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Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl"

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carolinaradio

Do ANY AC stations edit the phrase "it's a b---h girl" in the late 70s hit from Hall & Oates? It is pretty much a staple on most AC stations.

I find this interesting. I hear Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" edited (it has the B word also) all of the time, and even on Rob Thomas' song last year "Her Diamonds" some AC's edited "Oh what the hell" at the beginning out. Taylor Swift's "Teardrops on My Guitar", they edited the phrase "so d--n funny" to "just so funny." There are plenty of other edits in the format...

....but how come this song is never edited? Is it considered OK since the song is 35 years old or something? I have to admit, "Rich Girl" would be a pretty difficult one to edit, as far as the actual editing goes.
 
It's a b---h girl fits the lyrics when you take the song in its inspirational context. A few years ago I heard an interview Dick Bartley conducted, and the song was actually about a male, a rich roommate as I recall. But rich girl worked better for the song. So it would make sense to talk to another guy, saying, "It's a b---h, man, but it's gone too far".
 
To me, it doesn't make much sense to edit censor a song years after it was a hit, but that is indeed what has been done with Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" to edit out the "******" lines in the second verse. Mainly because it has become politically incorrect since then. Apparently still nothing wrong (or politically incorrect) about the use of the word "bitch" in a song.
 
I remember being surprised it wasn't censored on AC in the 70s.

Now the station where I likely heard it wouldn't play just anything. A newspaper article about similar stations said this station wouldn't play "Jack and Diane" because it was too suggestive., Gee, I don't know, might the loud guitar also have been a reason? This same station also played the short version of "Baker Street".

The same station got a complaint in that same era about "Bad Bad Leroy Brown".
 
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