If You Seek Amy…do we have to spell it out?
Of course not! Radio stations across the country are spelling it out for you. Britney Spears’ latest single off the Circus album, If You Seek Amy, has stirred up quite a controversy in the music industry. The lyrics and title, if you seek Amy, essentially say “F.U.C.K. me.”
The cunningly versed song is getting radio play, but the Parents Television Council (PTC) is a little less than thrilled about it. Parents in Australia first complained about the song’s content, and now that the track has become the third single off the Circus album, American parents are demanding radio stations pull the song between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., saying it “violates the broadcast indecency law.”
“There is no misinterpreting the lyrics to this song, and it’s certainly not about a girl named Amy,” PTC president Tim Winter said. “It’s one thing for a song with these lyrics to be included on a CD so that fans who wish to hear it can do so, but it’s an entirely different matter when this song is played over the publicly owned airwaves, especially at a time when children are likely to be in the listening audience.”
The song debuted at #92 on the Billboard Pop charts and currently sits at #35. There is no doubt that as the racy lyrics continue to rise in popularity, so will the question of broadcaster morality. A Jive-edited version of the song drops the “k” from “Seek,” making the lyrics sound less like the spelling of an expletive. Some inventive DJs are inserting their own names over the “Me,” so for instance when the chorus plays, it’ll go “All the boys and all the girls are begging to if you seek George,” etc.









