Deserving of it or not, we will categorize the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decision to not award the Best Song Oscar to “Blame Canada” (from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the bravest movie Hollywood has produced in years) as an act of moral cowardice, though at least they let “fart” and “that bitch Anne Murray too” past the censors (although not “but now when he sees me he tells me to fuck myself”, which instead was performed as “but now when he sees me he tells me to gasp myself”). What’s more, if they were going to pick one of the more-or-less interchangeable songs, it should have been the one by Aimee Mann, not the one by Phil Collins.
This post is older than 10 years and might not reflect my current views.
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