Man I am getting aggravted by the radio now. Every night I listen to the radio while I am at work and all night long you will hear them bleep cuss words without actually covering up the word.
fck
shi
c*m
a**hole
Whats the point of doing it at all if you aren’t gonna do it right? There is no mistaking what words are being “covered up” because they aren’t actually being covered!! It sounds ridiculous! Even 4 year olds know what word is being covered up.
I never even hear swearing on the radio here in California. Or maybe I just listen to the wrong stations.
They’re probably bleeped out like that so people who don’t know the word won’t really know what it is. (But how hard hard is it…fack feck fick fock fuck!) It’s like lots of TV shows now have lots of sexual innuendo. Little kids won’t understand completely understand the joke.
Or maybe it’s something more obvious. Are there laws that prohibit radio stations from broadcasting such words? Or is it left up to the station?
To protect our children, Stinkpalm. God knows what kind of ruffians they would turn into if they heard gasp - a swear word! On the radio! What would America do? Hordes of screaming children running around saying fuck, shit and damn!
I support the philosphy behind it though. Kids listen to far too much radio. In fact, just yesterday I told the boy to turn off the fucking radio and mow the goddamned lawn instead.
I think he called me shithead when he left the room. I didn’t hear, the radio was on.
That, at least, is marginally less annoying than covering every other word with “scratch”, leading to such atrocities as the following line from Everlast’s “What It’s Like:”
“Pulled out his scratchy skritchy skritch, talked some scratchies and wound up skritch”
…as opposed to “Pulled out his chrome .45, talked some shit and wound up dead.”
Now, bleep “the S-word” if you must; but if you’re going to elide every other word in the song, WHY PLAY THE SONG AT ALL?!?!? There’s a message in the song, one which is completely obfuscated by such stupidity. If it’s THAT offensive, don’t play it. Period. Pick something more in keeping with your delicate sensibilities – some Manilow, perhaps – but don’t ‘pretend’ to play the song.
Thank you.
/me steps off soapbox. Skritchity skratch, bomp-chicka-wow-wow.
I work at a grocery store (Tops Market), and I heard “Money” by Pink Floyd played over the speakers. Including the line “Don’t give me that do-goody-good bullshit” in completely uncensored form…
I think they did that so the song could get played on MTV so the lil’ chilluns could hear sigh Carson Daly sigh announce it on TRL. 'Cause, ya know, MTV doesn’t want it’s impressionable young viewers to hear about drugs and abortions in the songs it plays! You know not!
One song I’ve heard that’s only minimally edited is Disturbed’s “Stupefy.” According to the lyrics he’s saying “fuck” in the first verse, yet it sounds like he’s saying “rock”. The shit in “shit out of luck” gets edited, though, depending on the station playing it. 106.5 in Charlotte rarely if ever bleeps that, but 99.5 in Greenville did all the time.