For those of you keeping score: MTV2 didn't cut the word "murder" from a 2-ish a.m. viewing of Chamillionaire's video for
"Hip Hop Police"—despite its dropping the same word from "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance approximately 24 hours earlier. Can't someone over at 1515 Broadway give Gerard Way a break this month? [
MTV2.com]
MTV's standards for Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" seem to shift each time the song is played: Kingston's performing live on
TRL right now, and "suicidal" is coming out of my speakers, untouched by any censor's hand. Also, uh, it's quite obvious that dude is a more than a bit pitch-challenged. Nice suits on his backup singers, though. [
TRL]
Today's
TRL brings an important lesson about the word "suicidal" as it appears in Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls": It's dropped out of MTV's plays of the video, but 100% OK for commercials touting Kingston's debut album, which hits stores tomorrow.
My Chemical Romance, you know what to do! [
TRL]
The
seemingly arbitrary censoring policies at MTV continue: The network is bleeping "dope" (as in "the dope boy's turning me on") from the video for 50 Cent/Ciara's "Can't Turn Me On." Judging by the rest of today's
TRL, though, "4:20," "masturbation," and the "stoned" half of "LoveStoned" are still a-ok! (At least for now.)
Idolator
Eagle-eyed Idolator reader shelo noted in in the comments section of today's entry on an MTV article about kids who were on the covers of famous alt-rock albums that MTV had snipped off the little Nirvana baby's wang for their accompanying graphic. That's in addition to feeling the need to chop off the word "p—-s" in the article itself. So apparently it's kosher for teenagers to make carpet-munching jokes on MTV dating show Next, but a baby's ding-a-ling and a word any sixth-grade health student knows are now off limits.
