It's OK to put in on an album, have fun with it, but we're publicly owned, you know?" said Patti Marshall, program director at Cincinnati's Q102, a pop station in a decidedly conservative Midwestern market. "We have a responsibility to the public ... you put this ... out and act like we're all fuddy-duddies, like we're trying to make moral judgments. It's not about us. It's about the mom in the minivan with her 8-year-old."
Like several programmers we talked to, Marshall said she had not yet been told that "Amy" was the next single from Circus. She's still busy playing the album's title track, which was recently released as the second single. Asked if she would play "Amy" if it came to her as a single, Marshall said likely wouldn't. She likened its chorus (which she has not heard) to "a little boy in sixth grade doing arm farts."
Heh. I say "puerile," you say "little boy in sixth grade doing arm farts." My vocabulary trumps yours, Miz Marshall, but you're certainly more colorful.
Seriously though I'd also like to talk about the mom in the minivan with the 8-year-old. Let's play out this scene. The song comes on. The kid's like "What is this song about, Mom?" and the mom's like "This song is about a search for a girl named Amy." The kid's like, "But, Mom, the kids at school say it's about something bad," and then the mom's like, "The kids at school are going to end up barefoot and pregnant." End of conversation.
I know I don't have kids, but I just don't get shit like this. Like, OMG, your kid's gonna hear curse words. They're out there. Stop freaking out about how you can shelter your child from words and start thinking about how you can have productive conversations about taking moral action. These firestorms always blow my mind.
What do you guys think?
Here's video of Brit-Brit running around Calabasas, where she's thinking of buying a new home. />
Radio stations across the country are wringing their hands trying to figure out how and if they're going to play Britney Spears' awesomely puerile third single, "If You Seek Amy," which contains the chorus "All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy," which, if you honestly haven't figured it out for yourself yet, spells "F-U-C-K me."
It's OK to put in on an album, have fun with it, but we're publicly owned, you know?" said Patti Marshall, program director at Cincinnati's Q102, a pop station in a decidedly conservative Midwestern market. "We have a responsibility to t...