Lady Gaga and Katy Perry: banned in China for 'being vulgar'

Chinese censors are once again waging war on pop music. But their criteria for banning songs show little understanding of the art formPity the poor censors at the Chinese ministry of culture, for they have set themselves a Sisyphean task. Two years ago, amid a wider crackdown on illegal downloading, the ministry vowed to keep "poor taste and vulgar content" from the ears of the nation's youth. This week it handed music websites its latest blacklist of 100 pernicious songs. Unless the record labe...

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