I am emailing you with my concern about your treatment of Rihanna's latest single 'S&M'.
You have renamed it to 'Come On', this is going to drastically reduce the sales of the song as people are going to search for it on iTunes, and find that it is does not exist. Rihanna has said herself that for the songs release, it is to be interpreted as 'Scandals & Media', just like the music video.
I find it rather offensive that you have edited out the lines 'sex in the air', and 's s s & m m m', when you continue to play other songs with equally suggestive lyrics.
For your viewership, it just comes off as desparate. 'Oh yes, we're all prim and proper here, no suggestion or euphemisms in the songs we play at all'.
It seems that you're just going along with all the controversy about the songs video release and covering your own back. How is it, that Lady Gaga's song 'Alejandro' got played on your station around its time of release, when the video featured Gaga simulating anal sex with several men on a bed?
Surely you should have edited the song? Think of the irreparable damage it could have caused to the minds of young children. Young children who in fact do not listen to the radio and would not hear the song in the first place.
So please Radio 1, stop being so prudish. No one is going to complain over a brief mention of 'sex'.
Click send.
We can't allow this ****ery to carry on.
So dumb. My e-mail was sent and hopefully Rih fixes this.
Are they even allowed to do that? I mean I know they can do radio edits and things like that, but judging from Rih's reaction on twitter this was definitely done without permission.
How is it, that Lady Gaga's song 'Alejandro' got played on your station around its time of release, when the video featured Gaga simulating anal sex with several men on a bed?
Because a video is a video, and radio is radio. You'd have a much stronger case if you compared it to Rude Boy
Gaga's "LoveGame" only peaked at #19 in the UK. Just as we did, you girls will learn that when you release a sexually explicit song, the UK isn't going to pick up on it. Deal.
