Song Censorship

[nasty]

I just don't understand why it's ok for Meredith Brooks to say "Bitch," but you can't say "ass." Thoughts on the subject?

 

[Laurel]

There's some dumb song by a band called "Puddle of Mud" or something that has a line "I love the way you slap my ass". They don't censor it, either, so maybe "ass" is okay now. "Asshole" isn't, though.

 

[nasty]

Well, when I hear this line from Jo Dee Messina, it's still, "knocked on our ____." I remember, a few weeks ago, I called in a talk radio, and I said "Hell" and they kept it in. To me, "Bitch" is raunchier than "ass." I guess that's why I don't make up the rulews.

 

[Never]

Firstly, it's only censorship when the government does it.

Radios are a private business and can delete words from songs or not play songs all together and it's not censorship. Different networks have different standards about what can and cannot be 'bleeped' and sometimes those standards change through out the day.
If you take the word 'bitch' out of that song you've removed a huge part of what it is about.
A great litmus test of a station's standards is one with the refrain 'Then you really might know what it's like..' (I don't know that real name of the song or who sings it, unfortunately)

 

[nasty]

That's what I thought

I figured that was why they didn't delete that word. But still, I would have thought they wouldn't have even played it, as you say. I remember hearing "Foolish Games" on the radio. They don't even play the verse were she saya "Damn."

 

[Never]

nasty, some people see the song 'Bitch' as being about empowering females, the music industry already has enough feminist groups riding its ass to not want to give them another issue to gripe about.
It makes them look a bit better.

 

[Pokerman]

Bitch is no big deal, Elton John sang about the Bitch is Back, what...20 years ago?

And I remember the Who singing "who the fuck are you..."

 

[Guest]

Never:

The song is "What it's Like," and the artist is Everlast.