10 Bizarre Reasons Songs Were Banned From The Radio
7. Misheard Lyrics - Rolling In The Deep
When Adele released the first single from her second studio album, it seems as if a few executives misconstrued a few words badly enough to warrant the song getting banned for a short time upon its release.
The line "Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare" became one of the main offenders, as the word "ship" was mistaken for another similar sounding, four-letter word. A similar instance also occurred with the line "Reaching a fever pitch" when "pitch" was mistaken for another profanity.
Luckily, lyric sheets and videos exist, meaning that the ban was only short lived, and lifted once the errors were pointed out. It is interesting to note that in Adele's original handwritten lyrics, the lines did indeed include the expletives that they were eventually mistaken for, but were changed when the time came to record the song. Despite this, the change to less-offensive language did not save the song from being banned for offensive language.