“Politically Correct” by SR-71

"Politically Correct" was the second single from Now You See Inside, SR-71's 2000 debut album on RCA, and frontman Mitch Allan wrote it after a fight. The spark was Blazing Saddles, the 1974 Western comedy Allan saw while studying film at the University of Maryland. His girlfriend was reportedly offended by the movie's language and racial themes, the two got into a political argument, and once she'd gone to sleep he picked up her guitar and wrote the chorus there and then.

Allan says the finished song takes on social behavior and presidential politics, which is a lot to hang on one argument over a movie. It reached 22 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, though it never matched the breakout run of "Right Now", the single before it. "Tomorrow" came next.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.