Christina Aguilera's Song is Edited by GoodLife, Guess what words they took out..

Is Christina Aguilera too sexy for GoodLife?

(Xtra files)

“I’m kissing all the boys and the girls” is the line. But the GoodLife version had the word “girls” edited out, Spratt says.

At first Spratt didn’t notice the censorship, but then she perked up.

“I thought, ‘Wait a minute, I know that’s not how the song goes,’” she says. “I was furious. I kept saying, 'Did I really hear that?' It was a distinct sound of a kick over the gay content in the song.”

“Not Myself Tonight” was one of the tracks selected for GoodLife's newest body-pump class. Spratt was at the company's Manulife Centre location in Toronto on Jan 30. She filed a complaint Jan 31.

Since then, Spratt has been emailing senior management at GoodLife head office, trying to find out why the song was censored. She noted that at no point did a GoodLife manager pick up the phone and call her. Spratt says she plans to pull her membership as a result of the incident.

“They are censoring explicitly sexual content. GoodLife should be stepping up to support the queer community,” she says. “If they are going to be in this community, they should not censor queer content.”

Aguilera’s "Not Myself Tonight" isn't the only song that's been censored. Spratt’s lover, Susana Romero, noticed a similar edit to Katy Perry’s "Hot and Cold" during a GoodLife spinning class on Feb 8.


Andrea Houston / Toronto
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