"The song and its choice by Romania/Eurovision and promotion by those organisations represents a reckless normalisation of a dangerous practice. It's playing fast and loose with young women's lives. The emerging medical evidence is that frequent sexual strangulation is giving young women brain damage."
"Campaigners against sexual violence said the entry, in which the words choke me are repeated 30 times during the three-minute song, was playing fast and loose with young women's lives. The song also contains the lyrics It's hard to breathe in, I want you to choke me and make my lungs explode."
Romania's Eurovision song 'Choke Me' by Alexandra Capitanescu has drawn significant backlash from campaigners against sexual violence for repeatedly promoting sexual strangulation through lyrics that include 'choke me' 30 times and references to choking until lungs explode. Legal experts and health advocates argue the song recklessly normalizes a dangerous practice with emerging medical evidence linking frequent sexual strangulation to brain damage in young women. Eurovision fans have called for disqualification or lyric modification. The European Broadcasting Union previously ruled against other entries for offensive language, though the BBC has not lodged a formal complaint about this entry. Capitanescu defended the song as metaphorical commentary on emotional overwhelm.
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