I've just come home from shopping with my mum, and on the way back, a certain song was played on the radio. I'd heard the song before, but the version I had heard before didn't cut out a certain word, but the radio did. This word wasn't exactly what I'd think of as explicit, to be honest. Words such as 'F*ck', and 'Sh*t', etc, are very explicit, but words like 'drugs', 'guns' and such don't really seem as bad for the radio to me. Sure, they're not exactly "nice" words, but I wouldn't go all the way to cut them out of a song.

I've heard a lot of words like these be cut out when being played on the radio, and to be honest, I don't really think some of them are very necessary. Perhaps it's just me, but I think cutting the word 'gun' out of a song when it's being played on a radio is going just a little bit too far. Sure, I know it's to stop kids and all from hearing them, but I'm sure kids nowadays have already heard words like these and know what they mean.

So what're everyone elses' thoughts?

Oh, and I wasn't sure whether to put this in General Chat or Intellectual Discussion, so feel free to move it if necessary.