Uh-uh... nope. I don't like it.

Either play the song the way it was intended, or don't play it at all...

Remember the 70's, the 80's... they just played them. You heard Eric Clapton's "Cocaine" on mainstreem radio, no one thought it was wrong. Prince sang "We can fuck until the dawn" on "Erotic City", and "...masturbating with a magazine" in "Darling Nikki"... they were played in L.A. without edits... As it should be. It's music, it's art. Don't fuck with it.

I bring this up, cuz recently I've been hearing "Picture" by Kid Rock and Sheyrl Crow, and on the line "living on cocaine and whiskey", they always mute out the word "cocaine" but leave in "whiskey"...and it really bugs the fuck out of me. In today's world (in my opinion)... alcohol is much more addictive and readily available to everyone than drugs... yet, they leave whiskey in and remove cocaine.

On the flip side of this, however, is the rap world. Where every other word seems like it is mother fucker, bitch and ho... should non-censorship apply here too? That's where I say... it should be self censored. The artist should release "radio friendly" cuts of these tracks, the cd's should be sold the same way too (they are doing this already).

But to take a song with the WORD cocaine in it, and mute it out... gimme a fucking break!

My

I don't like the idea of children listening to songs with adult content and I also ain't keen on censoring (unless it makes the song sound funny ie. Sexy mother "AWWAHH"). These songs should just be played after 10pm when the children should all be in bed.

CAMILLE4U said:

Very conservative view for someone so young.

I say, if you're dealing with kid's radio or musical listening abilities, you (as the parent) should be aware of what your child is listening to.

Since when are the recording labels, or radio companies the parent... why should they play songs after a certain time zone?

My kids are 6, 7 and 15. I am aware of everything they listen to and don't.

More parents need to take control, not let the "system" control them.

I agree, deleting the word cocaine is just plain bizarre.

And I agree, its the parents' responsibility to monitor what their children are listening to.

June7 said:

True. Sorry. I never thought of it like that. The TV companies need to have some disgresion though. I would not play 'Closer' by NIN on prime time TV on a saturday evening.

Thanks...and I agree with you too Camille4U...to an extent.

True, the t.v. execs should use discretion.

However, when it's a channel called "MTV" or "VH1" or something like that... parents need to know that MUSIC will be played on there, and what genre they are playing.

After all - I think most people have forgotten that MTV means Music Television, and VH1 means Video Hits One.

Parental Control Parental Control

The bottom line is (to me, anyway), let the parent parent... don't censor my viewing or listening to appease the supposed moral majority.

I detest that.

June7 said:

That'll do for me.

By the way - I downloaded the original version of the song "Picture". I play it in it's original form. My kids hear it.

If they ask me what he means by "cocaine and whiskey", I will give them a detailed explanation of what he's goin' thru in the song... and why they should stay away from stuff like that.

It's called communication. Parents also need to do this with their children more often, and not rely on others to do it for them.

I don't believe in CnesorShip at all.all the Kids out now know Eminem Lyrics from start to finish or whomever they are feeling.Movies are anything goes.the thing is that stickers on Albums don't stop Kids from Listening to them they still get access to them.Wall-Mart&other Places knew that stickers&Content Sell so they kicked that Clean Version to the Curb.the standards nowadays aren't the same as when i was coming along&you know things are more raw because the Society has different standards now.I grew up during the Just say No Era but nowadays that Era is a Laughing stock.this era of ears ain't going for being Censored&why should they really if a Major Brand is standing there hoping for there money??

To this day, nobody ever notices Debbie Harry singing "finger fucking" in the song "Rapture", much less censors it out...heck, somebody had to point it out to ME, and it's one of my favorite songs!

Anxiety said:

Great, now that one's gonna be muted.

This reminds me of the first time I heard NIN's Closer on the radio. I don't know if someone did this on purpose or if it was a horrible mistake but when it got to the line "I wanna fuck you like an animal" they scrambled the wrong words! So instead of sounding like "I wanna %#@% you like an animal" it came out "I wanna fuck @#% %#$% an animal."

And then there's WalMart. These pricks will only sell censored copies of an album. If they really despised this person and their lyrics, they shouldn't be selling the album at all. But, instead they're more than happy to capitalize off these artists whose lyrics they object to. They're condeming and condoning their work in the same breath.

Tom said:

Another reason I so seldomly rent videos at Blockbuster Video... they have the hard R (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Scarface, etc...) movies altered before they rent them out.

The astonishing thing is that the companies are allowing this to avoid stepping on the toes of the "moral majority" consumers.