The Most Controversial Song the Year You Were Born

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Music has been freaking people out for one reason or another since the first time a caveman pounded two rocks together and said, “Yo, this is my jam!” (???)

Loudwire.com put together a list of the Most Controversial Song from the Year You Were Born. And it goes all the way back to 1930, when people were clutching their pearls over a song called “Prohibition is a Failure” by Lowe Stokes.

Here are some highlights from the ’60s on . . .

1962: “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)”, The Crystals

1964: “A Change Is Gonna Come”, Sam Cooke

1969: “Give Peace a Chance”, Plastic Ono Band

1971: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, Gil Scott-Heron

1975: “The Pill”, Loretta Lynn

1977: “God Save the Queen”, Sex Pistols

1982: “The Message”, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

1983: “Relax”, Frankie Goes to Hollywood

1986: “Dear God”, XTC

1988: “[Eff] tha Police”, N.W.A.

1990: “Justify My Love”, Madonna

1992: “Killing in the Name”, Rage Against the Machine

1994: “Closer”, Nine Inch Nails

1999: “Goodbye Earl”, The (Dixie) Chicks

2000: “Stan”, Eminem

2002: “Dirrty”, Christina Aguilera

2004: “American idiot”, Green Day

2008: “I Kissed a Girl”, Katy Perry

2010: “Pumped Up Kicks”, Foster the People

2018: “This Is America”, Childish Gambino

And, for all you babies born THIS YEAR, your most controversial song is Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town”. Unless something better comes along in the next two and a half months.

(Check out the whole list here.)