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Rita Ora's music banned from radio

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Neversleepingever · 01/12/2020 11:28

www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/mkfm-stops-playing-rita-ora-music-after-the-pop-star-breaks-lockdown-rules/

My local radio station has stopped playing Rita Ora's music because she broke lockdown rules. While I don't condemn the fact she broke the rule, I feel so angry that the radio station have singled her out but are quite happy to continue to play music from Chris Brown, Michael Jackson,

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GlenQuagmire · 03/12/2020 18:43

@MargaritaPie

www.obsev.com/life/musical-artists-whove-done-terrible-shady-bad-bad-things/

I don't understand the Queen one. What did they do wrong?

It was because of apartheid, people thought they shouldn’t have been playing there during that time but they did anyway.
MargaritaPie · 03/12/2020 17:48

www.obsev.com/life/musical-artists-whove-done-terrible-shady-bad-bad-things/

I don't understand the Queen one. What did they do wrong?

Derekhello · 03/12/2020 05:49

@ClaireP20

Hope they aren't playing the Rolling Stones (Bill Wyman and the 13 year old Mandy Smith..).
@ClaireP20 I’ve always wondered why a massive fuss wasn’t made about this, it still sickens me to this day 😔
GlenQuagmire · 03/12/2020 05:40

I don’t understand why Chris Brown got away with what he did. And people like MTV celebrate him. It’s totally unacceptable that a man can beat a woman and everyone just goes ‘oh well’.

Also pisses me off because it’s happening with Amber Heard. She admitted on tape to abusing Johnny Depp and everyone has said ‘oh well, she can keep her acting jobs but Johnny must be fired immediately’.

How do people decide who gets punished?

Rainedere · 03/12/2020 05:08

Rita Ora is a bitch. About 5ish years ago, she came the McDonald's on Edgware road and asked to use the disabled loo. The staff said no and she replied "do you know who I am". Put me off her and the staff actually let her use it. Her music is shit anyway and people should stop listening to it.

RealityNotEssentialism · 03/12/2020 04:30

@MargaritaPie

Do you know something about MJ the judge and jury didn't may I ask?
Um yeah, I mean there’s the testimony of his survivors in that documentary film, as well as testimony from former employees that wasn’t heard at the trial. Oh and the fact that he paid off families where the boys said he abused them and that abuse allegations followed him for decades. And I would have thought that a jury hearing testimony from a child who could accurately describe the distinctive genitalia of an adult male they claim abused them would convict, but hey ho. His acquittal means very little and I’m quite concerned that you think it’s all lies (lots of liars all saying the same thing it seems). No grown man should EVER have sleepovers with young kids that he’s unrelated to and let them sleep in his bed and MJ openly admitted to doing so repeatedly.
RealityNotEssentialism · 03/12/2020 04:23

While Michael Jackson may have evaded justice during his life, we all know what he did and the poor children he abused have to live with that forever. After all, Jimmy Savile was never prosecuted either, despite coming to the attention of authorities multiple times and that does not mean he was innocent of what was alleged. The fact that someone is acquitted doesn’t mean that the allegations were definitely untrue and I think there are few today that think MJ was innocent.

Smallsteps88 · 02/12/2020 23:52

What did Michael Jackson do?

Well if nothing else he dangled his terrified baby over a balcony. That’s pretty shitty.

NiceGerbil · 02/12/2020 23:45

What? That's really bizarre :/

Tootletum · 02/12/2020 23:29

Yeah pretty twatty, I actually like the radio station in general as it plays so many catchy tunes, but am I the only one who is way grossed out by the Lady gargle thing?? Every morning at about 8.45 one of the breakfast presenters gargles a random tune. I switch channels as it just sounds like some drunk person throwing up! 😱

hotsouple · 02/12/2020 23:24

@Neversleepingever

www.obsev.com/life/musical-artists-whove-done-terrible-shady-bad-bad-things/

Here's a list of musicians who have done some awful things.. there are so many - I had no idea about some of them!

@Neversleepingever so many euphemisms for rape in that article.
GlitterToast · 02/12/2020 20:58

I'm sorry, but Rita Ora has a 24/7 PR machine working for her. She's in the papers every day. Her PR feed both good and bad stories to keep the narrative going.

This is all just a publicity stunt to whip up attention, outrage, and sympathy.

RealityNotEssentialism · 02/12/2020 20:26

Pathetic. That’s the only word I have for it. I know I haven’t always stuck 100% to lockdown rules because I am an adult and make my own assessments about risk as do those I know, but I’m not famous so nobody cares. We will look back at this time in horror I think and wonder why we let the state exert such control over us.

MargaritaPie · 02/12/2020 20:21

Do you know something about MJ the judge and jury didn't may I ask?

FromEden · 02/12/2020 19:58

That was a Micheal Jackson specific plop

Yeah, weird. Almost as if an alarm went off spmewhere and someone had to rush defend MJ ( who was definitely a peadophile)

MargaritaPie · 02/12/2020 17:28

Radio Exe as also partly stopped playing Rita Ora's songs btw, although this is just one DJ and his show, not the station.

twitter.com/radioexe/status/1333707791861755905

MargaritaPie · 02/12/2020 14:26

Has Rita released a new single or written a book or anything per chance? I agree with a comment above, there's nothing like a little controversy to get publicity which helps sales. As soon as she has the desired amount of publicity the "ban" on playing her songs will be lifted and she will be more popular than ever, wait and see.

As for Michael Jackson he was found not-guilty on all charges.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 02/12/2020 12:14

It’s all just publicity isn’t it? I suspect neither party particularly really cares about Covid or lockdowns.

nosswith · 02/12/2020 11:06

I agree with the ban even if temporary on Rita Ora's music. Two wrongs don't make a right.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 02/12/2020 10:40

Wasn’t jimmy saville a DJ?

GeorgiaMcGraw · 02/12/2020 10:25

Very creepy when radio stations are the arbiter of morality. As you say, op, morality only seems to be applied to women in these situations. A bit of witch burning. Personally I don't like a radio telling me I can't hear music that comes from women they don't approve of. How petty. And before anyone says "it's not cancelling, you can hear her music elsewhere" that's not the point. The more people act like this radio station, the worse it gets, until you really don't have a choice.

MrsMigginsMate · 02/12/2020 10:05

I mean she was a twat thought wasn't she. This wasn't a spur of the moment thing, it was a whole pre planned potentially super spreader event. But fuck the plebs right, as long as Rita and her rich mates can drink their fizz then who cares about the nobody's she spreads it to?

Wanting them to cancel male popstars for their crimes does not mean they have to un-cancel female ones. Surely the argument should be that they cancel both. Being a woman doesn't give her a free pass, the same as Mick Jagger being a man doesn't give him a free pass either IMO.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 02/12/2020 10:02

@Neversleepingever

Thanks Joeblack066, anything to add about Rita Ora?
I doubt it

That was a Micheal Jackson specific plop

ClaireP20 · 02/12/2020 09:59

Hope they aren't playing the Rolling Stones (Bill Wyman and the 13 year old Mandy Smith..).

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 01/12/2020 15:53

I assumed it was a cheap bit of publicly for herself and - I assume - a new record? Bit of a backfire there then.

Whoops I accidentally had a birthday party and 20 of my best mates accidentally turned up. My bad!