The cleaned-up version was "I get perfume from Spain".Īnother example is when the Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Porter's original stated "I get no kick from cocaine". The ostensibly offending lyrics were:ĪBC made Cole Porter change the lyric of "I Get A Kick Out Of You", which was a hit for Frank Sinatra. George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows" was banned from BBC radio due to the "smutty lyrics", though Formby's wife Beryl managed to change the BBC's opinion. ( December 2016)Īn early example of censorship of music on the radio is from the 1940s. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for further suggestions.
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Please improve the article by adding more descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples. This section may contain indiscriminate, excessive, or irrelevant examples. It is usually done by shifting down the pitch. Distorting Usually in hip hop, less offensive words such as "pussy" or others are distorted.Robo-voicing making the word totally non-understandable by use of an overpowering robotic voice effect (usually used as a last resort for home-made jobs).Disc scratching in hip hop, scratching on the word, making it sound like another word, or make the word said faster or slower.Cutting completely getting rid of the lines around the word from the song, trimming them out.Skipping deleting the curse word from the song without a time delay.Repeating repeating the word said just before the explicit word was used.A notable employer of this technique is British terrestrial channel '4Music'. Backmasking taking the offensive word and reversing the audio, sometimes the whole audio is reversed (often because it is a home-made job), but more usually only the vocal track is reversed.Re-singing Replacing the offensive word/phrase with a more appropriate word/phrase.Re-sampling using a like-sounding portion of vocals and music to override the offending word.Bleeping playing a noise, usually a "bleep", over all or part of the word.Blanking when the volume is silenced for all or part of the word, or playing only the instrumental.Some stations decide to censor them themselves using one of several methods: Some music labels or artists produce censored versions themselves, sometimes with alternative lyrics, to comply with the rules set by various radio and television programs. In order to allow songs to be played wherever possible, it is common to censor particular words, particularly profanities. 1.2 Censorship due to copyright infringement.