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[Massadonious1]

I normally don't listen to top 40 radio, or much radio at all actually, but I like to occasionally listen to my local station's morning show, and often times, I'm too lazy to mess with my own music when I'm doing mundane tasks like driving to work or the store. However, I heard something the other night left me a little perplexed.

They played a song by The Script, called Breakeven. I've heard this song before, and I noticed they removed both  times the guy sang "Just prayin' to a god that I don't believe in" and replaced it with a line he sings later in the song, "But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding"

It's quite obvious that I'm a little bothered by the fact that they would replace a line in the song that would have anything to do with not believing in God, but that I also heard this song the day before....in it's unaltered version, which I assumed they had been playing since whenever the song got released. Something happened, someone complained, or a whole mess of people complained in the 24-32 hours since I last heard the song, or maybe even since the song has been released, to remove or alter that particular line in the song.

I can freely admit that I'm an Atheist, and that I've never been a big fan of religion, but really, alterting a harmless Adult-Contemporary pop song about a dude who is heartbroken over some chick because two lines in the song allude to not beleving in a higher power? C'mon, man.

This is the same kind of station that draws in teens/pre-teens that like to listen to bubblegum pop like Justin Bieber. Apparently, it's okay if they hear about "rappers" and R&B artists that like to get wasted in clubs/bars and pick up loose women, and pop artists like Britney Spears that like to sing about implied threesomes and foursomes. But yet, if a song even remotley suggests that someone might be an Atheist, well, it's time to get outraged, pick up our pitchforks, and demand that the radio station alter it, or demand that the artist lets the radio station alter it.

Does this make ANY sense to anyone?

[Stanley Woo]

no discussion of real-world religion, thank you. Such discussions can quickly get out of hand if someone starts taking offense.



ENd of line.