ALEXANDRIA, VA — It’s no secret that the men and women whose devotion keep the Parents Television Council (PTC) alive think about sex a lot. Nearly constantly, if the group’s voracious complaints of broadcast indecency are any guide. Now the group has leveled its disapproving glare at one-time Mouseketeer turned wild pop diva, Britney Spears. Spears is an easy target, having indulged in a laundry list of risqué behaviors during the past few years, but the PTC is currently most enraged by an alleged risqué double entendre it insists has been maliciously inserted into her song “If You Seek Amy.”
In fact, according to the morality group, the title itself is the dangerous double entendre.
According to the ever prurient PTC, the newly released song, which appears on Circus, Spears’ most recent album, is a threat to America’s youth and a violation of the FCC’s controversial indecency policy.
While perhaps most famous for throwing a national tantrum after Janet Jackson’s infamous Super Bowl halftime “wardrobe malfunction,” the Parents Television Council has also garnered headlines by condemning a Carl’s Jr. commercial depicting celebritante Paris Hilton wearing a swimsuit while soaping up a luxury car and eating a burger. The group also accused cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants of promoting the use of profanity by children.
In the case of the new Spears song, the keen-eared PTC observes that if you speak the title very slowly… it sounds sorta like someone sounding out “F-U-C-K Me,” which it claims is a “double entendre” for “fuck.”
“It’s one thing for a song with these lyrics to be included on a CD so that fans who wish to hear it can do so,” PTC president Tim Winter graciously concedes, “but it’s an entirely different matter when this song is played over the publicly-owned airwaves, especially at a time when children are likely to be in the listening audience.”
Although the PTC has magnanimously – or perhaps pragmatically – declined inundating the FCC with complaints about the song, it is cautioning both parents and members of the media, including “cable music channels” about what times it deems appropriate for the song’s airing.
