Several weeks ago, MTV News talked to a number of radio programmers across the country who said they weren’t sure how they’d handle the song — whose chorus spells out “f— me” — when it arrived as the album’s next single. Since then, as label Jive prepares to roll it out, a few stations have begun playing it, albeit in an edited fashion.

Unlike some of the program directors we talked to just after the single was announced, Chuck said he had no problem with Spears trying to stir things up a bit with the tune, but he had to make sure whatever version the station played was clean enough to air. “I think it’s probably questionable,” he said of the suggestive chorus. “I think it’s kind of silly, but especially with all the coverage surrounding it. … When I first heard it, I thought about it and said, ‘Better safe than sorry.’ ”

Courtesy of MTV News

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