Love it, hate it, say whatcha want about it . . . If U Seek Amy will be hitting airwaves soon. Don't get the joke? Say the title aloud.
My question is, how are they going to get away with playing that song on the radio? I remember the Black Eyed Peas and Maroon 5 both being censored for radio play a few years ago:
-"Let's Get Retarded" morphed into the middle school gym anthem "Let's Get It Started"
-"Don't Phunk with My Heart" was horribly edited and turned into "don't...mess...with my heart?"
-"This Love"'s phrase "keep her coming every night" was turned into "keep her skdfjosdpfiing every night"
Can you think of any other hilarious radio censorship?
Also, seriously, how are they going to get away with having this song on the radio?
Comments (79)
I don't think they'll censor it around here. Most songs seem to not be overly censored on the pop and rap stations here.
That wordplay reminds me of Wee Todd did. I am sofa king we todd did. Though I guess If you seek amy is less nonsensical.
Personally, my favorite radio edit is of that Saving Abel song, which I didn't hear changed for a long time on alternative radio but then once it got to more mainstream things, I'm so addicted to/ all the things you do/ you're going down on me/ in between the sheets became rollin' round with me/ in between the sheets. It was just such an awkward change to a song that didn't have much going for it anyway.
I also enjoyed fall out boy changing god damned to (pause) damned.
The Radio edit for "Purple Pills", a song about drugs and sex manages to take away almost any reference to drugs, making it sound silly, but they redid the entire song so it's not too awkward.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day...instead of saying "what's fucked up and everything's all right" the radio edited version sounds like "what's duffed up" or "stuffed up."
Doesn't matter how popular the song is, if radio stations can't find a way to make the edited version sound normal without causing too much confusion or ruining the meaning of the song, maybe it just shouldn't be on the radio?
i love that song, but i dont want my 5 year old nieghbor singing it! its not radio appropriate and with censorship it will ruin the song
btw, i don't find this clever at all. britney can be sofa king immature sometimes.
And the more that self-righteous, sanctimonious people piss and moan about it, the more attention it will get, serving to make sure that everyone notices and gets it. Even if they may not have otherwise. Nothing like free publicity.
i think it's brilliant. rappers do it all the time, and it's pretty clever.
i LOVE when the radio censors out the 'hole' in asshole, instead of ass.
OH, I just got it hahaha. Wow, I'm slow; I've listened to that song tons of times and I didn't catch that.. Wow.
then there was third eye blind's "semi charmed kind of life".. on some stations the last verse is totally omitted and on others they play "doing crystal sdkfjlskdfj will life you up..." instead of just saying meth.
it's not like naming the drugs is going to make anyone worse off.rotfl took me a while to understand what the title meant, but I got it ! hahaha and I actually like this song XD
Haha. The song title.
If you seek amy.
Pure brilliance
Well, either they'll leave the it as it is, or have her make a version replace "seek" with "see."
haha some radio stations censored a line in TI's 'Whatever You Like'. Instead of "Late night sex so wet and so tight" it was "Baby I'll treat you so special so nice" haha for a while I thought that was the actual song. Anyway thats a clever title on Britney's part.
I LOVE the song and thought it should be the next single but was like, "Nah, that'd never get airplay." Guess I was wrong!
But when I read a review about her album before I had a chance to listen to it, someone had said, "Say the title out loud." I still didn't hear it...that's because it wasn't set to rhythm. I didn't get it until I was sitting on my bed studying and listening to the album.
But for those of you still confused, the lyrics are, "Love me, hate me / Say what you want about me / But all of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to / If u seek Amy" except, because of the rhythm, each syllable of the last portion is given the same amount of stress and length so it sounds like she is spelling the "f-word" with the word "me" afterwards.
It''s really clever and I love puns, but it makes very little sense with the rest of the song, in my opinion (maybe I missed something).
I really don't think there is any way that can get airplay. I think it will be pulled. A commenter had brought up "Don't Phunk With My Heart". The original was, in fact, Phunk. Close enough to sound like the expletive but Fergie even pronounced it in a way that no one would in actual life and yet KISS FM still used "mess" because "phunk" still sounded too close. It doesn't matter what it is visually-- nothing about radio is visual.
@girrlinterrupted@xanga - Haha I know! It's one expletive-- why don't they censor the whole thing? Same for g**damn.
If they want to censor this song, they should probably just do the whole thing, otherwise the point is lost. By the way, I think the song is lame. She's trying to be all bad-ass, but, uh, EPIC FAIL.
@honeybises@xanga - true that, i never understood - i get god damn because throwing 'god' in there makes more explicit for some people, but asshole? haha.
HAHAHAHA
oh my god, I did not get that AT ALL until I read the comments from this.. lol
I have no idea how they could even try to censor it... get with me? maybe? no that doesn't match syllables...
one of the best editing I've heard is from the song "Melt With You." Its from the 80s.
the line goes
"moving forward, using all my breath.. making love to you was never second best"
and it was changed to
"moving forward using all my breath.. being friends with you was never second best"
WHAT?!
I don't think they'll be able to edit the song without editing the title, and then no one who has the CD will know what the if you seek amy they're talking about LOFL
Meh. I downloaded this one because I collect songs with my name in the titles. Egotistic? I think not. >.>
And for Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams":
-"Read between the lines of what's fucked up." = "Read between the lines of what's muffed up."
Not the radio, and I'm not sure it's "popular" culture, but YouTube videos of a news cast of my favorite Emilie Autumn song, "Misery Loves Company" changed "If you FUCKING care!" to if you 'If you MUFFIN care!"
And last in "I Write Sins, Not Tradgedies", the radio removed "God" out of the "God damn door."
@tvPUFF@xanga - Not Fall Out Boy. Panic at the Disco! sang that song.
@Fool0nThePlanet@xanga - LOL. Forgot about that one.XD
@Imp_is_lurking@xanga - No, it is fall about boy. It's called This Ain't a Scene, It's a Goddamn Arms Race> I feel sad for knowing this fact.
@tvPUFF@xanga - no no no.
the line "closing the goddamn door" is from the song "I write sins not tragedies" and its sung by panic! at the disco.
"this aint a scene its a goddamn arms race" is by fall out boy.
they're two completely different songs by two different people! xP