The Glade 4.0

So I'm listening to the radio (something I rarely do anymore, thanks google music!). And two songs play back to back. They each feature the same word, yet one of them is censored and the other is not. The word in question? Whore.

The songs - "You Don't Know What It's Like" by Everlast, and "Wrong Way" by Sublime. The lyrics:

"She gets some static walking through the door; They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore"

and

"Annie's twelve years old, in two more she'll be a whore. Nobody ever told her it's the wrong way."

The first song is about the public's reaction to a woman who got pregnant by a deadbeat loser and her getting an abortion. The second song is about an underage girl forced into prostitution by her father.

Like I said, I'm baffled that the radio censors the word in one place but not another (something I notice as a common practice with other words as well). But here's the kicker: Which song would you expect to be the one that's censored? The second one featuring a 14 year-old girl who has sex for money? If you picked that one, you'd be dead wrong.

With all the genitalia ready to be viewed on the internet at a moments notice, and the likelihood of children seeing such things at a far younger age than any of us when we first saw pictures/video of them, I think bad words should be the lowest of the low on the priority list when it comes to censorship.

Just let the damn artists play their music untouched. You've already caved and put practically all the swear words on prime-time television now anyway, save for the f-bomb. Just go all the way and get it over with. I'm tired of hearing bleeps, and I'm tired of hypocrisy.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Local station played a bowdlerized version of Sublime's "Santeria". The following lines were deemed OK:





But it was important the next line be bleeped:

Yes. "Punk" was censored. "***" was not. Threats of gun violence and domestic abuse were not. But "punk"? Baaaaad.

I don't like any censorship, but if you're going to exercise it, at least do so in a way that makes a modicum of sense if you squint hard enough.