Dad-gum Double Standards

Once upon a time, on a drunken night night of hard work and studying in college, my roommate and I found ourselves chuckling over a radio edit on a local Top 40 radio station.  That selected edit turned into one of our biggest running jokes.  Tentatively titled: "They Censored What?"

It really got started when an Atlanta radio station censored a Three Six Mafia song which had a chorus that sang, "Good googly moogly that thang is [censored]."  Said censored word was "juicy."

"Juicy! They censored 'juicy'?" is what we thought at the time.  We've heard various words, terms, slang and other phrases cut from our favorite songs.  A majority of them happen to be obscure references by rappers and R&B crooners tracks to sexual acts that have been toned down in the first place.

So,  why does Lady Gaga get away with murder here on the song "Lovegame"?

The chorus?

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick.
Don't think too much, just bust that kick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick."

Could that hook be any more blatant?  Yet, the same station that goes out of its way to censor naughty rappers and R&B singers has allowed this "disco stick" line to hang around for no damn reason.  If Gaga was somewhat attractive, I would probably just brush it aside and chalk it up to the "pretty girls can get away with anything" category.

I know KanYe labeled her as the next Madonna, but at least Madonna's early musical career didn't suck.  And while Gaga has nowhere to go but up, I don't see it going there.