As you can probably tell, we’re pretty big fans of music here at Tone Deaf. We take pride in not only promoting music and musicians, particularly those of the Australian variety, but we’ll also defend them if need be.

Believe it or not, but music occasionally gets hard done by in society. Unfortunately, there are some people out there who think the unthinkable tragedies of the world or just plain old daily inconveniences have something to do with music.

Music and musicians have actually been blamed for everything from getting a high-school formal cancelled, to mass murders and even racism. Here are some notable examples of the most ridiculous things music has been blamed for.

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