120 songs so 'obscene' that China banned them
New blacklist by Ministry of Culture includes pieces by household names such as Taiwanese pop singer Chang Csun-yuk and Stanley Huang
China on Monday released a blacklist of songs that it says promote obscenity or violence and ordered website administrators to remove them from their sites.
The order from the Ministry of Culture accompanied a list of 120 songs that trumpeted “obscenity, violence, crime or harmed social morality”, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
It said the content violated online “cultural management” regulations and that any unit or individual that did not take down the songs would face unspecified “severe punishment”.
The list contains Chinese-language songs, some by household names in China, including Taiwanese pop singer Chang Csun-yuk and Taiwanese actor Stanley Huang.
Chang’s blacklisted songs include Fart, with the line “There are some people in the world who like farting while doing nothing”, and I Love Taiwanese Girls, in which he sings that he will take them to a gynaecology department if they get pregnant and urges them to take off their clothes.
Xinhua said the list would be updated regularly.
