It reminds me of that Sesame Street' video. "The Count censored". (you probably already know it) It's a perfect example of how you can turn an innocent song into something way "worse" by replacing some innocent words by beeps...
@@softfrickenmango6044 yeah fr I don’t understand why content that is not nor has ever been intended for kids needs to be watered down and fed to kids?
The violence is fake. Nobody is actually being shot or killed. The profanity and nudity is real. Scripted, but still real -- the actors really are swearing and undressing.
I remember as a kid we made a joke about "talking American" where one of us would move their mouth as if they were talking and the other kid would make a long beep sound. Because that was our impression as Dutch kids of American tv.
We did that even here in America lmao. And also holding up our middle finger on one hand and then waving the fingers of the other hand in front as if "blurring" or "pixelating" it. Jimmy Kimmel also has a gag he calls Unnecessary Censorship, where he censors random parts of video clips from public media to turn innocent clips into looking or sounding totally wrong _because_ of the censorship adding vagueness to the context 😂 which is a good point, there were times when something was censored on TV and it just made it more vague. Once someone was asking a character about something in a show I was watching, and it censored a word out like "oh so-and-so, I didn't know you were ____" I looked over and I thought they must have said something awful like about r*pe or being attacked or that they were dying. The word censored out was still in the captions at the bottom though. Pregnant. "Pregnant" was the awful disgusting word they couldn't say on public TV, and made the scene sound even worse when actually nothing dark or dirty was said.
The phrase “pardon my French” comes from a time when people thought women didn’t know cuss words at all and men weren’t supposed to cuss around women, so when they let a cuss word slip, they pretended they were speaking another language (French) that the women didn’t know and apologized because it was rude to speak a language unknown to someone in the conversation.
They seem to have such an “all or nothing” approach to swearing rather than the sliding scale I’m used to in Norway (the same programme might bleep a string of random swear words shouted in frustration if the exact words aren’t the point, but not censor swearing if it’s just one swear word used as an intensifier).
In Portugal some words are censored but I think is more when it’s a lot of them when is one most don’t censor also they in my anecdotal evidence they censor more local songs than foreigners another thing is that the bad word is just muted. I was very surprised when I discovered kidz bops that’s some embarrassment sht😂
"I beg you, don't embarrass me, mother trucker" would've unironically been better and that's saying a lot. I personally prefer "honey butter", "not at supper", "in front of mother", or "little lover".
@@2wickie686 I chuckled at this comment because "mother trucker" is the censor word used in that song for Irish radio stations. I honestly had no idea that other Anglophone countries got different censor versions, I thought they'd all have the same one lol
Yes, I first learned swearing from my mum, not her intention but when you swear around young children they’ll pick it up. I got into a lot of trouble for that… but also online, as a kid I learned a lot of other words I probably shouldn’t have known/repeated.
I honestly think bleeping out “bad words” is worse than just keeping them in. It gives a lot more attention to those words and makes kids much more interested in them.
Tommy Cash has a lyric 'I fucked your *beep* in vietnam'. I had listened to that song dozens of times before I even noticed he was cussing before the beep.. Censoring it makes it out to be something you SHOULD notice, like its something to be afraid of for some crazy reason. Not censoring just leaves it as what it is; a noise.
on the flip side, it's just intensely uncomfortable listening to jungkook sing about "i'll be fucking you 7 days a week" instead of "i'll be loving you." like listening to your daughter talk about her sexual preferences...
Basically every country in Europe allows swearing on TV and the radio. Never heard a censored version of a song on the radio once in my life, except when visiting the US lol. We do know bleeping very well tho, bc my generation grew up on MTV and obviously they censored the shit out of everything and they just didn't undo it for the European versions of their channels. But those were only the reality shows. Anything wich was dubbed, wasn't censored, altho I know that many swear words get smoothed out during translation. RTL does bleep from time to time, wich is ridiculous given how obscene their content is, but I think it's rather a stylistic choice to make it seem more harsh than it actually was. I can't watch those shows, it all seems like a parody of the old MTV reality shows
The kids all hear the original songs these days, so not sure why we are still “cleaning it up” for radio. When I was a kid, we didn’t have anything else. So if you didn’t own the cd, you were out of luck
I feel like that’s the problem. While there’s nothing wrong with swearing inherently, swearing has traditionally been associated with crassness. The more a society allows even a small but nasty behavior through, more nasty behavior follows. This is the whole point of desensitization. If you allow a little violence on TV, the next decade shows more violence, then the next decade onwards. While I don’t think this leads to more violence or less empathy per se, it can lead to desensitization in other areas. The rude behavior that adults are now seeing among children growing in America is likely due to this type of desensitization. Especially feeling like the reactions of others, probably even their own, doesn’t matter because to them, as they say, “what’s the point?”
The french have a point. Kids media feels “sterile” even to kids because they will always hear the stuff that is censored from their parents shows that they overhear or from them saying something out of anger/frustration.
@NathanLongacre-jo6cx You are thinking Germany and the "opinions" that you think should be freely expressed concern riling up the masses by very publicly denying the holocaust or enciting violence against other people. Severely insulting someone in a public setting can technically be fined, but it is super rare and mostly exists, so law-enforcement can step in and de-escalate before people actually get hurt. BTW complete freedom of speech exists nowhere. I dare you to start spouting terroristic threats in an American airport or trying to trash talk a police officer (particularly if you aren't caucasian).
I actually use a program to filter my movies and tv-- even as an adult I don't like to hear cussing 😆 I've never heard my parents cuss, and I don't cuss when I get hurt because I don't cuss in private and absolutely never around my children. It's all about keeping good habits
I think i once heard someone say "oh it's because the us was built as a religious country" Man... Italy has some of the most disgustingly unhingend cuss words and speakers of so in the world, especially ones that would be recounted as blasphemy, and yet we've got the vatican.
Not just "religious." The puritans were religious extremists who got kicked out of other places, so they came here and bullied the natives. So that paired with actual cut-throat capitalists from places like Jamestown and et voila - les États-Unis!
Yeah but Italia was not FOUNDED by religious people. It has a long history of religion, but Italian culture has been around since before Christianity even existed. You had some pretty ruthless 'gods' in your history.
That's especially funny because the Bible has a lot of words and phrases that would have been considered cuss words or objectionable insults at the time. People are called fools all the time in the Bible, and at the time, that was a pretty big deal. It was almost like walking into a church and dropping the f-bomb it was that serious
Seriously, there are some censored versions done so well that I prefer them over the original, but they’re so few and far between. One example is Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo, which replaces “famefucker” with “dreamcrusher” and “fucked up little thrill” with “tragic little thrill.” It does it in a way that still fits the tone of the song and you’d never know it wasn’t the original (that happened to me, I heard the clean version first and thought it was the og). Admittedly, “famefucker” fits more thematically for the leech-like implications of feeding off someone else’s fame, but I like the clean one better because “dreamcrusher” is more widely relatable than “famefucker” while still packing the same punch that the original does, if not more. I also just really love the way she sings the word. Edit: I forgot the clean version of Vampire also changes “goddamn vampire” to “damn vampire,” which… I don’t know what the purpose of that was because the word and meaning is practically the same. Anyway, the silent beat before “damn” to fill in where the previous syllable would have been (perhaps accidentally) creates the effect of the singer sounding overwhelmed or choked up, another reason I prefer the clean version.
100% right. Drinking wine as a teenager in France? No problem and as a result they do indeed have no problem with binge drinking teenagers. Buying weed in the Netherlands? No problem. As a result no problem with stoners. In 'Murica they ban all that shit and as a result have the most problems with it. One more example: nudity in France, eg on tv. Pas de probleme. It's natural, in 'Murica the entire country explodes if there's a nipple on tv. Such a stupid country.
I've heard bleeps and silence but I don't believe I've ever actually heard them replace a word. When I was little, my dad took some songs that he liked and manually edited the words out of them, replacing them with other words from the songs. I never knew the difference because I didn't follow the lyrics at all.
Almost every song that plays on the radio has a clean version with stuff like this. Bartender song by Rehab is a good example of an original and a clean
You may not even realize that what you’re hearing is the radio version because of the way they edit it. A prime old school example is Jay Z - can I get a… now the real version does not say - a what what. 😂😂😂
I detest censorship. When my sons were young they weren’t allowed to cuss, but if they were singing a song with cuss words it was ok. One time, I had the middle one with me running an errand and he was singing a song I had on my phone aux’ed to play through the radio. He was skipping over the cuss words in a song. He liked making songs into duets with me and it was throwing me off. I told him, “Dude, you’re driving me crazy. It’s ok to say cuss words if it’s in a song.” Without missing a beat (pun not intended), he replied, “🎶Then I shall siiiiing everything that I saaaaayyy!🎶” I quickly said, “That doesn’t count!” We cracked up laughing 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 He was about 10 years old at the time. He’s 27 now and if we’re hanging out and a song comes on we both know he still sings along with me 🥰
Ok, this always weirded me out. The US censor profanities in any way, shape or form, God forbid a kid hears it, but they are all willy nilly with their gun laws? Priorities, people!!!
YES, a lot of kids deal with the fact that they might die (because the gun lovers think their right to own mini-guns js better than children dying) but noOOooOo there is a “hell” in this song, censor it. i had my first lockdown in second grade, i was told it was when someone came in to kill us, something is wrong with our country
Actually gun laws are very strict. You can’t walk around with a gun in your hand, need a license to conceal carry, can’t bring a gun on public property, need a license to manufacture guns, etc. look up the federal fire arms act. Also, the atf will change their interpretation of the law and make things illegal overnight
@@1Thunderfire And you look at the demographics associated with gun crime and you'll find that it's pretty consistent. It's the groups that idolize gangsters and thugs rapping about guns, drugs, and women.
In Spain they don' t beep but have guidelines on which content should be emited in the afternoon hours ( apt for children ) and which should be after nine pm.
That seems reasonable to me. As a parent, I made a point of watching whatever my kids were interested in, because I'm more concerned with messaging than language. There are shows billed as 'family-friendly' yet the parents are foolish and the children rude--no one in the family behaves with kindness or respect! I'd rather see (non-graphic) conflict that makes good & evil clear, than to have people who supposedly love each other being sarcastic and mean.
"For the children" is the most disgusting and hypocritical excuse from adults edit: finally it's my turn. Mum I'm famous and thank you for never banning me from 18+ contents
@@ppppanacea4996 especially in the USA, where corporal punishment of children is legal… and in some states (like Texas and Florida) even corporal punishment in schools is allowed… whereas in European countries both are strictly forbidden…
@@m.s.3041 While allowed I can't recall it ever being used in public schools in many years I did see in private schools. In Georgia it was legal (and probably still is) when I was in school and it was never used in any of the public schools I attended but I did see it happen occasionally in private religious schools. This is nearly 20 years ago now.
YO this is the one thing so far that I can truly get behind! Censorship in America is dumb and awful. We all know every swears and its like if you hear it on TV, the radio or outside your house, the world is going to implode. So sad really.
@@christopherbgsted4749 Person. It's surprising, I feel like I'm expressing myself clearly. This is the world in which his friend lives, whom I call Care Bear.
Fun fact time! The French played a major part in influencing what is regarded as _bad_ words in the English language. When the French ruled over England, the French language was held in high regard since it was spoken by the educated nobles. English was spoken by ignorant, illiterate peasants. Words such as "p!ss" and "sh!t" became derogatory, while the French equivalents "urine" and "excrement" were and still are considered much more acceptable.
@@zackgravity7284same thing. Invasion of Normandy in 1066 was French conquering English people who spoke the “vulgar” (common) languages. That’s also why we have different words for the animal when it’s alive vs when it’s eaten. Poor English couldn’t afford to eat beef, but they raised them as cows-see also: pork and mutton vs pig and sheep. All they could eat that they raised was chicken, so that’s why it’s always called chicken as food or animal.
@@Skittlebishiit was the Norman Conquest. it wasn't the French, but there were French. William the Conqueror, a Norman, had a claim to the throne. Normans were actual viking Norsemen. they had claimed Normandy, which is part of France. that's what brought the French influence over.
I'll never forget what they did to 'Glad You came.' How do you hand someone a dance? You can only hand someone a noun, you can't hand someone a verb. And considering "drink" can technically refer to any beverage, I'm kind of surprised even Kidz Bop felt the need to change it.
I’ll never forget sitting on the third floor of a McDonald’s in Amsterdam munching on my “farmer fries” and watching kids play nearby only to hear a full on “motherfer” drop in the song playing over the speakers. Definitely ranks in my top five favorite moments abroad as an American.
Remembering back to the release of Teenagers by My Chemical Romance, where in addition to bleeping out "shit".... they also bleeped "cog in the [murder] machine" which definitely didn't make it sound like it should have been "effing" machine. And of course, "what you've got under your [shirt]" because... yeah, censoring the word shirt helps so much.....
I love when censoring makes it worse. It's a fun game too, taking turns needlessly censoring titles or quotes. "A **** by any other name would smell as sweet" and so on.
It was so funny when Sabrina Carpenter was on a french TV live evening show bc they played an extract of her song and all her fans in the public sang along. When she heard the "choir" singing "motherfucker" she gasped and said "you're allowed to say that on TV 😮?! " 🤣🤣 The host told her that she could say whatever the fluff she wanted and invited her to say it loud if it was her fancy 😂😂
The beeping is so weird to me (Dutch). To me it feels like emphasising the words. Its draws much more attention than the word itself. And its so prudish on tv as well! We dont have a problem with (full frontal) nudity and swear words at all, and that seems healthy to me. The more you repress things, the more interesting they become.
Exactly, and we should never change this in NL. Educate kids and they probably are more likely to be more responsible teenagers/adults instead of trying to supress or forbid certain behavior for whatever insignificant reason i.e. trying to make them act not (totally) like themself.
Me and my friends were all swearing like sailors by the end of the first week of fourth grade (~9 years old), so it's pointless on those grounds. Ever since I've just assumed that all but the littlest or most sheltered kids are cursing the moment they're out of earshot of the adults.
@@jeanrose1627 Yeah, but then he does get punished for using 'wrong' words in a press conference. Where he can't speak his own language and HAS to speak English. Honestly, it makes me so angry! It happened to Yuki Tsunoda too. Let them speak their own language and the English speaking hypocrites won't be so offended.
@nathanlonghair free speech just means you can’t go to jail for saying something, if a company wants to censor something that’s their prerogative so you can listen to that station or change it.
@@francois-xavieresperance5007A news Chanel like FOX or a guy like Alex Jones wouldn’t last a day in France. The level of libel and defamation one is allowed to do in the US without facing any legal action is actually why US politics is so insane and dangerous. I also think it’s a good thing you can be sued over calling people racial slurs publicly.
@@immersivewerksFree Speech isn’t about the form, it’s about the essence, the content. Getting the idea out is the most important. That’s what France loves to censor, the content, not the form. Nobody cares if you say “shit” or “shoot”.
@@johnhughes2124we don't riot as much as you guys think....what is more often used against the government decision is strikes...riots comes only when the strike don't have any result.
@@johnhughes2124 The "smallest things" you're talking about will end up being big things down the line if we do not take care of them. It's like doing the dishes, it is better to do it now rather than wait and suffer through a mountain of plates.
If I recall right, American censorship of swearing has to do with consent and public policy weighed against freedom of speech. So, the idea is that if you wear or broadcast something in a public place (including public access television, radio, etc.) with language that large percentages of the population are likely based on general community norms to find offensive, it is considered an interference with the rights of others. You are allowed and honestly encouraged to find an alternative space to express yourself that the community understands to be reserved for that purpose, such as placing music on services like Spotify where there is some capacity for parents or whoever to actively choose whether or not to participate.
Whenever I see stuff like "mother effer," or "shut the front door," my mind automatically goes to the real swear words anyway, so I always thought this was silly and puritanical.
I DON'T believe in telling other people what to do. However....why do people want to put dirt in their brains? (Not trying to insult anyone....just genuinely curious.)
@@MarisaFrasure Thats nice of you, but I will be THRILLED to insult them for you! Because they are LOW CLASS! They are just ONE step above an animal, as they have been told their entire lives, so they ACT like it and TALK like it and THINK like it! They make GREAT pets!
What swear word is "shut the front door" replacing? I genuinely don't know. I have no problems with other people swearing, but I personally don't swear at all and never have, so they just aren't a part of my vocabulary in the same way they are with most people.
The only time something is bleeped here in Norway it's because it's personal or sensitive information like the name of an anonymous person or birth number for anyone; or it's a program produced in USA or by an American company. Or it's purely for comedic effect, either poorly bleeping a tame swearword so you hear the word anyway and the bleep just lampshades it more; or it's bleeping innocuous adjectives and adverbs so it makes it sound like people are swearing (quite often followed by some over the top swears completely uncensored). We really don't care about swearing or consensual sexual content in art. In film rating violence is rated highest And most American action films that managed to get a PG 13 or whatever by limiting itself to one swearword and cutting out one visible nipple; ends up with a 16 or 18 year rating because of the violence which USA apparently doesn't care about. Ironically (only to Americans) a film without any violence but lots of "bad language" and sexual references (i.e. brief simulated sex scenes, non sexual nudity doesn't even matter) will probably just get a 12 year rating.
And that's mainly because a film with lots of swearing and sexual themes probably contains a lot of dark themes and is not a comprehensible story for a child anyway. I'm almost certain that (unless the film studio has strict rules against it) that the Norwegian dubbing of American children's animation films have had minced oaths like "darn" and "shoot" etc. dubbed into actual Norwegian swearwords. Unless the character is supposed to be comically repressed, it simply sounds very unnatural to not swear when in pain or annoyed in Norwegian.
You do occasionally see strings of swearing get bleeped, but only when the actual words are irrelevant to the context. If it’s just one word, and it’s just swearing and not a slur, it’s not going to get bleeped (and even really bad slurs aren’t bleeped if knowing the exact word used is necessary for the context).
Yeah, all comes down to the civilization. European one is a culture of non-violence, irreligious and no morals or ethics. American one has a culture of self-defense, combat, while still largely not secularized and still religious.
@@razahassan8756 wtf!? There's something really wrong about a society where violence is more common than sex. How many times a week are you physically fighting people!?
We really need to cool it with the swearing sensitivity. It’s like the US wants the world to bend to the children rather than teach the children what is and isn’t appropriate and in what context
What do you expect from a nation that is too immature to say 'toilet' or 'arse', so uses nonsensical replacements believing that everyone knows what they MEAN anyhow. Is it not the MEANING that is assumed to offend?! "What's in a name? A rose by any other name ...". SMH
I feel like the US is very hypocritical in how they treat kids sometimes. People act like a kid hearing a swear word is going to ruin their life but then actively ignore or justify real abuse. And I’m saying this as someone in the US. I swear so much “someone please think of the children!” mentality is actually about control and not the wellbeing of kids.
@@thetruebadevil especially because the USA is one of the few or even the only one developed country who hasn’t signed the un children rights and even allowing corporal punishment, which isn’t allowed in most countries when not even all countries of the EU…
@@m.s.3041Huh?! Corporal punishment is not allowed anywhere in the US! Even if something wasn't signed, every state has agencies that forbid it. You will permanently lose your job and potentially serve prison time.
You are a decent person and dont let the peer pressure from the degenerates shame you NOT to be a good, classy person. GOOD people will respect you, and even many bad people will respect you! Try it out and see!
Greetings to all countries (except US and Vatikan...) for all their individual creative way of cussing ❤ My personal favorites: Arabic language Spanish language Scotland Ireland Austria Australia
Kinda reminds me how movies was treated in Sweden as I grew up in the 90s.....sexy girls, sex scenes and all that....noooo problem..kids can handle that......ultra violent scene like the fight where Dolph gets impaled fight Van damme in Universal soldier....Censored for the sake of the kids. I heard it was the complete opposite in the US to how thye handles sex vs violence there.
Yep! Though … if I had to choose between the two, I am biased towards the American generalization because of my own biases (squeamish around the s*x stuff but not as much towards blood and stuff).
Definitely prefer the Swedish version as an American who is sensitive to visual gore. Sex scenes can be uncomfortable to watch with family or something, but I'd rather that than the nightmares from excessive gore.
Spain here, we don't do that either. Most children don't listen to the radio and even if they do, it is in another language, so no real reason to do it 😅
TV watching today in the US is streaming, like Game of thrones and music is digital, not on radio, which very few people actually listen to. This means there is little to no censorship anymore. This invalidates your point.
I'm from Québec and, one time, back in elementary school, I went on a school road trip to the US. The thing that I remember the most from it is the teachers in the bus telling us not to swear too much because it would shock the Americans. Swearing is pretty much part of our cultural heritage, here 😭
That’s so interesting, based on the comments the taboo around swearing seems to be rapidly dying in the US. I wouldn’t have guessed people outside the US had that perception of Americans because most people around me growing up in America did not care.
Once a teacher at my kids school almost said a bad word but pulled it in. She still apologise. I was trying to not laugh then one of the kids said “I have heard worst” I then laughed
Not really, no. Has nothing to do with religion. cursing does to some degree (since it just looks bad) but actual bad words I have absolutely nothing to do with religion.
It has very little to do with religious belief. I would also argue that this treatment of profanity has waned in the United States but I speak from the northeast and urban perspective where it really doesn't matter anymore but I have been to other places in the country where "Goddamn" is still treated as it was in the 1930s. Lmao.
@@lexivonhelsen Yes and No. The original meaning of the very word profanity specifically derives from the prohibition on taking the name of God/the Lord in vain in Christianity.
I think its important to teach kids context about swear words. Like time and place and age that certain words are appropriate. Then they dont really get that phase where they get to highschool and swear in every other word, because its not something new and exciting
Borat was PG7 (!!!) in Sweden and as a kid me and my family (I was 8 and my sister 10) went to see it in the cinema 😂, because all the trailers made it look pretty harmless and it got really good reviews. I don’t think I’ve ever seen my parents which are in no way conservative or religious, so uncomfortable and full of shame as during those hours, especially when walking out after the end credits as the only family with kids in the movie theater full of teenagers and adults 💀💀 It was also the only time I’ve seen my mom go somewhat Karen on the employees at the cinema being visibly upset that kids was allowed to see the movie (I mean we could all have left early if it was so bad, but we still stayed the whole movie 😅)
@@nestorsaronte3387when I first heard about the PG system, I thought they meant Pegi. Why do we even have different age rating systems in Europe and America.... And more importantly: why do we have different age rating systems for movies and video games? That one never made sense to me
@@Shashu_the_little_Voidling PEGI is a European system, but ratings for cinema are usually national. Different "juristictions" following different criteria
@@Shashu_the_little_Voidling and as to why ratings differ from country to country, I guess it seems logical that a conservative country and a more liberal one will want to advocate or restrict different contents to different age categories.
Well, as usual, a sensible balance is always the best thing. Here in Italy rude words are quite normalized both in media and in everyday life, but there is a social norm of avoiding saying that in front of kids, or at least trying so. If I do slip one in front of my kids, it's never an insult directed to a person, but it's rather the equivalent of "oh shit" or something like that. In those cases I do apologize and explain that those words are not suitable for kids despite non being inherently bad, just like wine. Songs contain a lot of swearing or sex-related lyrics too, and a song straight up including the word "sex" in the catchy chorus being repeatedly played at my preschooler's summer camp provided us with a great opportunity to discuss the difference between "cuddles" and "adult cuddles".
I think we swear a lot in UK too. Attitudes have definitely changed towards swearing when I was a kid 40 years ago. Now people swear as if they're just normal words.
The US: I can’t believe you guys would allow language like that to be aired! The EU: And we can’t believe you would ever elect Donald Trump as president, but here we are.
If you can still express your ideas without strong language, it's not censorship. You can have sex, watch porn, please yourself but you do it in privacy, you have your phallos or vagina but you can't show it in public (other than devoted places). Profanity is the same: it must be hidden. It's strong language which is forbidden or very undesirable in public by definition. Allow profanity, and it disappears. F* becomes a word as acceptable as hello, it's not profanity any more. You can still listen to f* versions in privacy, noone deprives you of that right. I'm usually with France by not this time. I don't want to hear profanity in public places. Let it remain private domain.
@@NathanLongacre-jo6cxin Europe we don't censor songs or bleep words people say in radio/tv. And we don't get arrested for different opinions either.
You are right. It’s because if you hear a rapper or any other genre music that tends to be more vulgar and/or uses a lot of profanity… you are already very aware of that fact. So the replacement only makes you think of what you think. They would’ve said because you were predicting it while listening to the song in the first place.
Idk why people in the comments act like the original just disappears when a censored version comes out. The original is still up to stream with all the swears. Giving people who don’t like swear words an option doesn’t seem like that big of an issue
In Italy a couple years ago there was a very popular song that had the word "ass" in the chorus and they had kids dance to it in summer camps lol I've never heard censored songs on the radio but on tv you cannot have any swear words or adult themes before 9 pm
@@matthewm9261for what purpose? I can see how some words are inherently misogynistic, but how are ‘butt’ or ‘poop’ more virtuous to say than ‘ass’ or ‘shit’?
I use a streaming service that I pay for and I live alone. I wish I could disable all of the censored songs so I could hear them as the artists intended. It's so irritating when it picks the censored ones!
In the movie Pineapple Express, there's a line something like "They messed with the wrong melon farmers" which is funny because apparently "melon farmer" was used to censor one or more movies so they could be shown on TV (instead of "mother F***er") 😂
Pardon my French actually came from the Norman Conquest of England. The nobles spoke French while the peasants spoke Old English so it was like humble bragging.
From both a British and Australian perspective, the US is very weird and uptight about swearing and other verbal vulgarities. Here in Australia, it's pretty unsurprising to hear a morning show host casually say the word "sh*t" on TV and most people wouldn't be bothered if a song on the radio contained swearing. Though growing up on the likes of Rodney Rude probably helped with the currently prevalent attitudes, haha.
Same in Germany. media is not required to censor the language. Some shows do it anyways. Mostly during day time TV. I guess it started when talk shows were introduced in the 90s and the american beeping was immitaded for dramatic effect. Before that people simply watched their language. But Movies etc are usually uncensored. And parents are expected to monitor what their kids watch. If they watch a show which isn't child friendly it is their falt for allowong their kids to watch it and not the other way around. This is the attitude towards most things - if you don't like it then don't consume it.
Lol I never played the censored versions for my kids. They grew up learning the difference between cursing at a someone and at the situation. They learned that sometimes harsh words were used to convey the feeling needed and by censoring you diluted that feeling.
For Europeans, the culture is changing in the US. Regulations just aren't keeping up, which is why media might give you the impression we care a lot. In the US, the only thing close to a rule is just try not to swear in front of kids. Aside from that, no one really cares. Most people aren't too anal about it around teenagers either. We know they say worse. They might as well learn how to swear correctly. Most people think swear words are no big deal until they hear a child misusing it in wildly inappropriate or just embarrassing ways. I honestly think Americans care more about that.
@@OatmealTheCrazy - there's no exception in the Constitution, and that's supposed to be the highest law in the land. Any other laws saying otherwise are therefore not valid, even though they often are enforced.
@@OatmealTheCrazy "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" where does it say "no swears" here?
The censorship of words is one thing. The other thing is when a song is just about treating women as objects and shit. And then they censor out the word “bitch”. Like bruh… that Word is not what makes the song misogynistic
Exactly and that’s why when US celebs are invited in TV shows in France to promote things they have a blast because they can talk freely and curse if they see it fit. Most of the time the TV host encourages them to 😂
If you don't hear it from your parents, you hear it from other 6yo kids who did hear it from their parents, sooo... it's crazy and it's even crazier how many words are social media banning... that wouldn't happen if they were based in Europe O.O
sometimes to me it feels like blatant censorship draws more attention to the cursing than the profanity itself
For real
It reminds me of that Sesame Street' video. "The Count censored". (you probably already know it) It's a perfect example of how you can turn an innocent song into something way "worse" by replacing some innocent words by beeps...
Indeed, look up "clean filth" by Patton Oswalt.
This
Definitely does. I wasn't censored this way and I have a way better understanding on how and when to use these words than most people I meet
Honestly making WAP! sound pg is such a ludicrous idea to begin with. It’s like “Ok people how can we make this erotica movie kids friendly?”
No it’s more like “how can we make p**n hub a more kid friendly site?” Like the literal intent of the song is not to be kid friendly💀
@@softfrickenmango6044 yeah fr I don’t understand why content that is not nor has ever been intended for kids needs to be watered down and fed to kids?
Exactly. Just don't play it on the radio at that point.
Yeah seriously just don’t play it atp
The Kids Bop version
Americans will censor “fuck” or a pair of boobs but will show aggressive violence and gun use in a kid’s show. Blows my mind.
...quite literally.
As a European, I agree.
Unfortunately, puritans still have a lot of power in the US.
The violence is fake. Nobody is actually being shot or killed. The profanity and nudity is real. Scripted, but still real -- the actors really are swearing and undressing.
They usually don't have much violence or gun use in kids' shows that I know of. In media for teens and adults, absolutely.
At least guns don’t make you pregnant and bring shame to your family. /s
I remember as a kid we made a joke about "talking American" where one of us would move their mouth as if they were talking and the other kid would make a long beep sound. Because that was our impression as Dutch kids of American tv.
We did that even here in America lmao. And also holding up our middle finger on one hand and then waving the fingers of the other hand in front as if "blurring" or "pixelating" it.
Jimmy Kimmel also has a gag he calls Unnecessary Censorship, where he censors random parts of video clips from public media to turn innocent clips into looking or sounding totally wrong _because_ of the censorship adding vagueness to the context 😂 which is a good point, there were times when something was censored on TV and it just made it more vague. Once someone was asking a character about something in a show I was watching, and it censored a word out like "oh so-and-so, I didn't know you were ____" I looked over and I thought they must have said something awful like about r*pe or being attacked or that they were dying. The word censored out was still in the captions at the bottom though. Pregnant. "Pregnant" was the awful disgusting word they couldn't say on public TV, and made the scene sound even worse when actually nothing dark or dirty was said.
Hahha I love this
@@-desertpackrat I love how you censor the worde rape :P
LMMFAOOOOOO ! ! ! 😂😂😂
They need to censor a lot more in Quebec. It’s disgusting how they swear and talk filth in music and movies.
America: Freedom of Speech!!!
Also, America: No! You shouldn't say that!😭😭
Freedom of speech does not mean that venues aren't allowed to ban profanity.
@@kilerog profanity is arbitrary, that makes the censoring biased.
@@kilerogif they would ban any religious remarks as well then I would be ok with it.
The phrase “pardon my French” comes from a time when people thought women didn’t know cuss words at all and men weren’t supposed to cuss around women, so when they let a cuss word slip, they pretended they were speaking another language (French) that the women didn’t know and apologized because it was rude to speak a language unknown to someone in the conversation.
This is so unbelievably naive and I love it.
This is a very fun fact lmao
My husband said "fuck" the other day. I fainted, and his manservant had to fetch the smelling salts.
If it's naïve, it's american. I hope not being rude.
omg 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
me as a European never got why the US makes such a big deal out of never saying swear words. I don't feel like any other country cares lol xD
They seem to have such an “all or nothing” approach to swearing rather than the sliding scale I’m used to in Norway (the same programme might bleep a string of random swear words shouted in frustration if the exact words aren’t the point, but not censor swearing if it’s just one swear word used as an intensifier).
@ragnkja
Yeah in Germany you can use words like shit, asshole... in TV, but I think they would draw the line at cunt and similar stuff
In Portugal some words are censored but I think is more when it’s a lot of them when is one most don’t censor also they in my anecdotal evidence they censor more local songs than foreigners another thing is that the bad word is just muted.
I was very surprised when I discovered kidz bops that’s some embarrassment sht😂
Culture.
Because of the fucking puritans they ruined everything here
Little sucker ruining the song is so real 😭 there were so many better options (for example I’ve heard “i beg you don’t embarrass me like the others”)
"I beg you, don't embarrass me, mother trucker" would've unironically been better and that's saying a lot. I personally prefer "honey butter", "not at supper", "in front of mother", or "little lover".
That's what I've been hearing on the radio in Australia @@2wickie686
Still going with “did I stutter” as the best optioj
@@Bleep__13 OH THAT'S AMAZING OMG
also username checks out
@@2wickie686 I chuckled at this comment because "mother trucker" is the censor word used in that song for Irish radio stations. I honestly had no idea that other Anglophone countries got different censor versions, I thought they'd all have the same one lol
"I'm sure they hear much worse from their parents." That's a good point. It's accurate for both French and American families.
Especially in the car 🤣🤣🤣
Definitely true of my father
Yeah my parents always get really worried when we're watching TV and smth comes up. As if I don't hear all that stuff at school 🙄
Yes, I first learned swearing from my mum, not her intention but when you swear around young children they’ll pick it up. I got into a lot of trouble for that… but also online, as a kid I learned a lot of other words I probably shouldn’t have known/repeated.
I honestly think bleeping out “bad words” is worse than just keeping them in. It gives a lot more attention to those words and makes kids much more interested in them.
Yep. I always went to find the album version after hearing the bleeped words on the radio.
Tommy Cash has a lyric 'I fucked your *beep* in vietnam'. I had listened to that song dozens of times before I even noticed he was cussing before the beep..
Censoring it makes it out to be something you SHOULD notice, like its something to be afraid of for some crazy reason. Not censoring just leaves it as what it is; a noise.
on the flip side, it's just intensely uncomfortable listening to jungkook sing about "i'll be fucking you 7 days a week" instead of "i'll be loving you." like listening to your daughter talk about her sexual preferences...
Bleeps are funny though
@@IceFireTerry Yup, and kids catch on to them being for something else very quickly 😝
A lot of European countries don't beep out. Netherlands for example.
Even the concept of beeping is so crazy for as a German… words are just words…
@@hvwees yep! To my knowledge it’s more common across English speaking countries like UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada etc
Basically every country in Europe allows swearing on TV and the radio. Never heard a censored version of a song on the radio once in my life, except when visiting the US lol.
We do know bleeping very well tho, bc my generation grew up on MTV and obviously they censored the shit out of everything and they just didn't undo it for the European versions of their channels. But those were only the reality shows. Anything wich was dubbed, wasn't censored, altho I know that many swear words get smoothed out during translation.
RTL does bleep from time to time, wich is ridiculous given how obscene their content is, but I think it's rather a stylistic choice to make it seem more harsh than it actually was. I can't watch those shows, it all seems like a parody of the old MTV reality shows
@@royaventurera Australia actually leans way more to the French side of this than the US lol
But Aussies swear a shit tonne anyway 😂
beeping shit out is pretty hilarious, remember than ameribros are virtually always the exception
The kids all hear the original songs these days, so not sure why we are still “cleaning it up” for radio. When I was a kid, we didn’t have anything else. So if you didn’t own the cd, you were out of luck
I mean, why are we cleaning up anything after T-Mobile and Kids Bop both used Side by Side- Ariana Grande 😂
Well it's an American tradition at this point. 😅
If they’re searching for those songs in the first place, that bridge has long since been crossed
I feel like that’s the problem. While there’s nothing wrong with swearing inherently, swearing has traditionally been associated with crassness. The more a society allows even a small but nasty behavior through, more nasty behavior follows. This is the whole point of desensitization. If you allow a little violence on TV, the next decade shows more violence, then the next decade onwards. While I don’t think this leads to more violence or less empathy per se, it can lead to desensitization in other areas. The rude behavior that adults are now seeing among children growing in America is likely due to this type of desensitization. Especially feeling like the reactions of others, probably even their own, doesn’t matter because to them, as they say, “what’s the point?”
I was in my 30s when I realized some song lyrics
The french have a point. Kids media feels “sterile” even to kids because they will always hear the stuff that is censored from their parents shows that they overhear or from them saying something out of anger/frustration.
@@NathanLongacre-jo6cx I want what you're smoking
But what if it’s a good family?
@@NathanLongacre-jo6cxOMFGEE you are so miss informed 😂😂😂😂😂
@NathanLongacre-jo6cx You are thinking Germany and the "opinions" that you think should be freely expressed concern riling up the masses by very publicly denying the holocaust or enciting violence against other people. Severely insulting someone in a public setting can technically be fined, but it is super rare and mostly exists, so law-enforcement can step in and de-escalate before people actually get hurt.
BTW complete freedom of speech exists nowhere. I dare you to start spouting terroristic threats in an American airport or trying to trash talk a police officer (particularly if you aren't caucasian).
I actually use a program to filter my movies and tv-- even as an adult I don't like to hear cussing 😆 I've never heard my parents cuss, and I don't cuss when I get hurt because I don't cuss in private and absolutely never around my children. It's all about keeping good habits
In Finnish, there's even a special grammatical mood related to cursing, the aggressive. There's a doctoral dissertation about it.
Wait, is this for real? I want to find that!!
Now *_that's_* something you wouldn't learn in a class!
Not surprised, considering finnish has like... 16 grammatical moods. There are only so many use cases you can give a word.
@@ravenvictoria412 According to Wikipedia, Finnish has four moods...
@@leacnnmn really now? I guess I was too quick to trust my finnish friend.
I think i once heard someone say "oh it's because the us was built as a religious country"
Man... Italy has some of the most disgustingly unhingend cuss words and speakers of so in the world, especially ones that would be recounted as blasphemy, and yet we've got the vatican.
Not just "religious." The puritans were religious extremists who got kicked out of other places, so they came here and bullied the natives. So that paired with actual cut-throat capitalists from places like Jamestown and et voila - les États-Unis!
Yeah but Italia was not FOUNDED by religious people. It has a long history of religion, but Italian culture has been around since before Christianity even existed. You had some pretty ruthless 'gods' in your history.
@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies hm... you know i actually never thought about that, that's a good point.
US isn't just full of religious people. It's full of the religious groups that were thrown out of Europe for acting too pious.
That's especially funny because the Bible has a lot of words and phrases that would have been considered cuss words or objectionable insults at the time. People are called fools all the time in the Bible, and at the time, that was a pretty big deal. It was almost like walking into a church and dropping the f-bomb it was that serious
"like the others" was so much better imo
Agreed
It's what I sing 😭
I also sing "Garlic Butter" and "Mark Zucker," but those aren't on purpose, and more so a certain reference popping up in my head
Seriously, there are some censored versions done so well that I prefer them over the original, but they’re so few and far between. One example is Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo, which replaces “famefucker” with “dreamcrusher” and “fucked up little thrill” with “tragic little thrill.” It does it in a way that still fits the tone of the song and you’d never know it wasn’t the original (that happened to me, I heard the clean version first and thought it was the og). Admittedly, “famefucker” fits more thematically for the leech-like implications of feeding off someone else’s fame, but I like the clean one better because “dreamcrusher” is more widely relatable than “famefucker” while still packing the same punch that the original does, if not more. I also just really love the way she sings the word.
Edit: I forgot the clean version of Vampire also changes “goddamn vampire” to “damn vampire,” which… I don’t know what the purpose of that was because the word and meaning is practically the same. Anyway, the silent beat before “damn” to fill in where the previous syllable would have been (perhaps accidentally) creates the effect of the singer sounding overwhelmed or choked up, another reason I prefer the clean version.
It turns out if you don't make a big deal about it, it's not a big deal!
100% right. Drinking wine as a teenager in France? No problem and as a result they do indeed have no problem with binge drinking teenagers. Buying weed in the Netherlands? No problem. As a result no problem with stoners. In 'Murica they ban all that shit and as a result have the most problems with it. One more example: nudity in France, eg on tv. Pas de probleme. It's natural, in 'Murica the entire country explodes if there's a nipple on tv. Such a stupid country.
I say exactly the same thing ALL the time!!
Same with sex education
That’s not how that works
@@maximusasauluk7359ayoooo 🤨📸
I've heard bleeps and silence but I don't believe I've ever actually heard them replace a word. When I was little, my dad took some songs that he liked and manually edited the words out of them, replacing them with other words from the songs. I never knew the difference because I didn't follow the lyrics at all.
The examples I give in the video are all real examples of how these songs sound in their clean version 😅
Almost every song that plays on the radio has a clean version with stuff like this. Bartender song by Rehab is a good example of an original and a clean
Mtv with its beeps it's just ridiculous.
What an ingenious and amusing skit!
You may not even realize that what you’re hearing is the radio version because of the way they edit it. A prime old school example is Jay Z - can I get a… now the real version does not say - a what what. 😂😂😂
I detest censorship. When my sons were young they weren’t allowed to cuss, but if they were singing a song with cuss words it was ok. One time, I had the middle one with me running an errand and he was singing a song I had on my phone aux’ed to play through the radio. He was skipping over the cuss words in a song. He liked making songs into duets with me and it was throwing me off. I told him, “Dude, you’re driving me crazy. It’s ok to say cuss words if it’s in a song.” Without missing a beat (pun not intended), he replied, “🎶Then I shall siiiiing everything that I saaaaayyy!🎶” I quickly said, “That doesn’t count!” We cracked up laughing 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 He was about 10 years old at the time. He’s 27 now and if we’re hanging out and a song comes on we both know he still sings along with me 🥰
Awww that’s cute
Ok, this always weirded me out. The US censor profanities in any way, shape or form, God forbid a kid hears it, but they are all willy nilly with their gun laws? Priorities, people!!!
YES, a lot of kids deal with the fact that they might die (because the gun lovers think their right to own mini-guns js better than children dying) but noOOooOo there is a “hell” in this song, censor it. i had my first lockdown in second grade, i was told it was when someone came in to kill us, something is wrong with our country
How so? Just look at places like Chicago. Some of the strictest gun laws in the country, and also the highest rate of gun crime.
Actually gun laws are very strict. You can’t walk around with a gun in your hand, need a license to conceal carry, can’t bring a gun on public property, need a license to manufacture guns, etc. look up the federal fire arms act. Also, the atf will change their interpretation of the law and make things illegal overnight
@@evanbrown4820And yet other countries that don't treat guns like their god-given right have considerably less gun crime pro rata.
@@1Thunderfire And you look at the demographics associated with gun crime and you'll find that it's pretty consistent. It's the groups that idolize gangsters and thugs rapping about guns, drugs, and women.
As an Australian with a deeply rooted desire to see France, this make me happy
Fuck yeah!
You'd be right at home, the French swear A LOT x)
In Spain they don' t beep but have guidelines on which content should be emited in the afternoon hours ( apt for children ) and which should be after nine pm.
That seems reasonable to me. As a parent, I made a point of watching whatever my kids were interested in, because I'm more concerned with messaging than language. There are shows billed as 'family-friendly' yet the parents are foolish and the children rude--no one in the family behaves with kindness or respect! I'd rather see (non-graphic) conflict that makes good & evil clear, than to have people who supposedly love each other being sarcastic and mean.
"For the children" is the most disgusting and hypocritical excuse from adults
edit: finally it's my turn. Mum I'm famous and thank you for never banning me from 18+ contents
"Won't somebody _please_ think of the children!" - noted hypocrite Helen Lovejoy
The fact that parents have no time to educate their kids doesn't mean that the kids won't hear or see explicit stuff elsewhere.
@@ppppanacea4996 especially in the USA, where corporal punishment of children is legal… and in some states (like Texas and Florida) even corporal punishment in schools is allowed… whereas in European countries both are strictly forbidden…
Let's not forget that *sometimes* FORBIDDING is what makes kids OBSESS with the thing / WANT to know more, lmao
@@m.s.3041
While allowed I can't recall it ever being used in public schools in many years I did see in private schools. In Georgia it was legal (and probably still is) when I was in school and it was never used in any of the public schools I attended but I did see it happen occasionally in private religious schools.
This is nearly 20 years ago now.
YO this is the one thing so far that I can truly get behind! Censorship in America is dumb and awful. We all know every swears and its like if you hear it on TV, the radio or outside your house, the world is going to implode. So sad really.
Ok, not really related to video, but WAP for IT folks means Wireless Access Point.
My ex bfs very conservative christain family took in a French foreign exchange student for a month. 😂 that was a wild experience.
At least it put his feet back on Earth and took him out of his world of Care Bears.
@@yannrousseau5437I struggle to understand who exactly you're calling care bears here
Some details are requested 😂
@@christopherbgsted4749 Person. It's surprising, I feel like I'm expressing myself clearly. This is the world in which his friend lives, whom I call Care Bear.
@@yannrousseau5437 So are you saying EU is the care bears?
Fun fact time! The French played a major part in influencing what is regarded as _bad_ words in the English language. When the French ruled over England, the French language was held in high regard since it was spoken by the educated nobles. English was spoken by ignorant, illiterate peasants. Words such as "p!ss" and "sh!t" became derogatory, while the French equivalents "urine" and "excrement" were and still are considered much more acceptable.
It was the normans not the french
@@zackgravity7284same thing. Invasion of Normandy in 1066 was French conquering English people who spoke the “vulgar” (common) languages. That’s also why we have different words for the animal when it’s alive vs when it’s eaten. Poor English couldn’t afford to eat beef, but they raised them as cows-see also: pork and mutton vs pig and sheep. All they could eat that they raised was chicken, so that’s why it’s always called chicken as food or animal.
When the hell did French rule England?!
@@kowaljanowski 1066. William the Conqueror. I learned about it for English degree in college-not something that’s talked about otherwise haha
@@Skittlebishiit was the Norman Conquest. it wasn't the French, but there were French. William the Conqueror, a Norman, had a claim to the throne. Normans were actual viking Norsemen. they had claimed Normandy, which is part of France. that's what brought the French influence over.
This is what goes on at the corporate HQ for Kidz Bop.
I'll never forget what they did to 'Glad You came.'
How do you hand someone a dance? You can only hand someone a noun, you can't hand someone a verb.
And considering "drink" can technically refer to any beverage, I'm kind of surprised even Kidz Bop felt the need to change it.
I’ll never forget sitting on the third floor of a McDonald’s in Amsterdam munching on my “farmer fries” and watching kids play nearby only to hear a full on “motherfer” drop in the song playing over the speakers. Definitely ranks in my top five favorite moments abroad as an American.
Remembering back to the release of Teenagers by My Chemical Romance, where in addition to bleeping out "shit".... they also bleeped "cog in the [murder] machine" which definitely didn't make it sound like it should have been "effing" machine. And of course, "what you've got under your [shirt]" because... yeah, censoring the word shirt helps so much.....
I love when censoring makes it worse. It's a fun game too, taking turns needlessly censoring titles or quotes.
"A **** by any other name would smell as sweet" and so on.
We Italians that have an holyday called "F*ck off Day" 💀
A holy day or a holiday? They’re a little different 😅
@@ambitiously_ holiday pardon.
A holyday in remembrance of Saint Vaffanculo
@@Arawn505 yup. 😤👍
Do you mean Grillo's V Day? That was a political rally, not a holiday at all
It was so funny when Sabrina Carpenter was on a french TV live evening show bc they played an extract of her song and all her fans in the public sang along. When she heard the "choir" singing "motherfucker" she gasped and said "you're allowed to say that on TV 😮?! " 🤣🤣 The host told her that she could say whatever the fluff she wanted and invited her to say it loud if it was her fancy 😂😂
That sounds fun! Is it possible to watch that online now?
@@WahidahCherazade
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@WahidahCherazade Search - Sabrina Carpenter La sensation de l'été - on here. It's the show and where she says that. 3rd clip of her songs I think
The beeping is so weird to me (Dutch). To me it feels like emphasising the words. Its draws much more attention than the word itself. And its so prudish on tv as well! We dont have a problem with (full frontal) nudity and swear words at all, and that seems healthy to me. The more you repress things, the more interesting they become.
Also people just swear. Its what we do, so pointless to censor it.
Exactly, and we should never change this in NL. Educate kids and they probably are more likely to be more responsible teenagers/adults instead of trying to supress or forbid certain behavior for whatever insignificant reason i.e. trying to make them act not (totally) like themself.
That's why i like Max verstappen
He doesn't give a flying f***
Me and my friends were all swearing like sailors by the end of the first week of fourth grade (~9 years old), so it's pointless on those grounds. Ever since I've just assumed that all but the littlest or most sheltered kids are cursing the moment they're out of earshot of the adults.
@@jeanrose1627 Yeah, but then he does get punished for using 'wrong' words in a press conference. Where he can't speak his own language and HAS to speak English. Honestly, it makes me so angry! It happened to Yuki Tsunoda too. Let them speak their own language and the English speaking hypocrites won't be so offended.
Australia radio: lets just beep out 1 letter of the curse lol
I love love love your channel, you are beautiful and your skit are all on point🇨🇦
“The land of free speech”
@francois-xavieresperance5007 and yet you can swear on TV
@nathanlonghair free speech just means you can’t go to jail for saying something, if a company wants to censor something that’s their prerogative so you can listen to that station or change it.
@@francois-xavieresperance5007A news Chanel like FOX or a guy like Alex Jones wouldn’t last a day in France. The level of libel and defamation one is allowed to do in the US without facing any legal action is actually why US politics is so insane and dangerous. I also think it’s a good thing you can be sued over calling people racial slurs publicly.
@@francois-xavieresperance5007 yeah? Tell me more about it, I always thought France was kinda okay when it comes to that topic
@@immersivewerksFree Speech isn’t about the form, it’s about the essence, the content. Getting the idea out is the most important. That’s what France loves to censor, the content, not the form. Nobody cares if you say “shit” or “shoot”.
You make me want to learn French. I love the no bullshit attitude they have.
It does involve learning how to riot over the smallest things
@@johnhughes2124 Because they don't take any bullshit even the smallest.
@@johnhughes2124we don't riot as much as you guys think....what is more often used against the government decision is strikes...riots comes only when the strike don't have any result.
@@johnhughes2124 The "smallest things" you're talking about will end up being big things down the line if we do not take care of them.
It's like doing the dishes, it is better to do it now rather than wait and suffer through a mountain of plates.
It's not just France but all of Europe, we dont care, only crazy usa does this
"Let's be honest, parents probably say worse at home" Golden
ohhh the forget you made me sooo mad when i first heard it. i dont even love the song, but adding the syllable IRKED me 😂
If I recall right, American censorship of swearing has to do with consent and public policy weighed against freedom of speech. So, the idea is that if you wear or broadcast something in a public place (including public access television, radio, etc.) with language that large percentages of the population are likely based on general community norms to find offensive, it is considered an interference with the rights of others. You are allowed and honestly encouraged to find an alternative space to express yourself that the community understands to be reserved for that purpose, such as placing music on services like Spotify where there is some capacity for parents or whoever to actively choose whether or not to participate.
Whenever I see stuff like "mother effer," or "shut the front door," my mind automatically goes to the real swear words anyway, so I always thought this was silly and puritanical.
It is.
I DON'T believe in telling other people what to do. However....why do people want to put dirt in their brains? (Not trying to insult anyone....just genuinely curious.)
@@MarisaFrasure Thats nice of you, but I will be THRILLED to insult them for you! Because they are LOW CLASS! They are just ONE step above an animal, as they have been told their entire lives, so they ACT like it and TALK like it and THINK like it! They make GREAT pets!
It would be better to simply NOT play that garbage on the radio or on tv at all! Thats not art, its filth!
What swear word is "shut the front door" replacing? I genuinely don't know. I have no problems with other people swearing, but I personally don't swear at all and never have, so they just aren't a part of my vocabulary in the same way they are with most people.
The only time something is bleeped here in Norway it's because it's personal or sensitive information like the name of an anonymous person or birth number for anyone; or it's a program produced in USA or by an American company.
Or it's purely for comedic effect, either poorly bleeping a tame swearword so you hear the word anyway and the bleep just lampshades it more; or it's bleeping innocuous adjectives and adverbs so it makes it sound like people are swearing (quite often followed by some over the top swears completely uncensored).
We really don't care about swearing or consensual sexual content in art. In film rating violence is rated highest
And most American action films that managed to get a PG 13 or whatever by limiting itself to one swearword and cutting out one visible nipple; ends up with a 16 or 18 year rating because of the violence which USA apparently doesn't care about. Ironically (only to Americans) a film without any violence but lots of "bad language" and sexual references (i.e. brief simulated sex scenes, non sexual nudity doesn't even matter) will probably just get a 12 year rating.
And that's mainly because a film with lots of swearing and sexual themes probably contains a lot of dark themes and is not a comprehensible story for a child anyway.
I'm almost certain that (unless the film studio has strict rules against it) that the Norwegian dubbing of American children's animation films have had minced oaths like "darn" and "shoot" etc. dubbed into actual Norwegian swearwords. Unless the character is supposed to be comically repressed, it simply sounds very unnatural to not swear when in pain or annoyed in Norwegian.
You do occasionally see strings of swearing get bleeped, but only when the actual words are irrelevant to the context. If it’s just one word, and it’s just swearing and not a slur, it’s not going to get bleeped (and even really bad slurs aren’t bleeped if knowing the exact word used is necessary for the context).
Yeah, all comes down to the civilization. European one is a culture of non-violence, irreligious and no morals or ethics. American one has a culture of self-defense, combat, while still largely not secularized and still religious.
What is so bad about bloody & violent scenes in a movie? A child is much more likely to encounter violence in life than sexual activity.
@@razahassan8756 wtf!? There's something really wrong about a society where violence is more common than sex. How many times a week are you physically fighting people!?
We really need to cool it with the swearing sensitivity. It’s like the US wants the world to bend to the children rather than teach the children what is and isn’t appropriate and in what context
What do you expect from a nation that is too immature to say 'toilet' or 'arse', so uses nonsensical replacements believing that everyone knows what they MEAN anyhow.
Is it not the MEANING that is assumed to offend?!
"What's in a name? A rose by any other name ...". SMH
I feel like the US is very hypocritical in how they treat kids sometimes. People act like a kid hearing a swear word is going to ruin their life but then actively ignore or justify real abuse. And I’m saying this as someone in the US. I swear so much “someone please think of the children!” mentality is actually about control and not the wellbeing of kids.
@@thetruebadevil especially because the USA is one of the few or even the only one developed country who hasn’t signed the un children rights and even allowing corporal punishment, which isn’t allowed in most countries when not even all countries of the EU…
@@m.s.3041Huh?! Corporal punishment is not allowed anywhere in the US! Even if something wasn't signed, every state has agencies that forbid it. You will permanently lose your job and potentially serve prison time.
@@Mili-bedili against your children it is allowed in some states… we are talking about children the whole time…
It's about teaching kids about what exists and what is wrong even though it exists.
I'm 17 and I don’t like swearing.
And you can only teach children by beeping out some words?
You are a decent person and dont let the peer pressure from the degenerates shame you NOT to be a good, classy person. GOOD people will respect you, and even many bad people will respect you! Try it out and see!
@@mariannegaarde8662 I got a better idea: dont write crummy songs that NEED to be beeped out? You dont know another word for 'cul' ?
Greetings to all countries (except US and Vatikan...) for all their individual creative way of cussing ❤
My personal favorites:
Arabic language
Spanish language
Scotland
Ireland
Austria
Australia
When someone says " pardon my French" after cursing, my usual reply is, " that wasn't French"!😂😂😂❤
Kinda reminds me how movies was treated in Sweden as I grew up in the 90s.....sexy girls, sex scenes and all that....noooo problem..kids can handle that......ultra violent scene like the fight where Dolph gets impaled fight Van damme in Universal soldier....Censored for the sake of the kids. I heard it was the complete opposite in the US to how thye handles sex vs violence there.
Yep! Though … if I had to choose between the two, I am biased towards the American generalization because of my own biases (squeamish around the s*x stuff but not as much towards blood and stuff).
Definitely prefer the Swedish version as an American who is sensitive to visual gore. Sex scenes can be uncomfortable to watch with family or something, but I'd rather that than the nightmares from excessive gore.
I love your videos, keep up the great work.
Thank you! 😊
WAP just needs to not be on the radio period lmao
But yeah this censorship totally ruins the songs
Spain here, we don't do that either. Most children don't listen to the radio and even if they do, it is in another language, so no real reason to do it 😅
US: sanitize the shit out of songs and definitely don't make them worse in the process
France: "non non non, we don't do this bullshit in France"
TV watching today in the US is streaming, like Game of thrones and music is digital, not on radio, which very few people actually listen to. This means there is little to no censorship anymore. This invalidates your point.
- "Phoque"
- "WHAT ?"
- "Pardon my French"
😂
"fuck G.I."
"WHAT?!?"
"pardon my french: I need to leave"
(faut qu'j'y aille)
^ç^
🦭
Ouate de phoque !
ENCULE!
Its so odd, i was so confused when i watched american tv stuff in original language the first times bcs i didnt know what was beeping all the time
I'm from Québec and, one time, back in elementary school, I went on a school road trip to the US. The thing that I remember the most from it is the teachers in the bus telling us not to swear too much because it would shock the Americans.
Swearing is pretty much part of our cultural heritage, here 😭
If you swear in french canadian most people wont understand you, Caliss!
Pardon! Calin de bin
That’s so interesting, based on the comments the taboo around swearing seems to be rapidly dying in the US. I wouldn’t have guessed people outside the US had that perception of Americans because most people around me growing up in America did not care.
The line read of “eww” has been stuck in my head for a solid half hour now.
Once a teacher at my kids school almost said a bad word but pulled it in. She still apologise. I was trying to not laugh then one of the kids said “I have heard worst” I then laughed
The concept of bad words is generally a religious thing... And French people are not religious like Americans
Not really, no. Has nothing to do with religion. cursing does to some degree (since it just looks bad) but actual bad words I have absolutely nothing to do with religion.
@@lexivonhelsen uhmmm im sure each community has also a set of
Made up “religious” rules
It has very little to do with religious belief. I would also argue that this treatment of profanity has waned in the United States but I speak from the northeast and urban perspective where it really doesn't matter anymore but I have been to other places in the country where "Goddamn" is still treated as it was in the 1930s. Lmao.
@@lexivonhelsen Yes and No. The original meaning of the very word profanity specifically derives from the prohibition on taking the name of God/the Lord in vain in Christianity.
@@grammaticalchainsaw7318 So the pious and purity movement, which are the roots of this bs, are not religiously motivated?
They don't clean the radio in Finland either.
I think here in Australia they just remove the word, so there is a gap. But I'm not sure as some of our media is from America.
I think its important to teach kids context about swear words. Like time and place and age that certain words are appropriate. Then they dont really get that phase where they get to highschool and swear in every other word, because its not something new and exciting
Borat was PG7 (!!!) in Sweden and as a kid me and my family (I was 8 and my sister 10) went to see it in the cinema 😂, because all the trailers made it look pretty harmless and it got really good reviews. I don’t think I’ve ever seen my parents which are in no way conservative or religious, so uncomfortable and full of shame as during those hours, especially when walking out after the end credits as the only family with kids in the movie theater full of teenagers and adults 💀💀
It was also the only time I’ve seen my mom go somewhat Karen on the employees at the cinema being visibly upset that kids was allowed to see the movie (I mean we could all have left early if it was so bad, but we still stayed the whole movie 😅)
ABCDEFU was already using a euphamism, FU is the polite version and don't you forget it!
They also don't care about nudity- I believe they rated Fifty Shades of Grey PG13. But violence they do censor. I 100% prefer that criterion.
The first deadpool movie was pegi 12 in France.
@@kiranor17 PEGI is for video games. And for Deadpool 1 it was restricted to 16 year olds and beyond in France.
@@nestorsaronte3387when I first heard about the PG system, I thought they meant Pegi. Why do we even have different age rating systems in Europe and America.... And more importantly: why do we have different age rating systems for movies and video games? That one never made sense to me
@@Shashu_the_little_Voidling PEGI is a European system, but ratings for cinema are usually national. Different "juristictions" following different criteria
@@Shashu_the_little_Voidling and as to why ratings differ from country to country, I guess it seems logical that a conservative country and a more liberal one will want to advocate or restrict different contents to different age categories.
Well, as usual, a sensible balance is always the best thing.
Here in Italy rude words are quite normalized both in media and in everyday life, but there is a social norm of avoiding saying that in front of kids, or at least trying so. If I do slip one in front of my kids, it's never an insult directed to a person, but it's rather the equivalent of "oh shit" or something like that. In those cases I do apologize and explain that those words are not suitable for kids despite non being inherently bad, just like wine.
Songs contain a lot of swearing or sex-related lyrics too, and a song straight up including the word "sex" in the catchy chorus being repeatedly played at my preschooler's summer camp provided us with a great opportunity to discuss the difference between "cuddles" and "adult cuddles".
I think we swear a lot in UK too. Attitudes have definitely changed towards swearing when I was a kid 40 years ago. Now people swear as if they're just normal words.
America is ridiculous, on the UFC while people are smashing each other in the face they bleep swear words!
Hey, violence never hurt someone! Words on the other hand.....
Lol. That is silly when you think about it. Not censoring the blood but the cuss words
@@GustavoJua15 Everyone has blood; not everyone has a filthy mouth!
this is the first time I’ve heard WAP be replaced with “wet and gushy” 😭
I swear it’s a real version of the song lmao
WAG
They somehow made it worse 😭😭😭
The US: I can’t believe you guys would allow language like that to be aired!
The EU: And we can’t believe you would ever elect Donald Trump as president, but here we are.
UK too. I watch big fat quiz and none of the curse words are bleeped.
In the UK we have the watershed thing. If it's before a certain time you can't say certain words on tv and radio. Think there are exceptions though
Censorship sucks
If you can still express your ideas without strong language, it's not censorship.
You can have sex, watch porn, please yourself but you do it in privacy, you have your phallos or vagina but you can't show it in public (other than devoted places). Profanity is the same: it must be hidden. It's strong language which is forbidden or very undesirable in public by definition.
Allow profanity, and it disappears. F* becomes a word as acceptable as hello, it's not profanity any more.
You can still listen to f* versions in privacy, noone deprives you of that right.
I'm usually with France by not this time. I don't want to hear profanity in public places. Let it remain private domain.
@@NathanLongacre-jo6cx Can you please check your brain?
@@NathanLongacre-jo6cxin Europe we don't censor songs or bleep words people say in radio/tv. And we don't get arrested for different opinions either.
@@gamerboyx8243he has one?
@@NathanLongacre-jo6cx😂
Oh god the American clean versions somehow sound dirtier than the explicit versions 😬
You are right. It’s because if you hear a rapper or any other genre music that tends to be more vulgar and/or uses a lot of profanity… you are already very aware of that fact. So the replacement only makes you think of what you think. They would’ve said because you were predicting it while listening to the song in the first place.
"Wet and gushy."
"...ew"
Roya's reaction 😂
As an American & a Navy veteran, I'm not censoring my speech for shit!
Okay but is your music being played on the radio? No? Cool, no one is asking you to censor your speech.
My late brother was in the Marines....we usually are sympathetic in that regards as a result, as long as common sense is applied
Idk why people in the comments act like the original just disappears when a censored version comes out. The original is still up to stream with all the swears. Giving people who don’t like swear words an option doesn’t seem like that big of an issue
In Italy a couple years ago there was a very popular song that had the word "ass" in the chorus and they had kids dance to it in summer camps lol
I've never heard censored songs on the radio but on tv you cannot have any swear words or adult themes before 9 pm
Censorship creates tabboos which creates a need to rebel. France ain't dumb.
So glad Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift typically just write their own clean versions that actually work with the song.
lame asf
Agree with France here. US with it's false morality and hypocrisy is cringe
Profanity isn't welcome in my home. Hollyweird and america as a whole embraces a pornified society.
@@matthewm9261then don't listen to the songs. Stop expecting the world to cater to you.
@@matthewm9261 You're hilarious. The US is ridiculously prudish about sexual content compared to most of the world
@@matthewm9261for what purpose? I can see how some words are inherently misogynistic, but how are ‘butt’ or ‘poop’ more virtuous to say than ‘ass’ or ‘shit’?
@OatmealTheCrazy so is your premise pornography addiction isn't real, or is it something to be embraced much like gambling or alcohol addiction?
France is so correct on that lol
It’s the same in Norway. Beeping stuff out is weird, if you don’t want your kids to hear curse words then turn on barne-TV
I use a streaming service that I pay for and I live alone. I wish I could disable all of the censored songs so I could hear them as the artists intended. It's so irritating when it picks the censored ones!
Which streaming service do you use?
@@thomasonyango8208 UA-cam music.
In the movie Pineapple Express, there's a line something like "They messed with the wrong melon farmers" which is funny because apparently "melon farmer" was used to censor one or more movies so they could be shown on TV (instead of "mother F***er") 😂
Pardon my French actually came from the Norman Conquest of England. The nobles spoke French while the peasants spoke Old English so it was like humble bragging.
Still true today ;)
So far we have had about 8 origins of "Pardon my French".
“Forgive me that my French is so poor that I have to resort to such a coarse language as English,” basically.
From both a British and Australian perspective, the US is very weird and uptight about swearing and other verbal vulgarities.
Here in Australia, it's pretty unsurprising to hear a morning show host casually say the word "sh*t" on TV and most people wouldn't be bothered if a song on the radio contained swearing.
Though growing up on the likes of Rodney Rude probably helped with the currently prevalent attitudes, haha.
Same in Germany. media is not required to censor the language.
Some shows do it anyways. Mostly during day time TV. I guess it started when talk shows were introduced in the 90s and the american beeping was immitaded for dramatic effect. Before that people simply watched their language.
But Movies etc are usually uncensored.
And parents are expected to monitor what their kids watch. If they watch a show which isn't child friendly it is their falt for allowong their kids to watch it and not the other way around. This is the attitude towards most things - if you don't like it then don't consume it.
In Australia, we don't bleep the bad words after 20h.
Do you use 24-hour time in Australia? I thought all English speaking countries mostly just used 12-hour time.
@@maelstrom57 Only one hour at a time.
Censorship is lame af. Your child will survive hearing a swear word
"Putain" and "merde", two of my favorite French words! 🤣
You can even put them together, putain de merde ! :D
I'd like to disagree "Putain" is not a swear word, it's punctuation
@@ellhayn Only if you live in the South East of France ^^
You can even join them together as in....putain de merde!
Lol I never played the censored versions for my kids. They grew up learning the difference between cursing at a someone and at the situation. They learned that sometimes harsh words were used to convey the feeling needed and by censoring you diluted that feeling.
For Europeans, the culture is changing in the US. Regulations just aren't keeping up, which is why media might give you the impression we care a lot. In the US, the only thing close to a rule is just try not to swear in front of kids. Aside from that, no one really cares. Most people aren't too anal about it around teenagers either. We know they say worse. They might as well learn how to swear correctly.
Most people think swear words are no big deal until they hear a child misusing it in wildly inappropriate or just embarrassing ways. I honestly think Americans care more about that.
Land of the free speech, right?
vulgar speech is explicitly listed as non protected
@@OatmealTheCrazy - there's no exception in the Constitution, and that's supposed to be the highest law in the land.
Any other laws saying otherwise are therefore not valid, even though they often are enforced.
@@OatmealTheCrazy "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"
where does it say "no swears" here?
In Germany, we don't censor things too. I think it's a whole Europe thing
The censorship of words is one thing. The other thing is when a song is just about treating women as objects and shit. And then they censor out the word “bitch”. Like bruh… that
Word is not what makes the song misogynistic
This is the dummest comment here! No one cares about Miss O'jinny! Not even women!
Exactly and that’s why when US celebs are invited in TV shows in France to promote things they have a blast because they can talk freely and curse if they see it fit. Most of the time the TV host encourages them to 😂
It’s the same in Spain. No censorship there.
One of my co-workers introduced himself: “Hello, I’m ____. I’m French, so I say fuck a lot.” And walked away. 😂 I love him
I would argue little sucker and gushy are far worse than the original.
Agreed 😅
I mean, little sucker is more kid appropriate, but gushy is more NSFW imo
France: "Hey who cares about swearing man, we're not so controlling"
Also France: "Man you've been speaking too much english on TV, shut up!"
mdr
France fuckin rules for this.
If you don't hear it from your parents, you hear it from other 6yo kids who did hear it from their parents, sooo... it's crazy and it's even crazier how many words are social media banning... that wouldn't happen if they were based in Europe O.O