LADY GAGA: The Fame Monster EXPLICIT CD Version HELP!

[lovelism]

Originally Posted by FIRSTKLAS

I have the Australian edition and, yes, I can confirm that it is uncensored.

The catalog number on the disc is 2730473 and the UPC is 0 602527 304731, but as long as it's Australian press and has the warning label on the cover you should be okay.

I'd be doubtful about the Japanese edition being uncensored because when the album was first released, FLAC rips from it were all censored. So while it's possible that later pressings are uncensored, first pressings definitely weren't.

From my own research, I'd only trust the Australian press as being uncensored since it's the only one that gives any sort of indication with the warning label.

And, WOW, did the price for Australian edition really go up since when I first bought it. It was pretty uncommon back then and it looks like it'll be downright rare now.

Thanks alot for the confirmation as I just bought an Australian copy of the fame monster. I really hate censorship in Singapore too. It's disrupting good music.

[wildconnetta]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

I own the monster in vinyl and it's censored. I hate censored anything. I think everything should be uncensored and stores simply card people that look too young. I know for a fact that walmart carries censored versions and only censored versions of everything. There was a dispute because Greenday said they don't like censoring stuff either and they refuse to release a censored version of their new album so walmart decided to not sell their stuff.

I really wanted to buy pink's compilation album, but I still haven't yet because it really irks me to see "Including her brand new single *******in' Perfect" on the front of it on a sticker. All those stars really annoy me, it's even like that on the back tracklist. Same with lilly allen's album. Even uncensored/explicit versions say "**** You" on the tracklist. It pisses me off so much. I have been turned off so much from buying American albums it's ridiculous.

That's odd. My explicit copy of It's Not Me, It's You has ''**** You'' on the back, no stars or whatever.

[Picaflor 7/4]

Originally Posted by wildconnetta

That's odd. My explicit copy of It's Not Me, It's You has ''**** You'' on the back, no stars or whatever.

that's probably because you live in the UK. Everywhere I went to try and buy it around where I live has it starred out. Whether it's explicit or cencored. I hate hate hate hate hate that so much. I bought the explicit version of Pink's greatest hits collection the other day and inside the lyrics. it has her song perfect starred out. I don't know why. I understand why on the cover (front and back) they'd censor the words since anyone could see it. but inside the booklet? inside the shrink wrapped cd? That's pointless.

[lovelism]

ah crap... I received the Australian 2CD version of The Fame Monster and ITS STILL CENSORED??!?!?!?!?! CRAPPPP....

Now I know that the STANDARD EP of 8 tracks of the FAME MONSTER ONLY is EXPLICIT... ah crap, I'll just get it from the eBay seller that is selling it at the high price...only for Gaga... I'm tried of looking all over for it... just buy it from him...

I've emailed my local music store and UMG company... still couldn't get it for me... crap...

[ALPHY]

^ Censored songs make the tracks so incomplete.

[Picaflor 7/4]

^I know. People 50 years from now won't know what lady gaga means when she says that she's a free bit.

[happiholic★]

Why is finding songs with swearing so hard? It makes me so mad that in Britney's Till the World Ends, they censored the lyric "If you want this good ****, sicker than the remix". And I got it on iTunes! What kid has a credit card (ignoring iTunes cards). I like cuss words.

[Picaflor 7/4]

^I made an uncensored version of it. Luckily they just reversed that one word. So I just slapped the instrumental over that one little snippet. took the vocal track. reversed that one word, and tada. it sounds fine. Other songs though are hard to do. Like when they gradually slow or speed up the words. (Like in katy perry's ET where kanye says we don't give a f-f-fuuu... and it slows down like on a record). Yeah that's hard to fix. lol

[bondingo]

Just to add, I bought The Fame Monster (back when it first came out) and my copy is, as expected, censored too. I did buy it at Walmart though so that's a surefire way for it to be censored. I didn't realize when I was buying it that there were even any songs with swears though, since I'd never heard the album until I ripped it later that night. It sucks, but I got the uncensored versions of the three songs since then thankfully

[happiholic★]

They need to clearly state on CDs and downloads if they have curse words censored or not. I'm not some 13 year old who is trying to be cool. And I swear it wasn't always this way. I bet the soccer moms complained or something.

[Yukitora]

I thought it was censored because Lady Gaga didn't watch the ugly "explicit content" logo pasted on her "beautiful cover". NOT because soccer moms.

[happiholic★]

^I wasn't talking about Gaga's CD, I'm talking about CDs in general

[NintendoHTF1242]

The only thing that really confuses me about this is Ke$ha. On her record "Animal", in the song "Blah Blah Blah", she says the b-word and d-word uncensored. But on her remix album, which has the parental sticker on it, the remixer censored the two words...Then on "Animal" once again, on the song "Party at a Rich Dude's House", they censored the s-word. But the next song after it, "Backstabber", she says the s-word uncensored :| It pisses me off because it's so strange how she released it.

[bondingo]

^ Maybe for a non-Parental Advisory they have a specific allowance of times you can use each swear. Or maybe each swear has a certain value and once you exceed that it becomes PA.

[NintendoHTF1242]

^ Yes, I understand that. What I don't understand is how she censored the s-word in one song but the song right after uses the s-word extensively uncensored on the same CD.

[bondingo]

Huh? But either of the explanations I guessed makes sense as a reason for why that would be 0_o

I know I'm just guessing but if you got what I was saying then there shouldn't be that same confusion.

[Picaflor 7/4]

that happened with verbal's visionair. Half of the songs were censored. In black out, when lil wayne says the b word, they censor it out, but in another song, change change, nikki minaj says the n word, and the f word twice, and neither are censored out. And in Fall out, verbal censors out the b word.

That's a japanese album too, it's not like they're even going to understand what he's saying.

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by bondingo

Huh? But either of the explanations I guessed makes sense as a reason for why that would be 0_o

I know I'm just guessing but if you got what I was saying then there shouldn't be that same confusion.

I understand what you mean though...There is some miscommunication going on between us lol.

[happiholic★]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

that happened with verbal's visionair. Half of the songs were censored. In black out, when lil wayne says the b word, they censor it out, but in another song, change change, nikki minaj says the n word, and the f word twice, and neither are censored out. And in Fall out, verbal censors out the b word.

That's a japanese album too, it's not like they're even going to understand what he's saying.

Its so odd that its censored at all. I remember when I was in a CD store in Disney Japan, they were playing Nelly, and none of his cuss words were censored, which made sense to me, because I doubt many people knew he was swearing.

In the song Knocks You Down by Keri Hilson, there is a lyric where the male singer says "my pimp ship flying high". The word ship is censored, but not pimp. What the heck is up with that???

I wish someone would release an official explanation on how they choose to censor songs.