“In honor of the delicate changes, I nominate ‘bowdlerize’ as the Word of the Day.” Bowdlerizing is “removing material that is considered improper or offensive from (a te...
” Hozier and his backup singers instead sang “You scumbag, you maggot, you’re cheap and you’re haggard,” and one singer gave a big wink during the changed lyric. As early...
MacGowan, who reportedly may have written the song in response to Elvis Costello challenging him to come up with a Christmas song, once described “Fairytale” as being about “these ol...
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