How Can a Radio Station...

...play a bumper advertising itself as "rock and roll without the hard edge," and then follow that up by playing "Walk on the Wild Side"? In fact, "Wild Side" ("but she never lost her head/even when she was giving head") was the last of a three-song set that also contained "Hurts So Good" (sink your teeth right through my bones, baby/let's see what we can do"), and "Ohio" ("what if you knew her and/found her dead on the ground").

I guess the hard edge they're avoiding is musical, not lyrical.

By the way, in case anyone wonders about the effect 'American Idol' has on American commercial radio, they just played "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" and "Sharp Dressed Man," both of which were sung this week on AI. I expect to hear "Teach Your Children" and that One Republic song before the day is out.