Chechnya Bans All Music Deemed Too Fast Or Too Slow

This is CRAZY!! Chechnya is banning all music that is deemed too fast or too slow.

Episode Transcript

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Points. It's time for the CrazyTrailer One Morning Drive with Chrysti Live.
Thanks for being here this morning.Okay, at seven twenty you can get
eighty minutes of commercial free music.Gonna start that off for you next if

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you have a long drive. Justtrying to look out. But right now
we are hopping aboard the crazy trainand headed out to Chechnya, Russia.
The city is making headlines right nowbecause they just banned the unthinkable. What
fast music and slow music? Then? What are people supposed to listen to?

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That is a really good question.The Culture Minister said all music,
vocal and choreographic works should be betweeneighty and one hundred and sixteen beats per
minute, and if it is not, then you can no longer play it
in Chechnia. That is stupid,That is crazy. So basically, that

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Aerosmith song dream On that we justplayed, that's eighty one beats per minute,
so that barely made the cut.Anything slower than that you're going to
jail exactly. And anything faster thanMichael Jackson's Billy Jean Band. What's the
point of it? They said,music slower than eighty beats per minute and

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over one hundred and sixteen beats perminute corrupts people and they just don't want
it. Telling you, this isa moment that calls for Kevin Bacon.
We need to take it back tofootloose and have a dramatic intervention. There
was a time for this law,not anymore. See, this is our
time to dance. It is ourway of celebrating life. It's the way

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it was in the beginning. It'swhere it's always been. That's where it
should be now. Thank you,Kevin. That is the way it should
be now. That is crazy.That is your daily crazy news story.
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