I was listening to the new Christina Aguilera song, “Keeps Getting Better”, on a local radio station on my way to work. It’s a fairly upbeat song with a chorus which goes like this:
Some days I’m a super bitch
Up to my old tricks
But it won’t last forever
Next day I’m your super girl
Out to save the world
And it keeps gettin’ better
The local radio station, of course, can’t use the word “bitch” in a public broadcast and simply replaced it with a poorly edited “girl” (from three lines below).
A part of me, though, wonders what’s the point — even if the editing had been done better, it’s not like there is a single person out there who doesn’t realize what Aguilera is actually saying — it’s implied pretty strongly, not to mention all over the internet and probably on the CD as well. It’s like when in music videos, they blur out people using the middle finger — does anyone think that actually stops people from getting the message?