Bowing to pressure from radio station programmers here in the US, it is being reported that Britney Spears has been forced to re-record her song If You Seek Amy to make it less controversial for radio play. When sung, the line All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy sounds like she is saying All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to F.U.C.K. me … which censors are none too pleased about. As a result, Brit reportedly re-recorded the song to leave the K off of the word seek:
Britney Spears has reportedly been forced to rerecord her forthcoming single after radio stations threatened to ban it from play. The controversial ‘If U Seek Amy’, set to be the third single from her Circus LP, contains the chorus “All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin’ to, If You Seek Amy”, which, when sung quickly, sounds like “F.U.C.K me”. Last week, several US radio stations threatened to boycott the song after deeming the lyrics to be too offensive for air. According to The Sun, Spears has since returned to the studio to rerecord the track, removing the “k” from the end of “seek” and renaming the song ‘If U See Amy’. Britney releases her new single ‘Circus’ in the UK on February 18.
Boo! This is kinda ridiculous. While I can appreciate that radio censors are trying to “protect” young listeners from hearing profanity on the radio, I feel it is a but over-the-top to censor the spelling of bad words. If she were actually saying the word FUCK then I can understand the need to censor … but if we’ve decided that we need to censor the spelling of words, then that’s a bit too much of an infringement of free speech I think. I’m not surprised that Britney is deciding to comply with this censorship … but I, for one, think it takes things a bit too far.
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While I agree that the FCC is making a mountain out of a mole hill, I must say that this really doesn’t have anything to do with artistic expression. No one is saying she can’t record and sell this song. They are just prohibiting it from being played on public radio. Playboy is artistic expression also, but you’re not going to see it in your average middle school library. That being said, I love the song, and yes, there are worse things to listen to on the radio. But I also agree with Samy210, no one listens to the radio anymore anyway.
People who think this song is brilliant are rather retarded.
Oh, it’s code for a curse word. Wow!! How 3rd grade. Just like the rest of Britney’s crap songs.
Why censor her crap? Kneegars can call women Ho’s and Bitches, why can’t she say FUCK?
@ not so much, No i dont think he will, what i meant is that for the past 8 years the people in charge have been on a moral high horse example: the janet Jackson super bowl incident and all the indeceny stuff that followed. I think that they went way overboard with trying to shift focus from the war and bad economy to “christian values” when their should be a seperation of church and state and considering we have freedom of religion in this country not everyone has the same beliefs. I do hope the obama admin focuses on whats important getting the economy back and track and ending the prob in iraq that have been going on for way to long…. and btw I havent heard britneys song, but i dont like our rights being taken away we should be progressing as a society not regressing. ok end of long rant
Theres no way this can be true. First of all, they play freakin lollipop on the radio. Second of all, they played fergies don’t funk with my heart. And you could hardly tell she was saying funk. So theres no way they would try and censor a song that has an underlying meaning to spell out a bad word. I call this whole controversy over it BS, they’ll play the song how it is.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THEY HAVE PROBLEM ABOUT LISTENING THINGS, I HEARD 100 OF TIMES THE SONG, AND IT DOESNT SOUND LIKE SHE`S SAYING THAT. STUPID RADIO & PEOPLE. FUCK YOU STUPID RADIO. THEY WANT TO GIVE PUBLICITY TO THEIR STUPID RADIO
Any way you look at this if its a marketing ploy, a supposed artistic expression (weak, weak, weak), or general manipulation to get into the news, there is a real thread of DESPERATION here to be relevant and important. Anyone who cares about this is a willing victim and participant of these desperate measures. Feel like somebody’s fool and tool today? You are welcome to it as are the other sheep.
This is crazy to me. I’m normally the type of person who actually listens to the lyrics of a song. And Amy is one of my favorites. When I first listened to it, I heard a song about a girl who placed a bi ad in a paper as Amy. She then goes to a club and pretends she’s there with everyone else looking for the infamous Amy. Then after she’s had her fun laughing at everyone for being there she asks if someone can take her home as she’s laughing.
I only actually heard what everyone was talking about after reading a ton of sites and relistening to the song a few times. And if it took me a while to figure it out, I doubt kids will. Seeing that they only want to dance to it anyways. From my understanding of the song, I personally don’t think she meant to add that as a side giggle for herself or to start a controversy. All of this is because she chose the name Amy. If it was another name they couldn’t make a big deal about it. so in short, I nor anyone else would have noticed it. The “Big Wigs” are only making kids go out and try to listen to it by banning it. Cause you can hear it anywhere online if you don’t have the CD. Try and ban it off the whole internet!! IDIOTS!!
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