Music is filled with more vitriol than usual this week. If it isn't Brad Paisley ruffling feathers with his little ditty, 'Accidental Racist,' it's the UK revival of the Judy Garland classic "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" in honour of the death of Margaret Thatcher.
The song—which is guaranteed to ring nostalgic bells with anyone who grew up watching the Wizard of Oz—is now part of a posthumous hate campaign against the former Prime Minister who once ruled Britain for over a decade.
But the years have done little to quell the hatred, which is so fervent in fact that the song managed to break into the top 10 in the British pop charts this week, and may even score one of the top three places. Just days after Thatcher's death.
Though there are factions that admire the 'Iron Lady,' many others have been very vocally celebrating her demise. According to an article in the Toronto Star, following her death crowds gathered in South London "drank alcohol and chanted the song's lyrics in the streets."
British singer Morrissey, never one to mince words, called Thatcher "Terror without an atom of humanity."
Putting politics aside for just a moment, do the dead ever deserve such blatant disrespect?
Printer-friendly version