For those who don't know, the title of this thread is a quote from the Green Day single "Jesus of Suburbia" off their American Idiot album. I was listening to it on the radio the other day and was rather surprised to find that the word "fucking" isn't censored out at all; you can hear Billy Joe quite clearly, and there's no mistaking that he's using the word 'fucking' and hasn't substituted it for some safer word for the purposes of radio broadcast (like 'fudging', for example).
Not that I really mind, but it seems like something a consumer watchdog group would complain about, seeing as this was being played on free-to-air broadcast radio in the middle of the day. I also managed to catch the video on the local music channel (also in the middle of the day) and found much the same.
What I'm curious about is this: is this the same for other countries where the song is being played? I've noticed a slightly lax attitude towards censorship here in the past few years, an example being a recent hit by a band called The Feelers (typically a kids band) which was played on the radio and tv with an uncensored (and quite beautifully sung) "shit" in the middle of it. I'm not sure if this is actually a change in the trend as I don't pay that much attention to popular music and only really started listening to the radio when I started this new job where we have it on all the time, so basically I'm just looking for other people's opinions.
So is this happening elsewhere?
