A WTF and a ZOMG! (Each Sold Separately)
Sep. 22nd, 2007 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenixastraeaOK, my lovely flist, you want weird?
I was driving home from the end of a very long week at work flicking through the radio stations when I found one of my favorite songs: Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith. It really doesn't matter how long ago this song came out; it still rocks the house until you drop.
Anyhoo, I was jamming along, singing obnoxiously in the car when I suddenly had a "Huhbuhwhat?" moment. One of the lyrics had inexplicably been changed (see: censored). The original lyric went: "She had to take him down easy/and put a bullet in his braaaaaiiiiiin". What I heard on the radio was "She had to take him down easy/And leave him in the pouring raaaaiiiiiin".
WTF?! Has this censored/altered version been around and I just haven't noticed?! And does anyone else find this point rather moot? I mean, the damn song is called "Janie's got a Gun". Logic therefore dictates that, at some point in the song, THE GUN IS GOING TO BE USED!!!11. To further add to my confusion, they can leave in the lyric that says, "He jacked a little bitty baby/The man has got to be insane!" (emphasis mine), which implies long term aggravated sexual abuse/assault, but they remove/censor the part where the child in question, now a young adult takes out her revenge?! Now, I KNOW I have heard the original version on other rock stations; why did this one have beef with it?
Whisky Tango Foxtrot, people.
And speaking of logic, we now return you to your regularly scheduled fangirl program.
(thanks tojadeblood for the scan. Mwah! Kill those hotlinkers, girlie!)
Once again, I just can't handle the awesomeness that is in this picture. I just can't. I mean, for crying out loud, whoever did the casting on this NEEDS AN OSCAR, PEOPLE!!!
I love you, Leonard. I love you, Zachary. Just thought you'd want to know that before I pass out. *faints*
I was driving home from the end of a very long week at work flicking through the radio stations when I found one of my favorite songs: Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith. It really doesn't matter how long ago this song came out; it still rocks the house until you drop.
Anyhoo, I was jamming along, singing obnoxiously in the car when I suddenly had a "Huhbuhwhat?" moment. One of the lyrics had inexplicably been changed (see: censored). The original lyric went: "She had to take him down easy/and put a bullet in his braaaaaiiiiiin". What I heard on the radio was "She had to take him down easy/And leave him in the pouring raaaaiiiiiin".
WTF?! Has this censored/altered version been around and I just haven't noticed?! And does anyone else find this point rather moot? I mean, the damn song is called "Janie's got a Gun". Logic therefore dictates that, at some point in the song, THE GUN IS GOING TO BE USED!!!11. To further add to my confusion, they can leave in the lyric that says, "He jacked a little bitty baby/The man has got to be insane!" (emphasis mine), which implies long term aggravated sexual abuse/assault, but they remove/censor the part where the child in question, now a young adult takes out her revenge?! Now, I KNOW I have heard the original version on other rock stations; why did this one have beef with it?
Whisky Tango Foxtrot, people.
And speaking of logic, we now return you to your regularly scheduled fangirl program.
(thanks to
jadeblood for the scan. Mwah! Kill those hotlinkers, girlie!)Once again, I just can't handle the awesomeness that is in this picture. I just can't. I mean, for crying out loud, whoever did the casting on this NEEDS AN OSCAR, PEOPLE!!!
I love you, Leonard. I love you, Zachary. Just thought you'd want to know that before I pass out. *faints*
