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.
Wholeheartedly agree. Tried of hypocrites and psuedo saints forcing their sensitivity on art. I want to hear Eminem say weird ass shit. I want Limp Bizkit music to say fuck. Same thing for Lola Young. These lame ass nancy’s don’t like it? They should be the ones to listen to something else. The original song/music was written as is to express something. It needs to be delivered RAW in its purist form. Not to be watered down to appease people who can’t figure out how to navigate the social situation of just not listening to it.
Me, writing an Opera about OP’s entire family’s medical history:
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?
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
In the backward and religious USSA probably.
I should mention that cunt Tipper Gore and her crusade.
No other country caresI’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.
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
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.
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.
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.
If it doesn’t meet the standard of hate speech it should be allowed.
“Hate speech”
As defined by who?
You want Trump defining it?
Hate speech is speech that asks for harm and/or death upon another person or group.
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.
Agree, no censorship for music and art in general. Censorship also involves some songs being not available to stream. While not as convenient, I buy all my music and (I might be on a spectrum or two) play it when it’s listening time. I LOVE music, but not while doing other activities. Rarely though, some wallpaper music.
Agree. If you want your music to be “kid friendly”, then don’t swear in said songs. Easy.
There are musicians that do go to extremes with jargon and swearing but nonetheless those are words. Words convey meaning, which convey ideas and experiences.
Collectivelly, there should be no need to worry if a song is “kid friendly”. Parents, adults, listening to such music should teach children those words are valid in that context but not valid in others.
Education is better than censorship.
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.
Censorship but it gets renamed as “shame”.
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.
I remember listening to BBC radio 1 when they accidentally played the uncensored version of Closer of the Sunday afternoon chart countdown.
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.
