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When there is a slur in a song you like, what words do you usually use to substitute them so you can sing the song without being offensive or stopping randomly and losing pace with the music?

Substitute?

Are ...are there people who do this?

nayrt but I heard that it was a thing for white singers to use the word "ninja" instead of "nigga" in songs.

Ohhhh you meant in public.

Gotcha.

Anon from below, and I sub every time I listen to it, whether I'm alone, with people, singing or just listening. Sometimes some words just feel more right.

You do you, anon. :)

Promise not to treat it like a weirdo thing only weird people do anymore?

Oh shit! Sorry if I gave the impression that I found it weird, that was not my intention.

I genuinely didn't realize it was something people did, is all.

OK, thanks! :)

It's not a slur, but there's a line in the song "Remix" that goes "I just wanna own you" that I substitute "I just wanna hold you" without missing a beat.

Is it bad that I thought of Shakira's "Gyspy"? Yeah, you can't salvage that one. I don't really consider "gypsy" a slur, exactly, but "I might steal your shoes and wear them if they fit me"?!

(That song is stuck in my head a surprising amount of the time, too.)

Leonard Cohen uses gypsy in several songs, including my all time favorite. I just sing it as it is. I consider his usage 'literary' in nature.

Yeah, "one more thin gypsy thief" is basically "you look like what people imagine if they think of the word "gypsy", i.e. a romanticized, exoticized version of caucasian or spanish romani or sindhi people (some of which still choose to refer to themselves as gypsies)"

I just sing the slur, even if I'm in public. I even say "motherfucker" when I'm singling the lyrics from Space Lord even though they sound like they're saying "mother mother" because that makes sense.

I don't listen to many songs that involve slurs (some genres of music seem to have a lot more slurs than others), but I've karaoke'd Super Bass a couple of times and I always say fellas instead of niggas for the line "Entrepreneur fellas and the moguls."

I just skip the word and keep singing.

Mm, I've always just sung straight through it...I feel way more conspicuous if I try to dodge it, either by replacing or going silent. One of my good friends (who is black, for context) laughed her ass off and gave me endless shit about it when she heard me do so at karaoke, and she told me it's not like I wrote the song, so there's no reason to feel guilty.

Of course, I don't assume that her laid-back attitude speaks for all black people or anything, so idk. Generally I just try to avoid singing songs with slurs at this point, haha.

I remember them saying "people" instead of an offensive word for Black people(not the N word but another one) in the Muppet Show when they were singing something called Mississippi Mud".

Wait what? Why were they singing a song with racial slurs on the Muppet Show in the first place? I thought that was a kids show?

they took the racial slur out and sang "people" instead.

I say brotha(/s) in place of the n word

it may sound stupid, but less so than ninja. and I just...don't WANT to say the other thing. It's a gross word full of hatred. I understand being black and reclaiming something that was used to keep your people down, but I am white as hell and I do not understand how bent out of shape some white people get about "black people can say it and I can't?!!" Why do you want to? whyyy is it so important? I know anyone CAN use any word they want, but I don't want to say that one, so I don't.

I can't think of any instances where I do this but I kind of do the opposite? Like Christian "family friendly" songs that say "heck" I tend to change it to "fuck"...and that probably makes me an awful person lol.

In public, I do not sing along to anything.

In private, I just plough through that shit.

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