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Post by Natasha~ on Apr 3, 2007 11:53:48 GMT -5
So Big Wheel was *supposed* to be the single but check out what I just read on Undented:
Uh-oh, “Big Wheel” seems to be having big problems getting played on many radio stations in the U.S. Toriphile Bryan contacted station WAPS 91.3 in Akron, Ohio, to ask when they’d start playing the single, and the station’s programming director told him that Epic “goofed big-time” by “releasing a single with a frequently-repeated obscene acronym.” Seems they are unable to play it, and many other stations across the country are in the same boat. Epic is apparently scrambling for a Plan B, attempting an edit of the song, but the term is scattered through the song so liberally it may not be possible without sounding all chopped up.
So this MILF thing is causing all sorts of milfing problems. What the milf? Pictures of Britney’s hoohoo get plastered across the Internet, but you can’t say “MILF” on the radio in 2007? It’s just a milfing acronym. Well, for an album intended to highlight the political in American society, the puritanical ass-backwardness of media politics seems as good a place to start as any.
We think “Bouncing Off Clouds” would do better as a single anyway, in case anyone is listening.
What the fuck man? You can say shit, fuck, bitch, whore whatever on American television but you can't say the letters MILF on the radio? As if anyone's going to take offense to that. Jesus. xo
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Post by Natasha~ on Apr 3, 2007 11:54:17 GMT -5
I also want to add that I think Teenage Hustling would be a great single. xo
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Post by Jay on Apr 3, 2007 12:27:58 GMT -5
You have got to be fucking with me.
No, seriously, this has to be an April Fool's joke.
So an acronym is uncool, but 50 Cent making repeated obscene references (barely-veiled references, honestly) to oral sex is a-okay?
Fucking America. =/
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Post by *Brianne* on Apr 3, 2007 14:58:28 GMT -5
Unreal! I'm speechless.
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Post by orfeo on Apr 3, 2007 22:25:03 GMT -5
I suspect which part of the country you're in (not that I can tell that well from over here). But it does seem that some parts of America are extraordinarly sensitive to these kinds of things. And those parts probably WOULDN'T be playing 50 Cent or whatever.
In not unrelated news, it seems the Europeans are taking Bouncing Off Clouds as the single instead. So maybe bits of America can switch...
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Post by beulahboi on Apr 4, 2007 8:49:25 GMT -5
There is no such thing as bad publicity haha But ya, american standards are so twisted and distorted and misguided. for those of us here with brains...its VERY frustrating. Considering the government..oh nevermind
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Post by Aims on Apr 4, 2007 16:07:45 GMT -5
It amuses me. People swear on the radio here (ok not all stations, and to be fair the station I listen to wouldn't play Tori anyway) but there's no way any new - or old - Tori songs would be heard on our airwaves so it's like... bleh... hahah.
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Post by curiousted on Apr 9, 2007 12:17:57 GMT -5
Bouncing off Clouds should be the single--not Big Wheel.
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Post by Aims on Apr 9, 2007 16:03:38 GMT -5
I heard in some places it is going to be the single, and in other places Big Wheel will be? Not sure though. It's quite confusing.
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