Objections to pop song
Sir, — The Catholic Church group’s reaction to Jon Stevens’s song, “Jezebel,” concerning thg word,
“screwed” is quite unjustified, I feel. They are obviously interpreting the word as the slang expression to mean having sexual intercourse, whereas, as slang, it could just as equally mean to be exploited, or made use of. I am sure that it was in that way the song writer intended it to be taken. This over-reaction on the church group’s part is only serving to draw attention to something which would have gone unnoticed, I am sure, by the vast fnajority of listeners, even if it was in* tended as they have taken it. It is another case of a nar-rcw-minded few trying to decide what the general public can, or cannot, see, hear, of do. — Yours, etc.,
JANCIE M. SINCLAIR (Miss), March 30, 1980.
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Press, 2 April 1980, Page 24
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