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See you next Tuesday, US radio tells Britney
No Rock And Roll Fun — Britney Spears' one-woman tribute to Ronnie Barker, If You Seek Amy, is causing American radio stations to spontaneously explode as they try to decide if they can play it or not, what with it sounding a little rude. But the phrase isn't rude, but you could imagine it to be filthy, and once you think it sounds like F-U-C-K me, then you can't not see it like that any more. It's like the hidden arrow in the Fed Ex logo, once someone points it out to you, you're always aware it's there. But what can you do? The phrase isn't filthy. But it is. ...

Britney Spears Prepares For A Very Dirty Spelling Bee [Cunning Stunts]
Idolator — The next single from Britney Spears' Circus is going to be the phonetically naughty Dr. Luke composition "If You Seek Amy," according to Spears' official site. And the possibility of getting FCC sanctions once some semi-clueless commissioner in Washington figures out how to really spell out the song's title isn't sitting well with radio stations, who, let's face it, are cash-strapped enough already these days. From MTV: "It's OK to put in on an album, have fun with it, but we're publicly owned, you know?" said ...

Hater: Radio Stations Have A Problem With Britney Spears' New Song, "F.U.C.K. Me"
A.V. Club — Britney Spears kicked off her first comeback by vacantly intoning "It's Britney, bitch." For her second comeback, however, it seems that her handlers have decided she should be shy, or "clever," or whatever is the best way to describe someone who pronounces "f.u.c.k. me" as "if U seek Amy." From MTV news : But what will [radio stations] do with a new single from a major artist that doesn't actually contain a four-letter word, but rather spells it out in a not-so-subtle way? That dilemma is beginning to dawn on top-40 radio programmers across the country as the third single from ...