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MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video
An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard Weird Al Yankovic's 'Don't Download This Song,' which came out a couple years ago, but did you know that MTV is apparently so afraid that kids listening to the song will discover for the first time that file sharing offerings exist that in its video of the song, MTV bleeps out their names? There's a line in the song that lists out Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa and Limewire (most of whom don't really exist any more), but for some reason MTV considers those names to be bleep worthy." Unless this is all one grand inside joke from Weird Al.
But we can watch scantily clad ladies dancing around and gangstas promoting the dirty life?
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Why would *bleep* do this? It really disrupts the flow of the song.
Still, this doesn't look as one of *bleep*-*bleep*'s best so I'm not going to look the uncensored version up on *bleep*.
Good night everyone here on *bleep*...
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File sharing should totally be censored... songs about rape, one night stands, drugs, money bitches, hoes, sluts... etc is perfectly fine though.. Thank God for such brilliant minds.
MTV's bullshit censorship changes with the times. Back in the early-mid '90's, they'd censor the word "ass" and other lame stuff from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg videos(remember how half the screen was blurred out for some reason or other?).
Now the shit they play could be construed as child porn in some states! It all went downhill for them after they stopped showing the Beavis and Butthead episode where they make a hairspray torch because some dumbass kid copycatted and done burned his house down.
Fuck MTV. I'd rather my kids watch Cinemax.
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I would vote for it being a joke by Weird Al. The guy is extremely clever and is very likely to come up with something like this. After all, he did write "Bob".
But doesn't he explicitly mention "MySpace" in White and Nerdy? Does that get bleeped out?
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I actually am more interested in whats bleeped out than the rest of the song. It's like the kid that finds out the bad word, and repeats it like crazy. Or when children learn another language the first thing they want to learn is the "bad" words.
We always test and want to push through our boundaries.
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
You know, promoting music that encourages people to break the law might also encourage them to download music. After all, those 'rap guys' are always stealing shit, and downloading music isn't exactly breaking into a store and grabbing all the CD's you can before the cops get there, right?
I think the record industry may be figuring out that all that moral ambiguity they promoted in the past is now going to bite them in the ass - big time.
See, to paraphrase the great Reverend Wright... The chickens... Have come home... To ROOST! :)
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MTV's bullshit censorship changes with the times. Back in the early-mid '90's, they'd censor the word "ass" and other lame stuff from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg videos(remember how half the screen was blurred out for some reason or other?).
If only they could have blurred out the other half of the screen and bleeped the rest of the song. Or how about playing some rock? There's already BET for rap and hip-hop.
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What's to wonder about? You stayed tuned in all the way to number one, didn't you? To see if they played it? Seems to me like not playing the song would get more people talking about and listening to their broadcast.
Here it is 10 or so years later and you're still talking about it.
yes, Viacom is parent of CBS and MTV. The FCC has been trying to regulate Cable for a while and MTV has been the prime target, they cave on censoring to keep the FCC from actually having grounds to get permission.
This channel spews so much vulgar garbage and stupidity that I don't even have it programmed on the channel list to prevent it lowering my IQ if I should happen to pause while channel surfing.
I'm just double checking, you were talking about cspan here right?
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You just can't say these words on america tv/radio. I remember an interview here in Austria of some American singer that went something like this:
Singer: ... and he was really fucked up. Oh my god I said the f word!
Moderator: Ha, we can say here whatever we want. Fuck Shit fuck shit fuck fuck. Its really cool.
Singer: ffffucking awesome!
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There is a music channel for Latin countries called Sol MÃsica. Years ago, when the Lenny Kravitz song "Fly away" was a hit, the clip showed all the time on TV. There was a girl in the clip showing her boobs. In Sol MÃsica we could see the boobies, but on MTV they were blurred.
What's the problem with boobies? Here in Europe, it's not such a big deal. We have statues of naked men and women in every square. You can see full frontal nudes in most European films. It's just naked people. Not that big of a problem. And I like boobies ;-)
if you are learning about filesharing (ancient concept)
in its defunct formats (morpheus? limewire? are we going to learn about doom? microsoft bob?)
from MTV (dead network)
on a music video (dead form of art)
by wierd al yankovic (is he still alive?)
you are really really off the map, on some deserted island or in prisoner camp
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"What happened?"
The Baby Boomers, who simultaneously led the way for greater freedoms for youth and acted like spoiled children, had children. They looked back on their youth and, while having "no regrets", still didn't want their kids to do what they did. ESPECIALLY the sex part - a girl in the sixties may have burned her bra and fucked in the mud at Woodstock, but subconsciously she viewed herself negatively and wants to "protect" her daughters.
I worked with a woman who was pregnant, and one time she confessed to me that she was having a real ethical crisis. She had partied - hard - in her youth. Coke, meth, sex, whatever. And she enjoyed it, and didn't have any negative consequences. So how was she supposed to tell her little darling not to do the things she did, when she has no regrets?
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