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Rihanna furious at ‘S&M’ censorship

The singer says she is “absolutely not” ok with her new release – entitled S&M – being edited for commercial radio.

SINGER RIHANNA IS furious that her latest single has been edited for radio and has hit out at BBC Radio4 for broadcasting the ‘clean’ version during a Sunday chart show - despite her own record label releasing it.

When informed of the edit by a fan on Twitter, Rihanna tweeted: “Are you f*cking kidding me??? I’m on it!”

The title of her new song was changed from ‘S&M’ to ‘Come On’  and had all references to “sex,” “chains” and “whips” removed, the Guardian reports.

One fan tweeted the singer, saying: “U okay with this Come On situation?”  to which she replied: “Absolutely NOT!!!”, MTV reports.

However, it was Rihanna’s own record label, Def Jam, that had distributed the edited version of her song to commercial radio stations.

A BBC spokesperson told Newsbeat: ”During daytime hours, as younger audiences are listening, we are playing [Rihanna's] radio edit, which is called Come On. However, we will continue to play the original track in specialist shows with an appropriate introduction.”

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