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iTunes Mistakenly Censors Dirty-Sounding (but Clean) Song Titles

by Lee Bains on October 27, 2008 at 05:37 PM



Visitors to the iTunes music store this past weekend were surprised to find that certain words in the titles of innocuous songs were blanked out, the Daily Mail reports.

Although the folks at iTunes give the full spellings of artist names like Nashville P***y and Holy F**k, they do censor song titles that they deem to be offensive. As the result of a bug in the iTunes database, however, perfectly polite songs were treated as vulgar; Dick Van Dyke's autobiographical hit from the film 'Mary Poppins' wound up as "The D**k van D**e Song." Other family-friendly, yet X-rated hits of the weekend included Danny Kaye's "I Thought I Saw A P***y Cat" and various tunes by "J****y Mathis."

While iTunes higher-ups claim that this was all merely a misstep, we think they might be on to something. That mischievous chimney sweep Dick Van Dyke always did strike us as having a less-than-gentlemanly interest in Mary Poppins. [From: Daily Mail]

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