It’s not been a great start to the year for Sir Keir Starmer’s army. As if poor poll ratings and sporadic online attacks by Elon Musk weren’t causing enough problems, now the Labour party has landed itself in more trouble. The UK Labour party’s TikTok account was found to have released a rather bizarre video featuring a song that contains some quite, er, controversial song lyrics.
The baffling clip sparked outrage after social media users clocked the song used as the backing track. The choice – entitled ‘Montagem Coral’ by DJ Holanda, MC TH and MC GW – consisted of graphic lyrics that, when translated to English, are shown to discuss giving young women drugs before sleeping with them. Not exactly the most appropriate choice of music as Britain’s grooming gang scandals return to the spotlight, eh?
While most of the lyrics are too vulgar to be repeated in the fine pages of The Spectator, one part of the song goes, when translated to English: ‘Perfect combination is sex, beer and marijuana / The young ones got addicted, everyone is enjoying the wave.’ Er, right. The video overlaying the track shows an AI-generated British bulldog walking down a street in police attire while a line of text reads: ‘You’ll feel safer with more police on the beat.’ You couldn’t make it up…
They may only be in their sixth month in power but already the Labour lot have left the British public frustrated over questionable policy decisions, sleaze scandals and now, it seems, its ill-judged social media output. Responding to Mr S, a Labour spokesperson said about the matter:
This post is an adaptation of a viral social media trend and contains a mix of two music tracks. We acknowledge the translation of the lyrics are completely inappropriate. We apologise and the video has now been deleted.
What a mess, eh? Budding social media creators may want to keep their eyes peeled for upcoming vacancies…
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