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Why wasn't there an explicit version of Born This Way?


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NIghtmareElm

There are a few songs on BTW that are censored.  

Government Hooker.  Not sure of the bleeps are part of the production though.

Bad Kids.

Queen.

There were rumors that the explicit version would come out a month after the album release.  What exactly happened?  It was Gaga's biggest hype for an album yet so a few curse words wouldn't of hurt the album's sales.  

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gagzus

GH's is for the effect for sure, but i remember reading somewhere that because of the message of self acceptance and the majority of pop fans around the time where early to mid teens the label censored the songs so the album was still marketable to younger people I believe. Plus it could be bought by parents and more people who don't like foul language.

(I know that makes no sense since Scheiße isn't censored)

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darkchylde

i think the point was getting the message to as many people as possible and maybe making an explicit version would throw some people off.

anyway, i think censored works just fine with the theme of the songs.

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The Fame Joanne

The US is so ridiculous with their censoring of curse words :smh:

We are talking about teens not five year olds 

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2 minutes ago, The Fame Joanne said:

The US is so ridiculous with their censoring of curse words :smh:

We are talking about teens not five year olds 

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latina twilight

Producers were really smart when they had to censor some big words tho, it actually added a lot to the songs, especially for GH and BK. A lot of censored versions just reverse the word, change to some other unfitting word or add an awkward silence.

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Blahwhatever22

I hate censoring of curse words in songs. Reminds me of the CAUSE I'M A FREE BIT BABY!:sweat: part in Bad Romance so pointless.

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The bleeps in GH are for effect.

For Bad Kids and Queen I'm unsure. Bad Kids is probably also for effect, and I totally don't even notice Queen's censoring.

2 minutes ago, Blahwhatever22 said:

I hate censoring of curse words in song. Reminds me of the CAUSE I'M A FREE BIT BABY!:sweat: part in Bad Romance so pointless.

I'm trying to remember, but my Bad Romance and Teeth are uncensored while Dance in the Dark is censored. Monster has always been censored though.

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Blahwhatever22

 Yeah I remember hearing someone say some songs were censored while other songs weren't it's weird. I remember bad romance being censored for me, I don't even remember seeing a censored sticker on it either.

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18 minutes ago, Free My Mind said:

was there not a rumour that she didn't want the sticker on the album that warns for curse words

That sounds like Gaga 

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19 minutes ago, Blahwhatever22 said:

 Yeah I remember hearing someone say some songs were censored while other songs weren't it's weird. I remember bad romance being censored for me, I don't even remember seeing a censored sticker on it either.

Wow :air: I do not remember BR being censored in my copy. 

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River

GH is an anti-censoring statement.. so it's on purpose, like the gov. is censoring us and from us.

BK, is to show how the adults are oppressing the teenagers and censoring them, "don't curse!" for example, so it's part of the song, this is why the 2 curses, s-hit (yeah ggd censoring us too..) and bitch, are at the beginning.. the bad kids are still scared to fully rebel so they still censoring themselves while declaring their "war" and describing themselves as bitches..

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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hausoffame
22 minutes ago, Blahwhatever22 said:

 Yeah I remember hearing someone say some songs were censored while other songs weren't it's weird. I remember bad romance being censored for me, I don't even remember seeing a censored sticker on it either.

The physical copy was definitely censored. They released the uncensored version for download only. I remember buying mine at target and took it back the next day. 

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Blahwhatever22
1 hour ago, hausoffame said:

The physical copy was definitely censored. They released the uncensored version for download only. I remember buying mine at target and took it back the next day. 

Yeah that makes sense now. I don't know why they did that though, I never returned mine there were only A few copies left on stock they probably were all censored anyway.:giveup:

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