I read an interview with the band on this song. I actually like this song. It is a social commentary. Considering what happens in the world today, I think songs like this are good because they open up dialog, unlike other songs that just use the f-bomb.
I heard a song at the gym the other day and said I liked it. The trainer I was talking to told me I wouldn’t like it if I heard the cut that wasn’t “cleaned up.” It’s the Gnarls Barkley song where he said “forget you” in the cleaned version but uses another “f” word in the one that is on the album. I was horrified. I exclaimed that it completely ruined the song for me to know that the original has that word. There is NO reason to use it. The forget you worked just fine in the meaning of the song.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, another person at the gym - a gal probably in her 30s - overhearing the conversation between myself and the trainer - interjected that nobody would buy it if it was “forget you.” I just said that was baloney and I’d buy it if it were clean. The fact that so many people have bought into the mindset that people will not purchase stuff unless it’s filthy or risque is a myth. So pathetic to see so many mindless folks.
There’s another song by Pink, called “F’ing Perfect”....they play the cleaned-up version on the radio, but it begged the question, what was the point of having the F-Bomb in the title in the first place? It had nothing to do with the say, At least with the Cee-Lo song, having that word in it served a purpose.