richard Lews – demand other people must not sing songs I disapprove of!
Is this part of the powers the Welsh police is supposed to exercise?
”Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?” I think Boy George would be to trans folk what Kylie is to the gay crowd. He was the original him/her wasn’t he? I’m not quite sure what point I’m trying to make actually..
😀 😀 😀
We do need to remember that murder,war,hate,love, crime came first, songs are written about these real occurrences after the fact not as a cause of these facts
I think I’ve spent most of my life singing along to songs I like but never actually analyzing the lyrics, just because I enjoyed the melody. It’s totally possible to over-think things. Nothing against this song and it’s a total anthem by now. I must admit, I’d still sing along to Gary Glitter songs if I heard them on the radio, which I never do, unless you count the Scooter version. But that doesn’t make me a paedophile apologist. There’s many songs that, when you focus on the lyrics, can come across as a bit inappropriate, but who cares? Another example, and on the subject of paedos, is Bruce Springsteen’s ‘I’m On Fire’. ”Hey little girl is your daddy home..?” That whole verse. In fact, how many songs sang by men have ”little girl” in the lyrics? Plenty when you stop and think about it. But as long as it’s a good tune I couldn’t care less about the words. It’d be ridiculous to ban or put a stop on anything deemed offensive. I mean, for starters, there’d be no more rap would there? Try making a rap track without the obligatory ”bitches” or ”motherf*cker” sprinkled throughout. Why aren’t the… Read more »
Why aren’t the woketards getting the hump over any of that stuff?
Because it’s their stuff and not something other and other unwoke people (like football fans) like. That’s the same as with the mostly peaceful arson during BLM marches in the USA: We (they) are the right people and because of that, what we do is the right thing to do. But the others are the wrong people and hence, whatever they do is wrong.
I think they don’t want to target rap because they’d then come across as racist and invite the wrath of the black community. Swearing and referring to women as ”bitches” is a prerequisite for authentic rap. There is the reason that Eminem was the only rapper that didn’t swear and happened to be white. But he was very mainstream and tongue in cheek though, so had broader appeal. Well I certainly thought he was ”pretty fly for a white guy.”
Ban Delilah?!! What!
Delilah was the very first record I bought to play on ye olde record player. Loved the song then, still do.
For context, the chief constable should probably stop looking at banning popular songs and instead look at ways to regain the trust of women in the police! There have been too many reported cases of women suffering abuse and harm from some serving members of the police force.
https://thetab.com/uk/2023/01/17/david-carrick-police-rapist-290275
Maybe they should sing “I shot the Sheriff” instead, just for the quarter wit Chief Constable?
I shot the chief constable would work if suitably emphasized. He’d certainly consider that a non-crime hate incident more than worthy of police attention.
🙂
Wot – no mention of Bohemian Rhapsody? Or haven’t the wokerati spotted that one yet? Give ’em time…..
In a variant of the Streisand Effect, people will now go out of their way to learn the lyrics and sing them all the louder.
This is the key thing that has to be remembered: the woke ‘Borg’ are a few hundred sickos and perverts in key positions in the UK state and big business. The majority of the public think it’s bollocks.
Trouble is, it’s very difficult to purge woke politicians, gallery and museum curators, police chiefs, school teachers, university professors and other civil servants. It’s like having an otherwise healthy body where there’s an illness attacking the joints, crippling the entire body and causing so much pain that it’s hard to think straight.
It’s a shame the public unions have embraced wokery and abandoned their working class roots, because they’re the ones who have the power to carry out the purge.
Fear the Witch, for It Is You https://underdogsbiteupwards.blogspot.com/2010/01/fear-witch-for-it-is-you.html “The real fear, the ultimately brilliant part of it, is that nobody is actually scared of the ‘witch’ of the time. They are scared that they will be identified as that ‘witch’. Once identified, you are marked forever as an outcast. The Righteous can silence any objection to their actions by a sidelong look and a quiet ‘You know, you’re starting to sound like a heretic’. Nowadays, people are not afraid of racists. They are afraid of being labelled a racist. They are not afraid of paedophiles. They are afraid to go anywhere near children in case they are labelled paedophile. It’s not smoking they fear, it’s the idea that if they let the smoker get tobacco scent on their clothes, others might think they smoke too. It’s not alcoholism they fear but the perception of others that maybe they are drinking too much. So they will join the mob that drags the witch to the local millpond because if they don’t, suspicion will turn on them next. They must be loud and clear that they oppose the current witchery or else they will be deemed in support of it. How many… Read more »
Chief Constable Dr Richard Lewis. A Dr of what – wokery? Wonder how many this man spent as a constable on the beat dealing with ordinary people?
Does it not occur to this thick copper – apologies: to this noble and wise defender of the innocent – that if it’s right to ban this song at rugby matches, then it’s presumably also right to ban it everywhere and at all times? It can hardly be harmful in one place but not in another, right? Then presumably anyone selling the song in whatever format must be officially censured, and perhaps even anyone actually singing it? Sir Tom, watch out – Chief Constable Lewis is coming for you! And if one form of violence “depicted” in a song can result in that song being banned, why not other songs, “depicting” other or similar forms of violence, and other forms of bad behaviour? ‘I Shot the Sheriff’? ‘Dreadlock Holiday’? ‘Down in the Tubestation at Midnight’? I could go on. Final point: CC Lewis suggests that this song “depicts” a murder; in fact the lyric, as enny fule no, is “I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more”. No obvious murder there. How un-graphic and utterly harmless could a lyric be! Chief Constable Lewis – drink up your milk and ask mummy to change your nappy, and… Read more »