[Creative Freedom S7E9]

Ever been on a bad date? I mean a really bad date? One that was so bad you felt the urge to write a song about it? Have you ever been the subject of a song about a really bad date?

I’ve kissed a few frogs in my day, but none of them warranted the kind of song that Nile Rogers of the famous music group CHIC wrote back in 1981. He went out with a woman and at some point in the evening, she started expecting him to use his celebrity status for her benefit. The nerve!

This young lady may well be the first person to ever be canceled. Seriously. You may not know her name, but that date was so bad that Niles went home and wrote the song “Your Love Is Canceled” He equated cancellation to the way television shows are canceled. They’re just gone… never to be seen or heard from again.

Boycotting and public shaming has been around for a very long time. But thanks in large part to the rise of social media, Cancel Culture has become a popular tool to villainize celebrity types - even folks that are only famous in their industry. And Cancel Culture Vultures are at the heart of that.

Podcast Show Notes

Inside this episode, we're talking about:

• There's a difference between calling out, calling in, and canceling someone
• The students who canceled an actor for a 100-year-old movie
• Birth of a Nation
• How to make a comeback after being canceled

Links I Mentioned

• Your Love is Canceled
• New Jack City
• Cancel Culture origin & history
• Cancel Culture
• BGSU removed the Gish sisters' names from their theater
• The Art of the Cancellation Comeback
• JK Powling's transphobic remarks
• What is Cancel Culture?
• What is Call-Out Culture?
• How to Avoid Being Cancelled

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