Even abortion lovers hate the song, “I Luv Abortion”
Warning: Grossness and vulgarity ahead.
According to Wiki, band Xiu Xiu fits into the “post-punk, art rock, experimental rock, synth pop” genres.
A child of the 60s-70s, I’m open to this kind of music. I even found Deadmau5 ‘s Grammy performance fascinating.
But Xiu Xiu is simply creepy. For instance:
The music video for the song “Dear God, I Hate Myself” received negative attention online in 2010. The video consists of Angela Seo inducing vomiting over the course of the three minute song, culminating with her vomiting on [Jamie] Stewart, who has been eating a chocolate bar during the entire video.
I warned you. My heart breaks at how dark the other side can be.
Against that backdrop it should come as no surprise that one of the songs on Xiu Xiu’s new album is, “I Luv Abortion.” The backdrop, according to vomitee Stewart (pictured right):
A young friend of mine, who had gone through period of cutting herself eventually mailing me the knife which now sits on my recording desk, found herself still a teenager and pregnant. She knew that it was not time for her to be a parent to her future child but she could love him or her when it good for them both. She called this vanished baby “little jizzo”. It was so striking to me that she could have an abortion out of love. The song is also a big F*** YOU to the Right wing in America.
Message received. That aside, I did wonder whether the cutting began before or after the abortion. If I were a betting woman, I’d bet after.
It also surprised me to learn Stewart is 40. I would have guessed 20. Grow up, man.
At any rate, without further adieu, I give you, “I Luv Abortion.” It is truly satanic. You may want to follow along with the lyrics, because you’ll have a hard time understanding otherwise.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zws32OZ8RaM[/youtube]
Actually, aside from the line, “a hyena infected with rabies would give birth to you,” which I don’t quite understand, the lyrics contain many of the reasons the other side cites to abort – “the restrictions is gone… the worries is gone… when the time is right I will love you like I should… there are too many important things I can’t be for yooooou…” What’s the prob?
Well, according to Alyssa at ThinkProgress.org,:
T]he lyrics themselves are not exactly what even the most pro-choice of us would call on-message. I was really struck – and turned off by – the lines: “You are too good for this life / a hyena infected with rabies would give birth to you / there are too many important things i can’t be for yooooou.”
Now, I am all for people being able to control their reproductive health so they don’t get pregnant when they don’t want to be, and for them being able to have abortions or give children up for adoption if they feel they can’t raise children. Kids should be wanted. But comparing girls who do give birth to “a hyena infected with rabies”? That’s ludicrous and disgusting.
I may worry for teenagers who have babies. But the only right thing to hope for them and their children is that they get the support they need so their kids grow up healthy and they can become self-sustaining. Treating them like they’re animals, or pretending you’re superior for getting a medical procedure that is not always easily available, is no way to start that conversation.
Actually, the other side exerts a lot of energy messaging teens that crisis pregnancies only result in their being “punished with a baby,” meaning abortion is the superior decision.
SF Rebirth called the song “stomach churning” and belted out “in a truly disgusting retching voice between even more horrifying screams and wails.”
40ozRobot.com wrote the song was “sonically disturbing and absonant, mired in politics Xiu Xiu-style: uncomfortable, blatant, and at times tactless. All the product of Xiu Xiu’s master plan: to unearth and lay naked the human soul and the abhorrence therein.”
It seems to me the problem otherwise open-minded hipsters have with “I Luv Abortion” is the same problem pro-lifers have with it. The song indeed lays naked the abhorrence of abortion, in both word and presentation.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I’m not at all surprised to hear that he’s 40. In fact, I would be very surprised if he were 20. After all, people in their 20s are the pro-life generation!
(Didn’t listen to the song. Don’t plan to.)
Little Jizzo?
Jill, If I didn’t know better, I’d be thinking you’re trying to celebrate April Fools’ Day 2 weeks early.
not listening to it either. there is a group and they call themselves “The Dead Fetus” they come to town now and again. nothing surprises me anymore. People think abortion is a good thing.
im sure they suck anyway.
Ya know Andrea Yates drowned her children to death “out of love” because she “had failed them” and she believed they would grow up demonic. Defending this cutters decision to destroy (not “vanish” it isn’t a magic trick it’s a slice & dice vacuum!) her child for those same excuses (preemptive as they are) rings just as hollow to me.
I’d like to see this Xiu Xiu out in front of the Yates jailhouse protesting her incarceration or better yet breaking her out. He should put his actions to work instead of his words if he really thinks women murdering their children is their right and defendable, otherwise he’s no better than the “hypocrites” the left accuses us of being for not adopting every single child (as if so many of us aren’t already foster parents waiting to adopt or wading through all the red tape to do just that). Please. He’s glorifying murder. Same as so many rap and hiphop artists, only his victim is too small to b-slap first. >:(
or Susan Smith too for that matter
Who knows? Maybe such a disgusting song will make people on the edge think twice about abortion just by its offensiveness
Praying for those who support abortion, who have performed abortions, who have had an abortion, who have driven someone to the clinic for an abortion, who have paid for an abortion and are feeling depressed over it, feeling regret, feeling shame, feeling relief that their baby is no more. Lord have mercy on them.
“The worries IS gone” ???? The grammar is bad enough…
then the lyrics make it even STUPIDER!
(One minute the lyrics sound like regret, then you turn around and say “I love abortion”….can you say “bi-polar” ?
I agree, JFL…people need PRAYER.
This just goes to reinforce that abortion is also an act of self-loathing.
Women:
You WILL NOT be a horrible mother by default.
You have to first at least give your child the chance to live, because by doing so you’re giving yourself a chance as well.
There is no shame in not being ready to parent. It doesn’t make you bad or wrong. HOWEVER, your baby should not have to die for that fact.
Letting your child live is the first step to being a great mother. Even if you don’t raise your child yourself, you’ve already done a better job as a mother than thousands of others.
beautiful xalisae. thanks.
Exactly, xalisae..well said! :D
This is the music one wiil hear in hell for all eternity.
a hyena infected with rabies would give birth to you
I think that this line means that giving birth SIMPLY because you are pregnant, with no care for the life you are subjecting your child to, is something that an animal would do. Human beings have a capacity to choose. ie if a rabid hyena had the ability to love and “choose,” it would probably choose not to have its child mothered by a rabid hyena. But it’s a freaking rabid hyena so it has no capacity for love or thought or choice at all, hence the point. Thus an unfit woman deciding to abort, rather than give her child an unfit mother, is acting from a higher plane of consciousness and compassion.
This statement obviously requires that the act of abortion be accepted as an act of love.
Jill,
Well, I do remember that in the movie The Omen the Anti-Christ was given birth to by a hyena. I guess that’s pretty much their outlook on childbirth in general. :(
Don’t the jihadists “live” by the motto, “We love death!”? Horses of a different color, it would seem.
my video response to that video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTbnsUI55vI
I enjoy the song. Is it shocking? Yes, however sometimes shocking needs to be done to make a point. You know, like showing aborted fetuses in order to “shock” people into thinking abortion is wrong. I think you know what I am talking about here. Is this any worse???
Worse? I dunno, you tell me: A young woman cutting herself and calling her unborn baby jizz is now deemed a prophetic sage of the bonavita?
“Let us just say I dislike stupidity, especially when it masquerades as virtue…”
Xalisae, brilliant.
Jake, apples and oranges at best. And no, murdering an innocent child isn’t an act of love. It’s a savage act of violence. Showing the truth of what an abortion is – the humanity of the victims, and the inhumanity of their victimization, in order to end their victimization, is an act of love. This other crap, obscures truth in order to perpetrate the victimization is the opposite. Grow up and deal with it.
“The restrictions is [sic] gone, the worries is [sic] gone.”
No, Roe v. Wade did not remove the dangers of abortion. Calling a wrong a right doesn’t change it’s wrongness, or the reasons why it is wrong. It still brutally wrongs the child, and wrongs the woman by endangering her body, soul, spirit and mind.
And yes, I’m wondering, too if the cutting started, or increased, after the slicing and dicing of this young woman’s baby…and the cutting inside of her own body.
Spirit of truth and love; life-giving, holy dove;
Speed forth thy flight.
Move on the water’s face, bearing the gifts of grace;
And in earth’s darkest place…LET THERE BE LIGHT.
I don’t love alcohol. I don’t love cigarette smoking. Drinking alcohol and smoking kill people. Alcohol is also a factor in rape and in impulsive sexual encounters — and therefore in abortion.
Believing something should be legal doesn’t mean loving it or even liking it.
The vast majority of people would be delighted if the demand for abortion shriveled up.
Yes, but you’re missing the “why” of the legal/illegal question, Denise. The gestating child has a right to live that trumps his/her mother’s right to not be inconvenienced by his/her existence. If abortion was ONLY harming the mother, as smoking or alcohol use does, then we wouldn’t be here on this website having this discussion, I suspect.
why even have a comment section for this? all you are doing is patting each other on the back saying “yeah, we hate this song! yeah, we hate this song!” you’re not uplifting one another and you’re not reaching anyone. this is obviously an obscure band, listened to by a relatively small fan base. its not like they are trying to get on mtv and spread their message of abortion. conservative sentiments have their place but its so typical of the religious to hate and want to destroy both art and culture. the crusades, the inquisition, the holocaust. woe to you pharisees… you need to look at the hatred you spread before you point your fingers at anyone.