Apple lists late Beethoven as ‘explicit content’
mainThe Opus76 quartet of Kansas Cty have invested herculean efforts in recording the last Beethoven string quartets during Covid.
Imagine their consternation to find that Apple has listed them with a red ‘E’, signifying explicit content.
Well, I guess that’ll make the kids keen to listen.
For years I have been mystified (and unable to resolve) that Apple Music has tagged LvB’s 7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” (with Pablo Casals and Rudolf Serkin) as Explicit. Go figure.
Er, WTF?
Explicit what? quality?
Sounds as if somebody at Apple has been at the Calvados.
Quite odd and not how it shows for me on my iPhone nor my MacBook.
I hope the same goes for Le Sacre du Printemps!
They are explicit.
Not necessary Apple’s fault: when a label submits new content to a digital service provider they can mark some content as ’explicit content’ if they wish. I would first check with the label.
But like with all manual work done by humans, wrong clicks and human errors are possible… – – I do not think it was intentional.
I think these pieces are scandalous indeed & should be prohibited. Old fogeys sinful pleasures pushed through the throats of the young!
Sally
Beethoven”s Late Quartets. Rated R. Not for primitive apes who prefer sweet confections to Grand Fugues.
When of course something is assessed by a mindless computer we get a mindless assessment. Mind you, no more mindless than a lot of things these days!
That’s what happens when the thinking is provided by machines, aka “AI”
I hate to think what rating Apple gives to “Tosca”. EEEE, perhaps.
Well … Beethoven WAS pretty explicit about what he wanted in this music.
It would be an interesting cultural-anthropological experiment to advertise a classical music concert at schools with the warning: ‘This stuff your parents definitely don’t want you to hear’.
More lazy, careless, unthinking parrot-like illiteracy. Explicit WHATt? This is risible.
They probably associated it with the classic porno film “Misty Beethoven.”
Got a friend at Apple to fix it. Thanks for reporting.