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To: i-node who wrote (177)7/30/2009 4:42:08 PM
From: TimF2 Recommendations   of 180
 
Who Decides What Gets Censored On Satellite and Terrestrial Radio?

Spent some time traveling by car yesterday (technically, minivan). Two very popular songs lately are Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas and Don't Trust Me by 3OH!3.

When we listen to the songs on satellite radio they are generally not censored for four-letter words and the like. Of course, on traditional or terrestrial radio most expletives are censored out of the song. One notable exception is The Who's Who Are You. For 30 years on the radio I have heart the line "Who The F*ck Are You?!" I still hear it today.

Anyway ... today we were listening to Don't Trust Me by 3OH!3 on one of the Sirius/XM pop stations. One repeated line in the song is:
"Shush girl shut your lips, Do the Hellen Keller and talk with your hips."

Every time the Hellen Keller lyric would have been mentioned, it was censored out? I wonder who decided this was offensive? And on what grounds?

Then later in the day we were listening to The Black Eyed Peas's Boom Boom Pow on terrestrial radio. There are several lyrics with the word "sh!t." These are not surprisingly censored out of the song. But here's the interesting part, there is a single lyric with the literal words "satellite radio.":
"Here we go, here we go Satellite radio"

On every terrestrial radio station we've heard this song on, the "Satellite radio" words are censored out! Are they really that afraid of the concept even being mentioned in a song?! Wow!

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