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In response to criticism that the show (which was nominated for six Emmys) exploited Dahmer’s victims, Murphy said during a Q&A panel that his crew “reached out to around 20 of the victims’ families and friends trying to get input, trying to talk to people and not a single person responded to us in that process.”
And Kesha’s mom Pebe Sebert pushed back when the Murphy series prompted a new round of backlash directed at her daughter.
“The whole Jeffrey Dahmer lyric in ‘Cannibal’ is a big controversy right now,” Pebe said in an October 2022 TikTok. “I thought I’d just say a few things about it because that was my line that I wrote in ‘Cannibal.'”
Basically, Kesha and her cowriter were “too young to even know” who Dahmer was, Pebe explained. Enter Mom and the Master Writer for Songwriters computer program.
“We were looking for a rhyme for ‘goner,’ at the very end of the widest rhymes was Jeffrey Dahmer,” Pebe said. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s a perfect lyric.'”
