I can list a few:
NOW 48: Mya - "Case Of The Ex"
NOW 49: Blink-182 - "The Rock Show"
NOW 69: Nickelback - "Rockstar"
NOW 76: Jason Derulo - "Ridin' Solo"
Now 45: Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia
Now 71: Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me
Now Decades - George Michael - Fastlove (possibly on Now 35 too)
Now 56: Sugababes-Hole in The Head
Yesterday, I bought the compilation album "The Trevor Nelson Collection 3". On the front cover, it has the Parental Advisory sticker, fair enough. When I was listening to Mya - "Case Of The Ex", on the album, the word 'shit' was edited out yet it wasn't edited out on NOW 48. Strange!!!
"Case of the Ex" was edited on the US Now 5 too. I was so thrilled when I got Now 48 though, and it wasn't edited. I hate edited music, especially when it leaves dead air in songs. I wish Now didn't edit their songs, but I guess they want to appeal to as many people as possible, especially a younger crowd that includes children and tweens.
They should do two versions of the NOW albums. A clean version and an explicit version
Not a bad idea. I think the worst editing I've ever heard on a NOW album is the mutilation of Dizzee Rascal's Bassline Junkie.
If not on CD, at least make them exclusive to iTunes. So when you click the album, it has the clean/explicit icon underneath and you click the one of your preferred choice then buy
NOW 72: T.I. featuring Rihanna - "Live Your Life", piss
NOW 20: Prince - "Gett Off", they included the word jizz but beeped out the word ass
NOW 103: Dominic Fike - "3 Nights", f***ed
NOW 104: AJ Tracey - "Ladbroke Grove", they keep the word shit but beeped out the word yatty
Princess Superstar - Bad Babysitter (they cut out 'bitch' in NOW 51 but not on NOW Dance 2002 Part 2)
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For (NOW 60, 'hoe')
Roll Deep - The Avenue (NOW 61, 'shit')
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (NOW 71, 'bitch')
For the Blink-182 song on NOW 49. Some copies have the edited version, whereas others have the uncut version. My copy has the clean version.
NOW 60: Scissor Sisters - "Filthy/Gorgeous", You gotta keep your shit together
NOW 60: The Chemical Brothers - "Galvanize", Don’t be a prick
Not necessarily swearing but I found the radio edit of Dirty Talk by Wynter Gordon on Now 79 nowhere near as good as the original.
NOW 67: Amy Winehouse - "Back To Black", kept his dick wet
I buy a lot of the German and Swedish hits compilations and it's always amusing that explicit versions just end up on those as standard. Especially Jack Harlow's First Class on the current Bravo Hits 118...certain parts of that caught me off guard, I think I've only ever heard the song on the radio before.
On Now 112, Lizzo's multuple uses of bitch are not edited, I know they've censored bitch in the past, not sure if they do anymore usually.
*Warren G - 'Prince Igor' on Now 39 has a fair bit, despite being the 'Radio Edit' from the single (same on the music video).
*Tasmin Archer- In Your Care (Now 24) ('son of a ...!') depending on perhaps context or what you think of the word, I suppose, although performed on TOTP on radio as per.. in turn, the Meredith Brooks song on Now 38..
I think all NOW albums should be available on iTunes with the option for clean or explicit
Is Lizzo’s single About Damn Time the first occasion of the word “Damn” in a song title to be in the series? I imagine that there must be a few cases of the word being removed or replaced in some edited clean versions of many songs in the series.
I’m pretty sure they never edited out f*** her face off "Poker Face" on NOW 73
According to iTunes, the version of "Caught Out There" which appears on Now Millennium 2000-2001 is the explicit version. As I was previewing the song, I could hear the word "bitch" whereas on some compilations, that word is edited out. Also on "It Wasn’t Me", it says "bangin’" instead of "love"
Just Like A Pill on Now Millennium 2002-2003 has the word "bitch" kept in
Just Like A Pill would lose some effect without the word bitch in it. It was always in the radio edit as I recall.
One of the reasons why Now albums should never omit explicit lyrics is because they mostly try to aim their albums at the older audiences as the younger audiences tend to stream music where they will hear the explicit lyrics anyway so it’s pointless to omit the explicit lyrics
These days that's probably true. But until the market collapsed for Now before streaming started to dominate, I think a lot of people played Now CDs at family parties, and record stores and supermarkets would play them over their speakers, so swearing would have been pretty inappropriate in those contexts. I'm not sure it matters much anymore though.
They seem to think that the word "stiffness" is rude, hence why it was muted on "Really Love" when that appeared on Now 107
I’m pretty sure that "pissin’ me off" was left on Piece of Me on Now 69
Not necessarily a Now album but I heard Escapism on the radio yesterday and the only word edited out was cocaine. I found that a little odd.
Now 59: The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
Now That's What I Call A Massive 80s Party has Captain Sensible's Happy Talk on it, and although it's pretty subtle, he does audibly use 'the c word' on it.
Most people never notice and think he's singing 'golly baby I'm a lucky cuss' but he intentionally mangles and hides the offending word.
He explained the whole story in a Q Magazine interview years ago.
Pretty sure that Now 12 included 'pissed' in Salt 'N' Pepa's Push It
Transvision Vamp's 'I Want Your Love' (Now 13) didn't have a swear word but sure that 'I just want your funky love' heavily implied f***ing love, especially the way Wendy James sang it.
The Salt N Pepa lyric is
Yeah, you! Come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed
which is peed off context. A mild swear word, sure, but not standard daytime listening back then.
That does tend to appear every time Push It appears on a compilation. It was even left on Now Yearbook 1988 and as for the c word appearing in Happy Talk, it was also used when it appeared on Now 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 80s
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