A significant amount of great art, be it music, comedy, painting etc. has alway been designed to provoke.
Waters, Bruce, Pryor, Goya, Carlin, Picasso, Wagner, Leadbelly, Da Vinci, Guthrie, Baez, The Staple Singers to name just a few.. Like it or not, message and provocation are at the heart of much of the great works of art,