Sean Kingston's song being banned??

Sinfonia · 2007-09-21 19:30:36

This issue applies to more than just music, so I'm putting it here... Anyways, watching the news earlier, and one of the stories was about Sean Kingston's song "Beautiful Girls", and 'should it be banned?' For those who don't know the song, musically, it's an upbeat reggae-influenced song which samples "Stand By Me"; the…

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#92 24-09-2007 09:41AM

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Might be sh*te but that just shows the tastes of the average CD buyer in Ireland.
As for banning it because it uses the word suicide, how stupid are the people making these decisions?!?
Hearing the word suicide is no more likely to set someone off than the old Nike catchphrase "Just Do It" (yes I remember the X-files episode but that is fiction).
There are many songs out there that much better capture the mindset of someone feeling suicidal, and as such could possibly cause a relapse, some of which people listen merrily to not realising what it's actually about. But then the amount of times I've had to show people song lyrics to make them believe a song is about a certain thing I can only assume the average music listener blocks out the lyrics of most songs.

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#93 24-09-2007 10:00AM

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I would do a much simpler option and ban FM104. Anyone noticed the fact that they play every song speeded up by about 10% so they can get more ads in. And they seem to tell their DJ's the faster than Dave Fanning talk is the ideal!

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#94 24-09-2007 10:19AM

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MooseJam wrote:

you obviously just don't like them, that doesn't mean they were sh1t, they are legend

You obviously like them, that doesn't mean they're legend

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#95 24-09-2007 11:56AM

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I can imagine why people who have lost a friend/ family member would find it distressful to listen to this song but its a sh*te song neway and banning it will only make it more popular

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#96 24-09-2007 12:37PM

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Tha Gopher wrote:

They were still sh1t, hyped and irrelevant, no matter whether he did/didnt like the media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_cobain

"In a February 1993 interview with The Advocate, Cobain claimed that he used to spray paint "God is Gay" on pickup trucks around Aberdeen. Cobain also claimed he was arrested in 1985 for spray-painting "HOMO SEX RULES" on a bank.[9] However, Aberdeen police records show that the phrase for which he was arrested was actually "Ain't got no how watchamacallit." with every "t" written four times larger than the other letters."

yep, not an attention seeking bone in his body :rolleyes:

It would be also called being absolutly messed up on heroin, your saying you never did somthing stupid when you were drunk? now multiply that by 30 and you get the general idea. Besides that, at the time the entire lot of americas teens were ready to revolt against society as a whole refusing to be what it wanted them to be so its pretty understandable if you ask me.

Anyway getting back on topic cause this nirvana thing is going way way off. I think this is absolute bollox, its political correctness gone MAD. What happend to freedom of speach?

You cannot(well should not really in this day and age) ban a song because it has the word suicide in it, you dont see shakespears plays being banned because there is murder, suicide etc in it, you dont see the bible being banned cause theres an extremely gruesome crucifiction in it. Hell you dont even see shows that are AIMED at teenagers(i dunno like hollyoaks etc) banned even when they show drugs house partys depression suicide etc in it either.

Imo i know people who are suicidal are fragile but in all fairness hearing a word in a song is not going to push them over the edge 99.9999999999999999% of the time. Its usually modern society as a whole, if you want to cut down the suicide rate your better off moaning about how models are so skinny and stuff like that and how there putting pressure on youth of today. You dont see them trying to ban that type of stuff.

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#97 24-09-2007 12:39PM

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freedom of speech?

this is Ireland, isn't it? we don't have any such guarantee afaik

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#98 24-09-2007 12:47PM

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Mordeth wrote:

freedom of speech?

this is Ireland, isn't it? we don't have any such guarantee afaik

Apparently we do.

Who would have thought it?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54067012&postcount=70

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#99 24-09-2007 12:49PM

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oooh, now that Idid not know

However, this may not be used to undermine "public order or morality or the authority of the State". Furthermore, the constitution explicitly requires that the publication of "blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter" be a criminal offence

I did know about this though... some freedom

God's a wanker.

*waits for the police*

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#100 24-09-2007 01:02PM

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Mordeth wrote:

oooh, now that Idid not know

I did know about this though... some freedom

God's a wanker.

*waits for the police*

You'll have a long wait, I'm top of their most wanted in this regard and they've yet to catch me, sometimes I even manage to say things that are blasphemous, seditious and indecent all in one!

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#101 24-09-2007 04:12PM

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If the song should be banned for it then they shouldn't be allowed use the word on the news.Or tv even.

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#102 24-09-2007 05:30PM

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ryanairzer wrote:

OP you are IGNORANT!!!!!!!!!

YOU DONT KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE

I was sui****l okay and anything like this can trigger. you dont know how fragile peoples emotions are

rawr rawr rawr

I think you will find that its spelt "rabble, rabble, rabble"

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#103 24-09-2007 05:58PM

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lol @ this sh1te

we're becoming more like america every day
censorship ftl

banning a song isn't going to help anyone

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#104 24-09-2007 07:23PM

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Fighting Irish wrote:

lol @ this sh1te

we're becoming more like america every day
censorship ftl

banning a song isn't going to help anyone

I dunno, i mean have you heard the insipid little ditty in question?
I think it'd do wonders for everyones ears if it was banned, all copies destroyed and the singer placed in a safe, coated in concrete and dumped in the atlantic trench.

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#105 24-09-2007 07:31PM

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thelordofcheese wrote:

I dunno, i mean have you heard the insipid little ditty in question?
I think it'd do wonders for everyones ears if it was banned, all copies destroyed and the singer placed in a safe, coated in concrete and dumped in the atlantic trench.

Nobody is saying the song is a master piece :rolleyes:

People need to deal with there issues properly, banning people from singing about suicide is stupid.

You guys realize this song was played in america and ireland for ages without anyone saying anything, then MTV in the US banned(well not banned, but cut out the word "suicidal") it and now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon just in case.

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#106 24-09-2007 07:36PM

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Aye, Smack meh B|tch up was preety cool. Would never have heard it if it wasn't banned.

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#107 24-09-2007 08:06PM

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The US Americans (:)) have gotten rid of the part that says suicidal.
It's a bad song, burn it.

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#108 24-09-2007 08:11PM

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Songs should be banned now? Lets ban words! In fairness. If you complain about lyrics in a song, you must have SFA going wrong in your life. God forbid that some horrible does actually happen you or someone close to you, how the hell will you cope with that if you get worked up over this?

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#109 24-09-2007 08:43PM

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Absolutly ridiculous banning this song(which I secretly admit to liking)! The poor kid is just warbling about being in love,nothing malicious at all.Anyone with half a brain can see that.
Starting from today,I am officially never listening to fm104 ever again.

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#110 25-09-2007 02:11AM

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heres an idea lets ban panda100 cause his name is offensice to me, after all people get killed by pandas once and a while right. This offends me haha.

(sorry to take your name as an example, hell why dont they just ban me patricide is the killing of your father that CANT be legal like)

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#111 25-09-2007 08:16AM

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panda100 wrote:

Absolutly ridiculous banning this song(which I secretly admit to liking)!

*Note to self, never borrow panda100's MP3 player...*:D
Nah, I'm sure we all have one or two doosies on our players that many other people would think are absolute sh*te.;)

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#112 03-12-2007 02:27AM

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Yeah I think even talking about suicide should be banned. A suicidal person could see this thread and kill themselves IMHO

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#113 03-12-2007 08:15PM

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"You've got me IN DENIAL, IN DENIAL, when you said it's over girrrllll"

*puts shotgun barrel in mouth*

For the love of all that's holy someone make it stop!

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#114 03-12-2007 08:21PM

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Aw Poo !:( That's Joy Division, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, and the Theme Tune from M*A*S*H (suicide is painless) buggered for future Airplay:D

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#115 04-12-2007 06:21PM

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marcsignal wrote: »

Aw Poo !:( That's Joy Division, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, and the Theme Tune from M*A*S*H (suicide is painless) buggered for future Airplay:D

There is no end to the morguefest of bands who make me feel like ending it all.

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#116 04-12-2007 06:24PM

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Red Alert wrote: »

. Anyone noticed the fact that they play every song speeded up by about 10% so they can get more ads in.

Stations can't play more than 10 mins of ads. You're talking s h1te.

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#117 04-12-2007 06:40PM

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Right, so we're pretty much all agreed that the banning of this song is a load of ****e then (apart from the 800 people who made the joke 'yeah the song should be banned because its utter ****e AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA") ?

How about we do something about it ? I mean, hundreds of people have viewed this thread, a few hundred text messages to FM104 could, at the very least, be a laugh.

If you want to contact them over the web : http://www.fm104.ie/contactus.asp

Or you can text them, I believe, at 53104, or ring them on 01 500 66 00.

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#118 04-12-2007 07:44PM

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Jeebus wrote: »

Right, so we're pretty much all agreed that the banning of this song is a load of ****e then (apart from the 800 people who made the joke 'yeah the song should be banned because its utter ****e AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA") ?

How about we do something about it ? I mean, hundreds of people have viewed this thread, a few hundred text messages to FM104 could, at the very least, be a laugh.

If you want to contact them over the web : http://www.fm104.ie/contactus.asp

Or you can text them, I believe, at 53104, or ring them on 01 500 66 00.

For every one normal person who makes the effort to do that there's 20 psychos with no life who will complain. Nutcases get their way because they don't have anything better to be doing and are generally militant about their insane notions. So we're screwed.

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#119 04-12-2007 07:50PM

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I did it anyway, just to get the ball rolling.

what I said was:

"Censoring the word 'suicidal' in that sean kingston song is an absurd level of censorship. How that line can be offensive to the point of changing it is beyond me. Fix it before nothing can be played. Why do we need to be protected. We can make our own choices.

I won't be as eager to listen to fm104 if you insist on appeasing the nutters who complain. Most people don't care, but they don't say that because there's no point in saying thanks for not censoring - we expect that!

Just keep out bad language, don't butcher the song (Beautiful girls is bad enough already)"

There you go. Happy Tuesday.

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#120 04-12-2007 07:56PM

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The song should be banned just for making a mockery of "Stand By Me"

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