Yes, the Pink song. What’s up with the radio edit? Since when can’t you say “ass” on the radio?
[come back later and insert lyrics to radio song with the word ass to prove your point]
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OK, I can’t think of another radio song that has the word “ass” in it, but I’m sure they exist. Can someone chime in with lyrics to a radio song that has “ass” in it, or can someone that owns the Pink CD confirm that she does say “ass” and it is, indeed, a radio edit?
Can’t think off any songs with the word ass in it, but she definately does say ass. The radio station down here used to play it unedited but some some reason they now play it the way you are hearing it.
Is it wrong that I knew exactly what you were referring to upon reading the thread title???
I’d have to agree with Mr. Moto’s WAG. But that’s my WAG, too.
You can say anything in any song on the radio for at least 2 months. Then the “What the?” Factor sinks in.
Everyone (except for one person) has heard the song by this point, and everyone (except for one person) knows the words, and everyone except for that one person is fine with them. That one person goes “What the?” and starts a chain reaction that gets the song all radio edited.
Next thing you know, Alanis sings: “Will she go _____ on you, in a theater?” and those guys that sing Semi-Charmed Life sing whole lines that are edited out.
The New Radicals have a song that says “ass” at the end… It’s that one that goes "Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson/ Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson/ You’re all fakes run to your mansions/ Come around we’ll kick your ass in.
Not that I like Alanis Morissette, having met her when she was 13 and was a total bitch to all of us even though she was nobody at the time, but…
Up here in Canada, they’d play “Will she go down on you in a theatre” but “And are you thinking of me when you f___ her.” However, at the 1996 Grammys, the CTV didn’t bleep out the f-word.
But in “Hand In My Pocket,” they never bleeped out the “chickenshit” bit on the radio, at least not here.
Still, I’m sick and tired of hearing semi-rap songs on the radio in the morning with half of the words dubbed out. It’s irritating as all hell.
My favorite version of this was when the Jay-Z song, “Can I get a…” was popular. I doubt that they ever aired it in it’s entirety in the States, but I lived in Germany at the time, where I guess the parents don’t understand the lyrics or don’t care. We’d be listening to the popstation on the radio, suddenly here comes:
Can I get a F*CK YOU,
to these bitches from all of my niggaz
who don’t love hoes, they get no dough
Can I get a WOOP WOOP
to these niggaz from all of my bitches
who don’t got love for niggaz without thugs
which became (at least in the States on MTV):
Can I get a WHAT WHAT
to these chickens from all of my doves
who don’t love those, they get no dough
Can I get a WOOP WOOP
to these fellas from all of my ladies
who don’t got love for players without dubs?
“you got your problems
i got my ass wide
you got your big cheese
i got my hash pipe”
i don’t know how much airplay it got in the states, but i’d imagine it got a bit. and i never heard it censored, i’m guessing because no-one could understand the lyrics well enough to complain.
So it is a radio edit. That’s really damn sad. I’d like to meet the one child over the age of 5 that has not heard the word “ass”. I’d also like to meet the adult that was listening to a radio station that would play that Pink song, but was still offended by hearing the word “ass” and started this lunacy.
I guess they never heard “the state looks down on sodomy” - or maybe that word is too big to carry the horrific damaging weight that “ass” does.
Here in Kansas they bleep out the ASS on Pink’s song depending on what time of day it is. If it’s before 8 in the morning, you’ll hear enzzz. I assume this is to protect those little teenagers on their way to school in the morning from hearing such filth!
I agree with 23skidoo on the “What the?” factor. They played Alanis’ “One hand in my pocket” with chickenshit for about 2 months. Even better, they played Sara Mclachlan’s “Building a Mystery” with the A beautiful fucked up man line in it. Apparently the line went by so fast that they didn’t notice it. I made sure to point it out to whoever was in the car with me at the time.
I was going to mention this one myself. Buffalo and Rochester radio don’t edit this line either. Nor do they edit the “Who the f*** are you?” in Who Are You? by The Who.
How about ** Groove Armada’s ** “I see you baby”? Wasn’t bleeped out, at least on MuchMusic. The only lyric really seems to a repetition of the line “I see you baby/Shaking that ass” over and over and over again ad nauseum.
“Your Station For The Best Hits And The Best Variety” ™ plays a radio edit of Everlast’s “What It’s Like” that’s so chopped up, I don’t even know why they bother.
In the verse about abortion, they cut the word, “whore,” and the verse about drugs has so many words removed it sounds like the CD is skipping.
On the other hand, it sounds like they don’t censor Pink’s “ass.”
