Radio Edit Version - may not be what you think....
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Please don't start another same question thread!
Nope!! I would bet there is more than one person using the same account , a very short memory or mixed up or confused forums and or threads.
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redhotdj , good to see you around. Keep coming back!
Sorry for my posts earlier. What I should have asked how many of you are OK with playing songs with explicit lyrics and who is not OK with that? I don't like playing songs with explicit lyrics. I do my best to stay away from such songs and events where a client feels it's OK.
Mix a much better way to ask a question. At a bar pretty much, anything goes at a wedding that is much different you as a DJ should know what is right and what is wrong
For me I don't care if it's a bar or a wedding, I don't like songs with explicit lyrics. I like to stay away from crowds who feel it's alright for a DJ to play such songs.
Mix you don't care if it's a bar or wedding? you should know what's right or wrong, see were from different areas what goes here may be wrong there
I just don't like playing that stuff period. Some of that stuff believe me or not is hard-core gangster rap. To me it's just low down ghetto garbage. I don't care if it's being played in the hood or on upscale area.
I NEVER play (any) songs that contain explicit Lyrics. Not at Events; not at Home.
As a 40 year veteran of radio....
I can tell you that RADIO EDIT doesn't always have to do with the intro or outro. (although it may) It's SUPPOSED to be a shorter version than the album version, AND a cleaner version.
But it all depends on who NAMED it.
Anyone can call their version a "radio edit". When I search for music, I search for the word "CLEAN".
I can tell you that RADIO EDIT doesn't always have to do with the intro or outro. (although it may) It's SUPPOSED to be a shorter version than the album version, AND a cleaner version.
But it all depends on who NAMED it.
Anyone can call their version a "radio edit". When I search for music, I search for the word "CLEAN".
I was reminded of this last Thursday night when I was a guest DJ for GA Tech's weekly hip-hop show. I played a track that I know I downloaded from a record pool as a Clean copy, it was even labeled as such but only the first verse was edited, the rest of the song, not so much. I was able to quickly mix out of the song but it was a bit embarrassing. Normally I practice my sets when doing anything on the radio but this was a last minute fill in for another DJ. I had an hour to leave work, get home, change clothes, compile a playlist and get to the station.
How's about a time when you didn't have to check to see if a song was dirty or not? Some of the older DJS on here will remember that time. You just played music in a bar, club or private event and no worries about playing a song with explicit lyrics. The only song back then that said a dirty word was the Isley Brothers Fight The Power. They played that song on the radio and bleeped that word out. That was it. Now it's not thought of as being anything wrong with a so called artist making a song with cursing all through a song.
Fortunately, I worked for commercial radio all my life. The more corporate it got the more control the company had on what you played. We had our entire playlist mapped out for us, and all of the songs in our library were authorized edited and approved by the company. Unfortunately I don't have that kind of corporate oversight on my own stuff, I have to make sure the songs are clean myself. But I also don't trust the word clean on songs that I download. I listen to them as I'm saving them to my hard drive.
Since the start of rock and roll there have always been some but there are so may more today
Society has become less accepting. A lot of 80’s music that I get requests for a schools is on the banned list. Pour Some Sugar on Me, Mony Mony “technically a 60’s song
I remember seeing a Toby Keith song with the word "azz" in it and the station had a version to be played only AFTER 7pm that had the word in it.
Yes you’ve said 118 times we all know