Scott: Sorry, missed the humor. My bad. Carry on!!
To add to the discussion a tasty tidbit from yesteryear, shock artists have been pushing the liberal limits since cave dweller pictographs. In my era (mid 50 to mid 60s), conservative application of the 1st amendment rights prevented some lyricist's attempts at the shock value of then vulgar words in order to compensate for the lack of musical content. Lyrically, using specifically sex or having sex was a no-no. So they teamed up and agreed to use the word or term charms as the underground direct reference to boffing. Anytime you hear Annette Funicello or the Everly Brothers or Mary Wells or or or use the word charms , yep, he/she/them wants to boff.
In 1969, Proud Mary was originally rolling up the reefer . That didn't fit into the Presidential War on Drugs (maryjane was a class 1 felony) so it was changed to rolling up the river.
Today, it's gotten considerably more street, gutter, locker room, drunken sailor, intolerable to the point that every track seems to need two versions...radio and explicit. If it were socially publicly acceptable to play an explicit version, why the warning? Hmmm, Nifty way to double sales, eh? 1st Amendenment rights or profit? Come on folks, this is America. Cha-ching. Cha-chang Cha-Chinese.
To add to the discussion a tasty tidbit from yesteryear, shock artists have been pushing the liberal limits since cave dweller pictographs. In my era (mid 50 to mid 60s), conservative application of the 1st amendment rights prevented some lyricist's attempts at the shock value of then vulgar words in order to compensate for the lack of musical content. Lyrically, using specifically sex or having sex was a no-no. So they teamed up and agreed to use the word or term charms as the underground direct reference to boffing. Anytime you hear Annette Funicello or the Everly Brothers or Mary Wells or or or use the word charms , yep, he/she/them wants to boff.
In 1969, Proud Mary was originally rolling up the reefer . That didn't fit into the Presidential War on Drugs (maryjane was a class 1 felony) so it was changed to rolling up the river.
Today, it's gotten considerably more street, gutter, locker room, drunken sailor, intolerable to the point that every track seems to need two versions...radio and explicit. If it were socially publicly acceptable to play an explicit version, why the warning? Hmmm, Nifty way to double sales, eh? 1st Amendenment rights or profit? Come on folks, this is America. Cha-ching. Cha-chang Cha-Chinese.
