Irrationally irritated by sanitised song lyrics

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Singing along the radio to “Im Sorry” and realised the whole thing has been cleaned up... no mentions of “sleeping with my best friend”... Aibu to be annoyed when lyrics are messed with [lighthearted]

Pink's Beautiful Trauma has the line "All night laughing and bluffing" when it's on the radio, which sounds really weird.

Similarly "Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your bare" when Rolling in the Deep is on the radio!

I don't know what's worse... taking the word out so the sentence makes sense, or replacing with a "clean" word which makes sense but doesnt fit/rhyme/suit the song.

You’re looking good just like a snake in the grass
One of these days you’re gonna break your glass

I’m sorry but my version is much better :
You’re looking good just like a snake in the grass
One of these days you’re gonna fall on your ass

The one that annoys me most is Lady Gaga Paparazzi where they take out the word "cigarettes" FFS.
In some versions they replace it with the second half of "fantastical" from the previous verse. So instead of "eyeliner and cigarettes" the line is "eyeliner and tastical".
What?

Sure it’s not ‘testicles’? Far more interesting.

In Australia they don't do radio edits so much. It's quite refreshing

Anyone watched Blackish? Where the little boy does a talent show at school and decides to sing
‘Golddigger’ but not, as his sister points out, the ‘radio version’ she recommended he used.

@LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD I always used to wince a bit when anyone chooses to cover it... will they or won’t they!

It was funny because the little boy was black and was expelled (because his mum had previously demanded a zero tolerance in the school of anyone saying that word).

I worked in a shop once where they played Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder. The line, "The road behind was rocky, but now you're feeling cocky" had "cocky" blanked out

It was North America, though.

Yup. The radio-friendly version of Hot Girl Summer barely makes any sense!

When I heard a bleeped out word on the radio when I was younger it made me go and Google the lyrics so I could figure out the curse word. Sometimes I think blanking the word does more harm than good, it draws attention to the fact there's something naughty in the lyrics.

Whilst I agree it's annoying, it's better than what used to happen,

'Relax' was banned - went straight to number one. This was being played until one of the DJs pointed out what it meant - banned ... No1.

Banned - The Beatles track ...you' been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down ...

Not banned - Lou Reed (Walk on the Wild Side) ... even when you were giving head ... (presumably because the powers that be (then) didn't understand.

The crown for this must go to D12's Purple Pills (a song about drugs), which shares about 40% of the words with the radio version, Purple Hills (a song about nothing in particular).

Captain Beefheart - just the name (if what he said was true) 🤢

The funniest was whenever radio chose to play Aleazia Banks '212'. WHY even bother with a song with those lyrics? The song was ripped to shreds.

Radio used to cut even more out than that ^ clean version because that one still has references to guns and drugs in it.

It also annoys when they edit Starships by Nicki Minaj because a line sounds offensive even though it's not and she just says her real name.

Now I want to know what Captain Beefheart means. But I’m scared to google as its probably not good.

The radio edit of I Got You by The White Buffalo has the word "drunk" edited out. What the actual fuck?

That particular song drives me mad OP YANBU!

Ummmm. A description of their rather vigorous and firm-handed ‘self love’ that was a bit of a party piece (now that’s a ‘radio version’)

At my gym they quite often play 'Go' by the Chemical Brothers, which is a great track but they leave the line 'Fuck that, ain't gon' do it no mo' but blank out the word 'girth' from the line 'Feel the weight and you feelin' the girth' which is just weird as context apart 'girth' is not a rude word

I remember years ago when Lady Gaga had Lovegame out listening to Scott Mills on Radio 1 and him saying "We've got the new Lady Gaga song coming up in the next half an hour but we're just waiting for our editors to get rid of a naughty word from it."

Anyway about half an hour later the song finally comes on and the word they've backmasked? "You've indicated your interest, I'm educated in sex yes."

I remember being suitably as my DS was doing sex ed in school at the time, where presumably a bunch of 11 year olds would be having whole lessons dedicated to this word apparently so profound they couldn't put it in a song.

I actually don't think the song did very well over here and I wonder if that was why, you certainly didn't hear it on the radio as much as other hits she had out at the time.

profound = profane

When Elvis recorded "Shake, Rattle And Roll", the producers decided to change the first line "Get outta that bed..." to "Get into that kitchen..." because it was deemed to be too suggestive. But they kept the line "I'm a one-eyed cat, peepin' in a sea-food store", not realising that meant something rather more suggestive!

Also having travelled a lot around non-English speaking countries I must admit I do get a bit hearing English songs complete with swearing pre-watershed particularly when there's kids around. When did I turn into so much of a fucking prude!