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Increasing spin count of recurrent
- Thread starter tall_guy1
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I don't know what motivates people to complain to the FCC, especially now. People just get a bug in their shorts, and the next thing we know, we get a letter from the government.
It's only when I heard a station play the uncut version was the risque meaning clear. When "wet" and "down my thighs" were silenced it wasn't noticeable.
Most of the chorus is just awkward silence in some places so they likely turned down the vocals and kept the song intact. I'll give them proper due that it's not screeching bleeps or 'cut tape' edits, but it's still awkward.
I'd imagine that with some of the latest Hip Hop stuff being as explicit as it is, if a station were to use the bleeper to clean it up, the whole song (are they called songs anymore?), beginning to end, would be a long, almost continuous bleep.
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The usual edit I hear is "I get .... at the thought of you being a responsible guy. Treating me like you're supposed to do. Tears run ....."
660AM in Pittsburgh plays Hip Hop and it's entertaining listening to half the 'lyrics' missing from a lot of the songs on there...
And that's totally fair, but what I was trying to get at is I'd think a song using the word "b****" a whole bunch of times would be more likely to garner a complaint. I hear stuff on classic rock stations in their imaging alone that's in some ways more risqué than this tune. I guess a classic rock audience likely isn't going to go pick up the phone and dial the FCC the way a parent might after their kid heard a tune like that on the top-40 station.
As I've said in other threads: At one time, the music industry made music for radio. It was their main marketing outlet, their main distribution tool. All that changed in the 90s. The new owners of record labels make music aimed at the fans. They market directly to them on social media. They give their music to content creators on TikTok. There are no FCC indecency laws that limit what artists can say on the internet. So they say whatever they want, and in many cases, it's up to radio to fix the language or topic issues to fit the rules they have to follow. The grungier the topics, the more popular the music. The artists don't even think about consequences for radio. Young people know what the artists are singing about, and they love it.
Elton John fought that battle with that song 50 years ago. It was double entendre. He got away with it because he's Elton John. Some stations refused to play it, and it didn't go to #1 because of that word. This is about current music, and current artists don't care.
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And see, that kinda takes the wind out of its sails. It just sounds jumbled. The rhyme, for one, is broken - "guy" now tries in vain to rhyme with silence instead of "thigh." The playful rhyme that's lost is definitely a bit of a trademark for Sabrina's songs. Rhyming aside, the second phrase is now just incomplete, too.
The "clean" versions of her earlier songs were a lot less destructive and noticeable (the changes in "Espresso," for example, I didn't even realize until I heard the 'give a f***s' version when I streamed it - that really caught me by surprise)...
I completely agree, BigA! In some ways, that existed even before the 90s, but the doors have been blown off in the streaming age for sure.
And I also wondered that about this record - I just mentioned that the "radio edits" of her earlier hits worked a lot better than this one. I wonder if Sabrina and her team felt like radio was needed to get the ball rolling, but now that she's reached the superstardom level, it's pretty much irrelevant and most of her fans will just stream the song anyway...
AFAIK: there is no official "radio edit" of this specific song at this time.
Wonder why Sabrina didn't take off earlier? I remember she only got airplay a little bit back in like 2017 or so and all of her songs peaked at like 25 back then and she looked completely different and sounded different. It wasn't until like 2022 when she broke in as a high profile artist.
Of "Tears?" Makes sense. The version I heard on 96.1 in Pittsburgh (caught the end of it yesterday again) was a different edit than the one mentioned by another poster further up in the thread.
There could be a lot of reasons. Glen Campbell's first bunch of albums all flopped even though he was one of the most in-demand session musicians out in LA - Capitol was going to drop him from the label as a solo act. Of course, he ended up having a tremendous solo career... That kind of thing happens a lot. It's rare that an artist's debut album is massive. Used to be even less so.
Of "Tears?" Makes sense. The version I heard on 96.1 in Pittsburgh (caught the end of it yesterday again) was a different edit than the one mentioned by another poster further up in the thread.
There could be a lot of reasons. Glen Campbell's first bunch of albums all flopped even though he was one of the most in-demand session musicians out in LA - Capitol was going to drop him from the label as a solo act. Of course, he ended up having a tremendous solo career... That kind of thing happens a lot. It's rare that an artist's debut album is massive. Used to be even less so.
Hosting a national TV show where he performed music didn't hurt.
A lot of stars similar to her who were child stars had more instant success though (Selena Gomez, Miley, ect.) She was a part of Hollywood Records which usually bolsters them.
Hollywood records is owned by Disney. Music is a small part of what they do. They all work together to make what they do huge.
Wasn't he already a major country star when he got his own show, though? It's hard to imagine his label thinking about dropping him at that point.
Not really. Gentle On My Mind was really his only hit when he appeared on the Smothers Brothers. His first five albums had no hits. But Capitol was the kind of label that hung onto artists. They kept Steve Miller on the label for 7 albums before he had a hit.