{"id":38349,"date":"2011-03-27T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/even-if-the-original-lyrics-are-off-limits-to-old\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T12:00:06","slug":"even-if-the-original-lyrics-are-off-limits-to-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/even-if-the-original-lyrics-are-off-limits-to-old\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Even if the original lyrics are off-limits to old media, it\u2019s clear to everyone that the profane versions of the songs are going to be heard. The enforced innocence of broadcasting is no longer a cultural firewall; it\u2019s barely an inconvenience. \u201cThe Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,\u201d the Internet-freedom activist John Gilmore famously said in 1996 \u2014 and hits with choruses that revolve around a four-letter word can count on Internet accessibility. Shock value is viral, and probably a selling point. Forbidden by the Federal Communications Commission as broadcast indecency, the original songs gain a tiny frisson of rebellion for those who click through to the grown-up versions on YouTube or iTunes. The songs lead a double life: the broadcast version for the uninitiated or oblivious, the raunchy one for anyone paying attention. Listening to a pop star singing a bawdy word, consumers of mass culture can feel like insiders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/16\/arts\/music\/from-cee-lo-green-to-pink-speaking-the-unspeakable.html?ref=arts\">From Cee Lo Green to Pink, Speaking the Unspeakable &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if the original lyrics are off-limits to old media, it\u2019s clear to everyone that the profane versions of the songs are going to be heard. The enforced innocence of broadcasting is no longer a cultural firewall; it\u2019s barely an inconvenience. \u201cThe Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,\u201d the Internet-freedom activist John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Yx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}