censoring bad words.

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In the late Nineties Sarah McLaughlin had a hit from the studio album "Surfacing" with the song "Building a Mystery".

If you listen to the album with headphones on all of the way to end you can hear buried under the layers of synths the line "you sweat beautiful f****d up man".

A few years later her live performances were put on the album "Mirror Ball" which has her doing the same song before a crowd. In that performance she just belts out the line "you sweat beautiful f****d up man" with conviction, and the crowd roars in approval.

in the old Manfred Mann song "blinded by the light" I always got thrown by the lyric "revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night" which in my brain became "(unintelligible) up like a douche another bummer in the light." I wonder how many other aspies have auditory processing disorder as a comorbid?

Meh, any way you slice it censoring music angers me...

took me forever to find a copy of "a boy named sue" that wasn't censored. for decades I wondered what was behind the bleep. and relatively late I found out that there was an uncensored version of "big john" as well. I watched an old kinescope of Nat King Cole performing "anything goes," and the censors made him sing, "good authors too who once knew better words now only use THREE letter words writing prose." and to make sure no viewers with dirty minds got any wrong ideas, they also made him hold up 3 fingers as he sang it!

That's a popular mondegreen (however its spelled). Like the Hendrix "kiss this guy".

Every NT kid of my day thought it was "wrapped up like a douche....[something something something]". I always knew it was "revved up like a deuce" ( but even I never had a clue about what the whole song is about).

Last edited by naturalplastic on 06 Jun 2017, 9:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.

the following link sheds some "light" on the matter-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light
songwriter bruce springsteen facetiously indicated that he never intended the song to be a paean to feminine hygiene products

I thought it was "douche," too.

I associated "deuce" with the 2 card, though I did know about the tennis term.

I thought the deuce [in retrospect] was a reference to an oft-hot-rodded car, the buick electra 225 ["deuce & a quarter"].

I thought a deuce was a cigarette of some kind.

the lyrics are highly personal to bruce springsteen [their author] so I have no major idea what he was thinking, just a few discrete symbols stood out to me.

My main thought about the song at the time was that I was really annnoyed that a song about bieng traitors to Rock and Roll who sold out to Disco was so popular.