Gay Agenda rears its head.Follow

Filled with blue cat-people?

And the ads, my god. I can't bear to listen to commercial radio. Luckily there are some very varied forms of Gov radio here.

I've been wondering how they play that Cee Lo Green song, "Fuck You," on the radio. Apparently they do, but it drops like fifty swears. Don't really listen to the radio myself, but have to wonder how it affects the song.

Great song if you haven't heard it btw.

Edited, Jan 15th 2011 12:26am by Kachi

I like them 'cos they'll play anything, at any time, swear a lot and the only ads they play are the ones they make themselves which are perfect little nuggets of kiwi humour.

I think he means the original, uncensored version. As far as I know, they censor it by making it "Forget You" instead.

It's one of those songs where it's more about the catchy tune than the actual words, though the upbeat way he sings those particular lyrics does add some comedic value to it.

I know I'm late to the party on this but...

You do realize that on release and for most of the next couple years radio stations in the US and Canada at least played a radio edit with that word removed. The stations actually had two choices on the promo disc, one with the word replaced with a punch in of "queenie" (really not much difference) and one that just faded the vocal to leave the questionable word blank. Generally speaking, standard stations used the "queenie" edit and nationally syndicated shows used the faded one just to play it safe. All Warner will do is dip into the archives and dig out the "queenie" version and rush a digital rip to the stations then this argument could start all over with the exact same basis. If that doesn't fly with the Standards Council, they'll flip to the faded edit.

You are getting bent out of shape over nothing. Your must not be disturbed work routine will not be challenged by the absence of the overplayed hit. In fact, it will probably be the exact same version stations played 25 years ago. That should sit even better with your routine. All will be back as it was when it was.

Oh...think about it for a minute. Warner and Knopfler knew this song was questionable for airplay on release in '85. Mark did the vocal punch-in and Warner sent it out three different ways to stations. Pinning "gay agenda" to this is more than just a massive stretch, it's absurd. The song was never clear cut radio-friendly fodder in its album form.

What annoys me from an American perspective is that when a song reaches the commercial stature of this or say AOR staples: Money, Who Are You or Jet Airliner (there are tons more), the song's "classic" status somehow grants the stations immunity from the rules that independent radio stations have to abide by. There have been many cases where small stations have been fined harshly or briefly knocked off the air for jocks forgetting to queue up the radio edit instead of the album version, even in the case of truly honest mistakes. It's called "cost-effective enforcement".

For the record, there are a good number of tracks that were kept off the airwaves (or beeped, which everyone hated) over the years for using the same word. Why should Money for Nothing or any of the other AOR staples that cross the line for that matter receive special treatment and allow radio stations an exemption? Either apply the rules evenly or get rid of them.

It's not like the FCC has done much more than harass small stations, rubber stamp corporate mergers that violate their own current rules and let the corporations dictate to them what they will do for the last 25 years or so anyway.

What's funny is here in the south (well, in Nashville anyway when the song first came out) it wasn't censored at all. I didn't realize it was getting censored other places.

It wasn't here. I remember thinking "Ooohh... scandalous!" since I was just old enough to get what a "******" was.

Every time I think you're around my age you go and say something like this and it just messes me all up. /sigh

I lack the jet airplane.

Nadenu and I just said we didn't hear edited versions. Kitca said there were two edited versions for radio play but I distinctly remember hearing the unedited version. Didn't own the album, either.

Edited, Jan 21st 2011 6:48pm by Jophiel