Are we assuming that domestic abuse is still a controversial enough matter to get a singer blacklisted?

This reminds me of a little joke Tom Lehrer told. "The folk song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs, because it takes a certain amount of courage to stand up in a coffeehouse or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everyone else in the audience is against, like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on...."