Radio edits are, for the most part, a necessary evil. But sometimes, they're so tin-eared and misbegotten that they undercut something that was crucial to the song in the first place
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by YouTube Radio edits are, for the most part, a necessary evil. In an industry bound by the FCC, there are some things that simply can’t be broadcast over the public airwaves without getting bleeped, censored, or dubbed, and certain radio formats offer varying degrees of resistance to anything that deviates too much from conventional song lengths or structures. For the most part, that’s fine.
But sometimes, those edits are so tin-eared and misbegotten that they manage to undercut something that was crucial to the song in the first place. Enter “abcdefu,” Gayle’s burn-it-all-down kiss-off anthem currently sitting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Or, more accurately, enter “abc,” the version that Top 40 radio is playing.
The radio edit, meanwhile, replaces that “F-U” with “forget you,” and in so doing turns the title meaningless. Without the alphabetical punch line, the “A-B-C-D-E” that leads up to it is simply pointless lyrical filler. Making matters worse is that “F-U!” is already radio-friendly.
Luckily, though, Gayle isn’t the first pop act to have her song rendered toothless by her radio edit. She’s in fine company. Here is a not remotely exhaustive list of some of the more egregious offenders. “If You Seek Amy,” Britney Spears The older student that “abc” cribbed its notes from. Britney’s winking single is built around an innuendo that the radio edit dismantles; no innuendo, no song. The chorus, already hanging on by a thread, is turned meaningless by removing one entire entendre, unless … [checks Urban Dictionary for “fuca”] nope, not what Ms. Spears had in mind, methinks.
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