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hey peoples, My friend and I wanted to play a song for a church retreat, we were thinking of "smells like teen spirit" by Nirvana, but do you think it will be appropriate for a church retreat, cause in the lirics it names races, "a mullatto, an albino, a Misqueito, my libido, ya!" sorry for the mis-spellings but plz give me an answer

Answer 1

Well, it doesn't really "name races" as such. The section you mention refers to someone of mixed race, someone with a congenital lack of skin pigment, an insect, and the singer's sexual or psychic energy. If your church or anyone else manages to find any of that inappropriate or offensive, I'd be most interested to hear why. All of the words used are perfectly legitimate descriptive terms in general use.