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22 posts & 20 voices | Started 1 year ago by billybob | Latest reply from thisisnotaspoon

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billybob - Member

As they've censored whips & chains lyrics from rhianna's S&M song

Sex in the air
I don’t care
I love the smell of it
Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But chains and whips
Excite me

But not Kanye West & Katy Perry?

Pockets on Shrek, Rockets on deck
Tell me what’s next, alien sex
I’ma disrobe you, than I’mma probe you
See I abducted you, so I tell ya what to do
I tell ya what to do, what to do, what to do

Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison

Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction

Not bothered, just confused! Especially as the target audience for each song is about 8 year olds

Posted 1 year ago #
TooTall - Member

Not bothered, just confused!

Stop listening to Radio 1.

/confusion

/thread

Posted 1 year ago #
billybob - Member

Stop listening to Radio 1.

It was on in the car the other day - usually listen to 6music..

Posted 1 year ago #
MidlandTrailquestsGraham - Member

Didn't Radio One ban Fairy Tale of New York one year because of the insults in the lyrics, while Radio two carried on playing it ?

Posted 1 year ago #
rickmeister - Member

Radio 4, its the schnizzle.... Radio 1 is soooo last year dahling.

Posted 1 year ago #
zokes - Member

Didn't Radio One ban Fairy Tale of New York one year because of the insults in the lyrics, while Radio two carried on playing it ?

Yup, then they reinstated it after censoring 'Faggott'. Perhaps 'Faggott' is less offensive to the older generations?

Posted 1 year ago #
iDave - Member

i was hoping Radio 1 had been censored.

Posted 1 year ago #
stevious - Member

I'm not sure if it's R1 who've done the censoring - quite often the record companies/artists supply their own radio edit without prompting. Being a cynic, I suspect that the Rhianna song is censored just to make it seem more interesting and to generate some controversy.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mrs Toast - Member

I'm not sure if it's R1 who've done the censoring - quite often the record companies/artists supply their own radio edit without prompting. Being a cynic, I suspect that the Rhianna song is censored just to make it seem more interesting and to generate some controversy.

Yar, Rhianna had a bit of a strop about Radio One's censoring, and it turned out it was actually her record label that had edited it and sent it to the radio stations.

Posted 1 year ago #
soobalias - Member

would the bbc save any/much money by not broadcasting R1 during the day

Posted 1 year ago #
rkk01 - Member

I thought it was the "old slut on junk" that they took offense at?

Posted 1 year ago #
mrblobby - Member

I stayed at the malvern hills hotel the other week and had the Game Faggots for dinner. They were lovely.

Posted 1 year ago #
tom84 - Member

weird, i was thinking about the whips and chains censorship too recently, there's enough evocation of domestic violence (rihanna is a case in point) and yet s and m is banned?

the message seems to be: 'hit her but make sure she doesn't enjoy it, or, god forbid, let it be known that she might enjoy hitting you'.

----- mysogynist culture! (go on censor that){Ok - Mod}

Posted 1 year ago #
traildog - Member

As mentioned above, it was her record company that supplied a special daytime playlist version of the song. So not so much Radio1 sensoring it.

Posted 1 year ago #
jon1973 - Member

I stayed at the malvern hills hotel the other week and had the Game Faggots for dinner

Yes, but those were expensive Faggots from a nice hotel, not those cheap lousy faggots you get from Iceland, I think those were the ones the song was referring to.

Posted 1 year ago #
tom84 - Member

regardless of what radio 1 did or didn't do, the message is the same.

Posted 1 year ago #
Stoner - Member

Im betting those are LDA* faggots. Superb specimens.
* Ledbury District Abbattoir. Gone all posh with a new name now though:

http://www.butchers.uk.com/

As you were gents.

Posted 1 year ago #
CharlieMungus - Member

Yup, then they reinstated it after censoring 'Faggott'. Perhaps 'Faggott' is less offensive to the older generations

Not if you have Brains it's not

Posted 1 year ago #
joao3v16 - Member

Radio 1 censorship doesn't seem to be working properly because when I tune in I can still hear music and talking.

Also it seems to be stuck on some kind of endless loop cos I hear the same music several times a day. every day.

Does R1 only have the latest 'Now!' compilation to choose from ?

Or maybe I just don't get it because I'm not 9 years old any more.

Posted 1 year ago #
BoardinBob - Member

Gone are the days of Fat Harry White

Posted 1 year ago #
Mostly Balanced - Member

Also it seems to be stuck on some kind of endless loop cos I hear the same music several times a day. every day.

Does R1 only have the latest 'Now!' compilation to choose from ?

Or maybe I just don't get it because I'm not 9 years old any more.

One of our local stations, 'Capital' is exactly like that and my 9 year old son loves it.

Posted 1 year ago #
thisisnotaspoon - Member

You should try heart FM, now that really is bad!

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