For Chinese musicians, topics like flatulence, Taiwanese girls and suicide are out. Songs that respect so-called “social morality” are in. Or else.

China’s Ministry of Culture this week issued a blacklist of 120 songs — including titles such as “Don’t Want to Go to School,” “All Must Die” and “Fart” — and demanded that websites remove them within 15 days or face “severe punishment.”

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