Tasteless?

"Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead": No. 2 on the British pop charts.

Too personal, perhaps. But it is a reaction to someone who so personified an ideology it was named for her.

David Ehrenstein makes the interesting connection: lyricist Yip Harburg, who wrote "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" years before doing "The Wizard of Oz," would go on to write a number of Broadway shows with something to say.

And would be blacklisted for his Yankee-Doodly-dum.