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Supposedly, this version of Stagger Lee is adapted from a toast poem (a kind of pre-rap slam poetry) that appeared in a compendium of poetry by prisoners. So, okay, in Nick Cave’s defense, he claims that he did not invent this from whole cloth.
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Nick Cave’s version imagines Stagger Lee as a gay serial killer who likes to rape men before he murders them. It’s a personal favorite of mine among early blues songs for how it blends true crime style gawking with empathy for both Stagger Lee and his victims.
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The song has existed in one form or another quite literally since the year of the murder (#TooSoon) and was first published in 1911. The song, in its original form, is a melancholy and understated tale, ruminating on vice and sin by dramatizing an actual murder in 1897. On the album “Murder Ballads,” Nick Cave covers the American folk song Stagger Lee, a song about a man who murders someone in, depending on the rendition, a gambling dispute or conflict over a woman.
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This was also the topic of his brief stint into the cancel culture discourse, but I’d like to start you off with a different song because it’s the one that took me by surprise. The lyric you’ve probably heard thrown around to signify this is “A f– in a whalebone corset dragging his d- across my cheek… and the walls ran red around me, a warm arterial spray.” This lyric has gained notice for obvious reasons, not the least of which being that the song it’s from, Papa Won’t Leave You Henry, is one of Cave’s most popular songs. So, there’s no delicate way to introduce Cave’s songs about gay men. So, for the two other people that still care about this topic, let’s get into it. It also signified something that I’ve suspected for a while, which is that Cave’s fanbase does not just happen to contain some gay people, but is perhaps disproportionately gay, something Cave has alluded to as well.
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The responses were… interesting, and it made me think that perhaps there were more people like me wondering how to process Cave’s work. I had privately given up on writing about such a cliche “Cancel Culture,” topic as Nick Cave and gay people until I found this Reddit thread, Asking queer fans for opinions about Cave’s more troublesome lyrics. I’m going to say some unkind things about a few of Cave’s songs, but he has made a lot of music I enjoy, and he has an engaging public presence through his website where he shares insightful thoughts about the world, and his newest music is some of the best music of his or anyone’s career. We’ll get to the specifics of this in a minute, but I want to get the fact that I do not hate Cave or dislike his music out of the way first. This presents some problems because uh… well Nick Cave has a bit of a pattern with his treatment of gay people, specifically gay men, in his lyrics. Yahoo! Sports asks: "What will be the reaction from fans, hardcore and casual one this blows up on the blogosphere? The 25-year-old Cochrane is 10-2 in MMA and posted a win over former WEC lightweight champ Jamie Varner in September.Alright so before we get to this far too long article, I’ve got to lay down my bona fides. There probably is and there's probably more than one." I could care less if there's a gay fighter in the UFC. Said UFC Dana White last October: "I'll tell you right now, if there was a gay fighter in UFC, I wish he would come out.
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Some people will want me to get my butt kicked, and hopefully others will respect what I'm trying to do." I think some people judge against it, some people will be OK with it. I think maybe they respected that a little bit. I let them know right away so it wasn’t anything that could come back and bite them in the butt. "I could just hide in a hole and no one would know except for the people close to me. "I think it's a little bit courageous for both of us," he said of the UFC's decision to include him on the show.