On my way to work this morning I was listening to Y-100, waiting through a song for their morning banter. It was “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit. There are some bad words in the song, which the station had bothered to “bleep” out.
These days, there isn’t a bleep on the radio when you would otherwise hear an expletive. You hear a gap in the vocal audio track, but not the music. Presumably, the recording company has produced a “clean” version of the track where the bad word is simply removed from the full recording. Well, that seems like a great idea, but they never fully remove the word.
Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not pro-censorship at all. But if they’re going to censor music for consumption by the sensitive ears of our youths, they might at least make the word completely unintelligible. What they’re trying to tell us is that we won’t recognize a word if we only remove part of the vowel sound. Well, that’s some brilliant sh*t.
Maybe they shouldn’t bother bleeping anything. Maybe they should not play songs with profanity. Either way, they should stop the current madness, which doesn’t make any sense since it just costs the record companies more to produce a for-radio version with the little vowel bits choked out.
