Oh, British press. You sure do know how to make mountains out of ant hills don’t you? In today’s Sun they’re running a story about how the cover for Gnarls Barkely’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” is “utterly irresponsible” because it has a bloody knife on it.

Apparently the police in the UK are running an anti-knife campaign (because young people in Britain are stuck in the 1950s, or in Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video, and haven’t moved up to guns to attack each other), and Gnarls Barkley’s EP is trying to appeal to kids who will see the cover and, the police fear, go out and stab each other.

I’m not sure I’m buying kids being influenced by a picture of a bloody knife (you could turn on a TV at any given moment and find images more violent than that), but, like a similar argument over Katy Perry having pictures taken with a knife, it seems the newspapers and the police are using celebrities to heighten anti-knife sentiments. Please, someone call the NKA (the national knife association), I don’t want them to steal my shiv. [The Sun]      

Photo Credit: Chris La Putt/ Prefixmag.com