Slam it to the left / If you're havin' a good time / Shake it to the right / If ya know that you feel...
well not so fine now, as the song ‘Spice Up Your Life’ is being censored. Here’s why. British national treasures Spice Girls are being censored by radio stations in the UK.
You read that correctly. The popular 90s group now joins the likes of Rage Against The Machine – whose ‘Killing In The Name Of’ refrain “ ” was unbroadcastable by many – and the Sex Pistols and their antimonarchist punk anthem ‘God Save The Queen’ in being censored by certain radio stations. Their hit 1997 song ‘Spice Up Your Life’ features a line which has been deemed controversial: “ .
” Now, 28 years later, radio stations including BBC Radio 2 are playing an amended version of the song with the word “Yellow” removed. You can expect right-leaning British media to have a field day with this one, with the usual suspects crying foul with headlines like “Woke brigade at it again” and “Wokery gone mad”. And this time they may have something to sing about.
No one has complained about the lyrics, and a music insider told : “Spice Up Your Life is a piece of pop music history - it’s baffling that the Beeb have decided to censor it. The (band) are singing in celebration of people from all walks of life. It’s clumsy but not insulting.
” A Radio 2 representative said that the edit was not made by them and other UK stations are also playing an amended version of the .
