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KISS Censors Lyrics, Blood in NYE Livestream to Dodge Strict Dubai Obscenity Laws

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Michele Amabile Angermiller The book has closed on “KISS 2020 Goodbye,” the band’s livestream event broadcast from the Palm in Dubai — but not without changing a couple verses to adhere to local customs in the United Arab Emirates city.The band replaced the phrase “virgin soul,” from the Gene Simmons-sung “God of Thunder,” to “sacred soul,” and also removed the word  “bitch” from “100,000 Years.” Also nixed: the band’s famed blood-spitting theatrics.Although a playground for the rich and famous, Dubai is conservative about epithets that might not raise an eyebrow in America.

Anything seen as a profanity or other bad language can be labeled as an obscene act, and offenders can be fined as much as Dhs 10,000 ($2,700) or jailed.

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