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The fact that the powers that be have chosen to excise the fairly innocuous word “riding” reveals a great deal about their motivations. Not only has the lyric been changed from “shoot a child in yo mouth while I’m ridin’” to “put a smile on your face while I’m riding,” but many stations have actually cut out the word “riding.” Heaven forbid that audiences be exposed to such a horrible word. Even so, the censorship of “Montero” has been particularly egregious. To some degree, this is understandable, considering “the children” have access to the radio, but honestly, in 2021-when so much music is so easily accessible-it really does seem like that horse has left the barn.
We all know that most local radio stations are notoriously squeamish when it comes to anything that might offend the delicate sensibilities of their listeners. Even now, after all that queer people have achieved in terms of mainstream visibility, it’s distressingly rare to hear (or see) gay sex depicted so forthrightly.Īs soon as I heard the song on Spotify, I wondered just how they were going to make it acceptable for mainstream radio play. Now, of course, this song excited a lot of commentary when it was first released back in March, in large part because it was a.) extremely queer in its iconography and in its lyrics and b.) played with religious imagery in a way that caused Christian conservatives (with their hair-trigger outrage instincts) to almost set their hair on fire, so much so that some have even begun to wonder whether we’re in the midst of another “ Satanic panic.” Despite the furor among the religiously-minded, I would say that I was more surprised by how explicitly it discussed gay sex, with the lyric “Shoot a child in yo mouth while I'm ridin'” causing my eyebrows to shoot up into my hairline. I had “This Love” in mind when I recently heard Lil Nas X’s newest single, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name”) come on the radio. Though Maroon 5 would go on to release several other sexually suggestive songs, such as “Moves Like Jagger” and “Animal,” none pushed the envelope quite as much as “This Love.” I mean, when was the last time that you heard a song that actually used the word “coming” in such a suggestive and erotic way? At first, I couldn’t quite believe what I was hearing, since the song includes one of the most sexually explicit lines in a mainstream song (it doesn’t get much more provocative, in pop music, than “I tried my best to feed her appetite / To keep her coming every night,” does it?). I remember first hearing Maroon 5’s song “This Love” way back in 2004 when it first came out.