Getting Crap Past the Radar/Music: Difference between revisions

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*** Christians don't object to the use of the word "hell," ''per se''; they object to people using it ''in vain'' (that is, in a context other than the eschatological one). Similarly, "bitch" is okay if the female being described is a female ''dog''.

* A surprisingly subtle example in [[Taylor Swift (Music)|Taylor Swift]]'s "[[Tim McGraw]]", in which she claims her boyfriend had "a tendency of [[Double Entendre|getting stuck]] on [[Auto Erotica|backroads]] at night".

** When Taylor ducks behind her book in the video for "The Story of Us", she can clearly be seen mouthing [[Precision F Strike|"Shit!"]] at the sight of her ex.

** When Taylor ducks behind her book in the video for "The Story of Us", she can clearly be seen mouthing [[Precision F-Strike|"Shit!"]] at the sight of her ex.

** "Sparks Fly" managed to get rather suggestive lines past the [[Moral Guardians]] (see the song's entry on [[Intercourse With You]]).

* Rock and metal bands in the [[Red China|People's Republic of China]] tend to do this with their lyrics. At larger music festivals, all the lyrics have to be approved by the Communist censors, but many musicians still manage to get veiled insults past the radar.

* An example from NewBoyz: the supposed lyrics to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1jU8vp7tc "Back Seat"] hide the fact that they drop the [[Atomic F Bomb|F-bomb]] [[Once Is Not Enough|twice]]. While many radio stations realize that they are actually saying "She just trying to fuck comfortably" instead of "She just trying to fit comfortably", they managed to hoodwink [[YouTube]], as it is not censored. Again the line "you're function with the man girl" gets by in their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=herLMUn2-U0 music video], however it is actually "you're [[Future Slang|fuxing]] with the man girl", which makes a lot more sense grammatically (which should be [[Grammar Nazi|an obvious clue]] but maybe [[YouTube]] censors are [[Did Not Do the Research|illiterate]]).

* An example from NewBoyz: the supposed lyrics to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1jU8vp7tc "Back Seat"] hide the fact that they drop the [[Atomic F-Bomb|F-bomb]] [[Once Is Not Enough|twice]]. While many radio stations realize that they are actually saying "She just trying to fuck comfortably" instead of "She just trying to fit comfortably", they managed to hoodwink [[YouTube]], as it is not censored. Again the line "you're function with the man girl" gets by in their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=herLMUn2-U0 music video], however it is actually "you're [[Future Slang|fuxing]] with the man girl", which makes a lot more sense grammatically (which should be [[Grammar Nazi|an obvious clue]] but maybe [[YouTube]] censors are [[Did Not Do the Research|illiterate]]).

* The new Dev song "In the Dark" practically had no radar. I mean:

{{quote| On my waist, through my hair. Think about ''it'' when you ''touch me there''. Dancing in ''[[Unusual Euphemism|the Dark]]''. Open my body up and do some surgery. I wanna taste it, taste it, feel it, feel it, shove it in there, oh yeah."}}

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Shot him dead, won't come around here anymore. }}

** Honestly, it's unusual to hear a Maroon 5 song that ISN'T somehow about sex.

** Maroon 5 videos are also extremely suggestive. Parents at the Kohl's department store this Troper worked at complained about the video for "If I Never See Your Face Again" playing in the juniors department without sound. The video includes Rhianna [[Does This Remind You of Anything|suggestively grabbing Adam's guitar]]. What can be expected with the [[Fetish Fuel]]irrific Rhianna teams up with the overly sexed Maroon 5, though?

** Maroon 5 videos are also extremely suggestive. Parents at the Kohl's department store this Troper worked at complained about the video for "If I Never See Your Face Again" playing in the juniors department without sound. The video includes Rhianna [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|suggestively grabbing Adam's guitar]]. What can be expected with the [[Fetish Fuel]]irrific Rhianna teams up with the overly sexed Maroon 5, though?

* The song "Real Mother For Ya" by Johnny "Guitar" Watson uses repetition. Over the course of the song, it's pronounced "Real Motha Fo' Ya", and at the end of the song, is repeated several times, But at the end he actually says "Real Motherfucker" Most radio stations cut out that last part in its entirety, although it sometimes slips by.

** Compare John Mellencamp's "Lovin' Mutha Fo' Ya," where he never comes right out and says "motherfucker," but the way it's phrased makes it obvious. Ironically, a member of his band clearly says, "Hey, what the fuck?" on the intro.

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*** [[Completely Missing the Point|Nice try]]. What kind of A/C only works on the body, and leaves the face sweaty? And for that matter, what kind of lovemaking leaves the body not needing a shower, ''especially'' in those conditions?

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(drag_act) Swedish drag act After Dark's] entry in ''Melodifestivalen 2007'' (the annual national song competition), ''(Åh) När Ni Tar Saken I Egna Händer'', which is three minutes' worth of thinly-veiled masturbation jokes, disguised as verses about TV personalities doing domestic chores. Read the Wiki entry for details.

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those that don't speak Swedish]], "Åh, när ni tar saken i egna händer" roughly means "Oh, when you take matters into your own hands" but literally translates to "[[Does This Remind You of Anything|Oh, when you take the thing into your own hands]]". Also, the singers appear to be making a conscious effort to be pronouncing "Åh, när ni" as "Onani", which is the Swedish word for "masturbation".

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those that don't speak Swedish]], "Åh, när ni tar saken i egna händer" roughly means "Oh, when you take matters into your own hands" but literally translates to "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Oh, when you take the thing into your own hands]]". Also, the singers appear to be making a conscious effort to be pronouncing "Åh, när ni" as "Onani", which is the Swedish word for "masturbation".

*** "Onanii" is also a Japanese word for "masturbation" (one of thousands of loanwords, although they actually got it from German in this case), so Japanese [[YouTube]] and [[Nico Nico Douga]] users got the joke immediately.

* "[[One Hit Wonder|La Macarena]]"... just "La Macarena"...

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* Steely Dan has a lot of songs that push various amounts of crap past the radar, but two jump out:

## "The Fez" [[Unusual Euphemism|is not about a hat.]] Even the usually evasive [[Word of God]] says it's a condom.

## "Show Biz Kids" retained its [[Precision F Strike]] as a single.

## "Show Biz Kids" retained its [[Precision F-Strike]] as a single.

** Not to mention the fact that the band's name come from {{spoiler|the name of a gigantic metallic dildo used to sodomise young teenage men engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation in William S. Burrough's ''Naked Lunch''.}}

** Becker and Fagen Lampshaded this when they [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1323851/Steely-Dan-steal-big-prize-as-stars-glitter-at-the-Grammys.html thanked Eminem] at the Grammys, which they won for an album discussing psychological torture, adultery, incest, teenage prostitutes, really awesome drug addiction, professional dominas... hope I didn't forget anything.

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* Sugarland's song "It Happens" sticks a "ssssh" before the title.

* The [[Primus]] song "Winona's Big Brown Beaver." I mean just look at the title.

* Stupify by [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]] prominently features the singer screaming '''FUCK''' at the top of his lungs [[Cluster F Bomb|in nearly every verse]]. Despite this, most radio stations and day-time TV running the video have decided that the shrill squaking of the words was just incomprehensible enough to go uncensored (ironically, "Shit out of '''LUCK'''" still managed to be blanked out of the radio-edit). The song even made it as a [[Rock Band]] dowloadable by passing the lyric off as [[Singing Simlish|Simlish]], making Disturbed the only band in the game to manage full-on cussing ([[Green Day]] would be a close second for Longview's drawn-out "Shiiiii~", mentioned below).

* Stupify by [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]] prominently features the singer screaming '''FUCK''' at the top of his lungs [[Cluster F-Bomb|in nearly every verse]]. Despite this, most radio stations and day-time TV running the video have decided that the shrill squaking of the words was just incomprehensible enough to go uncensored (ironically, "Shit out of '''LUCK'''" still managed to be blanked out of the radio-edit). The song even made it as a [[Rock Band]] dowloadable by passing the lyric off as [[Singing Simlish|Simlish]], making Disturbed the only band in the game to manage full-on cussing ([[Green Day]] would be a close second for Longview's drawn-out "Shiiiii~", mentioned below).

* [[Weird Al Yankovic]] is generally thought of as being family-friendly, but he occasionally slips one past the radar. Like this brilliant euphemism in "One More Minute", for instance:

{{quote| I guess I might seem kinda bitter<br />

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* Jars of Clay's song "Heaven" may very well be the only song about sex to ever become a Christian radio single.

* The chorus of the song "Right Round" by Flo-Rida goes, "You spin my head right round, right round/When you go down, when you go down down." The song makes it pretty clear that he's with a stripper, but he's not talking about the head that you think.

* There exists an almost universally rejected subgenre of metal named "[[~~Godwins~~ Law|National Socialist]] [[Black Metal]]," according to [[That Other Wiki]]. Most metal musicians (including black metallers) criticise and berate it for, among others, contradicting "[metal's] focus on individualism." Even some white supremacists with a conservative m.o. lashed at it for having a [[Lampshaded Trope|"black" or "negroid"]] influence.

* There exists an almost universally rejected subgenre of metal named "[[Godwin's Law|National Socialist]] [[Black Metal]]," according to [[That Other Wiki]]. Most metal musicians (including black metallers) criticise and berate it for, among others, contradicting "[metal's] focus on individualism." Even some white supremacists with a conservative m.o. lashed at it for having a [[Lampshaded Trope|"black" or "negroid"]] influence.

* ''C'est la Vie'' by B*witched is a [[The Nineties|'90s]] pop song sung from the perspective of a child wanting to see a friend's treehouse and compare it to her own house. Innocent enough, except that this is relayed through the lyrics "I'll show you mine if you show me yours."

* [[Tom Lehrer]] has "I Got It From Agnes". "It" is never actually described, but it's certainly implied that it's an STI. It also sneaks a bisexual or homosexual orgy in at one point, as well as bestiality and incest. However, it's worth noting that this did NOT get past the radar around the time of it's release. Still a pretty worthwhile attempt...