Australia PM apologises over use of 'explicit' song

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has tendered an apology after posting a video featuring a hit hip-hop track containing explicit lyrics, BBC reported.

The clip featured Australian treasury MPs raising hands in Parliament. Morrison praised his colleagues for being "on fire today" in the 11-second-video's caption.

The accompanying track -- Be Faithful by hype man Fatman Scoop -- left many puzzled. While the snippet posted on Morrison's social media accounts was not explicit, the post was crticised as "bizarre".

This made me cringe so hard I turned inside out

— Daniel Zennon 🇵🇸 (@dzennon) September 13, 2018

I’m now fascinated by what was going on in the Prime Minister’s office during the five hours it took them to produce this video.

Did someone pitch this? Were there meetings? We’re other songs considered? Why?

Mainly ‘why’? https://t.co/d5pWOmNXPf

— Tim Watts MP (@TimWattsMP) September 13, 2018

Others termed the post a question mark on the calibre of the prime minister and his team. Dismissing the outrage as "harmless", others took it in a lighter vein.

This is harmless, daggy and fun. Twitter losing its mind over this shows that pollies can never win. #auspol

— Wade Shipard (@wadeshipard) September 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/fergushunter/status/1040373821432164352

The post has been deleted since them.

The full lyrics of the song used in my earlier video from QT today were just not OK. When I found out, I asked the team to take it down. Apologies.

— Scott Morrison (@ScoMo30) September 13, 2018