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"If U Seek Amy" on Z-100

Uh-oh, the Hudson Valley is catching on to "If U Seek Amy." It must be over.

What is this "dentist board?"

And is it true that the oft-mentioned Music Blimp made a perfect landing in the icy Hudson?
 
Z-100's sister station in Tampa is not only airing an edited version of the song, but they have a version spliced in with the name of the station's morning host, i.e. "If You See M.J."

Blah.
 
Dismal Pathetic said:
Uh-oh, the Hudson Valley is catching on to "If U Seek Amy." It must be over.

What is this "dentist board?"

And is it true that the oft-mentioned Music Blimp made a perfect landing in the icy Hudson?
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Disney Fanatic's interesting use of grammar and syntax aside, don't tell me you seriously don't know what the "dentist board" is! ???
 
It's funny how the dentist has got so riled up over IfUSeekAmy-gate that he's dedicated an *entire* Board Reflections to the issue--it's like if he wanted to do 1975 all over again with hindsight, he'd ban "Love To Love You Baby" as well.

Ultimately, in an age when downloads trump airplay and old-style "chart action" becomes less and less relevant, it's a dumb issue--you might as well be arguing that Britney shouldn't have released that title *at all*, or at least only with a "blue chip" restricting access to those under 18, which is draconian. That said, for radio-style airplay-mongerers to actually feel pressured into an obligation to play this tune probably only winds up painting them further into the pathetically-obsolete-square corner, as well...
 
Dismal Pathetic said:
What is this "dentist board?"
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You mean the New York Radio message Board (NYRMB)?

They had a post about the song "If U Seek Amy" played on Z-100 the other day. I found this one here.

http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/messages/351526.html

I listened to "Board Reflections" yesterday where Dr. Sniffen was talking about the song "If U Seek Amy" and mentions the F bomb and played snippets from that song. I listened to it the whole thing.
 
Will the FCC fine stations that play the album version of If You Seek Amy? Kids these days learn how to spell the f word at a very young age.
 
adma said:
It's funny how the dentist has got so riled up over IfUSeekAmy-gate that he's dedicated an *entire* Board Reflections to the issue--it's like if he wanted to do 1975 all over again with hindsight, he'd ban "Love To Love You Baby" as well.
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Take for example Chuck Berry which had his #1 song from 1972 called "My Ding-A-Ling", that song does not played on Musicradio WABC due to inappropriate content on the song. That same year, half of the radio stations were banned for playing the Chakachas "Jungle Fever", because it contains heavy breathing and some sexuality in the song. These songs are too offensive to play these two on some radio stations. Kids don't listened to it back in 1972 if you play a Chuck Berry song and the Chakachas song, both are inappropriate. This is what happened when Britney Spears' "If U Seek Amy" came on the radio for using the F bomb in the lyrics.

In the Hudson Valley listening area as "Dismal Pathetic" mentioned in the post that WSPK's K-104 did not play "If U Seek Amy", so they chose the title song from her CD "Circus" instead. I listened to K-104 last week that Britney's new song "Circus" came out instead of "If U See Amy" due to the F bomb played on the air.
 
disney fanatic said:
Take for example Chuck Berry which had his #1 song from 1972 called "My Ding-A-Ling", that song does not played on Musicradio WABC due to inappropriate content on the song. That same year, half of the radio stations were banned for playing the Chakachas "Jungle Fever", because it contains heavy breathing and some sexuality in the song. These songs are too offensive to play these two on some radio stations. Kids don't listened to it back in 1972 if you play a Chuck Berry song and the Chakachas song, both are inappropriate. This is what happened when Britney Spears' "If U Seek Amy" came on the radio for using the F bomb in the lyrics.
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I'm not completely clear on what you're saying because your syntax is garbled. But if you're implicitly endorsing those stations which would have banned "Jungle Fever" in 1972, well, keep in mind that it was probably with the schoolmarmish eclipse of the subversive "Jungle Fevers" and "School's Outs" that Top 40 radio started to bite the big one with the young'uns from that moment onward. (I'm leaving "My Ding-A-Ling" out of this, because it's commonly regarded as the execrable nadir of Chuck Berry's career. "Jungle Fever", though, was IMO more of a future-foretelling aesthetic high point of that year's pop charts.)

That said, the relative cultural situation with pop radio, pop music, pop charts, and Britney Spears today is such that radio would likely seem lamer for flirting with "If You Seek Amy"--not hipper. (And left curiously neglected in this whole discussion is "I Kissed A Girl"--maybe not as explicitly vulgar, but still, think of the nudgey-winky subject matter. In an so-called ideal Musicradio-milquetoast world, even *that* would merit banning.)
 
This song is offensive! But not because of the language....

It's the lack of cleverness. "If You Seek Amy" does not even make grammatical sense in the song. It's the lowest form of humor, a pun, that fails to even be a pun. It's a double entendre, without the double. Sad, really.

And the other offensive part of the song? The horrendous vocal, aided by whatever that computerized tracking device is - the one we first heard on that Cher song. I feel sorry for kids listening to this and thinking it's real, or thinking it's good.

I guess every generation has it's "Yummy Yummy Yummy" or "Disco Duck." Disposable crap. The problem is where is this generation's Beatles?
 
scooty430 said:
I guess every generation has it's "Yummy Yummy Yummy" or "Disco Duck." Disposable crap. The problem is where is this generation's Beatles?
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If anything constitutes this generation's Beatles, this does, i.e. you have to look beyond pop radio and pop music. It ain't 1964 or 1969 or even 1989 anymore; maybe you're just bringing a square's perspective without knowing it...
 
You can call me a square (isn't that a dated term?) if you like. (I'm in my 30s, by the way...)

But the question remains: what is this generation creating that is timeless, beautiful, amazing? If it's not in pop music...

- Grand Theft Auto?
- Guitar Hero?
- Showing your hoo-has on your MySpace page?
- Britney Spears and her oh-so-naughty ode to the "f word" guaranteed to titillate 9 year olds nationwide?
- Dropping Mentos into Diet Coke bottles?...

Anyway, I'm talking about pop music, so forget all that. What kind of pop music, or ANY music, is truly outstanding right now?

Seriously, help me out. I'm too square to catch your drift.
 
adma said:
If anything constitutes this generation's Beatles, this does, i.e. you have to look beyond pop radio and pop music. It ain't 1964 or 1969 or even 1989 anymore; maybe you're just bringing a square's perspective without knowing it...
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Then again, I don't think today's Beatles would have been singing "I Kissed A Girl/Boy (And I Liked It)"...
 
scooty430 said:
But the question remains: what is this generation creating that is timeless, beautiful, amazing? If it's not in pop music...

- Grand Theft Auto?
- Guitar Hero?
- Showing your hoo-has on your MySpace page?
- Britney Spears and her oh-so-naughty ode to the "f word" guaranteed to titillate 9 year olds nationwide?
- Dropping Mentos into Diet Coke bottles?...

Anyway, I'm talking about pop music, so forget all that. What kind of pop music, or ANY music, is truly outstanding right now?

Seriously, help me out. I'm too square to catch your drift.
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As I implied, if they "created" anything that's "timeless, beautiful, amazing" and in any way Beatlesque, it is President Obama (youth voted for him in a landslide, remember).

Times have changed. And if you're over 30 and still preoccupied with teenage pop, you're nudging noses with the Peter Pans and perverts, and even todays thoughtful teens know it...
 
this explains why the dentist always has an eruption whenever I mention the only punk rock record to ever get played(once) in prime time on 77WABC during the Howard Hoffman Shows' Top 9 at 9 in 1980;
"Death To Disco(Disco S***s!) by Jimi LaLumia & the Psychotic Frogs, replete with censor bleeps and buzzes throughout;
it raises his blood pressure through the roof, it seems....
 
No publicity is bad publicity, I suppose.

"Britney's music has always performed well with the Z100 audience," says Dastur. "And with this new CD, they've been as enthusiastic with her music as they were when she came out with her very first CD."
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Yeah, sure, because Z100's actual core audience is just like Britney: trashy 20something single moms who eat a lot of Cheetos and drink a lot of Red Bull...
 
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