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Who makes the decisions for “radio edits”?
Inspired by Bang Bang Bang, a delightfully duff song from British band Sports Team. It sees regular play on a local station. While most lines are unchanged, this one merited two radio blanks:
The first blank, “hard,” isn’t surprising. Can’t be corrupting the youth. Whatever. But the second? In a song about mass shootings, you won’t say the word “gun”?
I’m wondering if this is controlled by the artist, by the label, by a regulator like, or at some other step in the process. Surely it wasn’t my station that decided Texans wouldn’t stand for the g-word. It’s probably not the FCC, either, unless various radio classics are grandfathered in. So what gives?
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