Scouting in Popular Culture - Music

Music

  • "Be Prepared" (1953) from Songs by Tom Lehrer; a satire of the Boy Scouts.
  • "Fergalicious" (2006) from The Dutchess by Fergie; in the music video Fergie and dancers dress provocatively in Girl Scout-like uniforms.
  • "I was a Boy Scout" (1980) from Snakes and Ladders by Gerry Rafferty; the chorus line is "I was a Boy Scout in St. Mary's troop, I had my own patrol, I had a necktie and a monkey suit, 'Til I heard rock and roll."
  • "I'm A Teenage Mutant Boy Scout" (2004) from the cabaret show Lounge-zilla! Asian Sings the Blues by Dennis Giacino; a Scout mutates after camping in a nuclear fallout zone.
  • Elton John controversially performed with male strippers dressed as Cub Scouts at a gay rights concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1999. He later apologised after The Scout Association in the UK objected. The UK Scout Association, which has a policy not to discriminate against homosexuals, said that the performers had done themselves and gay rights "no favours" by suggesting a link between homosexuality and paedophilia.
  • "Kicked Out Of The Webelos" (1984) from Webelos by The Queers
  • Scouting Along with Burl Ives
  • The British band Scouting for Girls, as well as the group I Was a Cub Scout reference the scouting movement in songs and their names.
  • American Band Campfire Girls (band) references Camp Fire Girls in their name.
  • A Cub Scout can be seen behind Weird Al Yankovic on the album cover of Poodle Hat
  • In March 2013, Madonna made a public appearance dressed as a Scout and called for the BSA to lift the ban on gay membership.

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