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.
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.
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
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.
I’ll give you that—you could be right.
In the backward and religious USSA probably.
I should mention that cunt Tipper Gore and her crusade.
No other country cares
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.
Me, writing an Opera about OP’s entire family’s medical history:
I remember listening to BBC radio 1 when they accidentally played the uncensored version of Closer of the Sunday afternoon chart countdown.
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.
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.
More proof that fediverse is just 4 edgy teens in a trenchcoat
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.
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”.
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.
as long as we don’t ban the uncensored versions it’s just more choice for the people. i believe that language is power, and ridiculous overuse hurts it and our expression. thus there are songs of which i prefer the clean versions.
I’m guessing you meant censored, and not “uncensored”, as the censored versions would be the clean versions you prefer.
The only concern for you would be that clean versions won’t be made. And, that’s the artists’ choice, regardless of whether censorship exists.
I mean uncensored. Usually censorship is bad because only the censored version is allowed to exist. There’s little problem with censored versions existing if little happens to the original versions.
as long as we don’t ban the uncensored versions it’s just more choice for the people.
It should be up to the artist. If an artist wants to record and clean and an explicit version, that’s cool.
But if an artist only records one (explicit) version then broadcasters and distributors should absolutely be banned from altering that song by censoring words. If they don’t like it they can choose to not play it.
Art and creativity in general is for building upon and innovating. Of course, individual agency has a very good reason to be a big thing, but most of the time artists aren’t saying clean versions should go poof.
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.
