Censorship

Radio Censorship Flawed?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008
at 1:21pm

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 away

I’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 away

I’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 away

I’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.

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