I too is at awe at how ineffective the BC has been. I was wondering for a while if the government had abandoned the agency. For YEARS radio has been filled with “gun chune” and “gal chune”. Nothing wrong with expressing ones self artistically according to ones experience and world view but it has gone too far.

Even though I feel the same as you do about the BC getting off dem baxside I am glad they got up and do something. I just hope they don’t go too far with it because I too get the sense that this was a knee-jerk decision.

For me personally I listen to all types of music and try to keep an open mind.

Didn’t Dunn or one of them say in response that the song was on their desk and one of many that they were “planning to look at”?
We don’t need to ask whether or not the BC has been doing their job. We KNOW they haven’t: DB your discussion of your listening habits is a clear example of how our individual ability to decipher what kind of music is valuable from what is not has been so thoroughly contaminated, we can’t tell the difference. And now to swoop in like some faada whe’ abandon dem pickney and now a claim seh dem a don, this BC wid dem high and mighty self w’aa come claim seh dem a ban song because it obscene, and making all kinds of stipulations about what kinds of words can be in the song. Dat is just pyere fuckery! Where have they been when entertainers were being chastised not to curse and whatnot at stageshows? Den anno di same artist dem whe’h deh sing a stage show whe’h deh play pan radio? Right after im mek im big pronouncement, Golding shoudda fiyah Hopeton Dunn’s rass.

Based on this purely political exercise – that’s what it was, I am sure – we now know that the BC has absolutely no credibility on the question of determining what is fit for airplay. Since its just pure moralism dem a use rather than any clearly defined set of rules and logic, a whole lot else is going to be banned without our knowing it, and which shouldn’t, thanks to their haphazard behaviour and lackadaisical attitude. I swear, every single one of them people running these governmental agencies should be fired posthaste. Dem wutless so till! Me ga’an. Yuh post come ‘ot up mi ‘ead!

I agree totally that the action taken seemed hast and does not appear to be well thought out in terms of the implications it would have on music. As much as I agree with keeping the heavy things off the air I am concern about censorship. I have not even heard any major organizations in Jamaica voicing this concern.

Yu mad, tell whi fi turn off dem music ..LOL —Latley I am haring some more uplifting dancehall music that I like.

It is obvious from the risque photos released a month before the video that they, Kartel and Spice, intended to get maximum publicity from a provocative song.

If the Commission had waited till say April to take action, they’d look less like they were working in league with Spice and Kartel’s publicist.

Also the idea that an edited/bleeped out song shouldn’t be played at all is dangerous. The rule they put out is too broad — and soon that will become clear.

Still I support the Commission’s need to act against slackness and violence — it could have been better executed to not seem like puppets.

but when I think about it every era has had its slack tunes. so the more things change the more they remain the same.