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Malkmus’ Senator does not want a blowjob on radio
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 19 July 2011
Stephen Malkmus has a new album out next month with his band The Jicks. Called ‘Mirror Traffic’ it was produced by Beck and will be released by Domino on 22 Aug (and via Matador in the US a day later). Malkmus is quite pleased with the album. He said of it: “This record is relatively approachable. Beck and I were both burned out on the heavy rocking style, and playing to the strengths of a melody seemed like a way to go”.
That sounds lovely, but there is a problem. Malkmus has a song he wants to send out to radio stations. But the song, ‘Senator’, contains the line “I know what the senator wants – what the senator wants is a blowjob”. Radio stations don’t like words like ‘blowjob’. But Malkmus can’t think of any words that sound a little bit like ‘blowjob’ that could replace it in the radio edit. Hence, he is asking fans for help.
To make your suggestions, head over to whatdoesthesenatorwant.com. The closing date is 23 Aug and the winner will receive a seven-inch pressing of their version of the song.
By the way, the benchmark for this is ‘ADIDAS’ by Korn, in which ‘fucking’ was replaced by ‘humping’.
