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Music should never be censored for any reason.
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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Some are made by the artists themselves.
The reason is that they can be played on the radio, and sold in Walmart. Those are less of an issue now, but they aren't nothing. Which is why it's still done.
I would say it must be done more creatively. With a similar sounding funny word.
Nine Inch Nails' Closer could be:
"I want to [Cluck/Duck/Chuck] you like an animal"
Money. The real ultimate reason for the censoring. There is a large contingent of pearl clutchers and religious nutters in the world that believe no-no words have real power (nevermind that the replacement words mean the exact same thing or the bleeps don't actually obfuscate the intended words - real lower half of the intelligence bell curve kinda stuff). And upsetting them means less money in the label's/artist's pocket.
Money indeed.
https://soundcloud.com/js201882/punchmade-dev-wire-fraud
I feel that when Weird Al sung Closer as part of the Alternative Polka, the censoring greatly added to the experience.
+1 for Weird Al. His non-swearing is part of his art, and it's one of the few times where I 100% respect it.
Also, his most recent polka ("Polkamania," 2024) has some perfect censorship using drip, donkey, and cat sound effects.
I always lose it at that part.