07 January 2025 , 11:25
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A badger in a suit walks along a train platform. A hare dressed as a nurse folds her arms outside a hospital. A hedgehog in dungarees swaggers through a windfarm.
And in the background, a Brazilian trap track with wildly inappropriate lyrics blares out.
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For those of you who have stayed off one of the most addictive social media sites on the planet, this is the kind of deep political content you’ll find on there.
But that particular video, which featured AI animals acting out the government’s various priorities, appears to have been a step too far.
The problem was the backing track. Although the clip mainly just featured the lyric-free introduction of Montagem Coral by DJ Holanda, MC TH and MC GW, the rest of the song was shocking enough to warrant an apology.
A quick sample of the words, translated from Portuguese:
Go, naughty young girl, relaxing
Go fuck yourself, naughty, shameless
Sit on the pot-crazy dick
Pay attention, the thing is crazy
Lock it, you bitch, bouncing, naughty
Sit, bad, bounce, bad
It locks on the tip of the cock and doesn’t stop
The song then finishes with a repeated phrase that implies sexual violence against a young girl.
In a post on X, the Conservative MP Alicia Kearns asked Home Secretary Yvette Cooper if it was acceptable for her party to use a song with lyrics ‘encouraging men to get young girls on drugs so they can have sex with them, and celebrating punching girls in their vaginas?’
The video featured bizarre human hybrids of a lion, a bulldog, a hare, a badger, an owl, a hedgehog and a cow (Picture: UK Labour/TikTok)
After this unpleasantness was pointed out to the party, the video was swiftly removed from its TikTok page.
A Labour spokesperson said: ‘The post is an adaptation of a viral social media trend and contains a mix of two music tracks.
‘We acknowledge the translation of the lyrics are completely inappropriate. We apologise and the video has now been deleted.’
Which is a shame, because we really thought there was no better way to communicate the government’s policy strategy to the general public.