Same with WAYV in Atlantic City
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Radio stations that edit songs either more conservative or more lenient?
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isn't this a regular thing with iHeart stations and their censorship of songs.
I never heard of that "interpretation". And when the song was a current and I owned a Top 40 station or two in Ecuador, I did the translation from English to Spanish and we did a read with one of our announcers who was also an internationally recorded artist; he did the Spanish version of Desiderata among many other lyrical poetry reads. We recorded the recited version over twice looped segments of the original song.
I had to listen to the song dozens of times to get it right, and I never heard anything about "Jews" or anything in any way negative.
Translating from Spanish, "someone is trying to find a fifth paw on a cat".
I think Z100/WHTZ leaves the word intact, but I could be wrong. I did hear the word "sex" on the song when listening to numerous other iHeart stations. (No idea why it's censored in DFW, that's pretty strange.)
KBZN "97.9 Now" in Salt Lake City edited Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream"
Original lyric:
"I'mma get your heart racing
In my skin-tight jeans,
Be your teenage dream tonight"
KBZN lyrics:
"I'mma get your heart racing
On the dance floor scene,
Be your teenage dream tonight"
Talk about taking a song lyric from PG to G.
Original lyric:
"I'mma get your heart racing
In my skin-tight jeans,
Be your teenage dream tonight"
KBZN lyrics:
"I'mma get your heart racing
On the dance floor scene,
Be your teenage dream tonight"
Talk about taking a song lyric from PG to G.
That sounds like a Radio Disney edit. They often got artists to record versions of their pop hits with super-sanitized lyrics.
I remember reading Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5" had to be edited, but when he was asked for permission, he recorded a whole new clean version with the names of Disney characters.
We've got to import that saying into common English. PURR-fect!!!
Such a catchy song 🎵
I know what the original line was. I had the record in high school. I can read lyrics, too.
Opening cut of "Radio Disney Jams 2". It sucked just as badly as his original one!
"I was injected with CBD, ripped the ventilator out then ran a 5k!"You can definitely hear ads for CBD stores on the radio and TV in West TN.
Now that I know the difference between CBD and marijuana (Which is still illegal in TN) I don't have a problem with CBD in itself if it works for some conditions but a lot of it still sounds like snake oil to me. I'm surprised someone hasn't claimed it will cure COVID.
I had heatd that a few AMs did, substituting the "A" sound (same note) from "Aja" to make the song "AM" (No static at all).
I was watching a show on The CW and, while I only recall three curse words in the whole hour (maybe there were more), two of them were one of George Carlin's seven and the V-chip rating was not only TV-PG but didn't even have an L.
Newspapers. like radio stations, have to clean up their language. So a news columnist referring to a group of people I can only, mention on another part of this site are called dumb-basses. He did say to think fish, not musical instruments.
And there's nothing to prevent newspapers from printing bad language but the standards imposed by their publishers and/or editors. My first newspaper job was in the South, covering high school sports. I knew my publisher was conservative and very religious, but didn't realize just how until I quoted a football coach as saying "We got our butts kicked, but we'll improve. I guarantee it." In print, it came out "We got our hard licks. etc, etc." It made no sense, and I asked the managing editor, who had looked over the story before it went into the paper, why it had been changed. Yep, "butts" was too vulgar for his boss's newspaper. Needless, to say, actual profanities were either written around or turned into something like "d..." (for "damn"). He even would change "God" to "G.." if the usage wasn't a religious one.
I listen to Throwback Hip-hop. As such I would listen to the now defunct Real 106.1 out of Philly on the i-Heart app. They would play "Birthday Sex" by Jeremih and they edited out the word "sex". I heard that song when it first came out on Audacy's HOT 93.7 (then CBS) and "sex" was not edited out.
Real 106.1 also played "What's Your Fantasy" by Ludacris and it was edited so much that it was like "Why bother playing it?" Again I remember when HOT 93.7 played it regularly and it wasn't edited like that.
I also work at Walmart. The Walmart Radio network edits out the words "Hot Damn" in the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars song "Uptown Funk."
Real 106.1 also played "What's Your Fantasy" by Ludacris and it was edited so much that it was like "Why bother playing it?" Again I remember when HOT 93.7 played it regularly and it wasn't edited like that.
I also work at Walmart. The Walmart Radio network edits out the words "Hot Damn" in the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars song "Uptown Funk."
The edit of Kodachrome by Simon in Seattle never happened. It was alway “crap” on the major top 40 stations which at the time were KJR and KING. But even back then the market had a liberal feel.
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Heart of Glass by Blondie. There is a lyric "Pain in the a**."
Every station I have ever heard that song edited out the lyric. Because of poor editing you could hear the point in the song where it was edited out.
This was on all stations in my area.
93.7 WZMX - back when they were Jammin' Oldies.
95.7 WKSS - This CHR station used to have "Wayback Wednesdays" where they played classic R&B, Disco, etc.
96.5 WTIC-FM - They used to Have all 80s Weekends.
100.5 WRCH - Adult Contemporay
102.9 WDRC-FM - This station used to be an Oldies Station.
105.9 WHCN - They're Classic Hits of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Now we have a Classic Hits Station called Kool Radio that airs in Connecticut, Springfield Mass, and Westerly, RI that plays the song in tact. They're independently owned by a local company called Full Power Radio.
Every station I have ever heard that song edited out the lyric. Because of poor editing you could hear the point in the song where it was edited out.
This was on all stations in my area.
93.7 WZMX - back when they were Jammin' Oldies.
95.7 WKSS - This CHR station used to have "Wayback Wednesdays" where they played classic R&B, Disco, etc.
96.5 WTIC-FM - They used to Have all 80s Weekends.
100.5 WRCH - Adult Contemporay
102.9 WDRC-FM - This station used to be an Oldies Station.
105.9 WHCN - They're Classic Hits of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Now we have a Classic Hits Station called Kool Radio that airs in Connecticut, Springfield Mass, and Westerly, RI that plays the song in tact. They're independently owned by a local company called Full Power Radio.
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