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Tom4784 04-12-2019 01:48 PM
It's so overplayed that I hate it now, I used to like it but every year it gets played more and more.

Saph 04-12-2019 01:54 PM
It baffles me why people get so offended at the thought of it getting censored.. is it really that important for people to be able to hear '******' in a song?

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Niamh. 04-12-2019 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Saph (Post 10726935)
It baffles me why people get so offended at the thought of it getting censored.. is it really that important for people to be able to hear '******' in a song?

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No, I wouldn't care if they changed it to a different word but that's not the question, the question is whether the whole song should be banned because of other lines too, not just that one

Strictly Jake 04-12-2019 01:59 PM
Its one of the best

Oliver_W 04-12-2019 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10726916)
Joyless bast... look at all the dodgy sexualised lyrics in some songs.
Exactly!! It's like how John Legend decided to "sanitise" Baby It's Cold Outside, instead of cleaning up some of the horribly misogynistic hiphop "songs" from his peers...

^ I don't necessarily think they need cleaning up, people should be able to release whatever songs they want as long as they're happy to be called names for it. I just think it's weird how people target some things and not others.

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Originally Posted by Saph (Post 10726935)
It baffles me why people get so offended at the thought of it getting censored.. is it really that important for people to be able to hear '******' in a song?

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I think it's more exasperation than offence. There's just no need or justification to change it, so why remove one of the most popular Christmas songs from circulation?

Saph 04-12-2019 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10726937)
No, I wouldn't care if they changed it to a different word but that's not the question, the question is whether the whole song should be banned because of other lines too, not just that one
I dont think it should be banned from radio, maybe take out words like 'slut' :shrug: even if it was banned from radio, its not like people cant listen to it elsewhere

Saph 04-12-2019 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver_W (Post 10726940)
I think it's more exasperation than offence. There's just no need or justification to change it, so why remove one of the most popular Christmas songs from circulation?
its a word or 2, not the entire song..

Oliver_W 04-12-2019 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Saph (Post 10726946)
its a word or 2, not the entire song..
But that bit's really catchy :dance::dance:

Saph 04-12-2019 02:09 PM
I'm not disagreeing, personally idrc what lyrics are in the song, I've heard worse, but idk why this song always gets a free pass on radio when others dont.

Oliver_W 04-12-2019 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10726904)
I've never actually heard anyone in Ireland use the word in anyway but as reference to being gay
Maybe you're not old enough to have heard it?

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10726897)
I liked the suggested edit of "You scumbag, you maggot, you taped over Taggart"
... I take it back.

Niamh. 04-12-2019 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver_W (Post 10726954)
Maybe you're not old enough to have heard it?


... I take it back.
:laugh2:

I'm 41

arista 04-12-2019 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10726956)
:laugh2:

I'm 41


Still Young

Niamh. 04-12-2019 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by arista (Post 10726983)
Still Young
Why thank you sir :douf:

The Slim Reaper 04-12-2019 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by arista (Post 10726983)
Still Young
Calm down you thirsty bugger, she's married.

Oliver_W 04-12-2019 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by arista (Post 10726983)
Still Young
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10726984)
Why thank you sir :douf:
Exactly, there are some buildings older than you :) People live to their hundreds now!

Zizu 04-12-2019 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10726885)
I mean it's certainly got offensive lyrics in it but it's supposed to be portraying addiction and a toxic relationship

So not really a family friendly, festive ditty then ..


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Zizu 04-12-2019 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 10726910)
I do think it's bilge but I actually disagree with the "chav" comment... in fact one of the reasons I dislike it as much as I do is the sheer scale of pretentious populism that's attached to the damn thing. I also don't think that Christmas is in particular need of being heavily linked to a song about alcoholism, heroin and lowkey domestic abuse. It's not grounded, quirky or gritty... it's a miserable dishwater soaked rag of a song. It's seen as the down to earth, "less mainstream" version of Christmas and people fap themselves silly over that, and I have no idea why, because it is absolutely everywhere, constantly. For months.


This ^


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Zizu 04-12-2019 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Saph (Post 10726921)
just blur out the bad words its not hard..


It’s not exactly a cheerful, uplifting melody either ..


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arista 04-12-2019 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 10726985)
Calm down you thirsty bugger, she's married.

I know she is.
A Happy Lady

Niamh. 04-12-2019 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Zizu (Post 10726993)
It’s not exactly a cheerful, uplifting melody either ..


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I love it, a christmas classic

Zizu 04-12-2019 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10727003)
I love it, a christmas classic


We’re all so different ( thankfully )

I’ll stick to Maria Carey and George ..


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Livia 04-12-2019 03:30 PM
The poll says it all.


"The lyrics mention: “The boys of the NYPD choir still singing ‘Galway Bay’.” The NYPD doesn’t actually have a choir, but it does have an Irish pipe band who are featured in the music video. They didn’t know ‘Galway Bay’, so they played the ‘Mickey Mouse Club March’ instead, and the video was later slowed down to fit the beat.


LOL...

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/...ew-york-778774

Shaun 04-12-2019 03:35 PM
I'd rather the lyric stayed in the song as an example of just how recently such language was deemed acceptable to place in a pop song.

Crimson Dynamo 04-12-2019 03:38 PM
At last, yes ban this over rated dreadful Christmas song

:clap1:

Livia 04-12-2019 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 10727019)
At last, yes ban this over rated dreadful Christmas song

:clap1:
Humbug...


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