Cursing in Japanese Music?

Ballerina_xXX · #1 8th January 2006, 11:31 PM

Has anyone noticed how in a lot of Japanese songs singers and rappers will say words not allowed to be said on tv && radio in America. It would be censored out. I hear the "F" word a lot in pop songs in Jpop/Jurban music!! Is this accepted or do they just not know the meaning of what they are saying? Or is it also censored on Japanese radio&&TV? Just a question!

MsMiyabi · #2 8th January 2006, 11:52 PM

I hear that too. I know what u mean

Brittany · #3 9th January 2006, 01:07 AM

Hmm?
I thought a lot of J-Rap/Hip Hop stuff doesn't have much or no swearing at all.

I just don't know enough Japanese to know that a singer is swearing, I guess

**Corybobory** · #4 9th January 2006, 01:11 AM

I was always under the impression that Japanese doesnt have a lot of curse words. Do you mean they're singing english curse words?

aYuH-evolution · #5 9th January 2006, 01:15 AM

Uh, I dunno. Probably it isn't censored.

HvnSntGurl · #6 9th January 2006, 01:31 AM

The first J-Urban song I heard with alot of cursing was SOULHEAD's "TO DA FAKE MCS."

~K+ · #7 9th January 2006, 01:35 AM

I think the thread started meant English swear words.

In SAS's The Track For The Japanese Typical Foods Called 'Karaage' & 'Soba' - KIRAISUTORIITO (Reprise)/, Kuwata sings "I wanna fxxx you today", but you hear a *beep* before he says it. But well...you still hear it fairly clearly.

miracleofsuzaku · #8 9th January 2006, 01:45 AM

^Yes, the threadstarter meant English profanity, I believe. This one might ring a bell. In the beginning of Ku's Hot Stuff, KM-Markit says "K to the mother-****ing M."

stardusties · #9 9th January 2006, 01:50 AM

^ that was weird, lol

Kumi says crazy sh#$ in D.D.D. but I think it matches the style and rythm of the music quite well, ...but that's the only exception XD....

then I saw something on the asian channel...some Korean rap MV, LOL! it was soo funny i heard lotsa cussing and Koreans ating like lil' Jon and saying WHHAT!? and whatnot...but that's Korean..

MsMiyabi · #10 9th January 2006, 02:16 AM

Namie say b**** in Uh Uh feat.AI and on KM-Markit album the song Mr Arabian has curses. And so does do that grind

Ballerina_xXX · #11 9th January 2006, 02:35 AM

Yeah, sorry guys I meant English cursing! Sorry, if you were confused!

ruixiong89 · #12 9th January 2006, 11:42 AM

In hitomi's CRAGY MAMA there's also b**ch being mentioned ... and it appears on one of Ayu's photoshoots as well ... guess they don't really know what they're wearing or singing about or including in their songs ...

AyuGAME · #13 9th January 2006, 11:52 AM

hmm...i don't like the bad words in the song..its not cool at all

KonoSekai · #14 9th January 2006, 03:06 PM

I don't think that it's considered taboo in Japan - maybe they're more open about it. But there's still a lot less cursing than in American music if you look at it.

HvnSntGurl · #15 9th January 2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Akurei

Namie say b**** in Uh Uh feat.AI and on KM-Markit album the song Mr Arabian has curses. And so does do that grind

In the Uh Uh... remix they say b**** like it's a compliment.

#16 9th January 2006, 04:58 PM

I don't understand what you're asking, we are able to get away with a lot of cursing in American music but public radio stations will edit it out and CD's have a warning sticker (paid radio like Sirius will not edit music or radio shows). I actually think that censors have gotten more lenient for TV cursing as words that I never would've heard in the 80's or early 90's are now being said on major network dramas offhand.

However, the Japanese do bleep out their own curse words depending on the connotation (they censor a lot of sexual language). I equate it to how on US TV, we can get away with more foreign cursing (such as Spanish swearing) because the censors don't understand it.

HvnSntGurl · #17 9th January 2006, 05:14 PM

I was watching Pitbull's video on MTV. I forgot which one not Culo but the one after that I think. They cesored like every word he said in spanish in that song. So I guess it depends.

Indie · #18 9th January 2006, 05:29 PM

I think they know what they're saying, come on the first thing anyone learns of any foreign language is the swearing

but since it's cuss words in another language it doesn't really mean much to them so they say it

for example I use "damn it" in english more often than not, but it's really hard for me to say "maldita sea" (spanish) cause it feels like it's a lot worse, yet both have the same meaning.

As devilayu said, asian countries tend to censore more anything that's sex-related than regular swearings, I was reading in a website two weeks ago that the premiere of Desperate Housewives in an asian country had to be edited and reestructured to delete the sex-related scenes/conversations.

Neo Daydream · #19 9th January 2006, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AyuGAME

hmm...i don't like the bad words in the song..its not cool at all

yeah i don't like it either but i don't think i've ever heard any english cussing in Asian music... *shrugs* and i'm glad i've never heard Ayu cus ^^

Brittany · #20 9th January 2006, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by AyuGAME

hmm...i don't like the bad words in the song..its not cool at all

Seriously, one can get their point across without using such language.