I’m so fucking tired of clicking on a song and finding out it’s the fucking censored version halfway through. It genuinely pisses me off, even if the censors are well done, it still fucks up the flow of the music. Songs should never be censored regardless of the amount of swears and innuendos; they’re a form of expression by artists and creators. Oh, what about the kids? Yeah fuck right off. Parent your children better. They’re eventually going to learn what curses are anyways.
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Yep. Don’t like it, don’t listen to it (or watch it, or read it). Your views shouldn’t remove my ability to enjoy something as it was intended.
Suck a dick up til you hiccup, motherfuckers.
But the record label wants maximum air time
Your problem isn’t censorship, your problem is relaying on services to listen to music. Be it Spotify or the Radio, you’re listening to public music; you have to share. And preferences of others are going to override yours, be it business decisions, or just people who’d rather hear the censored version.
You’re trying to ride the bus, and mad because it doesn’t pick you up and drop you off at your front door.
Bro tell me about.
Imo the greatest nu metal album of all time is Hed PE’s Broke. But Spotify only has the censored version, and let me tell you how incomprehensibly worse the album is without profanity.
Me, writing an Opera about OP’s entire family’s medical history:
I hate it as well because it creates a weird alternative reality where people only know the censored version of the song. Also very often the songs contain themes way to mature for kids and censoring a few rude words does not change that.
Unpopular my ass lol
I doubt it is unpopular in Lemmy’s demographic, but I think it probably is quite unpopular within the general population
I’ll give you that—you could be right.
It’d definitely be unpopular in Lemmy’s demographic, which is quite pro-censorship and “circle jerk”-esque. There are hundreds if not thousands of moderator actions every day on here censoring and banning people for saying words that mods and users didn’t like, none of which can cause any actual harm.
In the backward and religious USSA probably.
I should mention that cunt Tipper Gore and her crusade.
No other country cares
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Completely agree with you.
Also be surprised if this is an unpopular opinion.
It’s going to switch from popular to unpopular once you say “songs that ask for the extermination of all people in Gaza” shouldn’t be censored.
There should be a line where songs/anything should be censored, but curse words obviously aren’t it.
Define “censored”, I guess. It would ne best if they didn’t exist, but if they’re already there, bleeping out the slurs won’t help.
Censorship isn’t limited to bleeping out slurs.
I’m pretty happy I don’t have to hear rap lyrics calling for my death blasting out of cars, so I’m not against all censorship in general.
I think OP’s opinion is badly phrased and they’re actually just talking about removing slurs, not all forms of censorship.
Not even this song?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Hitler_(song)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge48j5lplo
American rapper Kanye West has been blocked from entering Australia over a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
No, not even that should be censored. If someone wants to tell the world that they’re a piece of garbage, let them. Censorship is always bad and has no reason to exist.
I think there’s a difference between blocking an entire song and censoring out / replacing a couple choice words in the middle
Was meaning to say: take a look at one of the less liberal countries’ censorship lists, and tell me you would force the public to allow all of it.
Censorship is becoming a major problem, all these streaming sites control everything now, they can do whatever they want with the movies it seems, the free streaming sites usually edit the movies and I found Amazon did a few times as well back when I was using that crap, when those movies aren’t available anywhere else and the streaming ones are all censored then people have to essentially break the law to see the original movie, which I have no personal problem with, but it’s just a hassle. Hang on to that physical media. I know this is about music but it’s basically the same.
Agree. If you want your music to be “kid friendly”, then don’t swear in said songs. Easy.
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Ya I was going to mention that part about the kids too, agree with that also. It just gives me religious ick, because it reminds me of the same idea about sex and naked bodies and how poorly they’re viewed by certain religions.
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The most bizarre censored song I’ve heard is probably Where The Hood At. For some reason, the only censored line of the entire song is “empty out, reload, and throw more slugs”… even on the “explicit” version. The rest of the song with lots of homophobia and such is completely uncensored.
I know right, everyone is all what about the kids? But as our very president and his pals said and did over and over, fuck the kids.
Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams was recently censored. The song seems to be about Americana and teen romance, but at the end he says “me and my baby in a 69” but people still didn’t get what it was about. Then he told people to check his birth year. All of a sudden that line had to be changed.
And yet The Who still get to say “who the fuck are you?” in Who Are You…
To confirm, if we don’t want our kids to hear cursing, we should avoid the song.
But if you don’t want to hear the censored version, you cannot avoid it?
