Editing music on the internet...

[TheRoxy78]

I find it extremely annoying when they edit music on the internet. Why don't they just give us a warning for "explicit content" or something, and leave it unedited? I don't necessarily like a lot of bad language in songs, but editing it makes it sound terrible. Like on AOL Music, they edit the word "gun" out of Rihanna's "Unfaithful" and it sounds like there's a huge skip in the soundtrack. I mean, everything's gone for a split second, even the music. I also find it odd that they leave Fergie's "Fergalicious" unedited, but they edit everything else. What's worse, with a few of the songs they've got the same terrible radio editing. If they're going to edit the music, they should at least try to make it sound less skippy.

[EscaflownePilot]

I understand the market for both edited and unedited music, but I do think editing anything beyond the professionally produced radio edits is bad, because without the actual vocal tracks to mute or a redub by the singer, it usually ends up with an awkward skip or reversal, which really can ruin the song. And really, if the radio edit is okay by the FCC, then it should be more than okay for the internet.

[Mynd Hed]

I worked at a music store for a while in college. At this music store, we had to take an insane amount of returns because of people accidentally buying censored versions of CDs. (It should be noted that often the packaging was such that it was very difficult to distinguish between the censored or "clinically retarded" version and the uncensored or "good" version, so it wasn't really the customers' fault.) So after a while, I'd start asking people at the register, "This is the censored version; are you sure this is the version you want?"

Not all the cashiers went out of their way like that, though, so we still had to deal with a fair amount of returns. There was one censored Eminem CD in particular that came back at least three or four times-- and when I say "one," I mean it was the SAME COPY every time.

Finally one day another person brought it through my line, and I informed him that it was the censored version and asked if that was what he meant to grab. He says, "Oh, yeah, that's what I wanted. I don't want to have to deal with a lot of negativity."

...may I remind everyone that this was EMINEM we were talking about. I don't care how much you bleep, there is no humanly possible way to turn Eminem into sunshines and rainbows.

Lesson 1: Forced sterilization, while it may be distasteful ethically, is clearly the only sure way of preventing such people from reproducing. Although I was legally barred from removing this guy's junk and disposing of it using the same method one might employ with nuclear waste, I take consolation in that the chance of his ever finding a woman willing to breed with him is minuscule, and his chances of knowing what to do with one are nil. In all likelihood, praise Jesus, his stupid genes die with him.

Lesson 2: Censored music has no reason to exist.

[The Wolverine]

...may I remind everyone that this was EMINEM we were talking about. I don't care how much you bleep, there is no humanly possible way to turn Eminem into sunshines and rainbows.


Except when it comes to his kid ;)