[QUOTE=KayElCee]
Actually, I am pretty sure that this is not new censorship. I think that the bowdlerized version of “Play that Funky Music” has been around for as long as the original. I’m pretty sure I heard it back when I was a teenager.
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It was also censored in an old Intel ad from the 90’s.
[QUOTE=jali]
Wow. I didn’t know there were actual negative racial connotations. I remember James Brown, “..and it’s gots to be funky”. I remember “Do the Funky Chicken”. I remember Parliament Funkadelic and a host of bands playing “funk music”. I missed the whole negative vibe.
I learn something here everyday,
I meant hearing the work "fu** instead of funk.
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If the word ‘funky’ has negative racial connotations it comes as news to me too.
Are we really being asked to defend the artistic integrity of Wild Cherry? Jeez.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
My understanding has been that it started as a derogatory description of “negro music.”
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You may be right, but it’s been accepted as the name for a style of music for 40 years. There can’t be too many people offended by it anymore.
[QUOTE=Marley23]
You may be right, but it’s been accepted as the name for a style of music for 40 years. There can’t be too many people offended by it anymore.
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I don’t disagree that it’s very, very cold pudding. I only suggested that if someone were determined to feel offended over something that I believe the word has a history that would lend itself to that.
Has nothing to do with how the word is accepted, now.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
I don’t disagree that it’s very, very cold pudding. I only suggested that if someone were determined to feel offended over something that I believe the word has a history that would lend itself to that.
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Knowing the way these things work, people could take offense even if your etymology is incorrect. Anyway, do you have a cite for it?
I’ll clean up my oldies library
when the _______ _____ go
doo do doo do doo do doo doo do doo
I’ll admit I’ve been doing a quick look for it. And this dictionary offers funk with a 1600’s definition as being a bad smell, then mysteriously in the 1950’s coming to mean music. It offers no linkage, but I don’t think it contradicts what I suggested. This article from Cecil seems to support that it was a derogatory descriptor, I think.
But without the “white boy,” it could be anyone playing that funky music! It could be an elderly Asian woman playing that funky music! It could be a Mestizo hermaphrodite! The song would simply make no sense!
[QUOTE=randwill]
Soon we will hear James Brown singing, “Say it out loud! I’m _______ and I’m proud!”
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And we will all “Get on up… like a sax machine!”
Well, it is a tip of the hat to his horn section, right?
I thought the FCC only was concerned about certain foul words, or description of sex, and the like? Is this really an FCC issue?
[QUOTE=Terrifel]
But without the “white boy,” it could be anyone playing that funky music! It could be an elderly Asian woman playing that funky music! It could be a Mestizo hermaphrodite! The song would simply make no sense!
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I’d just like to say that this post has made my day. I can’t stop giggling.
As a person without color, I’m glad that removed those offensive lyrics.
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
Is this really an FCC issue?
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Nobody said it was. FCC or not, stations don’t want their listeners complaining. Nor did they want them complaining 30 years ago.
[QUOTE=Terrifel]
But without the “white boy,” it could be anyone playing that funky music! It could be an elderly Asian woman playing that funky music! It could be a Mestizo hermaphrodite! The song would simply make no sense!
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I’m always amused when I hear that song being done by a bar band–and it is a major staple on the bar band circuit–and the singer is either not white, not a boy, or both. I have heard the song more than once sung by an Asian woman.
I’m dreaming of a _____ Christmas.
[QUOTE=Zebra]
I’m dreaming of a _____ Christmas.
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Funky?
Bing Crosby may have been many things, but ‘funky’ wasn’t one of them.
New Kids on the Block once wished people a Funky, Funky Xmas.
I’m a dirty melanin-deficient boy,
I’m a dirty melanin-deficient boy,
I’m a dirty melanin-deficient boy,
Dirty melanin-deficient boy!
This reminds me when a song lyric form a Black Eyed Peas song was changed from “don’t funk with my heart” to “don’t mess with my heart” for the radio. :rolleyes: