“Banning a song is like going back to the Middle Ages,” the Italian DJ explains in an interview with “Krone”. The governor of Lower Austria also sees this and is now calling on people to “reconsider the well-intentioned self-censorship”.
Videos of drunken revelers chanting racist slogans to the beat of the song famously sparked media outrage and public outrage surrounding Gigi D’Agostino’s song “L’amour toujours”. As a result, radio stations even removed the song from their programs. D’Agostino himself clearly distanced himself from this abuse and spoke of a “racist decision” in the interview with “Krone”. Now the discussions also bring the governor of Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP), onto the stage.
“Many young people who voluntarily organize summer festivals for their clubs are now restless. They ask me if they can still play this song or if it will put them in the right place. And this concern can really be taken away from them,” the head of the country explained to the “Krone”.
And she makes it clear: “No one is suddenly a bad person because they play this song or dance to it. No one really needs to be told that. Any song can be misused by particularly stupid people.” According to Mikl-Leitner, it would therefore only be wise to reconsider this well-intentioned self-censorship.
If you open this door once, those who have forgotten history would take advantage of other innocent songs. “They will film themselves, put it online and thus provoke further bans. Ultimately, it’s the stupid people who decide which songs can still be played and which can’t. And we should not give them this power,” Mikl-Leitner concluded.
Source: Krone
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