It seems as though it's a foregone conclusion that major swear words will never again find their way onto the airwaves of the general public. America's premier music network (MTV), however, has a long strange history of editing the lyrics of the songs they play for no apparent reason.
Above is the music video for the song "Beautiful Girl," by recording artist Sean Kingston. While this song's nauseating amount of airplay may be a subject best left for another time, MTV made the decision to censor the lyric "suicidal," in favor of the edited lyric "in denial." This is puzzling for a variety of reasons. For one, if this song is about a guy who feels suicidal over the rejection of a girl, that's quite a far cry from merely feeling "in denial." Censorship doesn't always just remove foul language and vulgar thoughts from daytime television; it can drastically change the meaning of the art being presented. If anything, this can be used as stark evidence that censorship has the potential to have a vastly negative impact on the creative abilities of the artist.
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