Blog #2

The Counting Song (Censored) is a historical view on the original just “Counting Song” produced by Sesame Street. In relation to the Remix reading for today it hits all the levels of a Remix, especially the part of being creative. “The remix is meant to do something new.” (pg 52) when looking at this quote in relation to The Counting Song (Censored) we can see that the censored version was made as a parody, to make the typical “kid” song seem very “sexual”. The typical lyrics are not seen sexual in any matter or use profanity at all,

“I count slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster
Once I’ve started counting it’s really hard to stop
Faster, faster. It is so exciting!
I could count forever, count until I drop..” (The Counting Song) 

but by taking out the word count form the song, we drastically change the meaning,

“I *bleep* slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster…” (The Counting Song (Censored)). This small change of just “bleeping” over the word count, and counting, the video creator did a huge piece of what was in the reading by using critical expression to deepen the meaning of something that was once already created. It completely broadens the range of context. Even though most parents wouldn’t prefer letting their child watch the censored version instead of the original, the video itself still remains the same and untouched, its just the song that has “bleeps” censoring certain words. Just this minor change could cause the producers of Sesame Street to shut it down but they haven ‘t yet.