Wal-Mart attempted to get Green Day to record a censored version of the album, as the store does not sell explicit albums.
The original lyrics were "And I like to tiptoe 'round the ship goin' down", but on BBC Radio 1 and Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. in the U.K., Eliza Doolittle had a similar issue with her song "Pack Up".Adele: "Rolling In The Deep" officially has a line that goes, "Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare." Except the "ship" sounds more like " shit" (which, knowing Adele, was probably the intended word in the first place.) In any case, when the song appears on radio, the possibly-offending word is played backwards, and when Adele sang it at the Grammys in 2012 she replaced "ship" with "stuff.".One of the first ever official "radio-friendly" versions of a song was of Jimmy Dean's famous country song "Big Bad John", where the radio version replaces the last line "At the bottom of this hole lies a hell of a man" with ".Ironically, Jaret Reddick, the lead singer of Bowling for Soup, is the current voice of Chuck E.Changes to Bowling for Soup's "1985" included turning "One Prozac a day" to "One workout a day" and "She's gonna shake her ass" to " She's gonna shake it right." The "1985" changes may be due to the lyrics being based off of the radio edit of the song. Cheesy/You're all right here to please me" and "They offer coke and lots of dope/But we just leave it alone" became " We will take hugs, instead of drugs/And that is fine with me". For instance, during their cover of Run≭.M.C.'s "It's Tricky" "These girls are really sleazy/All they say is please me" was changed to "My name is Chuck E. Cheese often altered lyrics to song covers to remove sex and drug references. For instance, the Chippettes version of "Single Ladies" leaves out the lyrics in the middle of the song, "Trouble" removes references to drugs, and "We'll Be Alright" changes "Our middle fingers in the air" to "We wave our tails in the air".
The Kidz Bop version of "Friends" by Marshmello and Anne-Marie changes "you're not my lover" to "you're not my other" - "lover" was presumably censored due to sexual connotations, and "other" can be taken as short for "significant other" (it also happens to be less of a slant rhyme for "brother").The Kidz Bop version of Alessia Cara's "Scars to Your Beautiful" removes the references to self-harm and eating disorders in the song, which similarly to "Born This Way" strips meaning from the song.Crap isn't really considered a swear word anymore (though there are times it will get edited like one because it's still considered rude, similar to how "sucks" and "screwed" can be edited if used in the rude or mildly risque sense) at least in America, however. In their cover of "50 Ways to Say Goodbye", they keep the word "crappy". Averted possibly by accident on the same Kidz Bop "Gangnam Style" was on.
In Kids Bop 23, "Gangnam Style" was edited to change "Hey, sexy lady." to "Hey, pretty lady.".