I haven't had a serious post on this blog yet, so what do I bring out of the darkness and into the light? The first thing I thought of was while I was driving home this morning. I was listening to the radio, and found that a varying amount of songs no longer had their selective censorship.
I like most kinds of music, the only things I don't like on the radio are some of the new rap songs, because they don't even have a punch line anymore, it's just singing about how the artists are at a higher financial class ranking than their peers and listeners.
Aside from that, I would wake up for the past two years to music videos, which for the most part, were uncensored. I began to pick up from song to song where sections of the song on the radio were censored that didn't need to be.
My example of this selective censorship is Jay Z & Alicia Keys 'Empire State of Mind'.
I continually noticed two sections of the song being blurred out on the radio that made no sense to me. One line was 'Catch me in the kitchen like a simmons whipping (pastry) '. 'Pastry' wasn't censored if you listened to the album, or the music video, but it was on the radio.
Also, another line, '(MDMA) got you feeling like a champion, The city never sleeps better slip you a (Ambien).' I had heard versions on the radio where either one of the two drugs referred to were blurred out, but never both in the same song. I can understand where MDMA might have been blurred out, but not 'Ambien' in the case where they didn't blur out MDMA.
My views on censorship really aren't views at all. I don't care about censorship and being 'protected' from what I view. What I had pieced together from this experience at first was that they might have been adding censorship to the radio version to make it seem more hip. Immediately after coming to that conclusion I drew another, more correct one.
The music industries are taking artists that have censored material, and adding additional censorship to their popular songs that don't have it as a possible marketing ploy. You hear the song on the radio with blurred out spots and want to buy the unabridged copy for yourself. Congratulations radio inspired purchasers of the above mentioned song / album, you paid a few extra bucks to hear the words 'pastry' and a few sleeping pills put back into your song. Try to keep them out of your drinks, eh?
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I have recently returned from two years of assisting the training of military troops, and have found a great amount of time on my hands while waiting for the fall semester of college. Thus, I have decided to write on the internet.
From a very young age, I have wanted to write. I started taking writing very seriously when I was in about 6th grade. I decided at that time that I would stop reading literature from other authors to keep from copying their writing style. This made all my book reports from that point on very difficult. Thankfully, a good mind yielded me no less that a B- on all of said reports.
To my credit, I had been quite a bookworm before then, so I had a base for comparison when it came to writing quality. From then, I wrote whatever was closest to my current life’s philosophy, and have a large amount of works partially finished.
This year, 2010, I made my resolution to get published, and am attempting to on three fronts. The first is a young adult fantasy novel, the second a graphic novel which I literally read in a dream, and the third is a game engine for a genre that has been without for too long.
Writing is important, because language itself is a conveyance of ideas. By reading what I am writing, you are allowing my ideas to influence you. For that grace, I will not mislead you reader, all views held and expressed in Casual Internet are from me to you. If there are views from a third party, they will be annotated as such.
Advertising will be on my terms as well. If someone wishes me to evaluate their product, and commissions me to do so, I will give what I think about it to you reader, and I will take from them my monetary compensation. If the item has faults you and the advertiser will hear them, if I deem it a good item or concept, I will say so. If someone wishes to reward me dearly for publishing something I don’t agree with, it will be under a pen name, and a different blog.
“Only fools would sell-out?” Well, I’m perfectly comfortable taking ad money to speak, for someone will, and if it is I at least I get to choose the influence of my words. As far as any backlash from ‘flamers’ or people who find my views to be unacceptable, I enjoy debate, as the products of conversation are the middle ground of opposing minds.
Within this blog will may be contained drastically offensive material, only a mature mind should be here. It is to be taken with a grain of salt, as should the inside of any human mind. I find that by further exploring the dark, you better understand the necessity of light…
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