Explicit vs Clean?

I apologize if this has been answered before, but I cannot find the answer. I purchased the album _Welcome to the Black Parade_ by My Chemical Romance a few minutes ago, and I chose the clean version because I wanted to play it for my students.

I was surprised to find in the song Teenagers (and perhaps others) the curse word "Sh**" appears quite often. I was under the understanding that the word "sh**" was an explicit word, and not a clean word? This also happened a week ago when I was playing the song +Makes Me Wonder+ and the words "fu**" and "G*d d**n" appears a few times.

Does Apple check these things? That's around $20 down the drain (as I purchased these for my classroom for the kids to listen to during group work and I kinda don't want to be fired).

This is not a slam again Apple, nor is it intended to open discussion about using modern music in classrooms. Just a question about the difference between "Clean" and "explicit" titles.

Dell Inspirion, Windows XP

Posted on Oct 8, 2007 5:01 PM

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Oct 8, 2007 6:08 PM in response to beeker229

beeker229,

As TMK notes, the intention of the labels is quite clear. The trouble is that they are not always accurate. You have encountered the error in one direction; others here have reported religious songs and even instrumentals that were erroneously labeled Explicit.

As a suggestion, if you want stuff to play for kids, you might be safer buying actual clean songs instead of supposedly-cleaned-up explicit songs.

Ed

Oct 9, 2007 4:53 PM in response to ed2345

Yeah, like I said this really isn't about the classroom aspect, it could have been any number of reasons. You have a valid point about going for songs, but I like the songs on the album, the kids love My Chemical Romance, and so I thought if I were going to buy it for myself I might as well get the version I could play in class as well.

Thanks for the links and stuff. Again, I'm not mad at Apple.. I love the iTunes service! I'm also not for editing songs for content blah blah, but if something said it was edited I kinda expected it to be so! 🙂

No harm, no foul. Caught it before I played it in class. 🙂

Thanks all!

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