Editing Cunt (section)

===Music===
The 1977 [[Ian Dury and The Blockheads]] album, ''[[New Boots and Panties]]'', used the word in the opening line of the track "Plaistow Patricia", thus: "Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks",<ref name="Plaistow">{{cite web |title=Ian Dury : New Boots and Panties |url=http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/Article.aspx?id=4487 |last=Clarkson |first=John |access-date=21 September 2011 |archive-date=25 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325175420/http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/Article.aspx?id=4487 |url-status=dead }}</ref> particularly notable as there is no musical lead-in to the lyrics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Warner|first=Alan|title=Can's Tago Mago|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0ogBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT27|year=2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-62892-110-6|page=27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Ian Dury & The Blockheads -New Boots And Panties!! 40th Anniversary album review | first = Everett | last =True | work = Classic Rock | date = 3 November 2017 | access-date = 21 March 2018 | url = http://teamrock.com/review/2017-11-03/ian-dury-the-blockheads-new-boots-and-panties-40th-anniversary-album-review}}</ref>

In 1979, during a concert at New York's [[The Bottom Line (venue)|Bottom Line]], [[Carlene Carter]] introduced a song about mate-swapping called "Swap-Meat Rag" by stating, "If this song doesn't put the cunt back in country, nothing will."<ref>[http://www.carlenecarterfanclub.com/press-group-299.html Carlene Carter: Hot Country Singer With Lots Of Cool] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408213656/http://www.carlenecarterfanclub.com/press-group-299.html |date=8 April 2014}}. Carlene Carter Fan Club. Retrieved 18 October 2010.</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=this is a fan site|date=October 2020}} However use of the word in lyrics is not recorded before the [[Sid Vicious]]'s 1978 version of "[[My Way]]", which marked the first known use of the word in a UK top 10 hit, as a line was changed to "You cunt/I'm not a queer".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/ttremastered/story/0,,2127431,00.html |title=The OMM top 50 covers |access-date=16 March 2008 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref> The following year, "cunt" was used more explicitly in the song "Why D'Ya Do It?" from [[Marianne Faithfull]]'s album ''[[Broken English (album)|Broken English]]'': {{blockquote|Why'd ya do it, she screamed, after all we've said,<br />
Every time I see your dick I see her cunt in my bed.<ref>{{cite news |first=Simon|last=Price|title=Arts Etc: Rock & Pop – Faithfull: foul-mouthed and fabulous |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020317/ai_n12601024 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=17 March 2002 |access-date=23 April 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>}}

The [[Happy Mondays]] song, "Kuff Dam" (i.e. "Mad fuck" in reverse), from their 1987 debut album, ''[[Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)]]'', includes the lyrics "You see that Jesus is a cunt / And never helped you with a thing that you do, or you don't". Biblical scholar James Crossley, writing in the academic journal, ''Biblical Interpretation'', analyses the Happy Mondays' reference to "Jesus is a cunt" as a description of the "useless assistance" of a now "inadequate Jesus".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Crossley |first=James |date=April 2011 |title=For EveryManc a Religion: Biblical and Religious Language in the Manchester Music Scene, 1976–1994 |journal=Biblical Interpretation |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=151–180 |doi=10.1163/156851511X557343 |publisher=Brill }}</ref> A phrase from the same lyric, "Jesus is a cunt" was included on the notorious [[Cradle of Filth]] T-shirt which depicted a [[masturbating]] nun on the front and the slogan "Jesus is a cunt" in large letters on the back. The T-shirt was banned in New Zealand, in 2008.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0807/S00009.htm|title=Censor's Ban on "Cradle of Filth" T-shirt|publisher=Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.|date=1 July 2008 |access-date=13 September 2013}}</ref>

[[Liz Phair]] in "Dance of Seven Veils" on her 1993 album ''[[Exile in Guyville]]'', uses the word in the line "I only ask because I'm a real cunt in spring".{{cite AV media |people=Liz Phair |date=22 June 1993 |title=Exile in Guyville |medium=vinyl |format=Double LP|url=http://www.discogs.com/Liz-Phair-Exile-In-Guyville/master/26390 |id=Matador Records, OLE 051-1}}

The word has been used by numerous non-mainstream bands, such as the Australian band [[TISM]], who released an [[extended play]] in 1993 ''[[Australia the Lucky Cunt]]'' (a reference to Australia's label the "lucky country"). They also released a single in 1998 entitled "[[I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt]]", which was banned.{{by whom|date=January 2022}}{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} The American [[grindcore]] band [[Anal Cunt]], on being signed to a bigger label, shortened their name to AxCx.<ref>{{cite news | date=10 July 2013 | title=The Dumbest Band Names of All Time: Anal Cunt | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-dumbest-band-names-of-all-time-20130710/9-anal-cunt-0855465 | access-date=4 August 2017 | archive-date=4 August 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804214906/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-dumbest-band-names-of-all-time-20130710/9-anal-cunt-0855465 | url-status=dead }}</ref>