Yep. Don't like it, don't listen to it (or watch it, or read it). Your views shouldn't remove my ability to enjoy something as it was intended.

Suck a dick up til you hiccup, motherfuckers.

Your problem isn't censorship, your problem is relaying on services to listen to music. Be it Spotify or the Radio, you're listening to public music; you have to share. And preferences of others are going to override yours, be it business decisions, or just people who'd rather hear the censored version.

You're trying to ride the bus, and mad because it doesn't pick you up and drop you off at your front door.

Bro tell me about.

Imo the greatest nu metal album of all time is Hed PE's Broke. But Spotify only has the censored version, and let me tell you how incomprehensibly worse the album is without profanity.

Me, writing an Opera about OP's entire family's medical history:

I hate it as well because it creates a weird alternative reality where people only know the censored version of the song. Also very often the songs contain themes way to mature for kids and censoring a few rude words does not change that.

Unpopular, my ass lol

Completely agree with you.

Also be surprised if this is an unpopular opinion.

I remember listening to BBC radio 1 when they accidentally played the uncensored version of Closer of the Sunday afternoon chart countdown.

Not even this song?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Hitler_(song)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge48j5lplo

American rapper Kanye West has been blocked from entering Australia over a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Agree. If you want your music to be "kid friendly", then don't swear in said songs. Easy.

Censorship is becoming a major problem, all these streaming sites control everything now, they can do whatever they want with the movies it seems, the free streaming sites usually edit the movies and I found Amazon did a few times as well back when I was using that crap, when those movies aren't available anywhere else and the streaming ones are all censored then people have to essentially break the law to see the original movie, which I have no personal problem with, but it's just a hassle. Hang on to that physical media. I know this is about music but it's basically the same.

The most bizarre censored song I've heard is probably Where The Hood At. For some reason, the only censored line of the entire song is "empty out, reload, and throw more slugs"... even on the "explicit" version. The rest of the song with lots of homophobia and such is completely uncensored.

I know right, everyone is all what about the kids? But as our very president and his pals said and did over and over, fuck the kids.

Agree, no censorship for music and art in general. Censorship also involves some songs being not available to stream. While not as convenient, I buy all my music and (I might be on a spectrum or two) play it when it's listening time. I LOVE music, but not while doing other activities. Rarely though, some wallpaper music.

Wholeheartedly agree. Tried of hypocrites and psuedo saints forcing their sensitivity on art. I want to hear Eminem say weird ass shit. I want Limp Bizkit music to say fuck. Same thing for Lola Young. These lame ass nancy's don't like it? They should be the ones to listen to something else. The original song/music was written as is to express something. It needs to be delivered RAW in its purist form. Not to be watered down to appease people who can't figure out how to navigate the social situation of just not listening to it.

To confirm, if we don’t want our kids to hear cursing, we should avoid the song.

But if you don’t want to hear the censored version, you cannot avoid it?

The censored version of "Last Resort" is my thirteenth reason. The whole song is about being lost, angry and in pain, how else are people meant to express it?! 😑

Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams was recently censored. The song seems to be about Americana and teen romance, but at the end he says “me and my baby in a 69” but people still didn’t get what it was about. Then he told people to check his birth year. All of a sudden that line had to be changed.

And yet The Who still get to say “who the fuck are you?” in Who Are You…

Hot take, the radio edit of CeeLo Green's "Fuck You" actually flows better.

Sometimes I listen to the bizarro edits of albums

This has to be a streaming service issue? I don't purchase censored music and therefore don't have this issue .

Do streaming services seriously put everyone in the children's tier? That and live versions would have me cancelling so fast.
There has to be an Adult option, right?

as long as we don't ban the uncensored versions it's just more choice for the people. i believe that language is power, and ridiculous overuse hurts it and our expression. thus there are songs of which i prefer the clean versions.

More proof that fediverse is just 4 edgy teens in a trenchcoat

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"

Sometimes it's funny

If it doesn't meet the standard of hate speech it should be allowed.

Censoring swears and innuendoes is the tip of the iceberg. In this era of mass consolidation, the importance of local, expert media curation cannot be overstated. Support your local dj.

This sounds fine until you find out there are genres such as "black metal, but racist" and "punk, but racist".