> It's ironic that radio stations can be fined 100's of
> thousands of dollars for words that you hear blasting out of
> car stereos incessantly as you walk down the street. Or in
> your friendly neighborhood bar, for that matter. And in the
> Black Eyed Peas case it's not even a bad word.
>
> A rabid member of one of the "family" councils even
> complained to the FCC about a profanity in the decades-old
> Joni Mitchell song "Big Yellow Taxi". They actually heard a
> word wrong. Thought it said, "They paved paradise, and put
> up a 'f*cking' lot". (For those unfamiliar with the song,
> what they actually put up was a parking lot.) For real.
>
> I hear CC's Classic Rock stations, which simply went back to
> the "funky kicks" edit of "Jet Airliner" (vs. "funky sh*t)
> are now going to edit it futher to "messy kicks goin' down
> in the city". They will also re-title that classic by the
> James Gang to "Mess 49". A couple of their stations that
> still play 70's pop will be re-editing the old Wild Cherry
> song to "Play That Messy Music Caucasion Man". And their
> Urban AC's will henceforth refer to Funkadelic as
> "Messadelic". Further, because some listeners with their
> hearing aid batteries running low are hearing, "We're a Q**r
> Channel station", the company is considering changing its
> name to "Loud Channel" to avoid the wrath of the
> in-your-face "Parents Tell Eveybody What They Can See and
> Hear in the Name of Family-Protection and Moral Clarity"
> council. (I think Rod Parsley, Phil Burress and Ken
> Blackwell are co-chairs of that one.)
>
> Seriously, though, Funk/Phunk isn't usually used as a verb
> in hit music, is it? While this *still* doesn't justify the
> edit, it makes the lyrics more aggressive and likely to be
> mis-heard...so this edit may be less egregious than editing
> out Funk elsewhere would be. It's more likely to be heard
> wrong in the Black Eyed Peas song than with the typical noun
> or adjective usage.
>
> BTW, for anyone who hasn't seen the Mis-heard lyrics site,
> it's loads of fun. Here's the Black Eyed Peas page:
>
>
http://www.amiright.com/artists/blackeyedpeas.shtml
>
> P.S. I had to go back and change my post to say "Q**r" in
> the third paragraph because Radio-Info automatically
> censored it when I spelled it out. Seems strange
> considering NBC splashes the word all over its schedule.
> But perhaps Radio-Info did this because people were using
> the word to attack each other, which would indeed be a
> pathetic and immature thing to do.
>
I think you are correct sir. I too believe that because the word funk/phunk was used as a verb that it could be misinterpreted as you know what and that is probably why they censored it. Now I also agree with you 100% that this does not make it right. It must be ok though to play 50 Cent's Candy Shop even though he's rapping about wanting some girl to lick his lollipop. <P ID="signature">______________
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