MTV's Senseless Censorship
07/03/07
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(Idolator.com) Today's TRL had at No. 7 My Chemical Romance's "Teenagers". But as is the case with much of the music that sees actual airtime on MTV, the song was pockmarked with bleeps. While some of the x-ed-out words were to be expected, tallying up which words were and weren't blocked by MTV's standards and practices department led to some odd results: BLEEPED:
• murder
• s***
• "your shirt"
• pay NOT BLEEPED:
• bleed
• violent Now, it's understandable--sort of!--why "your shirt" and "pay" were bleeped; the verse in question is about whipping out a concealed weapon as revenge for high school kids' cruelty. But if you're going to get rid of those words and not also ding words that actually conjure up violent imagery, what's the point? - more on this story
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