Does Music With "Crude and Sexist" Lyrics Belong in the Dining Room?

Does "a loud and sexually graphic soundtrack" have any place in restaurants? That's the question posed by Seattle Met critic Kathryn Robinson in a post published this morning on the magazine's Nosh Pit blog.

Robinson was dining with her husband on a recent visit to Eastlake's newish addition Babirusa (an Eater Heatmap member.) She writes:

...before our pork cracklins gave way to our Arctic char hushpuppies, the music grew nastier and the f-bombs began ricocheting off the walls. "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta," came those old Geto Boys lyrics. "Cocksuckin' pussy-eatin' prankstas."

She goes on to ask if music with "lyrics this crude and sexist" would be any more or less appropriate if Babirusa was a bar and not a restaurant, noting that a family came in for dinner after the soundtrack moved on from the Geto Boys.

When restaurants whose "high-end food is aimed squarely at sophisticates" play songs with lyrics that offend some diners, does business inevitably take a beating? She writes, "Is it just me, or is that the biggest duh in the restaurant industry?"

The way I see it, lyrics like that have no business showing up anywhere near the hospitality industry, for the simple reason that they are not hospitable. Nevermind whether they are empirically offensive—that's a question for philosophers, no matter what I might argue.

What's your take?
· The Restaurant Whose Soundtrack Stunned Even Jaded Old Me [Seattle Met]
· All Babirusa Coverage [-ESEA-]