Radio Censorship Flawed?
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Personally all censorship is flawed and 95% un-needed. Even as a parent of two kids I think it is very flawed. Lets take an example of the same song played on two different radio stations just 2 hours apart from each other (don’t mind that they both have the same name). The song in question is Saving Abel’s - Addicted. Here are the actual lyrics;
It’s not like you to turn away
From all the bullshit I can’t take
It’s not like me to walk awayI’m so addicted too all the things
You do when you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Or the sound you make
With every breathe you take
It’s not like anything
When you’re loving me
Personally nothing wrong with these lyrics. Now lets see the lyrics for my local rock station in Wichita Falls, TX; 106.3 The Buzz
It’s not like you to turn away
From all the bullshit I can’t take
It’s not like me to walk awayI’m so addicted too all the things
You do when you’re rollin’ round with me
In between the sheets
Or the sound you make
With every breathe you take
It’s not like anything
When you’re loving me
Really? Changing ‘going down’ to ‘rollin’ round’ makes it less obvious as to what your talking about? Even more between the sheets. Now lets look at the lyrics from Oklahoma City’s rock station; 94.7 The Buzz
It’s not like you to turn away
From all the bull*&$% I can’t take
It’s not like me to walk awayI’m so addicted too all the things
You do when you’re going down on me
In between the sheets
Or the sound you make
With every breathe you take
It’s not like anything
When you’re loving me
They left going down on me but had to bleep ’shit’. One station censored shit while the other left it but changed another line. How completely stupid are the guidelines for censorship in the country. Of course we all know how flawed it is but I thought the radio was better at less censorship then TV.
Tags: 106.3 The Buzz, 94.7 The Buzz, Censorship, OKC, Radio
5 Comments
Michael Dick
May 8th, 2008
at 1:46pm
From OKC, when they try to censor words out it’s like this:
B**LS**T.
You like get the first, middle, and last parts of the word.
Neill Harmer
May 8th, 2008
at 2:16pm
I know man. I hate it too.
And they do a HORRIBLE jobs at the words the bleep out…I did not realize tho that different stations did it differently. I will have to pay closer attention.
James
May 8th, 2008
at 2:53pm
Yeah, you can almost always still make out what the word is (even my 5 year old son does when they bleep ’shit’). So, it really isn’t helping.
James
May 8th, 2008
at 2:55pm
Yeah, it is so stupid. I didn’t know different stations had different censorship either. I just assume the labels when releasing a ‘radio edit’ just had one to send out. Kinda weird that stations seem to do their own versions.
Gina
August 21st, 2008
at 12:16am
I need to get a hold of Critter dose anyone know how I can do that please help me out thanks Gina