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OfCom won’t investigate Kanye’s BRITs performance

By | Published on Wednesday 6 May 2015

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UK media regulator OfCom has said it will not formally investigate Kanye West’s performance at this year’s BRITs, despite receiving 150 complaints from viewers of the ITV broadcast of pop’s big awards bash.

West’s stint at the awards, in which he performed his then new song ‘All Day’, was heavily censored by ITV, mainly because of its repeated use of the ‘n word’. Indeed, so heavy was the censorship that it made the performance pretty much unwatchable.

But most of the complaints were about the small number of offensive words that did slip through, rather than the fact such heavy muting – while perhaps understandable – made the decision to include a performance of the song at all at such a mainstream televised event rather odd. Thugh some people did complain that the repeated muting made them think there was something wrong with their TV.

Either way, a spokesman for OfCom said yesterday: “We received a number of complaints that Kanye West’s language, shortly after the watershed, was offensive but we will not be taking the matter forward for investigation. Having carefully assessed these complaints, we noted that before the programme ITV took steps to ensure that offensive language was not used, and during the programme to mute the majority of it”.

So there you go, Kanye’s profanities at the BRITs were all fine. Though I think the jury’s still out on yesterday’s CMU Daily top story.



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