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Post by Opus on Nov 4, 2010 11:01:25 GMT -5
So yesterday, around 5:30, as I am heading home from the office, WGRD plays Theory of a Deadman - No Surprise.
The thing is, it was uncencored. There is 1 f-bomb in the song as well as the word bitch numerous times. All of these played normally with no distortion or bleeping.
Have I been asleep under a rock somewhere? Did the FCC rules change to make it ok to play swear words over the air?
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Post by The Biff Lebowski on Nov 4, 2010 11:07:20 GMT -5
The industry secret is that the FCC usually only listens between 10 and 4. Any other time they are relying on listener reports. Given the average listener to GRD doesn't care about foul language, I'm sure the only reaction will be a few raised eyebrows (such as yours) and nothing more.
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Post by zdunklee on Nov 4, 2010 22:22:21 GMT -5
So yesterday, around 5:30, as I am heading home from the office, WGRD plays Theory of a Deadman - No Surprise. The thing is, it was uncencored. There is 1 f-bomb in the song as well as the word bitch numerous times. All of these played normally with no distortion or bleeping. Have I been asleep under a rock somewhere? Did the FCC rules change to make it ok to play swear words over the air? I actually didn't know they even cared about the word Bitch anymore...I hear that uncensored in almost every song I know that has it in it. |
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Post by The Biff Lebowski on Nov 5, 2010 6:47:18 GMT -5
I actually didn't know they even cared about the word Bitch anymore...I hear that uncensored in almost every song I know that has it in it. They haven't since the 70's for sure. Elton John's "Bitch is Back" got a lot of airplay back then. |
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Post by Allyson on Nov 5, 2010 16:11:38 GMT -5
I feel like censoring has more to do with the station's discretion than the FCC. I have heard ridiculous words like "gun," "suicide," and even "white" (as in "paint his wife white"). In context I, at 23, didn't even know what Kid Rock meant until someone explained it to me. As far as I knew someone was mad about an interracial marriage and to remedy it they literally painted his wife white. My point is, censoring goes way to far. Fuck.
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Post by Allyson on Nov 5, 2010 16:13:54 GMT -5
Another example: censoring "slot" (as in "all up in your slot til a nigga hit the jackpot"). If you're old enough to understand what that means, then you're old enough to fill in the blanks. In fact I would argue that bleeping out these out-of-context innocent words draws attention to the dirtiness of the context.
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Post by Rebel on Nov 5, 2010 17:51:17 GMT -5
Taking the counterpoint, I have decided that I like censorship. I used to despise it but have changed my mind in recent years. Bet you're expecting me to say "Now that I have kids" next, aren't you? Nope...don't have any kids. But I find it much more entertaining to listen to a certain morning show invent new words or uses for words like "go," "smurf" and "fidge," and say, "He made her look like a sad clown" than to hear them say, "He came all over her face." More censorship, please!  |
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Post by Jiggy on Nov 5, 2010 19:01:32 GMT -5
Taking the counterpoint, I have decided that I like censorship. I used to despise it but have changed my mind in recent years. Bet you're expecting me to say "Now that I have kids" next, aren't you? Nope...don't have any kids. But I find it much more entertaining to listen to a certain morning show invent new words or uses for words like "go," "smurf" and "fidge," and say, "He made her look like a sad clown" than to hear them say, "He came all over her face." More censorship, please! I agree 100%. For example, without censorship we would have never gotten the Uncle Fucker song from the South Park movie. From what I heard it was originally mother instead of uncle but the movie ratings board said no way. They change it to uncle and all of a sudden it's okay. Genius! |
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Post by Rebel on Nov 5, 2010 20:12:18 GMT -5
From what I heard it was originally mother instead of uncle but the movie ratings board said no way. They change it to uncle and all of a sudden it's okay awesome. Genius! |
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Post by zdunklee on Nov 9, 2010 12:54:21 GMT -5
Taking the counterpoint, I have decided that I like censorship. I used to despise it but have changed my mind in recent years. Bet you're expecting me to say "Now that I have kids" next, aren't you? Nope...don't have any kids. But I find it much more entertaining to listen to a certain morning show invent new words or uses for words like "go," "smurf" and "fidge," and say, "He made her look like a sad clown" than to hear them say, "He came all over her face." More censorship, please! I agree 100%. For example, without censorship we would have never gotten the Uncle Fucker song from the South Park movie. From what I heard it was originally mother instead of uncle but the movie ratings board said no way. They change it to uncle and all of a sudden it's okay. Genius! Shut your fucking face Uncle Fucker! |
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Post by Rebel on Dec 10, 2010 18:31:41 GMT -5
Okay, this one surprised me: I was listening to the podcast of Monday's FBHW show on the drive home today, and the topic was "what do people think when they leave your house?" Eric Zane said that, if the person had been to one of the other two guys' houses, they would think, "Why does Free Beer have a nice house, and Hot Wings have a nice house, while Zane has an a55hole house?" I had to rewind it to make sure I heard it correctly.
Not a-hole...a55hole. Not dumped. I know it wasn't because when audio is dumped, you hear that on the podcast. Free Beer dumped Hot Wings' attempt to work "a55holery" into WHWT just the week before. My first guess is that Free Beer was distracted by his own laughing because he already knew where Zane was going, and the swear got by him. The other possibility is that, as stations test the evolving waters of FCC censorship, "a55hole" is now an acceptable risk. When I used to be on the air, "pissed" was not quite ready for prime time, but it was on the cusp. I wonder if "a55hole" is now the new "pissed."
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Post by Dino on Dec 11, 2010 21:31:48 GMT -5
Okay, this one surprised me: I was listening to the podcast of Monday's FBHW show on the drive home today, and the topic was "what do people think when they leave your house?" Eric Zane said that, if the person had been to one of the other two guys' houses, they would think, "Why does Free Beer have a nice house, and Hot Wings have a nice house, while Zane has an a55hole house?" I had to rewind it to make sure I heard it correctly. Not a-hole...a55hole. Not dumped. I know it wasn't because when audio is dumped, you hear that on the podcast. Free Beer dumped Hot Wings' attempt to work "a55holery" into WHWT just the week before. My first guess is that Free Beer was distracted by his own laughing because he already knew where Zane was going, and the swear got by him. The other possibility is that, as stations test the evolving waters of FCC censorship, "a55hole" is now an acceptable risk. When I used to be on the air, "pissed" was not quite ready for prime time, but it was on the cusp. I wonder if "a55hole" is now the new "pissed." Way back in the early 2000's I was listening to a Detroit morning show, Drew & Mike (Drew being Producer Joe's Uncle), and they would routinely push the asshole limit and would say something like "aish-hole" (don't know how to to type it out as it sounds but that 's the best I got right now). When the Janet Jackson thing happened they scaled back completely and did't go any where near that word until around late 2006/early 2007. They started saying it again and went as far as saying the whole word if I remember right. |
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