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Bloodhound Gang Targeted For Alleged Racist Lyrics
05/02/2000 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen
(5/2/00, 4 p.m. ET) - The Bloodhound Gang
has come under fire, this time from the Asian American Women's Alliance. On the site www.dragon5000.com, there's a petition that people can sign protesting the band and, more specifically, the song "Yellow Fever," which the organization says is racist. Lyrics to the song can be found on the band's site, www.bloodhoundgang.com, and on the Dragon5000 site. The petition is in opposition to the Bloodhound Gang's May 5 show in College Park, Maryland. The song isn't from the Gang's latest release, Hooray For Boobies * [2/29]; in fact, it can't be found on the band's current catalog. The song was found on the Republic version of One Fierce Beer Coaster *, but Geffen re-released the album with the song removed. At press time neither Geffen nor the band had any comment. While the band may have overstepped boundaries on that particular song, singer Jimmy Pop told LAUNCH that the Gang's lyrical matter isn't meant to be taken too seriously. "I think on the first record there's stuff that [offended people]. . . Really we're not trying to shock anybody, we're just saying things that we laugh at," he explained. "That was always the idea. The same things that we talk about on the bus are the same things we put on our records. On the first record we had lyrics like, 'There's little children unattended, let me get some poison candy,' which to me, that isn't very good." As far as controversy surrounding the band's live show, Jimmy Pop told LAUNCH about being hassled in Switzerland. "What happened was we played in November in Zurich and the bassist and I started throwing up in each others mouths just back and forth on stage," he recalled. "And word got around so we were going to play again in February and they were giving us a hard time about it. They tried to close the whole show the day of it, and things like that. The Swiss people are really uptight, super uptight. When you ride on trains with 'em. You know how you ride on the subway and you nod to somebody they usually nod back. They just stare forward. Nobody looks at each other, no one talks." He added, "I rode in a van with Swiss people one day from a show back to the hotel, not a word, just complete silence."
-- Darren Davis, New York
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