Lynne's
Saturday, December 11, 2004
The Word is Masturbating
Growing up in Massachusetts WFNX, along with WBRU, were my "modern rock" music stations of choice. I left the Commonwealth in 1997 and continue to miss them. It has been at least a year since I have listened to FNX so today I virtually returned to the East coast. Instantly I was happy. Great afternoon playlist. My only gripe was with the blatant censorship.
Specifically, I am talking about Darling Nikki, the lady of Prince's 1984 song of the same name. When Prince originally released this song I don't recall it getting much airplay, especially after Tipper Gore started her filthy lyric crusade. However, EVERY teenager knew this song, word-for-word.
FNX played the Foo Fighters cover of Darling Nikki...
I met her in a hotel lobby -dead air- with a magazine.
What is this dead air, bleeping/pausing crap that stations do now? I cannot express to you how annoying I find this practice. Especially when 10 minutes later the FNX jocks started a conversation about Girls Gone Wild...makes no sense.
I rather the music directors remove all such songs from rotation, then experience this annoyance. Hearing a Sublime song these days on the radio is actually painful.
Thankfully the world of blogs is still protected. Here are the entire lyrics to Darling Nikki.
--Upate (12/24): FNX informs me that Darling Nikki was not edited until after Janet Jackson revealed her boob for all Super Bowl watchers.
So do you think there is a list of words out there that have to be censored? What words are on this list? Who makes this list?
Growing up in Massachusetts WFNX, along with WBRU, were my "modern rock" music stations of choice. I left the Commonwealth in 1997 and continue to miss them. It has been at least a year since I have listened to FNX so today I virtually returned to the East coast. Instantly I was happy. Great afternoon playlist. My only gripe was with the blatant censorship.
Specifically, I am talking about Darling Nikki, the lady of Prince's 1984 song of the same name. When Prince originally released this song I don't recall it getting much airplay, especially after Tipper Gore started her filthy lyric crusade. However, EVERY teenager knew this song, word-for-word.
FNX played the Foo Fighters cover of Darling Nikki...
I met her in a hotel lobby -dead air- with a magazine.
What is this dead air, bleeping/pausing crap that stations do now? I cannot express to you how annoying I find this practice. Especially when 10 minutes later the FNX jocks started a conversation about Girls Gone Wild...makes no sense.
I rather the music directors remove all such songs from rotation, then experience this annoyance. Hearing a Sublime song these days on the radio is actually painful.
Thankfully the world of blogs is still protected. Here are the entire lyrics to Darling Nikki.
--Upate (12/24): FNX informs me that Darling Nikki was not edited until after Janet Jackson revealed her boob for all Super Bowl watchers.
So do you think there is a list of words out there that have to be censored? What words are on this list? Who makes this list?
posted 1:26:00 PM