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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20347 Location: Where they shot Knock at the Cabin
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Popular Songs with Censored Titles
So I was taking a stroll through memory lane today when I came to the modern classic "Let's Get it Started" by the Black Eyed Peas. I decided to do a little more research into the song and only now in 2017 did I realize that the real title of the song was "Let's Get Retarded". Like lol I can't even listen to it the same way anymore. It just sounds ridiculous.
Besides Fuck You/Forget You by Cee Lo Green, are there any other popular songs with titles that I may never have realized were censored?
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Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:55 am |
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 38010
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
I only knew those ones and Short Dick Man by Gillette getting renamed Short Short Man. A quick google search tells me they slightly changed Britney's If You Seek Amy to If You See Amy
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
Censored song title by censored band name:
FTP / NWA
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Sun Jul 02, 2017 4:11 am |
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_axiom
The Wall
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:50 am Posts: 16163 Location: Croatia
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
Shack wrote: I only knew those ones and Short Dick Man by Gillette getting renamed Short Short Man. A quick google search tells me they slightly changed Britney's If You Seek Amy to If You See Amy Britney seems to be a repeat offender as Work Bitch has a Work Work version too.
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Sun Jul 02, 2017 5:15 am |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23787 Location: Classified
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
I remember Weezer's "We Are All On Drugs" got changed to "We Are All In Love."
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Sun Jul 02, 2017 10:28 am |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
There were copies of Nirvana's In Utero at Walmart which listed "Rape Me" as "Waif Me."
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Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:41 am |
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Groucho
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Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 pm Posts: 12096 Location: Stroudsburg, PA
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
Back in the 70s, Elton John's song "Screw You" had to be renamed as "Young Man's Blues."
Similarly, Nilsson's "Fuck You" was named "You're Breaking My Heart."
The lyrics remained the same, just the name changed.
In the 60s, Micky Dolenz of the Monkees named a song "Randy Scouse Git" after a phrase he heard on a British TV show. Their British label refused to put that on the album (because it translated as a rather vulgar "horny, Liverpudlian jerk") and that just wouldn't do for a teenybopper band like the Monkees. They demanded an alternate title. So Micky renamed it for the British release: "Alternate Title." It was released as a single there and hit #1 (although it wasn't a single here).
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Sat Aug 05, 2017 6:59 pm |
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Groucho
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Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 pm Posts: 12096 Location: Stroudsburg, PA
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
Flava'd vs The World wrote: I remember Weezer's "We Are All On Drugs" got changed to "We Are All In Love." Seriously? That's a great song. Did they re-record the song?
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Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:00 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
Another notable and (relatively) recent example is "Sexy Bitch" by David Guetta and Akon becoming "Sexy Chick" for the radio.
To appease Ahmet Ertegun, the Rolling Stones changed the name of their 1973 song "Starfucker" to "Star Star."
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Groucho
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Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 pm Posts: 12096 Location: Stroudsburg, PA
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
David wrote: Another notable and (relatively) recent example is "Sexy Bitch" by David Guetta and Akon becoming "Sexy Chick" for the radio.
To appease Ahmet Ertegun, the Rolling Stones changed the name of their 1973 song "Starfucker" to "Star Star." When the Stones performed on Ed Sullivan back in the 60s, they had to change "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together."
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Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:40 pm |
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67043
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
I wonder why. The 60s was all free love, wasn't it?
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Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:34 am |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20347 Location: Where they shot Knock at the Cabin
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Re: Popular Songs with Censored Titles
Perfect by Pink is actually Fuckin Perfect,
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