American Girl is Bad?!

[SgtRubberRevolver]

That's not suicidal at all, then. Stupid, maybe, but since when was stupidity for ages ten and over?

Yeah, and I'm also sure kids aren't going to know the insperation for the song.

[cherokeesam]

Want to hear a more *likely* reason that "American Girl" didn't get past the filter?

"GOD, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach."

Doesn't always perk up the Censor-bot antennae, but generally speaking, using "god" as a swear word (even a mild one) means no-no.

[SgtRubberRevolver]

Want to hear a more *likely* reason that "American Girl" didn't get past the filter?

"GOD, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach."

Doesn't always perk up the Censor-bot antennae, but generally speaking, using "god" as a swear word (even a mild one) means no-no.

God, that's stupid.

[Malacandra]

FWIW, Tom Petty denies that the song is about that Florida suicide.

My guess is that the rating has more to do with possible salacious implications of the lyric "make it last all night".

[Rhystic_1]

FWIW, Tom Petty denies that the song is about that Florida suicide.

My guess is that the rating has more to do with possible salacious implications of the lyric "make it last all night".

I was going to say just that

I wanted that song too . Oh well, I can always play it in RB2

[Ehfahq]

Want to hear a more *likely* reason that "American Girl" didn't get past the filter?

"GOD, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach."

Doesn't always perk up the Censor-bot antennae, but generally speaking, using "god" as a swear word (even a mild one) means no-no.

Nowhere in that line is Tom using God as a swaer word. He is telling God that its painfull when something is so close yet so far out of reach.

I have no clue where you got that from.

[monkeyfish]

Nowhere in that line is Tom using God as a swaer word. He is telling God that its painfull when something is so close yet so far out of reach.

I have no clue where you got that from.

In this case, you could replace "God" with a swear, and it would still work. By comparison, you couldn't replace it with "Damn" in a sentence such as, "One nation, under God."

Without looking at other songs that made it past the filter (it doesn't bother me that much), this logic seems workable.

[cherokeesam]

Nowhere in that line is Tom using God as a swaer word. He is telling God that its painfull when something is so close yet so far out of reach.

I have no clue where you got that from.

Because the narrator is clearly talking to God in the rest of the song, right....?

In '77, when the song was released, you couldn't even say "god" on prime time TV in the sense of "god, I am sooooo tired of people like Ehfahq nitpicking every little thing that I post." What was "edgy" back then seems laughable to us today.

And I'm not defending the censors on this in ANY event....whether it was left out of LEGO because of the word "god," or because of the word "die," or because of veiled references to suicide (which kids wouldn't even remotely get), the simple fact is that "American Girl" SHOULD have made it past the filter. Especially when plenty of other LEGO-"friendly" songs have references to death and God, swear word or otherwise ("Uncle John's Band" --- "goddamn, I do declare".....yeah).

[Ehfahq]

Because the narrator is clearly talking to God in the rest of the song, right....?

In '77, when the song was released, you couldn't even say "god" on prime time TV in the sense of "god, I am sooooo tired of people like Ehfahq nitpicking every little thing that I post." What was "edgy" back then seems laughable to us today.

No, he is talking to God when he directly refers to him/her/it. Its clear. You still havnt shown how that could be taken as an insult.

And im not nit picking anything. I pointed out something that has no logic to it at all. But if you want to feel personally insulted by it, and then post a snarky ass remark instead of actually talking about it, (like you do in ever single thread ive seen you in), I cant stop you.

[cherokeesam]

No, he is talking to God when he directly refers to him/her/it. Its clear. You still havnt shown how that could be taken as an insult.

And im not nit picking anything. I pointed out something that has no logic to it at all. But if you want to feel personally insulted by it, and then post a snarky ass remark instead of actually talking about it, (like you do in ever single thread ive seen you in), I cant stop you.

cool story bro.

Hey, what's the name of that guy in your avatar pic? I know he was in a lot of westerns back in the 60s, but I can't remember his name.