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KYMX playing Shaggy

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Michael Rivers Kramer

I was briefly in Sacramento and noticed when driving out that Bonneville’s KYMX, Mix 96.1 was playing the unedited version of “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy. Sure it’s 25 years old, but it’s still about his girlfriend walking on him “banging” another woman on the bathroom floor. This, on an LDS mainstream AC station!

Interesting fact, when the song was a current in 2000, the Bonneville CHR at the time, Z 95.7 was playing an edited version of it with the line to “ making love on the bathroom floor” while KYLD was playing the regular version.
 
Out of its 80 year life, the station was KCTC for 22 of the years. It’s been KYMX for 35 years.

I fondly remember KCTC Gil Boucher. He was a meticulous and kind man. I also have fond memories of Dean Cull.
 
I've heard the "Making Love" version as well as the "Bangin'" version. Here in San Diego,I find some of the bleep-worthy stuff amusing on AC stations. Case in point, on the Justin Timberlake song "Rock Your Body" (almost 24 years old itself) our AC station KYXY (Audacy) bleeps the word "naked" from the line that says "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song" while Hot AC KMYI (Star 94.1, iHeartRadio) has remixed the song to take out the line altogether.
 
In the case of KYMX, I’m picturing a grandmother at age 48 explaining to her 6 year old grandchild, what “butt naked banging on the bathroom floor with the girl next door” means. Then later, the same grandmother calling the LDS church owned station and asking why?
 
Hey Mormons are not as prudish as you think, particularly millennials. Even alcohol can be purchased in bars, restaurants, and state run stores nowadays. The entire state used to be a dry state. Not anymore. You get into sister wives, polygamy territory like....Colorado City. A different story.
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
I was briefly in Sacramento and noticed when driving out that Bonneville’s KYMX, Mix 96.1 was playing the unedited version of “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy. Sure it’s 25 years old, but it’s still about his girlfriend walking on him “banging” another woman on the bathroom floor. This, on an LDS mainstream AC station!

Interesting fact, when the song was a current in 2000, the Bonneville CHR at the time, Z 95.7 was playing an edited version of it with the line to “ making love on the bathroom floor” while KYLD was playing the regular versi
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Michael Rivers Kramer said:
I was briefly in Sacramento and noticed when driving out that Bonneville’s KYMX, Mix 96.1 was playing the unedited version of “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy. Sure it’s 25 years old, but it’s still about his girlfriend walking on him “banging” another woman on the bathroom floor. This, on an LDS mainstream AC station!

Interesting fact, when the song was a current in 2000, the Bonneville CHR at the time, Z 95.7 was playing an edited version of it with the line to “ making love on the bathroom floor” while KYLD was playing the regular version.
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maybe have the national guard patrol the fm dial then in all the main markets??? We have plenty of ICE agents now too. It could give them something to gestapo when they're not driving around in circles at Home Depot. Plenty of resources for that kind of thing now.
 
As I'm reading this thread, I'm remembering when KLGL (94.5 FM, Manti, UT) played Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith," from 1985. The station didn't have an edited version of the song so when the word "Trojans" (a brand of condoms) came up, the entire song was potted down until the offending word had been said. (I think the station also deleted "Til I made it with a red-haired girl," in the same way.) The only other time I've ever heard a station pot down an entire song to remove offending words was when I heard KKBT-FM in Los Angeles do it to an N.W.A. lp track that had never been edited for radio back in 1994.
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
I was briefly in Sacramento and noticed when driving out that Bonneville’s KYMX, Mix 96.1 was playing the unedited version of “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy. Sure it’s 25 years old, but it’s still about his girlfriend walking on him “banging” another woman on the bathroom floor.
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Today's AC listener is in her early to mid 40s and this is what she listened to in college. Weird times LOL. But also not much different than AC stations in 2000 playing "Afternoon Delight" or "Undercover Angel" from the mid 1970s. Can't compare the songs from the two different generations, but for their respective time periods they were provocative.

Get off my lawn...
 
finallyescaped said:
Today's AC listener is in her early to mid 40s and this is what she listened to in college. Weird times LOL. But also not much different than AC stations in 2000 playing "Afternoon Delight" or "Undercover Angel" from the mid 1970s. Can't compare the songs from the two different generations, but for their respective time periods they were provocative.

Get off my lawn...
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I can agree, but some CHR stations back then were censoring the Shaggy song back then.

Also, it seems to be inconsistent among stations. Example, if you heard Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, it was less censored in 2005 than it is today. I’m just using KBIG in LA as an example. Instead of the sht (edited shit) is bananas in 2005, but now it’s the “grunt sound” is bananas.

So the Mormon owned station is LESS conservative now and iHeart has become MORE conservative?
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
I can agree, but some CHR stations back then were censoring the Shaggy song back then.

Also, it seems to be inconsistent among stations. Example, if you heard Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, it was less censored in 2005 than it is today. I’m just using KBIG in LA as an example. Instead of the sht (edited shit) is bananas in 2005, but now it’s the “grunt sound” is bananas.

So the Mormon owned station is LESS conservative now and iHeart has become MORE conservative?
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Interesting observation. I wonder if the difference is because the church isn't running the media company now like it was then. Deseret, a third party management company, manages the for-profit entities for the church. That might allow more freedom for the brands? I don't know.
 
Not in Seattle. They own a conservative and a supposedly more moderate talk station, and you can tell there is absolutely a line between what would be acceptable and interesting to Seattle from a political angle and what you're allowed to say/believe on those stations. And it is different for each "side."
 


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