China Bans 120 Songs for 'Harming Public Morality'

Check your iPod before you get ready to party: it may contained banned songs if you're a fan of artists including In 3 (阴三儿), MC Hotdog, or Xinjiekou.

China's Ministry of Culture on Monday published a blacklist (the Ministry uses that phrase in their own headline) of 120 songs that they believes "harm public morality."

"[Internet music networks] were found to promote music products containing pornography, violence, or to have content that harms the public morality and abet crime," the Ministry said in its statement. The 120 songs will be banned from online music platforms such as QQ Music, and should also be removed from KTV song lists. The announcement did not state specifically whether the artists themselves would be punished or performances by them proscribed in any way.

The list names numerous songs by hip-hop artists, but that is not the only genre represented on the list. Surprisingly, all of the songs are in Chinese, by Chinese artists, although at least two of the artists named on the list are from Taiwan. Similarly eyebrow-raising is the appearance of 90s Taiwan rocker Chang Chen-yue, whose milquetoast music wouldn't seem to warrant five entries on the blacklist, including one collaboration with MC Hotdog. And yet here we are.

Anyway, now we know what the 120 most popular songs of the year are going to be.

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Some quick translations of some of the more salacious song titles:

    8、都得死 You Should All Die (阴三儿) 
    18、我TM不愿意 No F***ing Way I'm Willing (新街口组合) 
    21、不想上学 Don't Feel Like Goin' to School (新街口组合) 
    25、自杀日记 Suicide Diary (新街口组合) 
    27、拉屎歌 The Shitting Song (小峰峰/二饼) 
    43、去你妹的爱情 F*** Your Little Sister Love (马旭东) 
    50、草泥马的爱情 F*** Your Mother Sister Love (网络歌手) 
    61、老公老公你好坏 Hubby, Hubby, You're So Bad (网络歌手) 
    66、贱女人坏男人The Bitch and the Bad Man (网络歌手) 
    74、别用你舔过别人XX的嘴说爱我 Don't Use the Mouth You've Used to Lick Other People's XX To Say You Love Me (Mc和尚)
    106、动你的屁股 Move Your Ass (罗百吉) 
    119、放屁 Fart (张震岳) 

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What, Nicki Minaj is not on this list? She harms my morality.

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Here is the full list, from the Ministry of Culture's website:

被列入黑名单的网络音乐产品(120首) 
    1、老师好(阴三儿) 
    2、老师你好(阴三儿) 
    3、北京晚报(阴三儿) 
    4、我又没说你(阴三儿) 
    5、没钱没朋友(阴三儿) 
    6、天生疯塔儿(阴三儿) 
    7、北京混子(阴三儿) 
    8、都得死(阴三儿) 
    9、凭什么我买单(阴三儿) 
    10、Da-la-di-la-da(阴三儿) 
    11、我不管(阴三儿) 
    12、燃烧吧火焰(阴三儿) 
    13、没完没了(阴三儿) 
    14、这条大街(阴三儿) 
    15、爽歪歪(阴三儿) 
    16、魔爪重生(阴三儿) 
    17、龙宫宴请(阴三儿) 
    18、我TM不愿意(新街口组合) 
    19、教父(新街口组合) 
    20、我们都不睡觉(新街口组合) 
    21、不想上学(新街口组合) 
    22、脏蜜震西单(新街口组合) 
    23、一夜情(新街口组合) 
    24、我要呲大蜜(新街口组合) 
    25、自杀日记(新街口组合) 
    26、黑暗之中吻了你的嘴(家家) 
    27、拉屎歌(小峰峰/二饼) 
    28、No性No爱(光光/K-Bo) 
    29、这不是一首一夜情的歌(光光) 
    30、Mlgb(颜韵) 
    31、磕巴脓(颜韵) 
    32、背叛(Mc天佑) 
    33、你是猴子请来的救兵吗(谣乐队) 
    34、我要上学校(谣乐队) 
    35、老子(谣乐队) 
    36、小区里的高级跑车(谣乐队) 
    37、咬春(赵雷) 
    38、他们(李志) 
    39、败类(网络歌手) 
    40、败类(宋威) 
    41、咬之歌(不是那么黑) 
    42、飞向别人的床(网络歌手) 
    43、去你妹的爱情(马旭东) 
    44、腐X无限大(洛天依) 
    45、小三你好贱(本兮) 
    46、大学生自习室(郝雨) 
    47、321对不起(徐良) 
    48、微微博起(小贱) 
    49、无耻(Vnek) 
    50、草泥马的爱情(网络歌手) 
    51、耽美乱世道(凌橘绿) 
    52、绝世小受(漠然) 
    53、绝世小攻(苏仨) 
    54、绝世小攻之年下诱惑(少年霜) 
    55、禁夜(凌音/钟洁) 
    56、夜情诱惑(渔圈/刘芸) 
    57、纵欲(费尼克斯/邝巧汾) 
    58、大陆巡捕抓嫖娼(欧阳正萌/小莹儿/乌拉呆) 
    59、少女的初夜(沈雁) 
    60、A歌(司小魂/Mc诺) 
    61、老公老公你好坏(网络歌手) 
    62、我想要做爱(小安) 
    63、哇靠(小安) 
    64、今晚一夜情(V.Jey/油炸鬼) 
    65、性空虚(菜儿/Chyna Apple) 
    66、贱女人坏男人(网络歌手) 
    67、傻B情侣(Mini黄妍嘉/毛毛) 
    68、大连站(葡桃) 
    69、一起开房不一定是情侣(易燃) 
    70、他妈的社会(喻小米) 
    71、女表子(丁字裤先生) 
    72、城市夜生活的副作用(黑撒) 
    73、去他妈的爱情(支原体) 
    74、别用你舔过别人XX的嘴说爱我(Mc和尚) 
    75、失足女(Mc和尚/小举) 
    76、让你飞向别人他妈的床(猥琐小丑) 
    77、你只是一个J女(小右) 
    78、三八处女节(小右) 
    79、蛋疼的生活(Mc振炮/张子源) 
    80、狗男女(张震岳) 
    81、TROUBLE(张震岳) 
    82、0204(张震岳) 
    83、摇头玩(许嵩) 
    84、哈狗帮(Mc Hotdog) 
    85、X你妈了X(Mc Hotdog) 
    86、1030(Mc Hotdog) 
    87、补习(Mc Hotdog) 
    88、十八岁(Mc Hotdog) 
    89、我行我素(Mc Hotdog) 
    90、女人不需要性感不是骚(Mc流星) 
    91、骚麦(小莫) 
    92、2013社会磕(Mc洪磊) 
    93、溜冰经典(Mc天佑) 
    94、迪厅粗口现场-寰宇网络版(Mc洪磊) 
    95、写给妓女的话-东北粗口 
    96、超级叫春迷药 
    97、秀X你妈个 
    98、今晚叼胶(鸠)你(黄秋生) 
    99、今晚叼胶(鸠)你(大懒堂) 
    100、女人需要男人搞 
    101、超强XX歌(沈阳 mm) 
    102、泡妞秘笈 
    103、叫床声刺激 
    104、花花公子(罗百吉、宝贝) 
    105、那一夜(罗百吉) 
    106、动你的屁股(罗百吉) 
    107、你们这群狗(Mc振炮) 
    108、你们这群狗(正黄旗组合) 
    109、我爱台妹(Mc Hotdog/张震岳) 
    110、吹喇叭(罗百吉) 
    111、为了兄弟(铁竹堂) 
    112、迷你裙(旺福) 
    113、屌(黄立成、麻吉) 
    114、补补补(哈狗帮) 
    115、我的梦中情人(黄立行) 
    116、爽(黄立行) 
    117、噩梦(麻吉) 
    118、打分数(黄立行) 
    119、放屁(张震岳) 
    120、摩的神曲(葡桃)