Houston Press did a brief review on the song/video for “Chris Benoit” off of ICP’s new album ” The Mighty Death Pop” which is in stores right now. The reviewer goes on to say that he was siding with ICP until he heard this song which is a little unfair because one song by a band didn’t meet your standards you decide to give up completely on them? Anyways here’s a piece of the article and a link to it.

It’s been a pretty good week for both the Insane Clown Posse and Juggalos across the country. Aside from an argument that led to a Texas ninja getting stabbed, this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos appears to have gone off without a hitch, while ICP made national headlines for making it known they plan to eventually lose a lawsuit against the FBI.

Mostly lost in all of this is the fact that Detriot’s favorite facepainted duo just released a new album. This makes sense, because ICP stopped making music for the rest of us years ago.

Still, I came across the video for one of their new tracks and it killed a lot of the goodwill the Posse had built up with me over the last few years. For wrestling fans, there are two words that give us pause, and those two words just happen to be the title of the song in question: “Chris Benoit.”

 

For those of you who may not remember, here’s the Reader’s Digestversion of the Chris Benoit story:

Chris Benoit was a short but intense Canadian, like Wolverine without the claws. While he was alive he was arguably the best wrestler on the planet, which is not to be confused with being the best sports entertainer on the planet. In 2007, he murdered his wife and seven-year-old son then killed himself. Whether he did this because he was regular crazy, steroid crazy or concussion crazy is a mystery.

A lot of wrestling fans, myself included, were both shocked and depressed when this happened because Benoit was “our guy.” Even though he wasn’t the biggest or most charismatic, he still made it to the top of the wrestling world, headlining Wrestlemania and winning a world title. It wasn’t an Angus-like “outcast makes good” story, it was a Rocky-esque “working man makes good” story, except that Rocky never went home and caved in Adrian’s face.

Now here’s the thing: I’m about as pro-free speech as one can get. I’m one of those people that believe nothing is off limits and you can joke about anything as long as you’re willing to deal with the consequences of your actions.

If ICP want to write a song questioning why God doesn’t seem interested in the world he created or one that glorifies a psychopathic Canadian then that’s their right.

Now let me explain why “Chris Benoit” is fucked up.

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