Friday, September 26, 2008

Planes speaking

What on earth is going on with the new radio edit of MIA's Paper Planes? Alright, so children's chorus/gunshots is a bit of a sore point these days in Britain, but the gunshots have been replaced with something that sounds like heavy artillery, the till effect has been changed, and bafflingly the word 'records' (in the line "I've got more records than the KGB") has been cut in half, presumably deemed far more offensive than the line that follows it but one, "some I some I some I murder", which has got away untouched. Was it being edited at random?

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